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If then, maybe… How Oscar can get it wrong and what can happen when it does

Posted on September 28, 2026 by Mark DuPré

Random thoughts on a series of Oscar “what-ifs”: 1939—Jimmy Stewart should have won for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or maybe Clark Gable for Gone with the Wind. The winner that year was Robert Donat for Goodbye, Mr. Chips in … Continue reading →

Posted in Film-Related Articles | Tagged A Star is Born, A Streetcar Named Desire, Al Pacino, Bing Crosby, Casablanca, Clark Gable, Coquette, Denzel Washington, Gone with the Wind, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Grace Kelly, Hamlet, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, James Mason, Jimmy Stewart, Judy Garland, King Richard, Laurence Olivier, Life is Beautiful, Malcolm X, Marlon Brando, Mary Pickford, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, On Golden Pond, Oscar, Oscars, Paul Lukas, Robert Donat, Roberto Benigni, Scent of a Woman, The African Queen, The Country Girl, The Grapes of Wrath, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The. Philadelphia Story, Watch on the Rhine, Will Smith | Leave a comment

Two Women (1960/1961)

Posted on December 31, 2017 by Mark DuPré

Two Women is fascinating for two reasons. One, it is the film that brought Sophia Loren her Academy Award for Best Actress, the first for a foreign-language performance. (Since then, there have been awards for Roberto Benigni for Life is … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Angelina Jolie, Benicio Del Toro, Bicycle Thieves, Breathless, Catherine Zeta Jones, Cesare Zavattini, Charlize Theron, dubbing, Elizabeth Taylor, French New Wave, Godfather Part Two, Ingrid Bergman Grace Kelly, Jean-Paul Belmondo, La Vie en Rose, Life is Beautiful, Marion Cotillard, Miracle in Milan, Natalie Portman, neorealism, neorealist, New Wave, Penelope Cruz, Rachel Weisz, Robert De Niro, Roberto Benigni, Scarlet Johansson, Shoeshine, Sophia Loren, Traffic, Two Women, Umberto D., Vittorio de Sica, Vivien Leigh | Leave a comment

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