Tag Archives: The Shining

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 Actor

Posted on January 22, 2013 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Actor can be a controversial category at times. Sometimes a supporting performance will be submitted as a lead performance by the distributor either to help boost box office revenue or to increase the actor’s chances … Continue reading →

Posted in Oscar Talk | Tagged A Better Life, A Clockwork Orange, Alfred Hitchcock, Anatomy of a Murder, best actor, Bill Murray, brad pitt, Casablanca, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Chaim Topol, Charlton Heston, Cinderella Man, clint eastwood, Cyrano De Bergerac, David Niven, Demian Bichir, Don Cheadle, Father of the Bride, Fiddler On the Roof, Finding Neverland, gary oldman, Gene Hackman, George C. Scott, george clooney, Harvey, Hotel Rwanda, Humphrey Bogart, In A Lonely Place, It's A Wonderful Life, Jack Nicholson, James Stewart, Jamie Foxx, Jean Dujardin, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Jose Ferrer, Kotch, leonardo dicaprio, Louis Calhern, Malcolm McDowell, michael fassbender, Million Dollar Baby, moneyball, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, paul giamatti, Paul Newman, Peter Finch, Ray, Separate Tables, shame, Sideways, Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Sunset Boulevard, The African Queen, the artist, The Aviator, The Caine Mutiny, The Defiant Ones, the descendants, The Fly, The French Connection, The Hospital, The Magnificent Yankee, The Old Man and the Sea, The Philadelphia Story, The Shining, The Ten Commandments, The Truman Show, tinker tailor soldier spy, Tony Curtis, Vertigo, Walter Matthau, What About Bob, William Holden | 3 Comments

Those Oscar Missed: Best Adapted Screenplay

Posted on January 8, 2013 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Adapted Screenplay refers to a screenplay on which the material is based on another medium (examples being short stories, novels, plays, comic books, TV shows, video games, short films, newspaper articles, or even previous films). … Continue reading →

Posted in Oscar Talk | Tagged 12 Monkeys, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Al Capone, Andrew Solt, Barry Lyndon, Batman Begins, Best Adapted Screenplay, Bob Kane, Christopher Nolan, David Mamet, David S. Goyer, Diane Johnson, Dorothy B. Hughes, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Edmund H. North, Eliot Ness, Franz Seitz, Full Metal Jacket, Gloria Grahame, Gunter Grass, Happy Anniversary, hugo, Humphrey Bogart, In A Lonely Place, Inception, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jeph Loeb, Jonathan Nolan, Memento, Nicholas Ray, Oscar Farley, Point Blank, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, That Obscure Object of Desire, The Dark Knight, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Long Halloween, The Shining, The Tin Drum, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Untouchables, The Verdict, Twilight, Volker Schlondorff, Wag the Dog, Watchmen | 4 Comments

There Will Be Blood’s Kubrick References

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

Not that this short video goes very deep into the similarities between Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood and Kubrick’s films (specifically 2001: A Space Odyssey), but it does illuminate some of the fun visual references. More so than … Continue reading →

Posted in Films, Movies, News, Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, The Master, There Will Be Blood | Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Ax, Barry Lyndon, Boogie Nights, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Plainview, Jack Nicholson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, The Master, The Shining, There Will Be Blood, Visual References | Leave a comment

Those Oscar Missed: Best Production Design

Posted on November 18, 2012 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Production Design is one of my favorite Oscar categories. This is the category where artists can shine the most. There’s been so much great work over the years that was thankfully nominated (and most of … Continue reading →

Posted in Oscar Talk | Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Room With A View, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Alien, Aliens, Amelie, Annie, Avatar, Barry Lyndon, Barton Fink, Batman, Best Production Design, Blade Runner, Bugsy, Coal Miner's Daughter, dante ferretti, Dreamgirls, Forrest Gump, Gandhi, Gosford Park, Hannah and Her Sisters, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, hugo, Jim Henson, Kagemusha, Legend, Moulin Rouge, Movies, oscars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return To Oz, Rick Carter, Ridley Scott, Road To Perdition, Scatman Crothers, Sherlock Holmes, Sleepy Hollow, Snubs, Stanley Kubrick, Star Wars, steven spielberg, The Abyss, The Color of Money, The Dark Crystal, The Elephant Man, The Empire Strikes Back, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Mission, The Shining, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Tin Drum, The Young Victoria, There Will Be Blood, Troy, True Grit, Victor Victoria, war horse, Watchmen, Yentl | 3 Comments

Klosterman Goes To Bat For Room 237

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

The best recent film that nobody saw was Jon Foy’s Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. Room 237, an upcoming documentary that seems to rake strikingly familiar terrain to Foy’s masterpiece, has just gotten a nice write-up by … Continue reading →

Posted in Films, Movies, News, Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, Room 237, Uncategorized | Tagged Chuck Klosterman, cinema, documentary, film, Films, jon foy, Movies, non-fiction, resurrect dead mystery of toynbee tiles, Room 237, The Shining | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: The Shining

Those Oscar Missed: Best Director

Those Oscar Missed: Best Actor

Those Oscar Missed: Best Adapted Screenplay

There Will Be Blood’s Kubrick References

Those Oscar Missed: Best Production Design

Klosterman Goes To Bat For Room 237

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