Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "best picture Oscar"

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The Broadway Melody **** (1929, Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, Kenneth Thomson, Eddie Kane) – Classic Movie Review 3624

ALL TALKING! ALL SINGING! ALL DANCING! Director Harry Beaumont’s 1929 movie is the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and the first musical to win Best Picture Oscar. It is also the first MGM musical […]

Apr, 27

Spotlight **** (2015, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup) – Movie Review

Spotlight is tense, urgent and dynamic, with great performances and a good flavour of the newsroom. Co-writer / director Tom McCarthy urgently tells the true story of how the Boston Globe’s tenacious Spotlight team of […]

Jan, 15

Slumdog Millionaire ***** (2008, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Irrfan Khan, Anil Kapoor) – Classic Movie Review 2907

Director Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire triumphed at the 2009 Oscars, winning eight, including Best Motion Picture, Best Achievement in Directing, Best Adapted Screenplay (Simon Beaufoy) and Best Cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle). A long, atmospheric film […]

Sep, 13

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest ***** (1975, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson, William Redfield, Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Scatman Crothers) – Classic Movie Review 2,467

The exhilarating 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is only the second to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Lead Role, Actress in Lead Role, Director, and Screenplay). Director Milos Forman’s exhilarating 1975 movie One […]

May, 09

The Greatest Show on Earth **** (1952, Betty Hutton, Charlton Heston, Gloria Grahame, James Stewart, Cornel Wilde, Dorothy Lamour) – Classic Movie Review 2456

Cecil B DeMille carried off the Best Picture Oscar for The Greatest Show on Earth (1952). Gloria Grahame had to let an elephant rest its foot an inch from her face.  Big, bigger, biggest seems […]

May, 06

The French Connection ***** (1971, Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi) – Classic Movie Review 2,040

William Friedkin’s legendary five-Oscar-winning 1971 movie The French Connection is one of the all-time great action thrillers, with a star-making, Oscar-winning star turn by Gene Hackman. Director William Friedkin’s legendary multi-Oscar-winning 1971 movie The French […]

Jan, 03

West Side Story ***** (1961, Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, George Chakiris, Rita Moreno) – Classic Film Review 1,051

‘Make of our hands one hand. Make of our hearts one heart.’ Directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins lavish all on the stupendous, 10 Oscar-winning 1961 movie classic version of the all-time great 1957 stage […]

Apr, 04

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