81 Days With Oscar And Me

Every Academy Award-Winning Movie, Back to Back, Starting With the First

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Gladiator

October 31st, 2009 · No Comments · 2000, CGI, Color, Composer: Hans Zimmer, Derek Jacobi, Drama, Dreamworks Pictures, Gladiator, Oliver Reed, Original Screenplay, Richard Harris, Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe

Gladiator is over two and a half hours long. But I can sum up the moral of the story in 20 words: Next time an emperor tells you he wants you to be the ruler after he dies, get it in writing. I don’t like how Gladiator was directed. The jerky, hand-held camera work during […]

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Ben-Hur

September 20th, 2009 · No Comments · 1959, Adaptation, Ben-Hur, CGI, Charlton Heston, Color, Composer: Miklós Rózsa, Drama, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, M-G-M Studios, Panavision (Widescreen), William Wyler

You know you’re in trouble when the overture to a movie lasts six and a half minutes. And when the word “OVERTURE” is superimposed on the image is of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam. And when the movie begins with the birth of Christ. And when a reported 100,000 costumes, 8,000 extras, 300 sets and […]

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