Word: awards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fire and The Killing Fields. In 1986 English producer David Puttnam took over Columbia Pictures, vowing to make better films more cheaply and with less reliance on big-name stars. Following that formula, Puttnam put the Columbia name on such films as The Last Emperor, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1987. But in his pursuit of reform, Puttnam alienated much of the Hollywood establishment. A year after he was hired, Puttnam left Columbia. Now home in Wiltshire, he is independently producing a series of movies. Bruised but unrepentant, Puttnam still wants to prove that filmmakers needn...
...there were quite a few remarkable films that didn't get nominated for an Academy Award, quite apart from the films that were nominated but didn't win. Today there are just not that many good films...
...standards, the expectations. The audience lives on a diet of television that is something like McDonald's hamburgers -- nobody asks how nutritious they are; they taste good. Without any lack of gratitude, I remember thinking after Chariots of Fire won the Academy Award that it was the kind of film audiences should expect every single week and shouldn't be accounted the best film of the year. I only became comfortable when Killing Fields won. Somewhere in the recesses of my mind, I believed that taken together the two films deserved an Oscar...
Thirumalaisamy wins the name of the week award. Its a good thing the Terriers don't put their names on the back of the uniforms. Then again, they probably removed the names when T-h-i-r-u-m-a-l-a-i-s-a-m-y made the team. Credit Sports Information Director Jeff Bradley, who had to pronounce the name four times...
...detected in dozens of films. He even notes that the Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes has acknowledged that the structure of his book The Death of Artemio Cruz was lifted from Citizen Kane. But Brady is prudent about using the word genius, an encomium more freely handed out at Academy Award gatherings than at Nobel Prize ceremonies...