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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.

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."

Monday, August 12, 2019

John Wayne Wins An Oscar

April 7th 1970

The 42nd Annual Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and had no official host. The Academy celebrated the year 1969 in film.

The big news for a lot of film fans was that John Wayne was nominated again for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his turn as Rooster Cogburn in "True Grit". This was his 2nd nomination in the category, the first was 1949 for his role in "The Sands of Iow Jima".

I agree with him winning the Award I will say for me his best role was in his last film "The Shootist" in 1976.

Here he is accepting the award from Barbra Streisand and he mentions that he finally gets to accept for himself instead of for friends winning awards that weren't attending the ceremonies.