'44 nominees: Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Going My Way & Since You
Went Away. Wilson, the fifth, is largely forgotten. No poster online (!)
Went Away. Wilson, the fifth, is largely forgotten. No poster online (!)
1991 nominees: Beauty & The Beast, Bugsy, JFK, The Prince of Tides and
The Silence of the Lambs (an anomaly in Oscar history)
The Silence of the Lambs (an anomaly in Oscar history)
History has a way of proving Oscar wrong (Double Indemnity is the film that people still worship from 1944) and proving them right (many people thought Silence was an instant classic in 1991 ... and they were correct). At the time of the 1991 Oscar race I was personally rooting for Beauty & The Beast but since I knew it wouldn't win, I was pulling for Beatty & The Bening... yes, my obsession with those two goes way back. In retrospect it's so exciting that Silence won. It's the only horror movie to have ever garnered the industry's top prize unless you count Hitchcock's Rebecca (do you?) or Forrest Gump (kidding!)
Since I've been spending this week preparing for my own FB Awards, I'm kinda focused on my own personal favorites at the moment. If I had always ruled the world the 1944/1991 conversation would be a match made in girlie heaven, Meet Me in St Louis and Thelma & Louise, both of which are in my personal canon. Strangely both were snubbed for Best Picture by the Academy despite strong public and critical reception and a multiple other nominations, too: Thelma won six nominations and St. Louis four.
Anywayyyyyyy. My point is that that paired conversation would be a helluva lot different than the one we just had involving leering cannibals and celibate priests.
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previous episode: Unforgiven (1990) and Casablanca (1943)
coming in February: Dances w/ Wolves (1990) and The Lost Weekend (1945)
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coming in February: Dances w/ Wolves (1990) and The Lost Weekend (1945)
full index of episodes