Mark Kermode examines just what it takes for a movie to win an Oscar.
Shown just before the 2019 Oscar ceremony. Kermode discusses how the first ever Best picture Oscar winner, Wings. Had a lot in common with later war movies such as The Deer Hunter and Platoon.
The Best Years of Your Lives does not differ too much from 1970s counterculture film Coming Home.
Of course it is not always war films that are a sure fire bet. The rags to riches Rocky to the feel good Chariots of Fire. Sports movies do well.
British actors have been successful playing leaders. Gary Oldman won a Best Actor Oscar for Churchill. Helen Mirren won Best Actress for playing Queen Elizabeth II.
If there were no British leaders to portray. Daniel Day-Lewis won his third Oscar for playing the American president Lincoln.
Day-Lewis won his first Oscar for playing the disabled Christy Brown. Kermode observes, a high percentage of Oscar winners have played a character with some sort of disability.
I did like how Kermode made the links between new and old movies. I would have never compared Terms of Endearment with It Happened One Night.
Shown just before the 2019 Oscar ceremony. Kermode discusses how the first ever Best picture Oscar winner, Wings. Had a lot in common with later war movies such as The Deer Hunter and Platoon.
The Best Years of Your Lives does not differ too much from 1970s counterculture film Coming Home.
Of course it is not always war films that are a sure fire bet. The rags to riches Rocky to the feel good Chariots of Fire. Sports movies do well.
British actors have been successful playing leaders. Gary Oldman won a Best Actor Oscar for Churchill. Helen Mirren won Best Actress for playing Queen Elizabeth II.
If there were no British leaders to portray. Daniel Day-Lewis won his third Oscar for playing the American president Lincoln.
Day-Lewis won his first Oscar for playing the disabled Christy Brown. Kermode observes, a high percentage of Oscar winners have played a character with some sort of disability.
I did like how Kermode made the links between new and old movies. I would have never compared Terms of Endearment with It Happened One Night.
