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& how about your favorite actors alive?
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AFI voted the in 1999 Humphrey Bongdat (l8097_-;900
Caert Grant (l904-986)
& Jame Stewart (l908-l997)
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On 6/10/2013 at 4:55 PM, twinkeee said:
Where does Clint rate for you ?
...at the bottom. 😐
Twink
The Great Spencer Tracy
The Chairman of the Board Francis Albert Sinatra
& James Cagney
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Alfred Hitchcock (l899-l980) & his greatest bits are also somewhat left out though
He was almost famous for his film beliefs ashe was for his films &believed the first sequence be the mist interesting
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On 12/17/2019 at 10:23 PM, JakeHolman said:
I'm more then surprised nobody cited the legendary endings of Casablanca, GWTW, Maltese Falcon, Treasure of the Sierra Madre\
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2019 OSCARS WHO & WHAT WILL BE NOMINATED? 2019 OSCARS
I already posted my annual running predictions of the Oscar nominees tally sheet, but thought I'd also post them here where they
might be seen more & it seems more appropriate here too
My predictions of the nominees forthe 92nd Annual Academy Awards (*-indicates running leader) marks my 38th year
Who & what will be nominated? The Top 6 major categories only forecasted for now & for fun compare with EW & Mr. Scott Feinberg's predix
Best Picture?=( 8 to 10 again)?
The Farewell
Ford vs. Ferrari (made over $100m. domestically)
*The Irishman-(will lead the field with 12 or more nods)
Joker-(will have made more money then any other BP nominee at over $340m.)
Little Women
Marriage Story
19l7
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ($145m.)
Parasite
& The Two-Popes
Best Actor?
Antonio Banderas in Pain and Glory
Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
*Joaquin Phoenix, Joker (A LOCK TO WIN)
& Jonathan Pryce, The Two-Popes
Best Actress?
Cynthia Erivu in Harriet
Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Charlize Theron, Bombshell
& *Renee Zellweger, Judy
Supporting Actor?
Tom Hanks in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood'
Anthony Hopkins, The Two-Popes
*Al Pacino, The Irishman
*Joe Pesci, The Irishman
& *Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Supporting Actress?
*Laura Dern in Marriage story
*ScarlettJohansson, JoJo Rabbit
Nicole Kidman, Bombshell
Margot Robbie, Bombshell
& Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Best Director?
Noah Baumbach for Marriage Story
*Bong Joong Ho, Parasite
Sam Mendes, 1917
*Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
& Quentin Tarentino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
& for fun & I love them Best 0riginal-Score?
Joker (Hildur Gudnasttir)\
Little Women(Alexander Desplat)
Marriage Story(Randy Newman)
*1917 (Thomas Newman)
& Rocket Man
& FUN TRIVIA FACTSC FOR ANYBODY?
Both Randy and Thomas Newman seem poised to be nommed again, who in the NEWMAN DYNASTY holds all-time scoring record??
THANK YOU & PLEASE SAVE & COMPARE ON DEC. 13th, 2O2O
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On 12/19/2019 at 5:17 PM, jakeem said:
Oscars Debating Whether or Not to Have HostThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and broadcaster ABC are currently exploring a compromise solutionJakeem, Isee Feinberg is up to his old tricks buddy Copying others for the most pt Don't know if you happen to see my analysis of my fellow Oscar pundit & how long I've known him 17yrs to date. It's fair &in our unwritten rules to copy others & revise up until that week-(7 days prior the official nods is the norm) I'd like to challenge him again, we somewhat do in goldderby.com's annual contest, then-(don't if he also enters the biggie of all now that Variety stopped it's Oscar-Oracle Award) which is the official abc.com Oscars site, so we shall see right I kinda have always enjoyed forecasting the nomations vs. actualwinners it's more difficult (NOTE: Positive your aware of this & it's been awhile but the letters are being eaten again in these forums)
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Elvis made (32 films) Sinatra (58) ¬ certain yet about Bing & Presley was a Navajo Indian, Frank was Sicilian & Bing was actually Canadian.\\\<took u= some morein facts/predix a sec. Just for fun plan to also pred8ct the Golden Globe Winners & SAG as well Hope others O have rarely if ever in 37yrs attempted t have a field goal pred8ctthe Globes,etc In my opinion closest Oscar races this year are between
Yop boyes Yopbrrns & Jakeem arethe finest guys on these boards!!!
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On 10/23/2019 at 3:40 PM, skimpole said:
Now it's 2000.
Movie with the most nominations: Gladiator (12)
Movie with the most awards: Gladiator (5)
My choice for the most nominations: Requiem for a Dream (13)
My choice for the most awards: Requiem for a Dream (4-Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Sound)
Did the actual Best Picture winner get anything: No
Skimpole, your a fellow fan of GLADIATOR (2000) huh? Please post more on it & your fav films,etc I predicted it would sweep that year but the verygood Traffic ($124m. ) got in it's way to win more it deserved? Especially Best Director (Ridley Scott)& editing.
Howeve4, ever see Crowe in The Insider? Or Romer Stomper?
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Most probably & or know of tv's superb series The Sopranos=-(l999-2007) well some cast members told of their idols, fav movies & more & on many fronts Creator DavidChase idolized Cagney above all and Public Enemy had been his favorite film his entire life. As for star James Gandolfini-(l961-2013)his hero was Bogart, & Paulie Walnutsactor also always idolized James Cagney
Virginia Mayo-(l920-2005) was on the money in a tcm interview, during The Studio-System Hollywood would never give an Oscar to a Gangster Role-(speaking of Cagney as Cody Jarrett in White Heat) Plus, during that era he always had to die by the finish\
As for Cagney himself personally he was bored portraying bad guys& loved dancing by far. It was his idea to make Cody nuts in WH otherwise he considered it another hack job Only it's script made the cut come Oscar nominee time, same goes for Little Caesar &Public Enemy
Speaking of Organized Crime & Hollywood Joey Gallo-(died in '71) he literally based his entire life & persona on Richard Widmark (Tommy Udo( in 1947's Kiss of Death, right down to his own wardrobe
& the infamous Bugsy Siegel-(l906-l947) wanted into acting in Tinsel-Town, even getting a screen test His closest pal & actorGeorge Raft895-l980) was the only person to attend his 1947 funeral at Hollywood Forever, ****-*it borders Paramount) Raft's was also the only Cagney called eventougherthen him when the two started out in NYC's Hell;s Kitchen
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2 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
Holiday film wise, I’d have to go with Bing. I’ve watched “White Christmas” three times this season. I need to watch “Holiday Inn.”
Movie wise, I’d probably go with Elvis because I love “Viva Las Vegas” so much.
Music-Wise, I’d go with Frank because I like his singing and music the best.
It gets confusing for non moviebuffs in that the title song won the Oscar, but for Hoiday Inn & not 1954's White Christmas
DARN IT, these words are being eaten up again ATTENTIINto the editors!!!
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Dig this garbage they even plan to git ridof the famed RKO GLOBE on the corner of Gower & Melrose & nowadays has been 1/2 of Paramount Pictures The original RKO Studios-(l929--l960) shared the lot with that famous studio Dream Factory They try not to tell tourists visiting on the Paramount tour about Kong & Kane & Fred & Ginger,etc but if your on the lot &step over a crack you go back in time architecture wise t the 1930's & Joseph Kennedy-\(1886-l969) opened the studio in '29 ^ had that globe installed.
On all three trips I got lucky &stayed in exact same motel a stone's throw away
& also very close was The Ravenswood Ats So massive they can be seen from way up at Griffith Park 0bservatory, due to it's ultra red lights Mae West-(l893-l980) lived there 48rs & also passed away there
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Even more classic Hollywood filed in & near Culver studios Harold Lloyd, 0ur Gang used to shoot on Atlantic Ave in the back, as did once in awhile with Hal Roach Stan & Ollie
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Thanks for writing about this unknown topic I did a couple of times & I just keep thinking I visited whats left of M-G-M now only 40 acres & Sony vs Metro at it's pinnacle & was The NY Yankees of The Studio-System(circa 1925-60)
Kirk Kirkorian in '69 being only a buisman & now a film buff like a Ted Turner auction off the lot of Andy Hardy, Wizard of 0z, Singin In The Rain, Meet Me in St. Louis & a ton more of motion picture history Debbie Reynolds tried to tell Kirkorian he;d have another 'iseyland if he wanted but he didn't, so bought as much as she could for her Vegas show
So most people may not even know that Sony also in Culver City was MGM. But, for now the legendary Thalberg Bldg remains
The 40 is in regard to just down the street Selznicks old Culver City Studios-(which has no tours) & Lucy bought out his back 40 acres at one time. Tons of classics were filmed at Culver City studios-(Thomas Ince Blvd) is just outside*GWTW-(they say you can still view the façade of the mansion from the frt gates) Duel in the Sun, (NOTE: To editing team words are being eatin again!)
A few ohers filmed at Culver> Citizen Kane, Kong (l933 version matter of fact Selznick used it's wall for burning of Atlanta sequence in 0ctober of 1938) Notorious, Rebecca, Spellbound, Since You went away ('36 version) Little Lord Flauntleroy, Portrait of Jennie, Bugsy,
Raging Bull, A Few Good Men, Beetlejuice, The Rock, Legally Blonde & many more recent flix & for tv I love Lucy, Andy Griffith, The Untouchables, Star Trek, Superman-(& at RKO), Game Shows,etc
David0. Selznick's final yrs were not great for the mogul, highly addicted to drugs by then A habit he picked up filmingGone With the Wind He got addicted to speed BIG-0TIME & only lived to b 63 in 1965 Lucy always bragged about moving into his office & the back 40 acres she got from him
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It's not just now, early word months ago was pretty bad for CATS Though it seems a lock to earn Oscar shots for Song, Costumes, Production Design As I wrote before it ain't no Chicago or La La Land
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1 hour ago, LawrenceA said:
Yeah I know I posted this one previously, but thought a new perspective on it would be cool plus I thought of it this time due to Christmas & all three did a lot-(in Bing's case) of Christmas music
Of course most that know me easily vote for The Chairman of the Board of all counts & Frank never even took an acting lesson either
There is sooo much on him available ion the net for one check out his last interview in '88 with Larry King-(l933-)it's so long it's in several parts
And Hollywood/AMPAS really missed the boat for 1954 when they overlooked him in Suddenly (***1/2) he woulda eventually then had 3 noms Plus ironically it would have pitted him against Bing Crosby in The Country Girl Neither had a chance though that year vs Marlon as Terry Malloy in waterfront A role Sinatra really pushed hard for, among the reasons it was shot in his hometown of Hoboken, NJ
Thank You for logging in
(TRIVIA: What 3 songs/,films he sang won the Oscar, though like Madonna yrs later he didn'y personally won for them because he didn't also write the three???)
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1 hour ago, speedracer5 said:
Holiday film wise, I’d have to go with Bing. I’ve watched “White Christmas” three times this season. I need to watch “Holiday Inn.”
Movie wise, I’d probably go with Elvis because I love “Viva Las Vegas” so much.
Music-Wise, I’d go with Frank because I like his singing and music the best.
thank you
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I've been handicapping the Academy Awards this marking my 38 th year actually & again this may be-(NOT A FINAL PREDICTION)
Where once again Best Picture and Best Director split?
Meaning The Irishman may take the biggie & Parasite Best Direction of the Year?
In the last decade they have split 4 times, something that rarely occurred in the old days
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On 12/18/2019 at 4:56 PM, jakeem said:The World War I drama "1917" was named Best Picture of 2019 by the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association (DFWFCA). The production also won awards for Best Director (Sam Mendes, pictured below center), Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins) and Best Musical Score (Thomas Newman).
Also receiving four awards was the divorce drama "Marriage Story," which won for Best Actor (Adam Driver), Best Actress (Scarlett Johansson, pictured below), Best Supporting Actress (Laura Dern) and Best Screenplay (writer-director Noah Baumbach).
The DFWFCA is comprised of 32 broadcast, print and online journalists from North Texas.
Here is the full list of winners.
Best Picture
"1917"Best Actor
Adam Driver, "Marriage Story"Best Actress
Scarlett Johansson, "Marriage Story"Best Supporting Actor
Brad Pitt, "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood"Best Supporting Actress
Laura Dern, "Marriage Story"Best Director
Sam Mendes, "1917"Best Foreign-Language Film
"Parasite" (South Korea)Best Documentary
"Apollo 11"Best Animated Film
"Toy Story 4"Best Screenplay
Noah Baumbach, "Marriage Story"Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins, "1917"Best Musical Score
Thomas Newman, "1917"
- The veteran composer Newman won this award over his French counterpart Alexander Desplat, who was up for his "Little Women" score. The DFWFCA had selected Desplat scores the previous two years for "The Shape of Water" (2017) and "Isle of Dogs" (2018)'
The Russell Smith Award (best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film)
"The Lighthouse"Top 10 Films of 2019- "1917"
- "Marriage Story"
- "Parasite"
- "The Irishman"
- "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood"
- "Jojo Rabbit"
- "Little Women"
- "The Farewell"
- "The Two Popes"
- "Knives Out"
According to Forbes annual report on the Highest Pd$$$ Actors-(The Rock again) & Actresses-(Johansson) Scarlett was the highest paid for 2019 It was a given for a few yrs it would be either Jennifer Lawrence or Jolie, not now,
Plus, Scarlett has 2 roles that may earn her her first shots at the Oscars.
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Just curious of this group, the finest on film on the net today!
Of the top three Bing Crosby-(Harry Lillis) (l903-l977) , Frank Sinatra (Francis (Alert) Sinatra (l9l5-98) and Elvis Aaron Presley (l935-l977)
Who is not just your personal favorite, but also throw in their films as well of course the threesome's music career,etc?
& given it's The Holidays/Christmas all 3 all-time giants contributed to the holiday as well
I have a ton of stats I could throw in, but just want to see your favs first
THANKS & HOPE YOU VOTE HERE
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(Honorable mentions):
Vertigo
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I already posted this at inception of this one, but once again & it's fun
My personal top 3 to 5 beginnings>
1st The Godfather
2nd Citizen Kane
3rd Some Came Running
4th Apocalypse Now
5th Bad Day at Black Rock
& this is the much more difficult pt my personal top 3-5 cinematic endings>
1st Casablanca
2nd City Lights
3rd Modern Times
4. The Godfather, Part II
& 5th fav finale Splendor in the Grass
(Runner-up): The Searchers
When Spence gets it in Captains Courageous
& 4 dynamic Cagney endings
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On 12/19/2019 at 9:48 PM, JakeHolman said:
Steve, once again you dug up something special pal, I was way ahead of the crowd in regard to thinking Blade Runner was something special in the great cinematic year of l982 I was only 17 to 18 that yr my debut year going to 36-60 new movies & oddsmaking UNCLE OSCAR. I must admit I did pretty lousy predicting them though that yr. But I gave ten new flix 4 stars for '82 E.T., Tootsie, The Verdict, Sophie's Choice, Das Boot, Diner, Blade Runner, Garp, Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip & The Road warrior & almost wit h the 8 time sweeping bio Gandhi Now, you rarely find 1 new release excellent. Question, how did you come o pick that sequence vs Tears in the Rain with the now already late Rutger Hauer, in what shoulda been an Oscar nominated role That glorious score by Vangelis, Art-Direction & Visuals deserved to win in my humble opinion. It only grossed $33m domestically & I know there are fans of the recent Blade Runner 2049 (**) but I;m not one of them, especially compared to that original At any rate thanx again & see page 8 or 9
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