Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1895: Marcel Vertes (66 at death) {Oscar Winner: Art Direction (Color), Costume Design (Color) – 2 Noms, 2 Wins} 1896: Walter Lang (75 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Directing – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1902: Norma Shearer (80 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Lead Actress – 6 Noms,
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We have an unusual array of trailers tonight. The new trailers are for Jackass 3D, The Winning Season, I Spit on Your Grave (trailer #2), Daniel & Ana and I Am Comic. In addition, there are several new posters: There are five for Centurion, one for Enemies of the People, Nanny McPhee Returns (poster #2)
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Separate Tables Rating Director Delbert Mann Screenplay Terence Rattigan, John Gay (Play: Terence Rattigan) Length 100 min. Starring Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster, Gladys Cooper, Cathleen Nesbitt, Felix Aylmer, Rod Taylor, Audrey Dalton, May Hallatt, Priscilla Morgan MPAA Rating Approved
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Advise & Consent Rating Director Otto Preminger Screenplay Wendell Mayes (Novel: Allen Drury) Length 139 min. Starring Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, Burgess Meredith, Eddie Hodges, Paul Ford, George Grizzard, Inga Swenson, Paul McGrath, Will Geer, Edward Andrews, Betty WHite, Malcolm Atterbury, J. Edward
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Week thirteen of our contest is now complete with The Other Guys claiming the top spot at the box office in its first weekend. Come back Thursday to submit your predictions. For contest rules see this original post: Summer Box Office Prediction Contest #1 Film at the U.S. weekend box office Correct Response: The Other
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You never fully realize just how much you have to do during the weekend until you don’t have the full of it to do what you need to do. Suffice it to say, I am severely behind on movies, but managed to at least get two down, but had intended on watching four. Plus, periodically
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Results are in for Week #17 of Film Fun Friday. Game: Identify the Poster The correct answers were: They Drive By Night (Foreign Poster) and Quo Vadis (Negative Poster). Lallolupo was our only correct respondent this week. Game: Quotes The quote “I tried taking pictures, but they were so mediocre. I guess every girl goes
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I apologize for the delay in getting this out, but I was bad at procrastinating this weekend and then other things came up that I didn’t have to do, but did anyway. There are quite a few new previews from this week, but they have not been updated on the previews pages linked at the
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1905: Leo Genn (72 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Supporting Actor – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1906: Hugh Prince (53 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Song – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1906: Robert Surtees (78 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Cinematography (Black-and-White), Cinematography (Color); Oscar Nominee: Cinematography, Cinematography (Black-and-White),
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Patricia Neal, the willowy, husky-voiced actress who won an Academy Award for 1963’s “Hud” and then survived several strokes to continue acting, died on Sunday. She was 84. Neal had lung cancer and died at her home in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha’s Vineyard, said longtime friend Bud Albers of Knoxville. Neal was
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The Online Film & Television Association today announced the winners of their 14th Annual Television Awards. Drama Mad Men, musical Glee, comedy Modern Family and miniseries The Pacific took this year’s top prizes winning Drama Series, tying for Comedy Series, and winning Motion Picture or Miniseries respectively. The Pacific won the most awards with ten;
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1899: Victor Young (57 at death) {Oscar Winner: Drama/Comedy Score; Oscar Nominee: Song, Original Score, Scoring, Drama Score, Drama/Comedy Score, Musical Score – 22 Noms, 1 Win} 1899: Owen Marks (61 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Editing – 2 Noms, 0 Wins} 1900: Robert Siodmak (72 at death)
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1884: Billie Burke (85 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Supporting Actress – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1901: Ann Harding (80 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Nominee: Lead Actress – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1909: Ben Maddow (83 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Screenplay – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1909:
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Welcome once again to Film Fun Friday where we want you to have fun. If you have further suggestions on how we can improve, ideas for other games you’d like to see or just want to tell us how much fun you’re having, feel free to drop us a Comment. If you would like to
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born 1887: Oliver G. Wallace (76 at death) [Pictured] {Oscar Winner: Musical Score;Oscar Nominee: Drama/Comedy Score, Musical Score – 5 Noms, 1 Win} 1895: Ernesto Lecuona (68 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Song – 1 Nom, 0 Wins} 1895: Phil Boutelje (83 at death) {Oscar Nominee: Scoring, Drama/Comedy Score
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