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That's true. It kept Sean Connery from appearing in the list above (of Oscar winners never in a Picture nominee)

United Artists The decade began quietly with the Soviet Saga, Quiet Flows the Don Gunfighters of Aibiline was a mini Western The Pusher was a look into sordid crime Vice Raid combined hard crime with Mamie Van Doren Oklahoma Territory brought another Western to the Fore 3 Came to Kill showed it was crime time again The Unforgiven was a Western on a bigger scale... and is a woefully overlooked film, a haunting saga that raises many uncomfortable questions about the Western genre, and has two great performances from Audrey Hepburn and lillian Gish. The boy and the Pirates was a fantasy saga for kids. Noose for a Gunman brought Jim Davis to the West Stowaway in the Sky was a hot air balloon saga The Royal Ballet showcased the Ballet of England There Was a Crooked Man was a Norman Wisdom comedy that costarred Susannah York The Joker was a French comedy with Jean-Pierre Cassel Eyes without a Face is a legendary French horror film held in high esteem The Manster was a horror saga Marie-Octobre was a French saga of trying to find out who had been a traitor during the war The Great War told of the WWI conflict between the Italians and the Austrians Too Many Crooks was a British crime comedy that starred Terry-Thomas The Female was the latest with Brigitte Bardot Alec Guinness, John Mills, and Susannah York all appeared in the raved war saga Tunes of Glory The Apartment brought the Best Picture trophy back to UA, for a stunning film, with masterful performances from Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, one rich in depth and human emotion. Billy Wilder fashioned a masterpiece. The Gallant Hours was a rarity, a war film without any onscreen conflict. It gained from the well-wrought playing of James Cagney peter Finch starred as the author on trial in The Trials of Oscar Wilde back to horror And to the gangsters.... Before returning to prestige with Elmer Gantry with its riveting work from Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons..... the Last Days of Pompeii was another sword-and sandal saga from Europe headlines ahoy! it was Inherit the Wind, the thinly disguised saga of the Scopes Monkey trial, with Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, and Gene Kelly under the direction of Stanley Kramer back to crime twice in a row, first with Cage of Evil And then with Studs Lonigan The Magnificent Seven delivered one of the screen's most enduring Western hits, one still greatly beloved to this day Meanwhile John Wayne's epic The Alamo upped the UA Best Picture nominees of 1960 to 3..... After all these big things something smaller had to come... Robert Mitchum was in the IRA in The Night Fighters never on Sunday proved to be a massively successful saucy Greek hit. Won an Oscar for the title song Bob and Lucy reunited for the acclaimed comedy-drama The Facts of Life.... And the year closed with the mammoth Exodus, with Otto Preminger putting an all star cast (with Eva Marie Saint and Sal Mineo as standouts through the history of the Jewish state in Palestine. American International Pictures The year began with Vincent Price starring in a much praised version of House of Usher The Jailbreakers was another saga of troubled youth terry more was wrongfully on Death Row in Why Must I Die The Amazing transparent Man was a take off on The Invisible Man Time Travel next came into play Circus of Horrors showed that trauma could happen anywhere.... the Little Shop of Horrors was indeed filmed in about 36 hours and did spawn the later musical and big budget Hollywood film. It was also an early role for Jack Nicholson in a supporting part The Indian Tomb was actually a Fritz Lang production As was The Tiger of Eschnapur And Goliath and the Dragon closed the year, although this is no dragon here....

Plus you also have mary Pickford and Emil Jannings who had most of their careers unfold before the Oscars existed.

The ones i think I was most surprised by were Susan Hayward and Patricia Neal. I have a feeling that I Want to Live and Hud were the 6th place finishers in their given years. Also gut feeling that Mary Steenburgen came close twice with Melvin and howard and Philadelphia.

OK, films seen last week, image wise.... Of these, I think the strongest was a toss-up between three tittles: Desert Bloom, Blonde Venus, and Ladies of Leisure. There really wasn't a bad film in the bunch, but least favorite would be Maisie (sorry Ann Sothern).

There are a few other Oscar winners who never appeared in a film up for Best Picture: Ethel Barrymore Halle Berry Shirley Booth George Burns Art Carney James Coburn Penelope Cruz Marie Dressler Patty Duke James Dunn Louis Gossett Jr. Ruth Gordon Goldie Hawn Susan Hayward Eileen Heckart John Houseman Josephine Hull Linda Hunt Emil Jannings Angelina Jolie Dorothy Malone Patricia Neal Tatum O'Neal Geraldine Page Mary Pickford Cliff Robertson Mercedes Ruehl Margaret Rutherford Mary Steenburgen Alicia Vikander Reese Witherspoon

For a second I thought this was going to be a thread about Teddy Roosevelt Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace........

Desert bloom (1986)--- Actually saw this yesterday and rewatched much of Terms of Endearment since then, but just wanted to give a shout out to this neglected film. It's excellent. Annabeth Gish, Jon Voight, Jobeth Williams, and Ellen Barkin are all in rare form in a coming of age tale set in 1950/1951 Last vegas where a girl grapples with a mother who puts on a brave face to mask her pain, a stepfather who alternates between kindness,meanness, and vulnerability, and a provocative aunt. Great period detail. Sourse: Amazon Prime

I'm not Joel either. My real name is Brendan.

I mean, just simply do a retrospective series on past Oscar years. Go back in time randomly so we don't use up all of any given era all at one time. It would be called the Hindsight awards. Go back and look at years past and now write down our top 5s or 10s in all the categories we see fit to mention (Picture, Acting, Directing, Script, Cinematography, Art Directiction, Costumes, Music, Editing, etc.) It would not be necessary to vote in the smaller categories but feel free to do so if you want. Does it sound like fun? It could shine some light on some films worthy of more attention.

Madeline Kahn is another, although Paper Moon was likely in the top 10 placers in 1973, it failed to crack the lineup.

Neither one in a best Picture nominee. Both had some films up for Oscars though, Ryan with Top Gun, When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, and Martin with The muppet movie, Pennies from Heaven, Little Shop of Horrors, Parenthood (which was the film of his with the best reviews in general), and Grand Canyon.

It's curious to see 3 listed as being 2010s. They tend to be shorts or documentaries. [Which is the case here] The one from the 2000s is a TCM Imports: Mysterious Object at Noon The 90s 8 include 3 Bond films, two TCM Imports (Days of Being Wild and Close Up), 1 in memorium title (Ulee's Gold), 1 documentary, and one frequent TCM standby (Sleepless in Seattle) which airs every few months on average. The 80s one include two underground (Witchboard and Eating Raoul), all 5 Bonds of the Decade (including one of the series best, The Living Daylights), a Best Picture winner (Rain Man), a best picture nominee (the glorious Children of a Lesser God returning after a long absence), an import (personal favorite The Last Metro), a Turner library title (Mrs Soffel, quite good), and two more critically acclaimed titles (Absence of Malice and the sublime Running on Empty)

Incidentally, the older ones , tended to be narrated by memorable supporting players of films of the 90s and/or now... James Cromwell did quite a few (Guy Kibbee, Sz Sakall, William Demerest). Bonnie hunt did Marjorie Main and Edna May Oliver. Joan Cusack did Beulah Bondi.

Regarding Hoffman's films, I did check out 1992's Hero (airing early Sunday) earlier in the year, and it is worth catching despite the mixed reviews and poor box office. It might be more relevant today. Sure it gets soppy toward the end and its overly reminicent of Meet John Doe, but its a pretty audacious mainstream offering for the early 90s. For here you have a film where your "hero" is a disagreeable, short tempered thief, its traditional leading man has his entire stalwart reputation built on a lie, and the leading lady is willing to clamp down on the truth. Plus it skewers "inspirational" news pieces well.

And the winner is..... Lydecker! Congratulations on your win, good sir, and start brainstorming for ideas on Challenge #42! And again, I thank everyone for being a part of this!

United Artists Mark of the Phoenix was a British heist film Victor mature was in Escort West, the rare film that has the genre in the title Maime Van Doren took care of one of the three Gs in Guns, Girls, and Gangsters Operation Murder was a thriller from England Mickey Rooney was a mad killer on death row in The Last Mile. it was back to the west with Mustang Bob Hope and Rhonda Fleming spoofed the West in Alias Jesse James Some like It hot was a landmark comedy, a dizzy delight with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon at the top of their games Trouble hit the reform school. With Dorothy Provine Sci Fi came next in Invisible Invaders pork Chop hill was a famed war saga of Korea with Gregory Peck, Rip Torn, and George Peppard Joel McCrea and Julie Adams were back in the West Alan Ladd and Carolyn Jones went noir in The Man in the Net Ava Gardner starred in The Naked Maja where she played a woman involved with Goya. John Wayne and William Holden were The Horse Soldiers. Constance Towers was the love interest. Hammer took on the Hound of the Baskervilles A Hole in the Head was the next to last from Frank Capra and was a likable family film with an excellent cast, and an Oscar-winning song ("High Hopes") Ten Seconds to Hell was a POW/bomb threat saga from Robert Aldrich And then there was the electrifying Shake Hands with the Devil with its masterful work from all involved, especially Cagney and Glynis Johns Ernest Borgnine starred in a family film The Rabbit Trip Robert Ryan, Burl ives, and Tina Louise starred in a Western lancaster, Douglasm, and Olivier took on George Bernard Shaw in The Devil's Disciple Back to crime with Cry Tough it continued in The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery with an early part for Steve McQueen Audie Murphy Went West Inside the Mafia came next Harry Belafonte headlined a noir, Odds Against Tomorrow Mitchum went West just months after the revolution, Havana found itself in a thriller Noir continued with Forrest Tucker David Niven and Mitzi Gaynor starred in a comedy Happy Anniversary A dive into horror A dash of adventure Crime from England with an American star A superior Tennesee Williams adaptation with knockout acting all around A coming of age saga An all-star nuclear saga A boy and dog film And then a big religious epic, Solomon and Sheba, closed the decade at UA. American International Pictures Paratroop Command started the year on a war note..... Operation Dames continued the war theme Road Racers was another saga of hard-driving cars. The call of war came forth once again Is he planning to go bowling with that? Michael Gough starred in The horrors of the Black Museum introducing the saga of a child bride Ghosts and hot rodders together! Alert the media. Anita Ekburg starred in Sheba and the Gladiator A Bucket of Blodd was one of Roger Corman's best regarded films and starred Dick Miller Get some insect repellent! Earth Attacks! (no wonder Mars wanted their revenge in a certain 90s film) Goliath and the Barbarians closed the decade

Plus also, Happiest Millionaire's airing finally secures the fact that all of Greer Garson's films will have played on TCM.

Oh joy. According to Wikipedia, it just got even stranger. One of the people who turned up for the Care Bears Film on its first run? John Waters. (maybe getting some ideas from the mothers in the audience for Serial Mom?)

They are leaving no stone unturned in rooting around their past for money. And ironically, this new version will in all likelihood be much darker and more brooding than the discarded 1985 film. [And yeah, Care Bears Movie was a strangle little number. The demonic book and the cuddy bears in the same film. Seems like a miscalculation]

Scenes from a Marriage. Wanted to get to it before Watch TCM on it expired.

This has been a rewarding and very eclectic movie watching day. What else can you say for a day with a double dose of Marlene Dietrich, Robert Mitchum and Susan Hayward in Africa, George Raft and Mae West's joint debut, a Marx brothers comedy, and finishing up an Ingmar Bergman film started yesterday?

Agreed. Disney tried to hide that one for years. No VHS tape for 13 years after its release. That only made people curious (well that plus the dark themes, the controversy in the press at the time, and it's failure at the US box office, where it was outgrossed by The Care Bears Movie). Do I believe it was "Satanic"? Hardly, although its villain certainly was devilish, but he met a grisly end. Disney was just humiliated by the loss (cost:$44 million. $22 million in the US at the time in sales) and the new management which took over shortly before it was due to be released (Wells-Eisner-Katzenberg) hated the movie. So that's why it was nailed shut. The ultimate irony: the film they disowned for years, is getting a remake too on the neverending Disney remake wheel now.

I'm basically talking about people born after 1986. Quite a few have found it over the years. Somebody donated a bootleg of it once and i watched it (years ago now), and I wasn't around in 1986. [1995 to be exact] You look at a site like IMDb, and the film has over 10,000 votes (high for a 1946 film), and over a tenth come from people younger than 30. It's noted as the 13th most voted on title from 1946. On Letterboxd ( a film logging site where, at least to me, it seems that the majority of members skew younger), over 5,000 there have seen it, again 13th most viewed from the year.

I honestly think that despite being banned, a lot have people have seen bootleg copies of Song of the South because they are curious about the controversy. I've seen a lot of younger people who couldn't possibly have seen it in 1986 (its last release) claim that they have seen it.