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Posts Tagged "best actor Oscar"
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The Lost Weekend ***** (1945, Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry) – Classic Movie Review 1030
Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s coruscating, much-admired four-Oscar-winning 1945 drama proved Ray Milland’s greatest triumph in the movies and one of director Wilder’s. It won the Oscar for Best Picture and the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Milland […]
Training Day ***½ (2001, Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Harris Yulin, Cliff Curtis, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Macy Gray, Eva Mendes) – Classic Film Review 970
Director Antoine Fuqua’s tough, well-made but depressing 2001 LA police thriller stars Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington, who land a couple of really showy roles as good cop, bad cop. They are rookie Jake Hoyt and seasoned Detective […]
Raging Bull ***** (1980, Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci) – Classic Movie Review 874
Martin Scorsese’s 1980 movie Raging Bull is one of this great director’s finest as well as one of the most iconic key films of the Eighties. Robert De Niro gives one of his most astounding performances, winning his […]
The Color of Money **** (1986, Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 873
Paul Newman didn’t attend the Academy Awards ceremony when he won his long-overdue Best Actor Oscar for Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money in 1987. Nor did he when he won an honorary award the […]
Dallas Buyers Club ***** (2013, Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner, Denis O’Hare, Steve Zahn) – Movie Review
Dallas Buyers Club is a stunning experience, an incredibly forceful blow to the brain and the emotions. The movie is a remarkable tour de force of writing and directing, with electrifying performances by Matthew McConaughey […]
Capote **** (2005, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clifton Collins Jr, Catherine Keener) – Classic Movie Review 796
Philip Seymour Hoffman won the 2006 Best Actor Oscar for his eye-catching, brio performance as the destructively selfish gay author Truman Capote in director Bennett Miller’s gruelling, disturbing and depressing story of the five years Capote spent on […]
Crazy Heart **** 2009, Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 785
Writer-director Scott Cooper’s sensational 2009 movie feature debut showcases Best Actor Oscar-winning Jeff Bridges, who is at his best for ages and ages as Bad Blake, a boozed-out, burnt-out country singer. Bad Blake gets a second […]