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...spheres: the stage looked like the cover of a Yes album. To stay on schedule the producers even promised a high-definition television to the giver of the shortest acceptance speech (and who wasn't hoping to see Julia Roberts hoist her guaranteed Best-Julia-Roberts statuette for "Erin Brockovich" and say simply, "I'll take the TV too, please," and prance...
...corner; we Americans are in the center.) This year is a particular challenge: the nominations offer the battle of the epics (Gladiator vs. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) as well as the schizophrenic saga of the director with two movies (Steven Soderbergh, with Traffic and Erin Brockovich). Since nobody is an expert on this subject, we can blithely pass along bits of received wisdom and arcane Oscar lore so you will be better informed than your neighbor. To succeed in the Oscar sweepstakes, read the following with a scholar's acuity. Then take a list of the nominees, available from...
This year, Soderbergh became the first person in Academy history to receive two Best Director nominations for films that were nominated for Best Picture. Both are social-problem films: Erin Brockovich is about poisoned water (and colorful brassieres), Traffic deals with the drug trade between Mexico...
STEVEN SODERBERGH Director gets Oscar nominations for Traffic and Brockovich. Drugs and busts big with Academy...
...Berlin, Toronto and New York film festivals. Now Green is not just a visionary, he's a commodity. Most young "independents" begin with low-budget, character-driven studies because it's all they can afford. If their film gets Hollywood attention, they're off to direct Erin Brockovich or Finding Forrester...