On Second Thought Sometimes remakes of classic films turn out fine, as in this redoing of a 1931 crime drama, first remade under the title Satan Met A Lady in 1936. Name the definitive, Oscar-nominated 1941 version starring Humphrey Bogart.
The Big Five Only three times in the history of the Academy Awards has a film won in each of the five major categories—Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay. Name the 1934 comedy with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable that was the first to accomplish this.
The interesting thing about those three films is that while they won the big 5, none of the three won any others (and IHON didn't even get any other nominations).
On the other hand, outside of IHON, the only Best Picture Sweeps (not counting Grand Hotel, with its 1 win/nom) - Gigi, Last Emperor, Return of the King - all failed to earn any acting Oscars.
Named for Katie-Bar-The-Door, the Katies are "alternate Oscars"—who should have been nominated, who should have won—but really they're just an excuse to write a history of the movies from the Silent Era to the present day.
To see a list of nominees and winners by decade, as well as links to my essays about them, click the highlighted links:
Remember: There are no wrong answers, only movies you haven't seen yet.
The Silent Oscars
And don't forget to check out the Silent Oscars—my year-by-year choices for best picture, director and all four acting categories for the pre-Oscar years, 1902-1927.
Look at me—Joe College, with a touch of arthritis. Are my eyes really brown? Uh, no, they're green. Would we have the nerve to dive into the icy water and save a person from drowning? That's a key question. I, of course, can't swim, so I never have to face it. Say, haven't you anything better to do than to keep popping in here early every morning and asking a lot of fool questions?
2 comments:
1) The Maltese Falcon
2) It Happened One Night
The interesting thing about those three films is that while they won the big 5, none of the three won any others (and IHON didn't even get any other nominations).
On the other hand, outside of IHON, the only Best Picture Sweeps (not counting Grand Hotel, with its 1 win/nom) - Gigi, Last Emperor, Return of the King - all failed to earn any acting Oscars.
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