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War is hell. Unless of course itâs Oscar season. Then, war movies like
The Hurt Locker are awesome! In the over 90-year history of the Academy Awards, 16 war movies have won Best Picture at the Oscars. Compare that to Musicals that won Best Picture (10), Comedies (7) Westerns (4) and finally Fantasy (1), and you can clearly see that the Academy shines brightly on people getting gored or blown to smithereens set to dramatic music.
Apocalypse Now. I, like many other people, must seemingly love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells likeâ¦Oscar bait. That said, some war movies are better than others, and I aim to inform you of which of the Best Picture winning war flicks you might want to check out, and which ones you might want to leave in the trenches. A-ten-hut!
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With over 90 Academy Award Best Picture winners, you would think that it was difficult to narrow this list down to just 10, right? Well, no, actually. Iâm going to let you in on a little secret. The movie that wins Best Picture is rarely ever a masterpiece. In fact, there are several years where the best picture of the year wasnât even nominated. Like, how was
Ex Machina not freaking nominated?
Sorry, Iâm still just a little upset over some of these snubs. The fact is, a Best Picture winner is rarely a film that will be remembered forever. I recently did an article on Musicals that won Best Picture, and while I like some of them, I can honestly say that I wouldnât consider any of them as one of the best movies ever made. But, I definitely would call the 10 movies that I have for you here some of the best motion pictures of all time. Oh, and there
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When Oscars are handed out, it’s possible best picture, director, writing and all four acting wins will be for films about real people.
The odds of this sweep seem slim. But this past year has been all about unexpected events, so anything is possible. Certainly, there are a wealth of contenders: This year’s Oscar race is heavy with biopics and fact-based dramas.
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“Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Mank,” “One Night in Miami,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” all center on individuals whose 20th century lives were well documented in the media (including the
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Stronger Saturday 20/3 BBC2 @ 11.25pm
2013. Boston. Two brothers set off bombs at the city marathon and the day becomes a bloody mess. A woman called Erin, who was running sees it all happen and finds her boyfriend Jeff in the wreckage. A tough watch about the human cost of violence and the resilience needed to come back from it. Superb acting from Tatiana Maslany & Jake Gyllenhaal will keep you going through the horror.
Broken Flowers Saturday 20/3 TG4 @ 11.30pm
Just after Don has had his heart broken, a blast from the past forces him out of his slump and on a roadtrip across America to engage with a part of his life he didn t even realise existed. Jim Jarmusch s low-key slowburn comedy dramas aren t for everyone but this one is a bittersweet and likable watch about how the past never stays in the past. Bill Murray, Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange and Jeffrey Wright all work well