Views: 3 By John H. Foote Citing that the idea for an award for Best Popular Film merits more study and greater thought, the Academy has killed the award for now. Turns out the Academy is not made up entirely of fools. Oh OK, the dummies that voted Chariots of Fire (1981) Best Picture are…
Views: 11 By John H. Foote The decision of the Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create a new category, Best Popular Film, has left many, myself included, shaking their heads in disbelief and disgust. What does that even mean? Will they hand an Oscar to the film that makes the most money? Or…
Views: 37 By John H. Foote In recent years the category for Best Actress has been overcrowded, which is something it had never been before. In the last five years, the Academy could have easily nominated ten actresses for the Best Actress award. This year is no different, the category is proving to be very…
Views: 7 By John H. Foote Historically, this is always crowded category, and this year is no exception but the days of the seventies, when four of the five nominees could be the winner are gone. In past years we have pretty much known which actor was going to win by Oscar night, the Casey…
Views: 4 By John H. Foote Since 1970, the following Oscar winning Best Pictures were also major box office hits. Bear in mind these are Best Picture WINNERS, if I were to list the nominees that were hits the list grows substantially. And if we’re to go backwards, into the sixties, awestruck West Side Story…
Views: 0 By John H. Foote In the hopes of bringing back young audiences, the Academy, in their infinite wisdom (yep, sarcasm) will add a new category, Most Popular Film. This further dilutes the Best Picture category, as moving from five to up to Ten Best Picture nominees did. The night’s biggest award has become…
Views: 7 By Alan Hurst The Best Actress Oscar race for the films of 1962 was a year of grand dame comebacks, high profile stage adaptations with very little room for new faces. The final five making the list in a pretty competitive year were: Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker (1962) Bette Davis in Whatever…