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...]
Bridge of Spies – Not Your Conventional Spy Movie
I hope to have the time and mood to review as many movies as possible from the Oscar nominations list this year, 2016. Mood is always important! I'll explain this later, in a different short post. Bridge of Spies is the newest Steven Spielberg movie. More than that, it is written by Ethan and Joel Coen, helped by Matt Charman. Plot This movie is nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (for Rylance), and Best Original Screenplay. I would have … [Read more...]
Mike Nichols Left for Heaven
Mike Nichols, born on November 6, 1931, in Berlin, Germany, with the name Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky, was the first cinema director to make one million dollars after one movie, in 1967 for The Graduate, when his salary with the royalties combined to one million. He made another million just from the salary, in 1970, for directing Catch-22. He died of heart attack, two days ago, being eighty-six years old. He was married four times, and he considered his last spouse, the famous ABC Diane Sawyer, … [Read more...]
Robin Williams Is Gone
Incredible news! Another great actor dies young and unexpected. Robin Williams wasn't as young as Heath Ledger, but 63 can be still on the peak of his life. It is stated on NBC Blog that he battled demons decades before his death. Born in Chicago, on July 21, 1951, he was one of the most talented actors on screen. [source] Talented are plenty and the tastes are plenty too. Like Ledger, he won an Oscar for supporting role, but he received it in person. I read (and unfortunately it is … [Read more...]
Very Shortly on Phillip Seymour Hoffman
I still can't believe Phillip Seymour Hoffman is dead. Anyway, maybe not like this, but he was not alone. Oh, he felt alone, that's for sure, and if you want to blame addiction, you have to think twice, because his death seems to be a frame, logically based on previous "facts". I do not subscribe to this kind of trash. I think that what he said in that interview on "60 Minutes" (“It was all that [drugs and alcohol], yeah. It was anything I could get my hands on . . . I liked it all..”), and … [Read more...]
Silver Linings Playbook
Every Oscar season has to have a movie which is non-political, even a comedy or a drama "unrelated with the current events". I'm only joking, considering that Kathryn Bigellow's movie The Hurt Locker won Best Picture almost unrelated with the artistic views of the moment. Anyway, this year, her Zero Dark Thirty is way better and the critics say it's not standing a chance. Silver Linings Playbook is nominated for Best Picture with great chances to win if it wouldn't be for Argo. I used to be … [Read more...]