My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.
Sunday, June 30, 2019
1991 Alternate Oscars
My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.
Sunday, June 23, 2019
1990 Alternate Oscars
My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.
Sunday, June 16, 2019
1989 Alternate Oscars
My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.
I had to look up the last time I failed to nominate a movie that the Academy chose as the best picture of the year — Around the World in 80 Days back in 1956.
So, no Driving Miss Daisy, but I will leave you with this classic song that first appeared in Spike Lee's anti-Miss Daisy masterpiece, Do the Right Thing:
Sunday, June 9, 2019
1988 Alternate Oscars
My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ.
Sunday, June 2, 2019
1987 Alternate Oscars
My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.
What a deep year for movies. The movies I didn't nominate — Au Revoir Les Enfants, Babette's Feast, The Dead, Full Metal Jacket, House of Games, Predator, Radio Days, Raising Arizona, RoboCop, Withnail & I, among others — would make a credible top ten in most any other year.
Some years are so thin, it's hard to find a winner, much less ten solid nominees. Other years, one's cup overfloweth. Oh, well. That's the life of an alternate Oscar junkie.
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