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Director Alfred E Green’s 1935 drama Dangerous stars Bette Davis at her early finest. Her florid, highly mannered, but still effective acting secured the 27-year-old rising star her first Best Actress Oscar for this portrayal here. She […]
Sophia Loren won Best Actress awards at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival and the 1962 Oscars for her glorious tour-de-force in the 1961 drama film La Ciociara [Two Women], the first non-English-language performance to win […]
John Schlesinger’s 1965 film Darling stars Julie Christie at her most luminous. She won the Best Actress Oscar as an ambitious, amoral English model who sleeps her way to the top of the Swinging London […]
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 […]
Still Alice is a devastating heart-tugger and guaranteed weepie. Julianne Moore is brilliant in a demanding and challenging role as Dr Alice Howland, a 50-year-old renowned linguistics professor struck down with rare congenital, early-onset Alzheimer’s. […]
Director Jack Clayton’s influential 1959 double Oscar-winning film is a Fifties British classic in its own right and significant as the first of the British New Wave of realistic film dramas. Its star Laurence Harvey may […]
Based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit play by Elmer Blaney Harris, director Jean Negulesco’s 1948 tearjerker was controversial in its day and now is still touching, sensitive and extremely enjoyable. Jane Wyman won the Best […]