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Those Oscar Missed: Best Director

Posted on January 28, 2013 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON A director is vital to the making of a movie. The director is responsible for getting the best possible performances from the actors. The director is responsible for bringing his/her vision to life through his/her collaborations … Continue reading →

Posted in Oscar Talk | Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Aaron Eckhart, Academy Awards, Akira Kurosawa, Albert Brooks, Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Bel Geddes, Barry Lyndon, best director, christian bale, Christopher Nolan, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Ed Wood, Francis Ford Coppola, Full Metal Jacket, Gangs of New York, gary oldman, George Lucas, Goodfellas, Guillermo Del Toro, Heath Ledger, hugo, Inception, James Stewart, John Ford, Kagemusha, Kim Novak, Lifeboat, martin scorsese, Memento, Oscar Snubs, Pan's Labyrinth, Paul Schrader, Psycho, Raging Bull, Ran, Rear Window, Rebecca, Robert DeNiro, Shintaro Katsu, Spellbound, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Daldry, Tatsuay Nakadai, Taxi Driver, The Age of Innocence, The Aviator, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Reader, The Searchers, The Shining, Tim Burton, Vertigo | 1 Comment

Those Oscar Missed: Best Original Screenplay

Posted on January 10, 2013 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Original Screenplay refers to a screenplay in which the material is not based on another medium. Even if the screenplay is about someone or something that was real, it would still count as an original … Continue reading →

Posted in Oscar Talk | Tagged (500) Days of Summer, 50/50, Arthur Bremer, Best Original Screenplay, Christopher Nolan, Danny Rubin, David O. Russell, George Wallace, Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis, Hickey and Boggs, Hollywood, I Heart Huckabees, Inception, Jeff Baena, Michael H. Weber, Moon, Paul D. Zimmerman, Paul Schrader, Scott Neustadter, Taxi Driver, The Dark Knight, The Fighter, The King of Comedy, Win Win | 3 Comments

Those Oscar Missed: Best Film Editing

Posted on December 18, 2012 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Film Editing is one of the more creative Oscar categories. Film editing itself is an art form that is unique to cinema, although there is a similarity to the editing process when it comes to … Continue reading →

Posted in Oscar Talk | Tagged 127 Hours, A Passage To India, Academy Awards, All the President's Men, Amadeus, An Officer and a Gentleman, Apocalypse Now, As Good As It Gets, Barry Malkin, Beach Red, Best Film Editing, black swan, Blazing Saddles, Bound For Glory, Breathless, Broadcast News, Chinatown, Doctor Dolittle, Duck You Sucker, Earthquake, Films, French New Wave, Grand Prix, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, Henry Berman, In the Heat of the Night, Inception, John Boorman, Kingdom of Heaven, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Movies, Network, Once Upon A Time In America, oscar, Point Blank, Rocky, Romancing the Stone, Sergio Leone, Snubs, Taxi Driver, Terms of Endearment, The Cotton Club, The Dark Knight, The Deer Hunter, The Dirty Dozen, The Fighter, The Godfather, The Killing Fields, The King's Speech, The Longest Yard, The Right Stuff, The Social Network, The Towering Inferno, Tom Rolf, Two-Minute Warning | 1 Comment

Those Oscar Missed: Best Cinematography

Posted on December 1, 2012 by filmscorehunter

Cinematography is such an important part of a film. In many ways it can define it, used by the director to let us see what he/she wants us to see and not see. There are so many terrific examples of … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Cinematography, Oscar Talk | Tagged A Patch of Blue, A Star Is Born, Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Auntie Mame, Avatar, Barry Ackroyd, Bela Lugosi, best cinematography, Billy Crudup, Black Narcissus, Bound For Glory, Bruno Delbonnel, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Christian Berger, Citizen Kane, Coal Miner's Daughter, Don Burgess, Ed Wood, Ernest Laszlo, Forrest Gump, Funny Face, Geoffrey Unsworth, Ghislain Cloquet, Gigi, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Stradling, Haskell Wexler, Inglourious Basterds, James Crabe, James Wong Howe, John Toll, Joseph Ruttenberg, Kagemusha, King Kong, Kingdom of Heaven, Larry Fong, Legends of the Fall, Leon Shamroy, Logan's Run, Mauro Fiore, Michael Chapman, Nestor Almendros, Network, Oscar Snubs, Owen Roizman, Piotr Sobocinski, Raging Bull, Ralf D. Bode, Ran, Rear Window, Richard H. Kline, Road To Perdition, Robert Burks, robert richardson, Robert Surtess, Roger Deakins, Shoji Ueda, South Pacific, Strangers On A Train, Superman, Takao Saito, Taxi Driver, Tess, The Blue Lagoon, The Formula, The Fugitive, The Hurt Locker, The Old Man and the Sea, The Searchers, The Shawshank Redemption, The White Ribbon, Three Colors: Red, To Catch A Thief, To Kill A Mockingbird, Vertigo, VistaVision, Watchmen, Wyatt Earp | 2 Comments

Those Oscar Missed: Best Original Score

Posted on November 6, 2012 by filmscorehunter

GUEST COLUMN BY JAKE THOMPSON I have to admit that it was extremely difficult to pick just five major snubs of all time in the Best Original Score Oscar category (musical/song/adaptation scores are not included here). There were so many … Continue reading →

Posted in Oscar Talk | Tagged Alan Silvestri, Anna and the King of Siam, Basil Poledouris, Bernard Herrmann, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Original Musical/Comedy Score, best original score, Big Fish, Citizen Kane, Conan the Barbarian, Cutthroat Island, Danny Elfman, David Shire, Edward Scissorhands, First Blood, Good Will Hunting, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, Joe Hisaishi, John Debney, Men In Black, Milk, Norma Rae, North By Northwest, Obsession, Oscar Snubs, Poltergeist, Princess Mononoke, Return To Oz, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Taxi Driver, The Dark Crystal, The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Mummy Returns, The Passion of the Christ, The Promise, Tim Burton, Total Recall, Trevor Jones, Vertigo | 6 Comments

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Those Oscar Missed: Best Director

Those Oscar Missed: Best Original Screenplay

Those Oscar Missed: Best Cinematography

Those Oscar Missed: Best Original Score

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