Showing posts with label Academy Awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Academy Awards. Show all posts

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Thursday Movie Picks #32: Oscar Winning Movies (from pool of Winners of Best Picture/Best Animated Film/Best Foreign Film)




Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share three movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each.For further details visit the series main page here.
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Oscar Winning Movies (from pool of Winners of Best Picture/Best Animated Film/Best Foreign Film)

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The Oscars are upon us! Are you a fan of the Oscars? Do you watch the ceremony? I use to really follow all these various award shows, but now I really don't follow who wins what or who got snubbed because there are just so many good stuff out there that just doesn't have the marketing machine behind it to help it get seen and nominated. That said I still watch the Oscars because it's still a pretty entertaining show: I enjoy the opening jokes by the host, the funny thank you speeches and the performances for best song. So because it is Oscar Week, picks this week have to be one of the movies that have won a best film award. For my picks I'm going with some of my favourites:

This movie was my introduction to the world of dark comedies back in 1999. Dysfunctional family movies are kind of the norm now, but then (at least to me) it was just so new going beneath the surface of the perfect-from-the-outside family. I still catch this movie sometimes when it's aired on TV and it still draws me in with its interesting messy characters and the sardonic narration of Kevin Spacey's Lester Burnham

Gladiator (2000)
I wasn't at all interested to see Gladiator because I though all it had to offer was people battling in the Colosseum. Eventually I did see it when it aired on TV and I pretty much love it. It was the sweeping music, the sweeping shots. the epic story and especially the acting that won me. Russell Crowe was of course superb as Maximus, who can ever forget his iconic lines, and Joaquin Phoenix was just hateful as Commodus.

Rebecca (1940)
I've talked about Rebecca here before. Joan Fontaine is just perfect as the Second Mrs. de Winter with the right blend of youth, innocence and naivety who is just trying so very hard to be as elegant as Rebecca. The movie itself is haunting, suspenseful, also surprisingly funny in the 1st third and I'd consider (except for the bit at the end) a very faithful adaptation of the book.  

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 So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?


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