Category: Academy Awards History
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part XII
(Updated: 3/3/10, 11:57p to add John Wayne clip) Aging Hollywood legends showing up at the Oscars or receiving honorary awards are superbly memorable events. And other times, it’s a simple performance that does the trick. Tripp Burton 1979, 52nd Academy Awards The Duke came back, in the last year of his life, to a rousing…
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Best Cinematography
(Updated: 3/5/10, 12:46p – Added Wes’ info) Our Post-ASC predictions are now ready to be revealed as we continue our look at the categories for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Here are five facts on the Cinematography award, our predictions and our favorites. Trivia: Five Facts Among the first categories ever created, Cinematography has been…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part XI
Milestones & quips make up many of our reflections for the Oscars. Here are three more moments that we enjoyed tremendously. Peter J. Patrick 1973, 46th Academy Awards A terminally ill Susan Hayward makes her last appearance on the arm of Charlton Heston and Katharine Hepburn makes her only appearance. As David Niven intones, “A…
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Best Sound Mixing & Sound Editing
The sound awards are always one of the hardest to predict simply because it’s hard to know what the Academy is hearing. They’ve gone for classic, quality sound mixes and they’ve gone for aural deluges with no coherence. We’ll give you a few facts, share our predictions and our favorites and least favorites. Trivia: Five…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part X
Sometimes the greatest moments are the ones least remembered by modern audiences. And sometimes they are just the surprise moments that you never realized were so important. Our tenth edition of Favorite Oscar Moments continues. Tripp Burton & Peter J. Patrick 1977, 50th Academy Awards Tripp: They came out to present the Best Sound award,…
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Best Costume Design
With the Costume Designers Guild having given out their prizes, it’s now time for us to weigh in on the Costume Design award for the Oscars. In addition to our predictions, you’ll find five facts and our favorite and least favorite wins. Trivia: Five Facts Introduced in 1948, the category started out with Black-and-White and…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part IX
We’re nearly at the Oscars. Will there be something memorable this year? Perhaps nothing as memorable as what we’re discussing here, but we can always hope (or fear in the case of Peter’s selection). Below, we discuss our favorite Oscar moments, with honorary Oscars, memorable arrivals and new trends. Peter J. Patrick 1989, 62nd Academy…
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Best Actor
(Updated 3/5/10, 12:50p – Added Wes’ info) As we get closer and closer to the Oscars, more of the top categories will be revealed. Here are some facts about the Best Actor category, along with our predictions and favorite and least favorite winners in the Best Actor category. Trivia: Five Facts The category was among…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part VIII
From our earliest Oscar memories to the ones where we vocally cheer to the unique fashions, Cinema Sight’s Favorite Oscar Moments series continues with its eighth incarnation. Peter J. Patrick 1958, 31st Academy Awards My first Oscar show. Two moments stand out. The first is Rosalind Russell’s presentation of a Special Award to Maurice Chevalier…
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Best Original Song & Original Score
(Updated: 2/28/2010, 2:45p) We have another one-two punch today as we look at the music categories at the Oscars: Best Original Score and Best Original Song. Like with our documentary and short film categories yesterday, we’ll split the score and song categories into two separate five-part fact sheets, then offer up our predictions in both…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part VII
With our seventh outing in our Favorite Oscar Moments series, Peter, Tripp and I continue sharing our favorite moments from Oscar history. The moments that we remember best or that have struck our fancy as we’ve consumed Oscar’s history. This is also the second time two of us have agreed on a particular moment to…
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Best Documentary Feature & Short Films
Another of our combination rounds, this one dealing with the documentary and short films categories. Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Animated Short Film and Live Action Short Film are covered below. There are a few more facts than normal and more predictions. Our thoughts on our favorite and least favorite winners are confined to the Documentary…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part VI
From refusals to ties to Honorary Oscars. They are the moments we remember because of what they meant to us. Whether they made us laugh, cry or scratch our heads, they are our favorites. Tripp Burton 1970, 43rd Academy Awards It is a moment that still baffles me, that the Academy gave the Oscar to…
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Best Original & Adapted Screenplay
(Updated: 2/24/10, 6:13p) Today, we have a one-two punch for you, highlighting the year’s writing awards. Since the Academy has had so many different category descriptions and rules, we thought it best to cover our favorites of these groups somewhat collectively. In addition, the trivia encompasses all writing awards and our predictions are for both…
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Favorite Oscar Moments, Part V
The great moments we remember are sometimes the most subtle and oftentimes the most garish with a few well placed speeches in between. Today we continue with the fifth part of our Favorite Oscar Moments coverage. Peter J. Patrick 1964, 37th Academy Awards 75-year-old Oscar nominee Gladys Cooper runs to the stage to accept Cecil…
