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7 February 2009 3:26 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

As we creep closer to the 2009 Academy Awards, prognosticators look back as much as forward to try and determine who the favorites will be. By looking back, I mean to suggest that past Academy choices perhaps unfairly paint them in a certain light, and support the group's predictability and oft-whispered bias. For instance, feel good films generally trump depressors. Oscar loves a comeback story almost as much as they love to reward seasoned veterans with lead acting awards and fresh faces in the supporting roles (particularly supporting actress). And despite a requisite surprise or two every year, they mostly play it safe. Usually painfully boringly safe. That, and the fact they get it wrong more often than they get it right. So I present a glance at the ten most egregiously shortsighted Oscars ever given.

I'm focusing solely on the big one: Best Picture. If I included anything and everything, »

- Matt Medlock

1 January 2009 8:59 AM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »

Every year the National Film Registry — a branch of the Library of Congress — chooses 25 movies to preserve for posterity. And, as usual, quite a few of its newest choices aren't ones deemed the best of their day by Hollywood — that is, they're not past Oscars contenders. Although 15 of the films cited were eligible (that is, they were produced after the Oscars were launched), only nine of them received nominations and only one — 1941's "Sergeant York" — was an Oscar winner, with awards for lead actor Gary Cooper (he prevailed in two of his five bids, picking up a bookend in 1952 for "High Noon") and editor William Holmes. Here... »

- tomoneil

2 articles from 2009