72nd Academy Awards

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried

As most of you know by now the movie The Hurt Locker won the Oscar for movie of the year, and this makes me very angry. My civilian friends keep asking me why I'm so mad, because most of them enjoyed watching it. Simply put it's because the movie is full of lies, exaggerations, and ugly people. 'But it's a movie' they say, 'of course it's not realistic'. That's strange.. because the back of The Hurt Locker box says 'Powerfully Realistic'. Yet this movie is about as far from realism that a movie

Trying to fix a diversity problem doesn’t have an instant solution. The Academy is facing this and dealing with the racial representation in the Oscar Awards as it has become a huge problem in Hollywood. Ira Deutchman, a member of the Academy, has stated “Like many Academy members, I was embarrassed and disappointed when this year’s Oscar nominees were announced, but I wasn't shocked. After all, no season passes without several scathing articles about the lack of diversity in Hollywood, both on the

It Have Been an Oscar Award Winning Holiday Film? Holiday films such as Elf are meant to spread holiday cheer and joy across families. The question however remains is whether or not it could be an award-winning critically-acclaimed film? It certainly could have been a contender as an award winner for sure. For starters, Elf had a budget of 33,000,000 dollars and ended up grossing over 173,381,405 dollars! Now if that’s not saying it had the potential of being an Oscar award winning film I don’t

Thank God I wasn’t alive and voting for Oscars in 1976. I’m not a huge fan of “Rocky,” but I would have had to contend with voting that included “Network” (which I have seen) and “Taxi Driver” (which I haven’t seen). To complicate matters, I would also would have had to reckon with this film: “All the President’s Men.” As a journalism student and budding cinephile, I might have had to go with this movie as my favorite of the bunch, simply because it’s a near masterpiece. You know the story of this

probable that it would receive a PG or lower advisory rating. Finally, since it is not controversial, it should not interfere with current or planned operations. The probability of an animated children's movie winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards is very low. However, it would introduce new animated characters that could possibly star in a cartoon series. There is also a possibility of generating merchandise from such a production. The proposal is unlikely to raise public awareness

as the Academy is concerned, the Oscar race comes down to the “best” dramatic powerhouse of the year squaring off with the most impressive movie of the year, with the Hollywood spectacle often losing to the smaller drama. Gravity, Avatar, and Life of Pi lost to 12 Years a Slave, The Hurt Locker, and Argo, respectively. Meanwhile, last year’s technical favorites — Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant, two of only five movies in Oscar history to be nominated for every single technical award — lost to

At the 89th Academy Awards, the Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi, won his second Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. His first win for A Separation (2012) was a monumental moment as he became the first Iranian to win an Oscar. But his second award for The Salesman (2016) positioned Farhadi next to the names of Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman in a shortlist of double-winning foreign filmmakers. Farhadi wasn't present at the ceremony to accept his career-defining award. But his absence

the movie. Number Fourteen: She Won an Oscar for a Non-English Part Cotillard is, along with Robert DeNiro (The Godfather), Sophia Loren (La Ciociara) and Roberto Beningni (Life Is Beautiful), the only performer to ever win a leading acting Academy Award for a solely non-English part.

Tom Cruise is an extraordinary actor. Critics and films determine and prove that he is one of the best actors to make it in the business. Cruise not only was nominated for 80 awards, he has won 29, and 4 Golden Globe awards (Wikipedia). His life style, and acting wasn’t just handed to him it was earned and hard worked like anything Tom has achieved before. Cruise was conceived on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse NJ. Cruise didn’t have it as bad as some people did financially, but he was born with