I wander around in book stores a lot. (My wife tells me I wander around in them too much, although it’s not the wandering that alarms her; it’s the buying.) I found a used book at our local Barnes & Noble called The New York Times Film Reviews: A One-Volume Selection, by George Amberg. It’s […]
81 Days With Oscar And Me
Every Academy Award-Winning Movie, Back to Back, Starting With the First
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- 1927-1928 Wings (IMDB)
- 1928-1929 Broadway Melody (IMDB)
- 1929-1930 All Quiet On the Western Front (IMDB)
- 1930-1931 Cimarron (IMDB)
- 1931-1932 Grand Hotel (IMDB)
- 1932-1933 Cavalcade (IMDB)
- 1934 It Happened One Night (IMDB)
- 1935 Mutiny On the Bounty (IMDB)
- 1936 The Great Ziegfeld (IMDB)
- 1938 You Can't Take It With You (IMDB)
- 1939 Gone With the Wind (IMDB)
- 1940 Rebecca (IMDB)
- 1941 How Green Was My Valley (IMDB)
- 1942 Mrs. Miniver (IMDB)
- 1943 Casablanca (IMDB)
- 1944 Going My Way (IMDB)
- 1945 The Lost Weekend (IMDB)
- 1946 The Best Years Of Our Lives (IMDB)
- 1947 Gentleman's Agreement (IMDB)
- 1948 Hamlet (IMDB)
- 1949 All The King's Men (IMDB)
- 1950 All About Eve (IMDB)
- 1951 An American In Paris (IMDB)
- 1952 The Greatest Show On Earth (IMDB)
- 1953 From Here To Eternity
- 1954 On the Waterfront (IMDB)
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- 1956 Around the World In 80 Days
- 1957 The Bridge On the River Kwai (IMDB)
- 1958 Gigi (IMDB)
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- 1960 The Apartment (IMDB)
- 1961 West Side Story (IMDB)
- 1962 Lawrence of Arabia (IMDB)
- 1963 Tom Jones (IMDB)
- 1964 My Fair Lady (IMDB)
- 1965 The Sound of Music (IMDB)
- 1966 A Man For All Seasons (IMDB)
- 1967 In the Heat of the Night (IMDB)
- 1968 Oliver! (IMDB)
- 1969 Midnight Cowboy (IMDB)
- 1970 Patton (IMDB)
- 1971 The French Connection (IMDB)
- 1972 The Godfather (IMDB)
- 1973 The Sting (IMDB)
- 1974 The Godfather: Part II (IMDB)
- 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (IMDB)
- 1976 Rocky (IMDB)
- 1977 Annie Hall (IMDB)
- 1978 The Deer Hunter (IMDB)
- 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer (IMDB)
- 1980 Ordinary People (IMDB)
- 1981 Chariots of Fire (IMDB)
- 1982 Gandhi (IMDB)
- 1983 Terms of Endearment (IMDB)
- 1984 Amadeus (IMDB)
- 1985 Out of Africa (IMDB)
- 1986 Platoon (IMDB)
- 1987 The Last Emperor (IMDB)
- 1988 Rain Man (IMDB)
- 1989 Driving Miss Daisy (IMDB)
- 1990 Dances With Wolves (IMDB)
- 1991 Silence Of the Lambs (IMDB)
- 1992 Unforgiven (IMDB)
- 1993 Schindler's List (IMDB)
- 1994 Forrest Gump (IMDB)
- 1995 Braveheart (IMDB)
- 1996 The English Patient (IMDB)
- 1997 Titanic (IMDB)
- 1998 Shakespeare in Love (IMDB)
- 1999 American Beauty (IMDB)
- 2000 Gladiator (IMDB)
- 2001 A Beautiful Mind (IMDB)
- 2002 Chicago (IMDB)
- 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (IMDB)
- 2005 Crash (IMDB)
- 2006 The Departed (IMDB)
- 2007 No Country For Old Men (IMDB)
- 2008 Slumdog Millionare (IMDB)
- 30 Days With Aristotle and Me
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- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Clara Bow Website
- Internet Movie Database
- The Silent Era
- Wikipedia List of Oscar-Winning Films
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- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 30 Days With Aristotle And me
- A Beautiful Mind
- A Man For All Seasons
- Absinthe
- Adaptation
- Al Pacino
- Alan Hale
- Alan Jay Lerner
- Alfred Hitchcock
- All About Eve
- All Quiet On the Western Front
- All The King's Men
- Allison Janney
- Amadeus
- American Beauty
- An American In Paris
- Annie Hall
- Anthony Hopkins
- Anti-Semitism
- Apartment
- Around the World in 80 Days
- Audrey Hepburn
- Ben Affleck
- Ben Kingsley
- Ben-Hur
- Bernard Hill
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Best Years Of Our Lives
- Bette Davis
- Bhagavad Gita
- Bible Verse: 2 Kings 6:17
- Billy Wilder
- Bing Crosby
- Biopic
- Black and White
- Braveheart
- Bridge On the River Kwai
- Broadway Melody, The
- Burgess Meredith
- C-Word
- Carl Laemmle Jr.
- Casablanca
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Cavalcade
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Celine Dion
- CGI
- Chariots of Fire
- Charles Lane
- Charles Laughton
- Charlton Heston
- Chicago
- Christianity
- Christopher Marlowe
- Christopher Plummer
- Christopher Walken
- Cimarron
- Cinemascope (Wide Screen)
- Clara Bow
- Clark Gable
- Classical Period
- Claude Rains
- Claudette Colbert
- Clint Eastwood
- Coen Brothers
- Colin Firth
- Colonel Bogey March
- Color
- Columbia Pictures
- Comedy
- Communists
- Composer: Alfred Newman
- Composer: André Previn
- Composer: George Duning
- Composer: Hans Zimmer
- Composer: Herbert Stothart
- Composer: Howard Shore
- Composer: James Horner
- Composer: John Barry
- Composer: Leonard Bernstein
- Composer: Marvin Hamlisch
- Composer: Max Steiner
- Composer: Miklós Rózsa
- Composer: Nino Rota
- Composer: Victor Young
- Crash
- Criterion Collection
- Dalai Lama
- Dan Aykroyd
- Dances With Wolves
- Danny Boyle
- Daphne Du Maurier
- David Lean
- David O Selznick
- Dean Stockwell
- Debra Winger
- Deer Hunter
- Departed
- Derek Jacobi
- Dev Patel
- Diane Keaton
- Donald Crisp
- Drama
- Dreamworks Pictures
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Drug Use
- Dustin Hoffman
- Earl Hamner Jr.
- Ed Harris
- Edna Ferber
- Elia Kazan
- English Patient
- Eric Liddell
- Ernest Borgnine
- F-Word
- Fantasy
- Forrest Gump
- Fox Film Corporation
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Frank Capra
- Frank Lloyd
- Freedom
- Freida Pinto
- French Connection
- From Here to Eternity
- Gandhi
- Gary Cooper
- Gene Hackman
- Gene Kelly
- Gentleman's Agreement
- George Bernard Shaw
- George C. Scott
- George Cukor
- Gigi
- Gladiator
- Godfather
- Godfather: Part II
- Going My Way
- Gone With the Wind
- Grand Hotel
- Great Ziegfeld
- Greatest Show On Earth
- Greta Garbo
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Hamlet
- Hannibal Lecter
- Hemdale Film
- Henry Fielding
- Henry VIII
- Herbert Mundin
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Homosexuality
- How Green Was My Valley
- Hugh Griffith
- Humphrey Bogart
- In the Heat of the Night
- Inciting Incident
- India
- Ingrid Bergman
- Irene Dunne
- Isaiah 40:28-31
- It Happened One Night
- Jack Hawkins
- Jack Lemmon
- Jack Nicholson
- James Cameron
- James Horner
- James L Brookes
- Jasper Rees
- Javier Bardem
- Jerry Paris
- Jessica Tandy
- Jimmy Stewart
- Joan Fontaine
- Jodie Foster
- John Barry
- John Cazale
- John Ford
- John Gielgud
- John Nash
- John Schlesinger
- Jon Voight
- Joseph Fiennes
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- JRR Tolkien
- Julie Andrews
- Kate Winslet
- Kevin Costner
- Kevin Spacey
- Kramer vs Kramer
- Kristin Scott Thomas
- Last Emperor
- Laurence Olivier
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Left-Leaning Politics
- Leo McCarey
- Leslie Caron
- Life of Emile Zola
- Lionel Barrymore
- Lions Gate Films
- Lost Weekend
- LOTR: The Return of the King
- Louisiana Flip
- M-G-M Studios
- MacKinlay Kantor
- Margaret Mitchell
- Marilyn Monroe
- Marlon Brando
- Marni Nixon
- Marriage and Divorce
- Martin Scorsese
- Marty
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Mel Gibson
- Meryl Streep
- Michael Curtiz
- Michael Ondaatje
- Michael Todd
- Mid-Point
- Midnight Cowboy
- Million Dollar Baby
- Milos Forman
- Miramax
- Mordaunt Hall
- Morgan Freeman
- Mrs. Miniver
- Musical
- Mutiny On the Bounty
- My Fair Lady
- Myrna Loy
- N-Word
- Nationalization
- Naveen Andrews
- Nazi Socialist Germany
- New Line Cinema
- New Zealand
- No Country For Old Men
- Non-Violent Civil Disobedience
- Norman Jewison
- Not Released In United States
- Nudity
- Oliver Reed
- Oliver Stone
- Oliver!
- Olivia de Havilland
- On the Waterfront
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Ordinary People
- Original Screenplay
- Orion Pictures Corporation
- Orson Welles
- Oskar Schindler
- Out of Africa
- Out Of Print
- Paddy Chayefsky
- Panavision (Widescreen)
- Paramount Pictures
- Paramount Studios
- Pathe Pictures International
- Patton
- Paul and Storm
- Paul Haggis
- Paul Muni
- Paul Newman
- Peter Jackson
- Peter Lorre
- Peter O'Toole
- Platoon
- Plot Point I
- Plot Point II
- Poetics
- Powell and Loy
- Puyi
- Quentin Dean
- Quincy Jones
- R-Rating
- Racism
- Rain Man
- Ralph Fiennes
- Ray Milland
- Rebecca
- Renee Zellweger
- Results
- Rex Harrison
- Richard Gere
- Richard Harris
- Ridley Scott
- RKO Radio
- Robert De Niro
- Robert Redford
- Robert Riskin
- Robert Shaw
- Robert Wise
- Robert Zemeckis
- Robin Wright
- Rocky
- Rod Steiger
- Roddy McDowell
- Rodgers and Hammerstein
- Romeo and Juliet
- Ron Howard
- Russell Crowe
- Saddest Movie Of All Time
- Samuel Goldwyn Company
- Schindler's List
- Scotland
- Screenplay Structure
- Seinfeld
- Selznick International Pictures
- Sex
- Shakespeare
- Shakespeare in Love
- Shirley MacLaine
- Sidney Poitier
- Silence of the Lambs
- Silent Film
- Simon Beaufoy
- Sir Neville Marriner
- Sir Richard Attenborough
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Smoking
- Sound of Music
- Steven Spielberg
- Sting
- Stuttering
- Swearing
- Sydney Greenstreet
- Sydney Pollack
- Sylvester Stallone
- Talia Shire
- Tearjerker
- Teresa Wright
- Terms of Endearment
- The 1920s
- The Barrymores
- The Lord of the Rings
- Thomas More
- Thriller
- THX
- Tibet
- Titanic
- Tom Cruise
- Tom Hanks
- Tom Jones
- Tom Wilkinson
- Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
- Two Cities Films
- Unforgiven
- United Artists
- Universal Pictures
- Unofficial Academy Award Nomination
- Vangelis
- Victor Fleming
- Viggo Mortensen
- Vincente Minnelli
- Virginia Mayo
- Vivien Leigh
- Walter Pidgeon
- War
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- West Side Story
- Western
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- Willem Dafoe
- William Wallace
- William Wyler
- Wings
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- Woody Allen
- You Can't Take It With You
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