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Every year, The Envelope weighs the odds for each of the best picture nominees to win the gold by comparing them to previous Academy Award winners. (“Parasite” it’s “The Sting” gone horribly wrong!) To analyze the elements of this season’s eight nominees, we looked at plots, themes, styles even their comic relief. Are the resemblances we found enough to give the current picture a boost? Yeah, probably not. But we did find that this year’s crop, with it’s weightier story lines, often had us dipping into past documentary winners to find our corollaries.
Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins in “The Father.”
100 Best Western Films of All Time, According to Critics
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Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in his box at the theatre, and the killer’s bid to escape across the stage, is recreated in a whirlwind sequence in DW Griffith’s 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation. The killing of Lincoln, by the actor John Wilkes Booth, is the most famous murder in a theatre but several other films have since built mysteries around deadly crimes committed before a captive audience. Paul Leni’s dazzling The Last Warning (1928) concerns a Broadway actor’s on-stage death. In the British movie Murder at the Windmill (1949), directed by former stage actor Val Guest, a punter is killed during a burlesque show; his body is discovered along with a pipe, an umbrella and a pair of kippers when the theatre is being cleaned.
Thing we were happiest to learn: Fear not, pancake lovers, Canada has a strategic syrup reserve. Back in 1966, several of Quebec’s leading syrup producers decided to coordinate their marketing efforts, forming the Federation Of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers (FPAQ, which abbreviates the French translation). FPAQ controls 94% of Canada’s maple syrup (and therefore 77% of the world’s supply), and has been likened to a drug cartel. They maintain a permanent supply of liquid gold, the International Strategic Reserve, stored in warehouses across several Quebecois small towns. It was from one such warehouse that our thieves drained 9,571 barrels of syrup.