Well, this Sunday is the big night for film fans: the 88th Annual Academy Awards. Which of the eight nominees for Best Picture do you think will take home the evening’s top prize? Vote in this week’s poll and let us know why in the comments.
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Poll: Which 2015 Film Should Have Been Nominated for Best Picture?
This year’s Academy Awards Best Picture nominee list features eight pictures, but several worthy films didn’t make the cut. We’d like to which know which neglected movie–Carol, Creed, Inside Out and Trumbo, to name a few–you would have been included.
Read more →Poll: Who’s Your Favorite Multiple Best Director Academy Award Winner?
To date 19 men–Frank Capra, Clint Eastwood, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg among them–have won two or more Best Director Academy Awards. We invite you to vote for your favorite multiple Oscar-winning filmmaker in this week’s poll.
Read more →Poll: What’s Your Favorite 2000s Best Picture Academy Award Winner?
With the 88th Annual Academy Awards taking place at the end of this month, we thought we’d present a look back at the previous decade’s winners. Which 2000s Best Picture Oscar winner–Gladiator, Chicago, The Departed and more–is your favorite?
Read more →2016 Academy Award Nominees Out or Coming to Home Video
It’s Oscar time, movie buffs, and we’d like to hear what you have to say about the 2016 Academy Award nominees. And if you haven’t seen all the nominated films, we’ll let you know what’s already out on home video or coming soon.
Read more →Suppose There Was a Best Comedy Academy Award…
Would having a Best Comedy/Musical category enhance or dilute the Oscars? MovieFanFare looks at the idea of splitting the Best Picture Academy Award in two and offers an alternate history of which films would have won from 1928 to the present. .
Read more →Can You Identify Famous Film Voices?
In today’s guest post, reader Jack Ralph asks if you can identify film stars just by the sound of their voice: Many movie and television fans can identify a great number of performers by name immediately by viewing the performers,…
Read more →Cover Girl (1944): Classic Movie Review
The 1944 classic Cover Girl is reviewed by Guest blogger Angela Petteys: While working as a dancer in a nightclub, Rusty Parker (Rita Hayworth) hears about a contest being run by Vanity magazine to find a new face for their big…
Read more →My Hair Is Naturally Natural
Guest blogger Katie from The Scarlet Olive writes: When it comes to hair colour, blondes and brunettes have been best “frenemies” for a very long time. Even film titles contribute to this battle between the two different hair colours: My…
Read more →Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and a Double Brandy
Guest blogger Kitty Johnson writes: A double brandy for me, please, bartender! Now this is classic. A prime Frank Sinatra serenading the luminous Rita Hayworth in George Stevens’ 1957 melo-musical Pal Joey. The film itself is light on plot, and even…
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