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Only 83 films have won Best Picture to date and the general sentiment is that winning the big prize ensures that your film will have a place among the classics. Here are 10 films that won the grand prize that are not considered classics today: 10. The Broadway Melody, 1929 Since sound was introduced into [...]
Posted by Orrin Konheim on Monday, June 27, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged Academy Award for Best Director, Actor, America, American cinema, American film directors, Around the World In 80 Days, arsenic, arsenic and old lace, assistant, Atlantic City, Cannes film festival, Carol Reed, Cecille B. DeMille, Cesar Romero, Charles Coburn, Charles Dickens, china, Dances with Wolves, Dennis Schwartz, director, eccentric free-spirited professor, Elizabeth Taylor, Entertainment_Culture, film historian, films, Forrest Gump, Frank Capra, Frank Sinatra, Funny Girl, George Kaufman, India, Irene Dunne, It's a Wonderful Life, John Ford, John Huston, King, Louis B. Mayer, Marlene Dietrich, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM head, Mike Todd, Moss Hart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mrs. Miniver, National Society of Film Critics, Oklahoma, On Golden Pond, Orrin Konheim, Oscar, Pakistan, producer, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Reds, restless newspaper editor, Richard Dix, Roger Ebert, Sound film, Spielberg, Steven Spielberg, studio head, Susan Stark, Thailand, the 1924 Olympics, The Broadway Melody, The English Patient, The Golden Globes, The Greatest Show on Earth, the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Oscars, the Pulitzer-prize, The Third Man, third Oscar, Tim Dirks, United Kingdom, United States, Washington, winston churchill, Wonderful Life, You Can't Take It With You
In the 80 or so years of its existence, the Academy Awards has made some poor choices. Dances With the Wolves over Goodfellas? Bleh. And try finding someone who could justify The Greatest Show On Earth or Around the World In 80 Days winning- let alone getting nominated. The list goes on. We know what [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Filed under Movies · Tagged A Clockwork Orange, A Streetcar Named Desire, Academy Award, Academy Award for Best Picture, academy awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American film directors, American Film Institute, Around the World In 80 Days, Cinema of the United States, Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, epic films, Faye Dunaway, film, full metal jacket, Grand Illusion, It Happened One Night, Jack Nicholson, La Grande Illusion, Network, orson welles, Reds, Robert De Niro, Rocky, Sierra Madre, Taxi Driver, The Grapes of Wrath, The Shawshank Redemption, The Third Man, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Vittorio Storaro, vivien leigh, You Can't Take It With You
