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Those Oscar Missed: Best Picture

Posted on January 31, 2013 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Picture has been a troubling category in the last few years. I remember being pissed off when 2006’s Babel got nominated. While it’s a good movie, it had no business being nominated over Pan’s Labyrinth … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Picture, Hitchcock, Oscar Talk, Stanley Kubrick | Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, 20th Century Fox, A Clockwork Orange, Alfred Hitchcock, Arnon Milchan, Babel, Barry Lyndon, best picture, best visual effects, Black Hawk Down, Children of Men, Damon Lindelof, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Full Metal Jacket, Gladiator, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, J.J. Abrams, James Stewart, Kingdom of Heaven, L.A. Confidential, Lifeboat, Once Upon A Time In America, Pan's Labyrinth, Psycho, Rear Window, Rebecca, Ridley Scott, Sergio Leone, Spellbound, Stanley Kubrick, Star Trek, the avengers, The Blind Side, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, The Reader, the wrestler, Thelma and Louise, Vertigo, Walk the Line, Wall-E | 3 Comments

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 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

Variety’s Ten Greatest Scores

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Zac Petrillo

In a recent music-centric article, Variety polled 40 composers about the best scores of all time. The article also contains nice tidbits about this year’s Oscar race – including write-ups about Benh Zeitlin’s “Gumbo” style in Beast of the Southern … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Original Score, Films, Movies, Oscar Talk | Tagged Academy Awards, Bernard Herrmann, best original score, Chinatown, cinema, E.T., Ennio Morricone, Films, Jerry Goldsmith, john williams, Movies, Once Upon A Time In The West, oscars, Plaet of the Apes, Psycho, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Mission, The Shawshank Redemption, Vertigo | Leave a comment

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 Actor

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