The following list of Oscar winners and nominees at the 90th Academy Awards ceremony in 2018 is presented here in the same order it appeared on CNN's website. I have completed it where I could. They haven't respected the original order. Doesn't matter, it seems my Oscar predictions from yesterday were only partially right, but better than in other years. I enjoyed The Shape of Water enormously, but I liked Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, more. Winners are specified and written in bold … [Read more...]
My Oscar Predictions for the 2018 Awards Ceremony
I am happy for the movies and the nominees. This post is about my Oscar predictions with some comments. Tonight we will find out who are the winners this year. Incredibly, amazingly, there will be no big surprises, unless some backstage producer pulls a prank again. In the following movie list, there are only one or two I haven’t watched. I have considered the Best Picture nominations and the movies in which the Best Actor/Actress, Best Supporting Actor/Actress, Directing, Original/Adapted … [Read more...]
13 Talented Actors Without an Oscar
They are actors without an Oscar even if they deserved an award unlike other peers. There is no particular order to them. These actors and actresses were nominated at least for a Best Supporting role, some of them several times, but despite their talent, they didn't get it yet. Except one of them (Richard Burton), all the others are pretty recent, a 20-25 years span is a whole life for just a part of you. James Woods [source for all pics: imdb.com] James Woods was born on 18 … [Read more...]
True Romance
True Romance is a 1993 American action romantic crime film directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino. It is very entertaining, and it has a freshness that has reached even Tarantino's taste. He declared at a moment that he wouldn't have directed it better than Tony Scott. It is his second screenplay written for an important movie, the other one being his first low budget hit, Reservoir Dogs. I'm glad I have finally watched this movie, after noticing it on Empire Magazine's 2008 … [Read more...]