Word: oscared
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Middle East war film has earned even $50 million at the domestic box office, and the one that came closest, The Kingdom, was a gung-ho action picture. Nor has the public's apathy abated. The Best Picture, Director and Screenplay awards that The Hurt Locker won on Oscar night served only as a gigantic promotion for the movie's DVD. In theaters it was the lowest-grossing Best Picture winner of all time. (See the top 10 war movies...
Reflecting on Kathryn Bigelow's historic Oscar win, on the Huffington Post...
...1960s television show Flipper, kill herself. Or so he says. She looked him in the eye, sank to the bottom of a steel tank and stopped breathing. The moment transformed the dolphin trainer into an animal-rights activist for life, and his role in The Cove, the Oscar-winning documentary about the dolphin-meat business in a small town in Japan, has transformed him into a celebrity...
...least six weeks dogsitting for his wealthy brother but otherwise doing exactly "nothing" - on purpose. "That's brave, at our age," observes his ex-girlfriend Beth (Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Baumbach's wife and story collaborator, here looking justifiably distracted). (See Ben Stiller as a Na'vi and other memorable Oscar moments...
...Secret of Kells, an Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature, tells the story of medieval monks who painstakingly create and shelter an illuminated manuscript in the face of invading barbarian hordes. It has a delicate visual charm; a mystical, meandering story; and no zingers. In other words, it's a children's film that very few children would harbor any desire to watch...