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Director Henry Hathaway’s lumbering but loved old-style 1969 Western True Grit stars John Wayne in one of his most iconic performances for which he won his only Best Actor Oscar as the fat, old, drunken […]
‘Sing, Bing . . . . You’re A Grand, Gay Guy In Your Greatest Picture !’ Producer-director Leo McCarey also provided the original story for this warm and appealing 1944 multi-Oscar-winner. Voters seemed to agree that […]
Writer-director Robert Rossen’s 1949 drama stars Broderick Crawford, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as decent but ambitious Southern politician Willie Stark. But he loses his scruples climbing up the ladder to political success as […]
Writer-director Robert Benton hones this four-hankie, five-Oscar-winning tearjerker tale of a tug-of-love between workaholic advertising executive Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) and ex-wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) over their seven-year-old son Billy (Justin Henry) into highly polished 1979 movie. […]
Director Barry Levinson’s four Oscar-winning 1988 drama is a triumph, winning some of the most important of the 1989 Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It also won the […]
Director Hal Ashby’s high-impact, liberal-minded, issue-led 1978 triple Oscar-winning classic triumphed at the Academy Awards. Jon Voight and Jane Fonda won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress as Luke Martin, a bitter, wheelchair-bound Vietnam […]
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones give superb, award-worthy performances as the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane in director James Marsh’s engrossing, emotionally wrenching film of their relationship. Redmayne deservedly triumphed by winning Best Actor at […]