Awards – Foote & Friends on Film https://footeandfriendsonfilm.com Any film you haven't seen -- is a new experience! Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:27:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-FF-1-32x32.png Awards – Foote & Friends on Film https://footeandfriendsonfilm.com 32 32 ANTHONY HOPKINS CROWNS CAREER WITH SECOND ACADEMY AWARD /2021/04/28/anthony-hopkins-crowns-career-with-second-academy-award/ /2021/04/28/anthony-hopkins-crowns-career-with-second-academy-award/#respond Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:27:27 +0000 /?p=17300 By John H. Foote He really did become a full-blown movie star portraying one of the most repellant, terrifying movie characters to ever grace the silver screen. Dr. Hannibal Lecter was brilliant beyond any known human measurement, his IQ soaring into the stratosphere too high to be measured. He was elegant, well read, possessed with…

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]]> /2021/04/28/anthony-hopkins-crowns-career-with-second-academy-award/feed/ 0 THE OSCARS – FINALLY! /2021/04/26/the-oscars-finally/ /2021/04/26/the-oscars-finally/#respond Mon, 26 Apr 2021 11:38:23 +0000 /?p=17296 By John H. Foote Who knows what to expect tonight? Diversity for sure, but beyond that? The second Oscar winning female director seems a given, Chadwick Boseman a shoo-in, but the Best Actress category? Who knows? Tonight brings to an end of the longest Oscar season in memory, eight long months since TIFF, so let…

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]]> /2021/04/26/the-oscars-finally/feed/ 0 ABSOLUTELY FINAL WRITTEN IN STONE (MAYBE) OSCAR PREDICTIONS FROM JOHN /2021/04/21/absolutely-final-written-in-stone-maybe-oscar-predictions-from-john/ /2021/04/21/absolutely-final-written-in-stone-maybe-oscar-predictions-from-john/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:34:53 +0000 /?p=17252 By John H. Foote In 2001 I lay in a hospital broken and in great pain, the result of a terrible head on car accident. Eighteen breaks in my legs, three in my pelvis, my entire rib cage shattered, my right arm badly broken through the elbow, my heart had been crushed, I had fixators…

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]]> /2021/04/21/absolutely-final-written-in-stone-maybe-oscar-predictions-from-john/feed/ 1 ON POSTHUMOUS OSCAR WINNERS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN /2021/04/19/on-posthumous-oscar-winners-and-chadwick-boseman/ /2021/04/19/on-posthumous-oscar-winners-and-chadwick-boseman/#respond Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:25:08 +0000 /?p=17245 By John H. Foote If you think it does not help to pass away before the Oscar nominations are announced, think again. I am not trying to be either crass nor vulgar and I too mourn the loss of Chadwick Boseman, especially after seeing his astounding range in two films this year – Ma Rainey’s…

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]]> /2021/04/19/on-posthumous-oscar-winners-and-chadwick-boseman/feed/ 0 IT’S A CROWDED BEST ACTRESS RACE – ANYBODY COULD WIN! /2021/04/18/its-a-crowded-best-actress-race-anybody-could-win/ /2021/04/18/its-a-crowded-best-actress-race-anybody-could-win/#respond Sun, 18 Apr 2021 13:17:32 +0000 /?p=17225 By John H. Foote Usually by now all the major acting races are decided long before Oscar night. The only surprise we have had in the last 10 years was Olivia Colman winning Best Actress in The Favourite (2018). Everyone, including me, figured it would go to Glenn Close in The Wife with a shocker…

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]]> /2021/04/18/its-a-crowded-best-actress-race-anybody-could-win/feed/ 0 THE “BEST” OF OSCAR’S BEST SONG WINNERS /2021/04/18/the-best-of-oscars-best-song-winners/ /2021/04/18/the-best-of-oscars-best-song-winners/#respond Sun, 18 Apr 2021 01:22:06 +0000 /?p=17202 By Alan Hurst Trying to take 87 years of Oscar winning songs and pick the best is ultimately a futile task. I started the process by making a Spotify mix of every Oscar winning tune, but I admittedly lost the interest to listen once I got to the tail end of the 1990s. My own…

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]]> /2021/04/18/the-best-of-oscars-best-song-winners/feed/ 0 DGA WINNER ANNOUNCED /2021/04/11/dga-winner-announced/ /2021/04/11/dga-winner-announced/#respond Sun, 11 Apr 2021 14:04:20 +0000 /?p=17177 By John H. Foote For just the second time in history a woman has been awarded the Best Director Award from the Directors Guild of America as Best Director. The winner is Chloé Zhao for Nomadland. Previously the only woman to win the prize had been Kathryn Bigelow in 2009 for The Hurt Locker. Bigelow…

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]]> /2021/04/11/dga-winner-announced/feed/ 0 SOME SURPRISES AT THE SAG AWARDS /2021/04/05/some-surprises-at-the-sag-awards/ /2021/04/05/some-surprises-at-the-sag-awards/#respond Mon, 05 Apr 2021 12:01:17 +0000 /?p=17140 By John H. Foote Yuh-Jung Youn. Remember that name. Why? She just might win an Oscar in a few weeks for Minari. Diversity riled last night at the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG), taped last Thursday, announced and broadcast last night. Suffice to say there were some jaw dropping moments. For the first time in…

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