Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fourteen Oscar nominations vindicate enormous cost. Too bad Harry Elkins Widener '07 ended up on cutting-room floor...
...Oscar night looks like it will be Harvard night this year, with local film "Good Will Hunting" and the movie about the ship on which Harry Elkins Widener met his end gathering a combined 23 nominations. Both films are charmingly romantic (in other words, unrealistic) and can only add to Harvard's cinematic image in the wake of such earlier works as "Love Story" and "With Honors." "Titanic," of course is Harvard by omission...
Whatever happens on Oscar night (famous for its quirky results), it seems certain that Harvard will enjoy one or two Cambridge-linked statuettes. But as we look ahead to Oscar night 1999, as marvelously romantic as "Titanic" and "Good Will Hunting" are, an even greater movie would be a realistic one, a picture set in the days that may come when our luxurious economy strikes the economic iceberg, when first-class and steerage mix, and Harvard student Oliver Barrett iv washes dishes at Kiley's on 'D' and Old Colony in Southie...
...Oscar's Broken Records Department of Cinematic Paradoxes: For the first time ever, two performers received acting nominations for playing the same character in the same film...
...Oscar Arias served as president, of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987. He received an honorary degree from the University in 1986 and gave its Commencement address the same year...