Seven of the 10 movies that earned spots on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ shortlist were among the year’s top 10 films at the worldwide box office.
Oscar Movies: Old Man and the Sea, The–Starring Oscar Nominated Spencer Tracy, and Featuring Tiomkin’s Fourth (and Last) Best Score Oscar
December 24, 2014 by
Ernest Hemingway’s short novel The Old Man and the Sea was considered to be unfilmable before John Sturges tried to translate it onto the big screen. Hemingway’s character study concerns an Old Man (Spencer Tracy), a Cuban fisherman who tries to haul in a huge fish. There are many obstacles: His tiny boat is besieged […]
Oscar Movies: White Nights (1985)
December 22, 2014 by
Nominated for two Oscars: Picture (produced by Jesse L. Lasky) and Sound Recording (Fox Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, sound director).
Oscar Movies: White Cliffs of Dover (1944): Lavish, Sentimental MGM War Melodrama Starring Irene Dunne
December 22, 2014 by
MGM’s wartime melodrama was one of the ten the most commercially popular films of 1944, largely due to its timely subject matter and patriotic-sentimental tone. Based on a poem by Alice Duer Miller, the story chronicles the trials and tribulations of one courageous woman as she lives through two major wars. Multiple Oscar nominee (but […]
Hollywood 1976: Acting Oscars–Best Actress, Supp. Actor
December 22, 2014 by
1976: Acting Oscars–Best Actress, Supp. Actor
