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Academy Awards Winners 2018

Best Motion Picture of the Year The Shape of Water Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, … Continue reading

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Academy Awards Nominees 2018

  Best Motion Picture of the Year Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading … Continue reading

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And the Oscar Goes To… (2014) Rated TV-MA

A documentary on the history of the Academy Awards. Starring Anjelica Huston, Billy Crystal, Tom Hanks This documentary did a good job of covering the Academy Awards from the start all the way to around 2010. It covered the monumental … Continue reading

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Academy Awards Winners 2014

Best Motion Picture of the Year: 12 Years a Slave Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine Best … Continue reading

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Star in the Night (1945) Rated NR

A modern telling of the Christmas story with a sprinkle of A Christmas Carol. Starring J. Carrol Naish, Donald Woods, Rosina Galli This short story won Best Short Subject in 1946 at the Academy Awards. There is no doubt that … Continue reading

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Academy Awards Winners 2013

Best Short Film Live Action: Curfew Best Short Film Animated: Paperman Best Documentary Short Subject: Inocente Best Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugar Man Best Achievement in Sound Editing: Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall Best Achievement in Sound Mixing: Les Misérables … Continue reading

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John Ford

 The Informer (1935) Rated NR Victor McLaglen delivers a harrowing performance as Gypo Nolan, a roistering brute during Ireland’s 1922 Sinn Fein uprising, who fingers friend Frankie McPhillip to collect a reward, then promptly fritters away the money on one night of revelry. … Continue reading

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St. Patrick’s Day Films 2012

 Falling for a Dancer (1998) Rated NR Unattached and pregnant with a dashing actor’s child, 19-year-old Elizabeth avoids a shameful public scandal by marrying a widower she doesn’t love in this made-for-television movie based on the novel by Deirdre Purcell. … Continue reading

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My Oscars Predictions 2012

Now, that the oscar nominations are out, I thought, I’ll throw my hat in the ring of who I think will be taking home the naked man. I would take bets but alas, I’m broke. Here’s my picks: Actor in … Continue reading

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Thousands Cheer (1943)

Rated NR Acrobat Eddie Marsh gets drafted into the Army but what he really wants is to join the Air Force. To get a transfer he devices a plan to get involved with his commanding officer’s daughter. I loved the story. … Continue reading

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