Oscar Speeches: Directors Thanking Billy Wilder–Fernando Trueba and Hazanavicius

I would like to believe in God in order to thank him. But I just believe in Billy Wilder. So thank you Mr. Wilder–Fernando Trueba

Oscar Movies: Peter Ibbetson (1935)–Love Story Starring Gary Cooper

Peter Ibbetson, a kind of surreal love story, was directed by Henry Hathaway from a screenplay by Vincent Lawrence, Waldemar Young, and Constance Collier, based on a novel by George du Maurier. Architect Peter Ibbetson (Gary Cooper) visits Paris and returns to garden now ruined, where he (then called Gogo) used to play as a […]

Oscar Movies: Patent Leather Kid, The (1927)–Richard Barthelmess in Oscar-Nominated Performance

Richard Barthelmess recived a Best Actor Oscar nomination in the first year of the awarsd for this silent film, made at the height of his’ popularity. Barthelmess plays a cocky prizefighter who seems to be unconcerned when the US enters World War One.  Doing his best to avoid the army, the boxer is shamed into […]

Oscar Movies: Passport to Pimlico (1949)–Classic British Comedy from Ealing Studio

Directed by Henry Cornelius, who collaborated on the Oscar nominated script with T. E. B. Clarke, Passport to Pimlico is one of the most charmingly whimsical Ealing Studios comedies of the golden age (late 1940s and early 1950s). After a wartime bombing, an ancient parchment is uncovered, proving that the Pimlico section of London belongs […]

Oscar Movies: Passover Plot (1976)–Controversial Religious Drama

This offbeat religious drama, based on a controversial book by Hugh J. Schonfield, depicts Christ as more of a zealous political activist than a religious figure. The story follows the adult life of Jesus (played by Zalman King) as a revolutionary who actively battles the Roman, suggesting that he and his disciples carefully planned his […]