Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Oppenheimer Wins the Best Picture Academy Award

 The 96th Academy Awards 


"Oppenheimer" wins the coveted Best Picture Award for 2023 as well as Best Director (Christopher Nola), Cillian Murphy (Best Actor), Robert Downey Jr. (Best Supporting Actor), Best Original Score (Ludwig Goransson), Best Cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema) and Best Film Editing (Jennifer Lame).  


In an awkward announcement of the winner of Best Picture, presented by Al Pacino, reminiscent of the "La La Land" fiasco from 2017, he fumbled his way to announcing the winner. 


From 2017 (89th Academy Awards)



The climax of Hollywood's biggest night ended in what will surely be a long-remembered snafu, as the initial announcement that the best picture award went to "La La Land" had to be retracted on stage and corrected to the real winner, "Moonlight." The announcement of "La La Land" was followed by several moments of apparent chaos on stage that ended with a producer of "La La Land" announcing that it was not really his picture that won.

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Top 10 Movies of 1966

 So I havent been on here in a long time but I felt like getting back to trying to blog on a somewhat regular basis.


Let's start with the Top 10 biggest money making movies of 1966 : 


The 1966 film version of James Michener's monster best-selling novel of 1959 received mixed reviews but did get seven Academy Award nominations, including Jocelyne LaGarde for Best Supporting Actress.   



The soundtrack did have one Oscar nominated song with "My Wishing Doll" with music by Elmer Bernstein and Lyrics be Mack David.

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Top 15 Movies of 1975

Here are the top 15 movies of 1975 with of course the first "summer blockbuster" JAWS is at the top of the list followed by the winner of the Oscar for Best Picture of 1975 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (starring Jack Nicholson).  The Disney movies made a jump as the re-release of SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS was the #15 film.  Disney also saw their Don Knotts and Tim Conway comedy THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG was a surprise hit at #10.



 

Sunday, March 5, 2023

Magazine Cover of the Week

 LIFE MAGAZINE

March 5th 1971 

Ali vs Frazier

These two legends would meet at Madison Square Garden in NYC.  Called the "Fight of the Century" by the media, a scheduled 15 round fight for the  Heavyweight championship of the world,.  Ali was in just his 3rd fight after 2 and 1/2 year absence due to being stripped of the title for refusing  induction into the US Army.

Joe Frazier would win a unanimous 15 round decision to become the new champion.  This was the first  of 3 fights between Ali & Frazier, the "Super Fight II" 1974 and "Thrilla in Manilla" in 1975.  Ali would win both of those bouts. 


 

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

The Opening of the 46th Academy Awards: 1974 Oscars


The opening of the 46th Academy Awards in 1974, featuring a performance by Liza Minnelli, an introduction by Academy President Walter Mirisch, welcoming remarks from host Burt Reynolds, and appearances by Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Diana Ross, Vincent Gardenia, Angie Dickinson, Burt Bacharach, Jack Lemmon, Paul and Linda McCartney, Walter Matthau, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Raquel Welch, Groucho Marx, Dinah Shore, Joel Gray, Peter Falk, William Friedkin, Sherry Lansing, Marcel Marceau, Timothy Bottoms, Victoria Principal and Pam Grier. Billy Dee Williams and Linda Blair present the Oscar® for Animated Short Subject to Frank Mouris for "Frank Film" and for Live Action Short Subject to Allan Miller and William Fertik for "The Bolero."



Thursday, February 23, 2023

WE LOVE THE 70s - TIMELINE 1971


Weird History's Timeline is taking you back to 1971 to revisit all the crazy news, politics, culture, and sports events. From the Watergate scandal heating up, to DB Cooper's infamous disappearance, to the premiere of Soul Train, 1971 had its share of crazy happenings. Hop on and let's take a trip together back to the groovy 70s on the Timeline train.

Calvin and Hobbes of the Day (February 23rd 2023)

 


Blues Brothers: Soul Man - SNL

The Blues Brothers (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) perform “Soul Man.” [Season 4, 1978]


Tuesday, January 31, 2023

We Love the 70s

 For the decade of the 1970s