At the Academy Awards.. Oscar was 10 years old and the Best Picture award was known as the “Outstanding Production” award. It was the last year for the Best Assistant Director award (given to Robert Webb for In Old Chicago). Walt Disney Productions won a special Oscar for the design of the Multi-Plane Camera used extensively for the first animated … [Read more...]

Drive-In Movies were all the rage in 1950 and Judy Holliday was proving she hadn't been "Born Yesterday" when it came to acting. She took home an Oscar that year. The movie Bright Leaf starred Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper, who were in the end days of a star-crossed affair in real life. They had fallen in love while making The Fountainhead in 1949, but Cooper's wife refused to … [Read more...]

Films we were watching: Three Men and a Baby Fatal Attraction Beverly Hills Cop II Good Morning, Vietnam The Untouchables The Secret of My Succe$s Stakeout Lethal Weapon The Witches of Eastwick Baby Boom Broadcast News Dirty Dancing Full Metal Jacket The Lost Boys Matewan Overboard Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise RoboCop … [Read more...]