tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784665635104956142.post1525737527159400180..comments2024-03-28T06:14:54.076-04:00Comments on And So It Begins...: Oscars Breakdown: Best DirectorAlex Withrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15887018476048271594noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784665635104956142.post-61320989664645474562020-07-24T09:59:49.773-04:002020-07-24T09:59:49.773-04:00Comin' in hot! "Most stunning upset"...Comin' in hot! "Most stunning upset" refers to Costner beating Scorsese for Best Director. "With full context" refers to Dances with Wolves beating Goodfellas for Best Picture. Two separate categories. Good?Alex Withrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15887018476048271594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784665635104956142.post-47829213683038762992020-07-24T01:18:19.804-04:002020-07-24T01:18:19.804-04:001990: "In one of the most stunning upsets in ...1990: "In one of the most stunning upsets in Oscar history, Scorsese was beaten yet again by an actor-turned-director who made an inferior film. With full context, I understand why Wolves won Best Picture, but it’ll never make sense that Scorsese lost here."<br /><br />Uhh, you sure "most stunning upset" is appropriate here? Like it or not, Dances With Wolves won all the key precursor awards. You even include "with full context" in the next sentence.BlueFox94https://www.blogger.com/profile/14195892941224578493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784665635104956142.post-73990445733901219712020-07-22T15:46:03.998-04:002020-07-22T15:46:03.998-04:001998 – Always love for TTRL.
1999 – 100% yes. If t...1998 – Always love for TTRL.<br />1999 – 100% yes. If the Oscars took place 10 years after the fact, Mann wins.<br />2001 – Ugh, tell me about it.<br />2007 – Totally agree. What a great movie year.<br />2008 – Yep, that was the narrative… the uplifting film wins the day.<br />2010 – Never forget this one.<br />2019 – I love when that happens! So so rare, but it’s such a joy.<br /><br />Thanks so much again for reading and commenting!Alex Withrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15887018476048271594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784665635104956142.post-52757697758276674602020-07-22T15:42:13.765-04:002020-07-22T15:42:13.765-04:00Love these comments! Thanks so much for taking the...Love these comments! Thanks so much for taking the time to write them. <br /><br />1968 – HA! So damn true.<br />1971 – I’m cool with that!<br />1990 – No need to finish it, ugh.<br />1991 – AMEN to that! He wrote that damn movie between classes in USC’s computer lab. Incredible. One of my favorite debut films of all time.Alex Withrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15887018476048271594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784665635104956142.post-50222336800338272282020-07-14T13:43:34.569-04:002020-07-14T13:43:34.569-04:00- 1998. I'm with you here. I love Saving Priva...- 1998. I'm with you here. I love Saving Private Ryan, but The Thin Red Line is one of my all time favorite movies. It's so beautifully directed. <br /><br />- 1999. This definitely should have gone to Michael Mann. The Insider could have been such a slog to sit through in the wrong directors hands, but Mann makes it incredibly tense and exciting. It just gets better and better every time i watch it.<br /><br />- 2001. This definitely should have been Lynch's year. Mulholland Drive is such a perfect movie. <br /><br />- 2006. I'm so happy Scorsese finally won his Oscar because he really should have had several at this point. I do love The Departed as well so think he actually deserved it as well this year.<br /><br />- 2007. This has to be one of the best years for movies in recent history. There are so many good ones that could have been nominated as well like David Fincher for Zodiac, Andrew Dominik for The Assassination of Jesse James, Ben Affleck for Gone Baby Gone, David Cronenberg for Eastern Promises, Sidney Lumet for Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and even Edgar Wright for Hot Fuzz. That is a perfect comedy. I'm happy the Coen brother finally got their Oscar though.<br /><br />- 2008. I always thought Slumdog Millionaire was Danny Boyle's weakest movie until Yesterday last year, so this win was a strange one. I guess it is the kind of uplifting movie the Academy loves though.<br /><br />- 2010. I still can't believe Tom Hooper won this. The King's Speech was easily the weakest movie nominated. This should have been Fincher's year.<br /><br />- 2015. I would have gone with Miller here. The fact that he was nominated for the fourth Mad Max movie is so strange, but damn, what a movie that was. I remember thinking there was no way that movie was gonna be good. George Miller had not directed an action movie since Mad Max 3 in the 80's and that one was awful. So i was blown away when i finally watched Fury Road in theaters. What an incredible achievement.<br /><br />- 2019. One of the few years where my favorite movie won both Best Picture and Best Director. That was incredible and probably the last good thing to happen in 2020.<br /><br />This was really fun to read and go though. I wanted to comment on almost every year after 1970 but had to reel myself in a little bit. Looking forward to reading the rest.Henrik Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00328417397416651007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784665635104956142.post-28273301177158387062020-07-14T13:43:24.612-04:002020-07-14T13:43:24.612-04:00Oh man, this is gonna take a while. This is probab...Oh man, this is gonna take a while. This is probably my favorite category at the Oscars.<br /><br />- 1943. Casablanca. This is the earliest winner i have seen. What a perfect movie. I absolutely love this movie and i really want to start checking out more movies from this era. Most of the movies i have watched pre-1960 are Universal monster movies and Hitchcock movies.<br /><br />- 1950. This might be unfair because i have not watched All About Eve yet, The Third Man is one of my all time favorite movies so i definitely think Carol Reed deserved to win. Maybe I'll change my mind once i finally watch All About Eve though.<br /><br />- 1960. Again, i have not yet watched The Apartment, but i agree with you here. The fact that Hitchcock didn't finally win his Oscar for Psycho is just depressing. Psycho is probably in my top 10 favorite films of all time. It still holds up as a perfect movie after all these years.<br /><br />- 1968. I'm just gonna pretend this is Carol Reed's belated Oscar win for The Third Man. I can't believe an Oliver Twist movie won over 2001.<br /><br />- 1971. I love The French Connection, but i would definitely give Friedkin the Oscar for The Exorcist over it and give it to Kubrick this year.<br /><br />- 1976. The fact that Martin Scorsese wasn't even nominated for Taxi Driver has to be one of the biggest Oscar snubs of all time, Right. But since he wasn't i'm glad John G. Avildsen won. Rocky might be considered cheesy these days, but i absolutely love it. A perfect and inspiring underdog movie.<br /><br />- 1977. It's so strange that George Lucas created maybe the biggest franchise in movie history with Star Wars and then never directed another movie again until Phantom Menace in 1999. Maybe that movie and it's sequels would have been better if he had kept honing the craft instead of just writing and producing all those years.<br /><br />- 1990. Kevin Costner winning for Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas is actually shocking. I have only ever watched half of Dances with Wolves because i fell asleep during it and never felt the need to watch the rest. <br /><br />- 1991. The fact that John Singleton was only 24 when he got nominated for an Oscar makes me question my own life choices. I'm happy Demme won though. Silence is such a creepy movie. I love it.Henrik Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00328417397416651007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784665635104956142.post-50045921080258124262020-06-02T11:42:51.724-04:002020-06-02T11:42:51.724-04:00Hey Mark! Thanks so much for checking out the post...Hey Mark! Thanks so much for checking out the post. Doing well, just being a little lazier about posting than usual. Hopefully have my Best Actress post live today!Alex Withrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15887018476048271594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784665635104956142.post-49987695690850445702020-06-01T14:36:40.207-04:002020-06-01T14:36:40.207-04:00Read this when it dropped, great post. Looking for...Read this when it dropped, great post. Looking forward to the next- hope you're ok.Mark Woollonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05072777957640381767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784665635104956142.post-74363450708920521812020-04-30T09:49:32.486-04:002020-04-30T09:49:32.486-04:00Thanks so much! Yeah, a lot of 2010 doesn't ho...Thanks so much! Yeah, a lot of 2010 doesn't hold up well. I remember as those awards were given out, I was thinking, "This ain't gonna age well."<br /><br />2006 was such a strong year for those three friends. I love those three movies. I agree it'll be interesting to see what doors Bong Joon-ho's win opens. There are so many foreign directors (including Park Chan-wook) that are worth of recognition like this.<br /><br />Thanks for the comment!Alex Withrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15887018476048271594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784665635104956142.post-81495670943569553602020-04-30T09:43:05.698-04:002020-04-30T09:43:05.698-04:00Hell of an effort here, love this. My friend and I...Hell of an effort here, love this. My friend and I were talking the other day, and isn't it crazy that the Oscars even nominated Cries and Whispers for Picture and Director? It is such an emotionally brutal film, and so foreign, that I'm amazed they nominated it.Alex Withrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15887018476048271594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784665635104956142.post-59643630385899529252020-04-29T22:03:22.861-04:002020-04-29T22:03:22.861-04:00Wait, The King’s Speech won! THAT MOVIE!? Over Bla...Wait, The King’s Speech won! THAT MOVIE!? Over Black Swan and The Social Network?! This is insane.<br /><br />I love how half of this decade's wins are by Mexican-born directors, and talented ones at that. Still think 2006 was way stronger for all three of these. Like Babel, Children of Men and Pan's Labyrinth are just experiences not just movies.<br /><br />Wonder if Bong Joon–ho's will have an effect as powerful Cuarón's Gravity win. Park Chan-wook certainly is an auteur whom deserves some more recognition. Oldboy is one of the finest movies of the 2000s afterall.<br /><br />Nice to see more cinema from around the world pop up at the Oscars like Yorgos Lanthimos, whom I fell in love with Dogtooth years back.<br /><br />Great post, as always from you. Keep it up. Nice to read (re-read) some of those from time to time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784665635104956142.post-15212092902232340922020-04-29T21:19:05.303-04:002020-04-29T21:19:05.303-04:00OK, 1927-1950
Lewis Milestone, Frank Capra for It...OK, 1927-1950<br /><br />Lewis Milestone, Frank Capra for <i>It Happened One Night</i>, Michael Curtiz, Billy Wilder, William Wyler, and John Huston were the right choices while I think John Ford should've gotten the Oscar for <i>Stagecoach</i> instead of Victor Fleming (and many others) for <i>Gone with the Wind</i>.<br /><br />1950s<br /><br />The two wins by George Stevens, David Lean, Elia Kazan, and Delbert Mann were the right choices while I think the Oscars should've gone to Billy Wilder for both <i>Sunset Boulevard</i> and <i>Some Like It Hot</i>, and Fred Zinneman for <i>High Noon</i>.<br /><br />1960s<br /><br />David Lean for <i>Lawrence of Arabia</i> and Billy Wilder for <i>The Apartment</i> are the only winners that got it right while Federico Fellini should've won twice for <i>La Dolce Vita</i> and <i>8 1/2</i>, Stanley Kubrick twice for <i>Dr. Strangelove</i> and <i>2001</i>, Hiroshi Teshigahara for <i>Woman in the Dunes</i>, Michelangelo Antonioni for <i>Blow-Up</i>, Arthur Penn for <i>Bonnie & Clyde</i>, and Costa-Garvas for <i>Z</i>.<br /><br />1970<br /><br />Francis Ford Coppola for <i>The Godfather Pt. II</i>, Bob Fosse for <i>Cabaret</i>,Michael Cimino for <i>The Deer Hunter</i>, and Woody Allen for <i>Annie Hall</i> were the right picks while Robert Altman should've won for <i>M.A.S.H.</i>, Stanley Kubrick twice for <i>A Clockwork Orange</i> and <i>Barry Lyndon</i>, Francis Ford Coppola for <i>Apocalypse Now</i>, Ingmar Bergman for <i>Cries & Whispers</i> and Lina Wertmuller for <i>Seven Beauties</i> should've won.<br /><br />1980s<br /><br />Warren Beatty, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Milos Forman were the right choices while Martin Scorsese should've won twice for <i>Raging Bull</i> and <i>The Last Temptation of Christ</i>, Steven Spielberg for <i>E.T.</i>, Ingmar Bergman for <i>Fanny & Alexander</i>, Akira Kurosawa for <i>Ran</i>, David Lynch for <i>Blue Velvet</i>, and Woody Allen for <i>Crimes & Misdemeanors</i>.<br /><br />1990s<br /><br />Jonathan Demme and Steven Spielberg for <i>Schindler's List</i> were the right choices while Martin Scorsese for <i>Goodfellas</i>, Robert Altman for <i>The Player</i>, Krzysztof Kieslowski for <i>Trois Coleurs: Rouge</i>, Tim Robbins for <i>Dead Man Walking</i>, Joel Coen for <i>Fargo</i>, Atom Egoyan for <i>The Sweet Hereafter</i>, Spike Jonze for <i>Being John Malkovich</i>, and Terrence Malick for <i>The Thin Red Line</i>.<br /><br />2000s<br /><br />Steven Soderbergh, Roman Polanski, Ang Lee, and Kathryn Bigelow deserved their wins while David Lynch should've won for <i>Mulholland Dr.</i>, Alexander Payne for <i>Sideways</i>, Clint Eastwood for <i>Letters from Iwo Jima</i>, Paul Thomas Anderson for <i>There Will Be Blood</i>, David Fincher for <i>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button</i>, and of course... Sofia for THE BEST FILM EVER MADE!!!!<br /><br />2010s<br /><br />Alfonso Cuaron for his two wins, Bong Joon-Ho, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for <i>Birdman</i> were the right choices while David Fincher for <i>The Social Network</i>, Terrence Malick for <i>The Tree of Life</i>, Michael Haneke for <i>Amour</i>, George Miller for <i>Mad Max: Fury Road</i>, Barry Jenkins for <i>Moonlight</i>, and Christopher Nolan for <i>Dunkirk</i> should've won in their respective years. thevoid99https://www.blogger.com/profile/03055459287396592446noreply@blogger.com