(Welcome to Did They Get It Right?, a series where we take a look at an Oscars category from yesteryear and examine whether the Academy's winner stands the test of time.)
Few times in the history of the Academy Awards is there a category where you can't quibble with the slate of nominees. There's always at least one nominee that makes you groan or scratch your head. The times where you could be perfectly happy with any winner are few and far between. The Best Picture nominees at the 1976 ceremony probably best exemplifies this: "Barry Lyndon," "Dog Day Afternoon," "Jaws," "Nashville," and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which took home the award. That is an absolute murderer's row of nominees, and when Audrey Hepburn opened that envelope, I would have understood any of them walking away with it.
For me, the performance categories often have the hardest time achieving the five-for-five slate.
Few times in the history of the Academy Awards is there a category where you can't quibble with the slate of nominees. There's always at least one nominee that makes you groan or scratch your head. The times where you could be perfectly happy with any winner are few and far between. The Best Picture nominees at the 1976 ceremony probably best exemplifies this: "Barry Lyndon," "Dog Day Afternoon," "Jaws," "Nashville," and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which took home the award. That is an absolute murderer's row of nominees, and when Audrey Hepburn opened that envelope, I would have understood any of them walking away with it.
For me, the performance categories often have the hardest time achieving the five-for-five slate.
- 12/6/2022
- by Mike Shutt
- Slash Film
Emma Thompson is having quite the year so far. In June, the British actress, 59, acquired the title of capital-d Dame, thanks to Queen Elizabeth.
Then there is her still-thriving career. She joins her “Howards End” and “The Remains of the Day” co-star Anthony Hopkins in a BBC co-production of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” that will stream on Amazon starting September 28. She plays Goneril, the devious eldest daughter of Hopkins’s tragic royal who takes advantage of his descent into madness.
The double Oscar winner is the main attraction in “The Children Act,” which is now in theaters and is also available on DirecTV. In the drama, based on Ian McEwan’s novel, she plays a British judge who must decide whether a teen boy suffering from leukemia can be forced to get a blood transfusion to save his life — even though it is against his beliefs as a Jehovah’s Witness.
Then there is her still-thriving career. She joins her “Howards End” and “The Remains of the Day” co-star Anthony Hopkins in a BBC co-production of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” that will stream on Amazon starting September 28. She plays Goneril, the devious eldest daughter of Hopkins’s tragic royal who takes advantage of his descent into madness.
The double Oscar winner is the main attraction in “The Children Act,” which is now in theaters and is also available on DirecTV. In the drama, based on Ian McEwan’s novel, she plays a British judge who must decide whether a teen boy suffering from leukemia can be forced to get a blood transfusion to save his life — even though it is against his beliefs as a Jehovah’s Witness.
- 9/13/2018
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
The 90th Annual Academy Awards will take place Sunday March 4th at 7pm Eastern time. Here is the continuation of our overview of the major awards nominees in case you didn’t get to see them yourself.
For Part 1 of our 2018 Oscars Previews, click here.
There’s always a lot of talk leading up to the big day about who will win what awards. We try to make our predictions based on trends from the past, but we can’t help to be swayed by our own personal opinions. Some movies truly strike a chord with us, while others aren’t interesting at all. Furthermore, Oscar films are usually heavy in the drama department and therefore they aren’t always the easiest or most entertaining movies to watch.
That’s why we’re here. Here is your guide to the nominees of this year’s Academy Awards. We’ve compiled the following brief summaries,...
For Part 1 of our 2018 Oscars Previews, click here.
There’s always a lot of talk leading up to the big day about who will win what awards. We try to make our predictions based on trends from the past, but we can’t help to be swayed by our own personal opinions. Some movies truly strike a chord with us, while others aren’t interesting at all. Furthermore, Oscar films are usually heavy in the drama department and therefore they aren’t always the easiest or most entertaining movies to watch.
That’s why we’re here. Here is your guide to the nominees of this year’s Academy Awards. We’ve compiled the following brief summaries,...
- 2/14/2018
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (G.S. Perno)
- Cinelinx
In the summer of 2017 Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis surprised Hollywood, London, and the entire entertainment world when he revealed that he is retiring from acting and would make no more films. His final performance in Paul Thomas Anderson‘s recently-released “Phantom Thread” has brought Day-Lewis his sixth Oscar nomination and his eighth Golden Globe nom (losing there to Gary Oldman for “Darkest Hour”).
One of the most respected actors of his generation, Day-Lewis is the only man who has won three Oscars for Best Actor. Those victories were for “My Left Foot” (1989), “There Will Be Blood” (2007), and “Lincoln” (2012). In fact he is one of only three men to win acting Oscars three times; the others are Walter Brennan and Jack Nicholson. In addition, he has won two Best Actor awards each from the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes.
Most importantly (if retirement actually happens), he will have left...
One of the most respected actors of his generation, Day-Lewis is the only man who has won three Oscars for Best Actor. Those victories were for “My Left Foot” (1989), “There Will Be Blood” (2007), and “Lincoln” (2012). In fact he is one of only three men to win acting Oscars three times; the others are Walter Brennan and Jack Nicholson. In addition, he has won two Best Actor awards each from the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes.
Most importantly (if retirement actually happens), he will have left...
- 2/3/2018
- by Tom O'Brien and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Hollywood star reveals close friendship with one of Guildford Four, who suggested he play him in film that became In the Name of the Father
Johnny Depp has described his close friendship with Gerry Conlon, saying he would have “taken a bullet” for him, in a moving foreword to a new biography of the man who spent 15 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted as an Ira bomber.
The unlikely friendship between the Hollywood actor and Conlon, one of the Guildford Four, began when the pair met in the Us in 1990, the year after Conlon had his conviction overturned and was released from prison. Their friendship was sealed at a gig by the Pogues, where Depp described Conlon and his brother as looking “just like the miscreant, unhinged maniacs I always tended to hang out with”. Depp describes the book, In the Name of the Son, as “a story...
Johnny Depp has described his close friendship with Gerry Conlon, saying he would have “taken a bullet” for him, in a moving foreword to a new biography of the man who spent 15 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted as an Ira bomber.
The unlikely friendship between the Hollywood actor and Conlon, one of the Guildford Four, began when the pair met in the Us in 1990, the year after Conlon had his conviction overturned and was released from prison. Their friendship was sealed at a gig by the Pogues, where Depp described Conlon and his brother as looking “just like the miscreant, unhinged maniacs I always tended to hang out with”. Depp describes the book, In the Name of the Son, as “a story...
- 10/5/2017
- by Henry McDonald
- The Guardian - Film News
Gerry Conlon, the subject of 1993 film In The Name Of The Father, has died. He was 60.
The Irishman, who was wrongly convicted of an Ira bomb attack in the UK in 1974, passed away at his home in Belfast after a period of ill health.
Colon - played by Sir Daniel Day-Lewis in the Oscar-nominated film - was one of the Guildford Four who received a life sentence for bombing a pub, which saw five people killed and 65 injured.
He served 15 years in prison before his convictions were quashed in 1989.
In the Name of the Father was adapted from his autobiography 'Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four', and was directed by Jim Sheridan.
The Irishman, who was wrongly convicted of an Ira bomb attack in the UK in 1974, passed away at his home in Belfast after a period of ill health.
Colon - played by Sir Daniel Day-Lewis in the Oscar-nominated film - was one of the Guildford Four who received a life sentence for bombing a pub, which saw five people killed and 65 injured.
He served 15 years in prison before his convictions were quashed in 1989.
In the Name of the Father was adapted from his autobiography 'Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four', and was directed by Jim Sheridan.
- 6/21/2014
- Digital Spy
London – Gerry Conlon, the Irishman wrongly convicted of an Ira bomb attack in the U.K. in 1974 whose story was made famous by Jim Sheridan’s Oscar-nominated 1993 drama In the Name of the Father, has died at the age of 60. He is believed to have been ill for some time and passed away at his Belfast home in Northern Ireland. Conlon, played by Daniel Day-Lewis in the film, was one of the "Guildford Four" who were handed life sentences for pub bombings that killed five people and injured 65. By the time the convictions...
- 6/21/2014
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The man, often hailed as the greatest screen actor of his generation, is famous – some say notorious – for his obsessive attention to detail in building character. His latest role, playing Abraham Lincoln, is no exception
Thick mud and blood mingle in the opening scenes of Steven Spielberg's latest film, Lincoln. In a brutal demonstration of what happens when politics fails, bodies pile up across a boggy battlefield. The rest of the film, also full of dark and muddy tones, looks steadily at how politicians might end or prolong such a grim civil war. And at the heart of the matter, trying to abolish slavery and adorned with a representation of one of the most famous beards of all time, stands Daniel Day-Lewis.
In playing the revered 16th president of the United States, the 55-year old actor adds to the series of New World archetypes he has tackled on screen.
Thick mud and blood mingle in the opening scenes of Steven Spielberg's latest film, Lincoln. In a brutal demonstration of what happens when politics fails, bodies pile up across a boggy battlefield. The rest of the film, also full of dark and muddy tones, looks steadily at how politicians might end or prolong such a grim civil war. And at the heart of the matter, trying to abolish slavery and adorned with a representation of one of the most famous beards of all time, stands Daniel Day-Lewis.
In playing the revered 16th president of the United States, the 55-year old actor adds to the series of New World archetypes he has tackled on screen.
- 11/19/2012
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan, 1993)
This film is brilliant on many counts: it manages to treat the themes of coerced confession and the Ira with broad strokes and without compromising their complexity; it has a beautiful soundtrack; the cinematography is gorgeous; Saffron Burrows is lovely in it; the writing and direction are flawless. But it's hard to get away from Daniel Day-Lewis's performance.
I was at drama school when the film came out in the early 90s, and towering central performances only seemed to happen in American films: the De Niros, the Pacinos. Suddenly out came In the Name of the Father, and I was so entirely lost as I watched Day-Lewis [below] in the role of Gerry Conlon [wrongly imprisoned member of the Guildford Four] that I didn't doubt for one moment that this was his life. Of living actors, I feel it's only him and Meryl Streep who have that quality; like...
This film is brilliant on many counts: it manages to treat the themes of coerced confession and the Ira with broad strokes and without compromising their complexity; it has a beautiful soundtrack; the cinematography is gorgeous; Saffron Burrows is lovely in it; the writing and direction are flawless. But it's hard to get away from Daniel Day-Lewis's performance.
I was at drama school when the film came out in the early 90s, and towering central performances only seemed to happen in American films: the De Niros, the Pacinos. Suddenly out came In the Name of the Father, and I was so entirely lost as I watched Day-Lewis [below] in the role of Gerry Conlon [wrongly imprisoned member of the Guildford Four] that I didn't doubt for one moment that this was his life. Of living actors, I feel it's only him and Meryl Streep who have that quality; like...
- 11/13/2011
- by Mina Holland
- The Guardian - Film News
Gina Herold Gabriel Byrne, left, and Enda Walsh
Directors Jim Sheridan and Enda Walsh chatted with actor Gabriel Byrne yesterday at MoMA about their own films and others, as part of “Revisiting The Quiet Man: Ireland on Film,” an exhibit which runs through June 3. John Ford’s classic 1952 story about Sean Thornton (John Wayne), an American boxer born in Ireland who returns to Innisfree and falls in love with Mary Kate Danneher (Maureen O’Hara), is more than just a feel-good St.
Directors Jim Sheridan and Enda Walsh chatted with actor Gabriel Byrne yesterday at MoMA about their own films and others, as part of “Revisiting The Quiet Man: Ireland on Film,” an exhibit which runs through June 3. John Ford’s classic 1952 story about Sean Thornton (John Wayne), an American boxer born in Ireland who returns to Innisfree and falls in love with Mary Kate Danneher (Maureen O’Hara), is more than just a feel-good St.
- 5/29/2011
- by Gwen Orel
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan, 1993)
Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father was the first performance that made me think about how incredible acting is. It made me realise the power of film and that this medium could have a physical reaction on me and I hadn't really experienced that before. I come from a theatrical family and grew up around stage, so film-going was not really part of my life. But I remember going to see this film and being riveted by the story and the performances. I found it sexy and believable; it took me into another world. I was in floods of tears at the end of it.
The elements of justice and injustice, freedom and fighting for innocence, really affected me. Day-Lewis plays Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four who were jailed for an Ira bombing in the 1970s. I...
Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father was the first performance that made me think about how incredible acting is. It made me realise the power of film and that this medium could have a physical reaction on me and I hadn't really experienced that before. I come from a theatrical family and grew up around stage, so film-going was not really part of my life. But I remember going to see this film and being riveted by the story and the performances. I found it sexy and believable; it took me into another world. I was in floods of tears at the end of it.
The elements of justice and injustice, freedom and fighting for innocence, really affected me. Day-Lewis plays Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four who were jailed for an Ira bombing in the 1970s. I...
- 1/30/2011
- by Jessica Hopkins
- The Guardian - Film News
Pete Postlethwaite, who died on Sunday, was one of our finest actors. Peter Bradshaw recalls the rugged features that made him so famous – and the unwitting role he played in the Northern Ireland peace process
In the movies, an actor's face is his fortune. It isn't simply a matter of being good-looking enough to play the romantic hero or rugged enough to carry an action picture. It's about having an instantly available, readable screen personality; it's also about attitude, a continuous professional battle-readiness: Hollywood talks about someone having their "game-face on" or having "the chops" for a certain job. And perhaps no actor's career or industry presence has been defined by his face more than Pete Postlethwaite: the British character actor whose rugged features made him every casting director's go-to guy for raw, lived-in truth.
The stark planes and bulges of his face created a veritable Easter Island statue of authenticity and plainness.
In the movies, an actor's face is his fortune. It isn't simply a matter of being good-looking enough to play the romantic hero or rugged enough to carry an action picture. It's about having an instantly available, readable screen personality; it's also about attitude, a continuous professional battle-readiness: Hollywood talks about someone having their "game-face on" or having "the chops" for a certain job. And perhaps no actor's career or industry presence has been defined by his face more than Pete Postlethwaite: the British character actor whose rugged features made him every casting director's go-to guy for raw, lived-in truth.
The stark planes and bulges of his face created a veritable Easter Island statue of authenticity and plainness.
- 1/4/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Julie Walters calls Pete Postlethwaite, who has died, 'quite simply the most exciting, exhilarating actor of his generation'
Tributes poured in today to Pete Postlethwaite, a true star of stage and screen despite a face like a clenched fist, once described by director Steven Spielberg as "probably the best actor in the world". He has died aged 64 after months of treatment for cancer.
He was called "quite simply the most exciting, exhilarating actor of his generation" by Julie Walters, a former girlfriend who first met him at the Everyman theatre in Liverpool, where both perfected their art. "He invented 'edgy'. He was an exhilarating person and actor."
His Oscar nomination came in 1993 for In The Name of the Father, for his moving portrayal of Giuseppe Conlon, the father of one of the Guildford Four, who died in prison, wrongfully convicted of Ira bombings.
He spent time with the family to prepare for the role,...
Tributes poured in today to Pete Postlethwaite, a true star of stage and screen despite a face like a clenched fist, once described by director Steven Spielberg as "probably the best actor in the world". He has died aged 64 after months of treatment for cancer.
He was called "quite simply the most exciting, exhilarating actor of his generation" by Julie Walters, a former girlfriend who first met him at the Everyman theatre in Liverpool, where both perfected their art. "He invented 'edgy'. He was an exhilarating person and actor."
His Oscar nomination came in 1993 for In The Name of the Father, for his moving portrayal of Giuseppe Conlon, the father of one of the Guildford Four, who died in prison, wrongfully convicted of Ira bombings.
He spent time with the family to prepare for the role,...
- 1/4/2011
- by Maev Kennedy
- The Guardian - Film News
Read more: Ben Affleck superb in Boston Irish drama 'The Town' now a likely Oscar contender Oscar nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite has died in hospital following a lengthily battle with cancer. The actor who was called “the best actor in the world” by Steven Spielberg had continued to work despite receiving treatment for cancer. Recently Postlethwaite had worked on movies including “Clash of the Titans”, “ “Inception” and Ben Affleck’s Boston-based Irish gangster movie “The Town”. Most famously he played the role of Giuseppe Conlon in “In the Name of the Father”. He played the father of Gerry Conlon on of the innocent Guildford Four. Giuseppe was wrongly imprisoned and died in prison. He starred alongside Emma Thompson and Daniel Day Lewis. He worked alongside Steven Spielberg on projects such as “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” and “Amistad”. When Spielberg called him “the best actor in the world...
- 1/3/2011
- IrishCentral
This Wednesday is St. Patrick’s Day, meaning that sometime between hump day and the end of the week, our nation and large portions of the world’s Irish populous will explode in a drunken green frenzy the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Whether you’re Irish or not, it’s time to put on a plastic green hat, bust out that Guinness and make friends with that toilet seat like it’s the Blarney stone.
And in case you need a little bit of help, here’s 7 badass Irish-themed movies to get you in the mood for the festivities.
7. In the Name of the Father
Daniel Day-Lewis stars in 1993’s In the Name of the Father as Gerry Conlon, a member of the real-life Guilford Four, a group of people falsely convicted of an Ira pub bombing in the 1970s. Ddl’s performance here is a...
And in case you need a little bit of help, here’s 7 badass Irish-themed movies to get you in the mood for the festivities.
7. In the Name of the Father
Daniel Day-Lewis stars in 1993’s In the Name of the Father as Gerry Conlon, a member of the real-life Guilford Four, a group of people falsely convicted of an Ira pub bombing in the 1970s. Ddl’s performance here is a...
- 3/16/2010
- by John Cooper
- ReelLoop.com
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