Yay! It’s another trailer featuring my favorite actor — JAMES FRANCO! He not only stars in Palo Alto but he produced it and it’s even based on his short stories. Can we just go ahead and announce that 2013 will be forever remembered as the Year of Franco?
It’s time for another edition of Let’s Second Guess the Academy! This time, we’re taking a second look at the race for Best Picture of 1987.
Can you remember which film won Best Picture for 1987? Don’t feel bad if you can’t because Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor is one of the lesser known Oscar winners. The film’s relative obscurity leads to one natural question: was it truly the best film released in 1987?
Or should the Oscar have gone to one of the other films nominated — Broadcast News, Hope and Glory, Fatal Attraction, or Moonstruck?
Let your voice be heard by voting below!
After voting for which nominated film you think should have won, give some thought to some of the 1987 films that were not nominated. Was Moonstruck truly a better film than Near Dark or Full Metal jacket? Ask yourself what would have happened if The Last Emperor hadn’t been released in the United States or what if Fatal Attraction hadn’t been a huge box office smash. What if none of the five best picture nominees had been eligible to be nominated in 1987? Which five films would you have nominated in their place?
Let us know by voting below. As always, you can vote for up to five alternative nominees and write-ins are accepted!
Happy voting!
Last year’s Step Up Revolution is, in many ways, the epitome of guilty pleasure. On the one hand, it’s totally and complete ludicrous. And, then on the other hand — well, there is no other hand, to be honest. It’s a silly little film but the dancing is really good and how can you not love something that over-the-top? With it’s quick-cut editing, relentless beat, and hilarious attempts at being socially relevant, Step Up Revolution is the type of film that, in the future, our children will watch and laugh at even as we savor the nostalgia.
Case in point: the film’s opening dance sequence.
Through the Shattered Lens 