Now it's 1982. Here are the Academy's choices: ACTOR Dustin Hoffman – Tootsie Ben Kingsley – Gandhi Jack Lemmon – Missing Paul Newman – The Verdict Peter O’Toole – My Favorite Year ACTRESS Julie Andrews – Victor/Victoria Jessica Lange – Frances Sissy Spacek – Missing Meryl Streep – Sophie’s Choice D...

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Spoiler 2: "Green Onions" plays on the soundtrack.

Last week I saw three movies. Murder on a Honeymoon has Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as an extra-vinegarish, extra-middle-aged Nick and Nora trying to solve a murder on an airplane flight. On the one hand this is an interesting couple. On the other hand it does include Willie Best as a black bu...

The movie ends abruptly, with the character's fate actually revealed in the movie's first moments. A cliff is involved.

One of the things I remember about 1980 was how there was so much disappointment with the box office. It's not simply the Heaven's Gate debacle. I remember in a World book encyclopedia year book that the summer season was very disappointing with an absurdly high proportion of box office revenues mad...

The Devil is a Woman?

The eight pantheon directors are Lubitsch, Renoir, Chaplin, Hitchcock, Lang, Murnau, Ophuls and Sternberg. I can tell it's not Renoir, Chaplin, Murnau, or Ophuls, and probably not Lubitsch.

A most interesting subject. I recall the gay couple who murder someone in a James Bond film and then go hand in hand into the sunset, but I can't remember which film. A related subject is whether you can have an African-American murderer. Yes, if like A Soldier's Story, most or all of the suspects ...

In his review of Anatomy of a Fall , Richard Brody, among his other complaints, claims that once it is revealed that Sandra Huller's character is bisexual, it becomes most unlikely that she is responsible for the death of her husband. This makes me wonder what happened to having homosexuals as murde...

Here are the black and white nominees for 1955 The Rose Tattoo Blackboard Jungle I'll Cry Tomorrow Marty Queen Bee And here are the color nominees: To Catch a Thief Guys and Dolls Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing A Man Called Peter Oklahoma! I have not seen Queen Bee, A Man called Peter or Oklahoma! ...

Olivia de Havilland

Next: different actress with a sister who's an actress (not Joan Fontaine)

And here are the Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture American Fiction – Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson, producers Anatomy of a Fall – Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion, producers Barbie – David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner, producers...

Also, the Academy Award nominations are announced tomorrow, so remember to put them here instead of adding a new thread for them.

Here are the Directors Guild nominees: Feature Film Greta Gerwig – Barbie Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer Alexander Payne – The Holdovers Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon Documentaries Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp – Bobi Wine: The People's President Ms...