The most glaring omission is when a movie is nominated for Best Picture, but its director fails to be recognized. The lack of correlation between the Best Picture and the Best Director is a function of the voting procedures: The Directors Branch nominates accomplishments in its league, but all Academy members nominate films for the Best Picture
Oscar 1993: Supporting Actor Category–Competitive Year
February 14, 2010 by
All five Supporting actors of 1993 were worthy nominees in an exceptionally strong category.
Oscar: Best Picture–Longer, Bigger, Uncut–Size Matters
February 14, 2010 by
With the exception of “Avatar,” James Cameron’s technologically inventive but dramatically mediocre epic, which nonetheless would win the Best Picture, this year’s other nominees (all better films than “Avatar”), are modestly-budgeted and scaled works, even those that boast star power.
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Oscar Scandals: Tomei, Marisa–Did She Really Win for My Cousin Vinny
February 13, 2010 by
When Tomei was nominated in 2002 for a second Supporting Actress for "In the Bedroom," her agents and friends hoped she would win–and finally live down one of Oscar's biggest myths. Ever since she had won, Tomei gas been dogged by talk that presenter Jack Palance had read the wrong name at the podium.
Oscar: Hanks, Tom–or the Importance of Being Eccentric
February 8, 2010 by
In "Big," for which Hanks received his Best Actor nomination, Hanks played a boy, who, frustrated by the restrictions imposed on his age group, makes a special wish and wakes up with the body of a thirty-year-old man with a twelve year old sensibility.
