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 tough to…
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 Affleck award…
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 (1961), Lawrence…
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 Best Director,…
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 Happened to…