The Oscars 2021 were better than others. I always thought that Oscars have to be awarded to movies close to spectacular, and to outstanding performances or deeds. This rarely happens, and unfortunately, that won't happen again. Thus I greatly appreciate the persons involved, they exert a great effort from the project's beginning to its end, even if the result is not the best movie ever. If the result is trash, it means they didn't work enough, and they aren't worth mentioning. They wouldn't be … [Read more...]
Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman, an Awarded Iranian Drama
The Salesman (Forushande in Farsi, in original) is an outstanding and mesmerizing Iranian movie released in 2016. I think I like the word mesmerizing. This movie won the Oscar for the Foreign Language Movie in 2017, a controversial year with weak movies. The Salesman came up like the oil in water. As a reminder, 2017 was the year I haven't published my Oscar winners because of movies like Moonlight, La La Land, 20th Century Women... On top of that, the circus at the ceremony, the … [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...]
Oscars 2017 – The Most Embarrassing Show
Oscars 2017 awards ceremony was by far a very embarrassing and disputable show, even if the actual weirdness started much earlier. Yes, dear friends, it was more absurd than this year's Golden Globes, where "Hollywood legend" Meryl Streep threw some venomous spikes at their democratically elected president, misinterpreting some of Donald Trump chaotic aping gestures. She has been applauded long lasting moments (even if she pretended to have "only three seconds to say this"). Her peers repeated … [Read more...]
Room – the Future Best Actress
Room is a drama movie of Canadian-Irish origins directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Emma Donoghue, based on her novel. It has been released at a Colorado Film Festival in September 2015. Room received critical acclaim and four Academy Award nominations, including "Best Picture", "Best Director" for Abrahamson and "Best Adapted Screenplay" for Donoghue. Brie Larson's performance in particular has been singled out for awards; she won the Golden Globe for "Best Actress in a Motion … [Read more...]
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