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by Uri
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:47 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: I'm always here for the Trivia
Replies: 41
Views: 1482

Re: I'm always here for the Trivia

- Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas are now the second married duo to win best picture, with “Driving Miss Daisy” producers Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck as the first. They are at least the fourth. Julia and Michael Philiips won for The sting, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson did for that Ring...
by Uri
Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:00 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Evaluating the nominees
Replies: 7
Views: 499

Re: Evaluating the nominees

Thank you all. I'm fine, on a day to day basis, at least.
by Uri
Mon Jan 29, 2024 2:30 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Evaluating the nominees
Replies: 7
Views: 499

Re: Evaluating the nominees

I hope the dreadful part of 2023 was more global than personal for you, Uri. We are all too aware of the global part, which of course can have a big impact personally. Actually, it was harsh on a very personal way. My father was diagnosed with a heart failure back in January and was in and out of t...
by Uri
Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:37 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: Evaluating the nominees
Replies: 7
Views: 499

Evaluating the nominees

2023 was a dreadful, dreadful year. On all levels. And the movies weren’t that great too. My rating: A- the ultimate best of the year, B- very good, would make a decent, worthy winner, C- a nomination should suffice, D- not necessarily bad, but not award material, F- a failure. Best Picture 1. Past ...
by Uri
Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:34 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: I'm always here for the Trivia
Replies: 41
Views: 1482

Re: I'm always here for the Trivia

I had to check it, but my intuition was (kind of) right. For only the third time, none of the nominated actors is under 30. The previous two times it happened? 1931-32 and 1933-34 (although back then Claudette Colbert was officially 29, not 31). Not once since they had four categories has this happe...
by Uri
Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:10 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: I'm always here for the Trivia
Replies: 41
Views: 1482

Re: I'm always here for the Trivia

After 42 years, Katharine Hepburn is finally off the records books. Not only De Niro's 49 years span between his first and last nominations knocks off Hepburn's 48, him being nominated along Foster, 47 years after they were both up for Taxi Driver, breaks Hepburn's and Henry Fonda's 41 years span. ...
by Uri
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:45 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: I'm always here for the Trivia
Replies: 41
Views: 1482

I'm always here for the Trivia

After 42 years, Katharine Hepburn is finally off the records books. Not only De Niro's 49 years span between his first and last nominations knocks off Hepburn's 48, him being nominated along Foster, 47 years after they were both up for Taxi Driver, breaks Hepburn's and Henry Fonda's 41 years span.
by Uri
Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:00 am
Forum: 96th Academy Awards
Topic: BAFTA Nominations
Replies: 19
Views: 1040

Re: BAFTA Nominations

making some ask, do Brits even know that indigenous Americans count as diverse? Aha? Why should Brits be fully adjust to American sensitivities? Indigenous Americans being count as diverse is not a given. It's a political perception. (And are these the same Americans who refer to Guillermo del Toro...
by Uri
Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:05 pm
Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
Topic: Current Oscar Record Holders
Replies: 23
Views: 8983

Re: Current Oscar Record Holders

Big Magilla wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:06 pm Further proof that women live longer than men.
And win their Oscars way, way younger - Hackman and Woodward are about the same age.
by Uri
Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:28 am
Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
Topic: Oscar Trivia Quiz: Best Picture/Relatives Edition
Replies: 36
Views: 15807

Re: Oscar Trivia Quiz: Best Picture/Relatives Edition

I'm with CalWilliam. A great anal fun.

Speaking of which - Lydia Clarke, Charlton Heston's wife, made an uncredited appearance in The Greatest Show on Earth.

And shouldn't we include Liam Neeson among the Redgrave clan?
by Uri
Sat Jun 10, 2023 2:02 am
Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
Topic: Oscar Trivia Quiz: Best Picture/Relatives Edition
Replies: 36
Views: 15807

Re: Oscar Trivia Quiz: Best Picture/Relatives Edition

Since I can't come up with more answers, I'll add a question:

Two actors appeared in and were nominated/won for their associations with these Oscar winning films - one's sister was married to the other's brother.
by Uri
Sat Jun 10, 2023 1:43 am
Forum: Other Oscar Discussions
Topic: Oscar Trivia Quiz: Best Picture/Relatives Edition
Replies: 36
Views: 15807

Re: Oscar Trivia Quiz: Best Picture/Relatives Edition

Mister Tee wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 1:18 pmI really wish Uri would look/chime in on this.
Thank you! Alas - I'm not in the best of shapes - back problems - so I'd struggle sitting for a long time, researching.

But, beside the obvious ones, the one that came straight to my mind was the Gene Kelly/Betsy Blair connection.
by Uri
Mon Mar 13, 2023 5:23 am
Forum: 95th Academy Awards
Topic: In Memoriam
Replies: 14
Views: 3881

Re: In Memoriam

Reza wrote:I think its especially disgraceful if a former Oscar nominee is omitted. Melinda Dillon was nominated twice but was ignored. Ditto Hugh Hudson who was nominated for Chariots of Fire. Weird.
And Chaim Topol. Although he died after that segment was probably already produced.
by Uri
Mon Mar 13, 2023 4:55 am
Forum: 95th Academy Awards
Topic: Notable Firsts and Records
Replies: 84
Views: 34835

Re: Notable Firsts and Records

For only the fifth time since 1936, at 64 and 60, both winning actresses are older than their male cohorts (54 and 51). It happened before in 1955, 1978, 1989 and 2018. The opposite – both male winners being older the female ones – happened 35 times. (Had Barbra not maneuvered her way into a fishy c...
by Uri
Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:06 am
Forum: 2022
Topic: The Official Review Thread of 2022
Replies: 282
Views: 29915

Re: The Official Review Thread of 2022

Shaul Fridlander, the renowned historion, used the phrase "kitsch and death", referring to a very German way of experiencing the world, when writing about Nazism. And while I honestly believe AQotWf makers are as anti Nazi as they come, that term kept popping in my mind when I watched this...

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