Roscoe Arbuckle (The Roscoe Arbuckle Comedy Shorts) Harry Carey (Straight Shooting and Bucking Broadway) Charles Chaplin (The Chaplin Mutuals) Elliott Dexter (A Romance Of The Redwoods) Douglas Fairbanks (Wild and Woolly, Down To Earth and Reaching For The Moon) William Farnum (A Tale Of Two Cities)
1917 was a very good year for you, Doug -- David Bordwell called it a triumph -- but believe it or not, you get even better. I, of course, have no way of knowing how the Academy of Monkey Pictures Arts and Sciences will vote, but if I were a betting man, I'd say tune in for 1920, the year you single-handedly invent the super hero genre with The Mark of Zorro.
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:
Hmmmm.
I had a very good year in 1917, but so did my co-nominees. Chaplin and Carey were particularly effective, and entertaining.
Why, it's an honor just to be nominated! I'll be happy even if I don't win.
Truly.
You'll note, of course, that that douchebag Chaney isn't nominated here. . . .
1917 was a very good year for you, Doug -- David Bordwell called it a triumph -- but believe it or not, you get even better. I, of course, have no way of knowing how the Academy of Monkey Pictures Arts and Sciences will vote, but if I were a betting man, I'd say tune in for 1920, the year you single-handedly invent the super hero genre with The Mark of Zorro.
But of course that's just a wild guess ...
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