Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stage star who has infrequently been seen on film, for her performance as Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India. The night's few authentic moments included Dr. Haing S. Ngor, who survived torture in Cambodia to appear in The Killing Fields, and thanked "God, Buddha" for winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor...
...Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film, you could almost hear a chorus of groans in a dozen tongues. What are these movies? Who ever heard of these directors? Who chooses these things, anyway? Qu'est-ce qui se passe? On Oscar night next Monday, five anonymous films will be filling slots that might have been reserved for Fellini or Bergman, for A Sunday in the Country or A Love in Germany. When TV viewers hear "And the winner is . . ." they may well ask, "Who cares...
...award was once worth caring about. Since 1947, when the Italian film Shoeshine was the first foreign-language film to receive an Oscar, the category has honored both landmark art (The Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, Through a Glass Darkly, 8 1/2) and sophisticated diversion (Seven Samurai, Z, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Day for Night). The Academy might err on the side of aesthetic conservatism; trailblazers such as Godard, Antonioni and Fassbinder were never so much as finalists for the prize, and directors like Bergman and Truffaut were cited years after their films had won critical acceptance. But in general...
...same be said for Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, the Soviet film that won the 1980 foreign Oscar? Or Volver a Empezar, the Spanish winner two years ago? Or for all the films nominated this year? The answer is no, and part of the problem is the Academy's cumbersome selection procedure that has evolved over the years--a procedure devised to be fair to the diversity of national cinemas. In recent years, 20 or more films have been submitted, one film to a country, chosen by indigenous committees of filmmakers, critics and bureaucrats; this year there were...
...Cousy, the smoothest passer basketball had ever seen, a man who both guarded and coached Oscar Robertson, says without the merest reservation, "Bird is simply the best who ever played this silly game." He includes Center Bill Russell, Cousy's Boston teammate, whose presence had the most to do with the Celtics' eleven National Basketball Association championships in 13 years. By basketball's nature, it is fundamentally a pivotman's game, the expected province of the Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Philadelphia 76er Moses Malone, but Forward Bird forwardly deposed Malone as the league's MVP last...