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Nolte: What Should’ve Won the Best Picture Oscar – 1970 to 1979
22 Apr 2021
In part six of this series we look at the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1970 and 1979.
By 1970 the old studio system and the Production Code were officially dead, the New Hollywood-era was in full bloom, and what an era it was. As you will see below, the swingin’ seventies produced classic after classic, and although many were filled with R-rated content, they were almost old-fashioned in their morality, especially when it came to one of this decade’s overriding themes: the importance of the individual over the collective.
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Nat King Cole was beaten on a Birmingham stage 65 years ago today
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This photo, part of an archived series Alabama Media Group is donating to the Alabama Department of Archives, shows Cole backstage before the Birmingham show. It was shot by either Norman Dean, Eldred Perry or Robert Adams, all of The Birmingham News.
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In his mind, it should have been the next best thing to a hometown show.
Nat King Cole was a Montgomery native whose velvet voice propelled him to stardom with hits like “Unforgettable” and “Mona Lisa” and in a few months would launch his own NBC variety show (the first hosted by a Black man).
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