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...studios and mishandled by the company that finally distributed it. But hand him a gold-plated statuette in front of a billion people, and he finds heroic resources of good feeling. Just ask Bernardo Bertolucci. "It's incredible," the Italian filmmaker, 47, geysered the day after his The Last Emperor swept the Oscar ceremony. "First it was one award, then two, three, four, five, six-seven-eight-nine! It went beyond the individuals who won. I realized it was the movie itself. The movie was loved...
Were the Oscar voters telling The Last Emperor's director that they loved the movie, they really loved it? Surely there were waves of affection breaking over the winners of the acting prizes: Cher (Moonstruck), Michael Douglas (Wall Street), Sean Connery (The Untouchables) and Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck). But The Last Emperor, with its stern, sumptuous sprawl, more likely earned a decorous, distanced respect in a slim year. The other nominees for Best Picture were three comedies and one high-tech yuppie horror movie -- not the Academy's favorite genres. By contrast, Bertolucci's true-life fable of Aisin-Gioro...
...perhaps its greatest demonstration of reverse ficklehood, the Academy didn't nominate any of the actors (except William Hurt) who starred in movies up for best picture. Not Nicholas Cage from Moonstruck, not John Lone from The Last Emperor, not Sebastian Rice-Edwards, the charming moppet who starred in Hope and Glory. Michael Douglas was nominated for Wall Street, not Fatal Attraction...
...Best Supporting Actor Albert Brooks Sean Connery Morgan Freeman Vincent Gardenia Denzel Washington Best Supporting Actress Norma Aleandro Anne Archer Olympia Dukakis Anne Ramsey Ann Sothern Best Director Bernardo Bertolucci John Boorman Lasse Hallstrom Adrian Lyne Norman Jewison Best Picture Broadcast News Fatal Attraction Hope and Glory The Last Emperor Moonstruck Gary L. Susman Arts Editor Michael Douglas Cher Sean Connery Olympia Dukakis Bernardo Bertolucci Broadcast News Aline Brosh Arts Staff WriterMichael Douglas Holly Hunter Sean Connery Olympia Dukakis Bernardo Bertolucci Broadcast News David A. Shaywitz Arts Staff Writer Michael Douglas Holly Hunter Sean Connery Olympia Dukakis Bernardo Bertolucci...
...invited him to attend his coronation. The feudal pageantry of the occasion has been described with condescending vividness by Evelyn Waugh, then a correspondent for Fleet Street. By contrast, Thesiger notes sadly that during his absence of eleven years "the age-old splendour of Abyssinia" had been fading. The Emperor's bodyguard wore khaki; the palace secretaries were in tailcoats. Thesiger met the celebrated author of Vile Bodies and found him foppish and petulant. He refused Waugh's request to accompany him on an expedition among the touchy Danakil. "Had he come," he adds menacingly, "I suspect only...