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Posts Tagged "best actor Oscar"

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In Old Arizona **** (1928, Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess) – Classic Movie Review 8283

Director Irving Cummings’s 1928 Western In Old Arizona stars Warner Baxter, who won the 1930 Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his first appearance as O Henry’s guitar-strumming bandit, the Cisco Kid. […]

Mar, 23

Bohemian Rhapsody ** (2018, Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Joseph Mazzello, Aiden Gillen, Allen Leech, Tom Hollander, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy) – Movie Review

Bohemian Rhapsody is an interesting music biopic but it is troubled with hesitancies and uncertainties. Rami Malek proves a most interesting choice for the star part. He looks good and is ingratiating in the flamboyant […]

Oct, 26

Darkest Hour ** (2017, Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Stephen Dillane) – Movie Review

For playing British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright’s 2017 movie Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman won the Oscar as Best Actor, Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – […]

Dec, 14

Separate Tables **** (1958, Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 5970

The double Oscar-winning 1958 black-and-white drama film Separate Tables is a Hollywood version of Terence Rattigan’s renowned pair of one-act plays about the dramas of guests at an English south coast resort hotel. Director Delbert […]

Aug, 25

My Left Foot **** (1989, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Hugh O’Conor, Ruth McCabe, Fiona Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 5541

Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker won the 1990 Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress Oscars for their outstanding, heart-rending performances as Christy Brown and his mother Mrs Brown, in Jim Sheridan’s inspiring 1989 biopic of […]

Jun, 03

Tender Mercies **** (1983, Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin) – Classic Movie Review 5399

Director Bruce Beresford’s rousing 1983 drama swept Robert Duvall to a Best Actor Oscar and Horton Foote to a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award. Duvall is superb as the alcoholic, once-famous country singer songwriter Mac […]

May, 05

Judgment at Nuremberg ***** (1961, Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner) – Classic Movie Review 3.503

Spencer Tracy is superb as the American chief judge, Dan Haywood, who sits in judgment over a 1948 war crimes trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in producer-director Stanley Kramer’s powerful and moving double Oscar-winning 1961 drama […]

Mar, 26

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