Daily Archives: March 10, 2024

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 2010s

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!

Today, I’m using this feature to take a look at the history of the Academy Award for Best Picture.  Decade by decade, I’m going to highlight my picks for best of the winning films.  To start with, here are 4 shots from 4 Films that won Best Picture during the 2010s!  Here are….

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 2010s

The Artist (2011, dir by Michel Hazanavicius, DP: Guillaume Schiffman)

12 Years A Slave (2013, dir by Steve McQueen, DP: Sean Bobbitt)

Moonlight (2016, dir by Barry Jenkins, DP: James Laxton)

The Shape of Water (2017, dir by Guillermo Del Toro, DP: Dan Lausten)

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 2000s

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!

Today, I’m using this feature to take a look at the history of the Academy Award for Best Picture.  Decade by decade, I’m going to highlight my picks for best of the winning films.  To start with, here are 4 shots from 4 Films that won Best Picture during the 2000s!  Here are….

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 2000s

Chicago (2002, dir by Rob Marshall, DP: Dion Beebe)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, dir by Peter Jackson, DP: Andrew Lesnie)

The Departed (2006, dir by Martin Scorsese, DP: Michael Ballhaus)

No Country For Old Men (2007, dir by Joel and Ethan Coen, DP: Roger Deakins)

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 1990s

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!

Today, I’m using this feature to take a look at the history of the Academy Award for Best Picture.  Decade by decade, I’m going to highlight my picks for best of the winning films.  To start with, here are 4 shots from 4 Films that won Best Picture during the 1990s!  Here are….

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 1990s

The Silence Of The Lambs (1991, dir by Jonathan Demme, DP: Tak Fujimoto)

Unforgiven (1992, dir by Clint Eastwood, DP: Jack N. Green)

Schindler’s List (1993, dir by Steven Spielberg, DP: Janusz Kamiński)

Shakespeare In Love (1998, dir by John Madden, DP: Richard Greatrex)

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 1980s

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!

Today, I’m using this feature to take a look at the history of the Academy Award for Best Picture.  Decade by decade, I’m going to highlight my picks for best of the winning films.  To start with, here are 4 shots from 4 Films that won Best Picture during the 1980s!  Here are….

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 1980s

Ordinary People (1980, dir by Robert Redford, DP: John Bailey)

Chariots of Fire (1981, dir by Hugh Hudson, DP: David Watkin)

Amadeus (1984, dir by Milos Forman, DP: Miroslav Ondříček)

The Last Emperor (1987, dir by Bernardo Bertolucci, DP: Vittorio Storaro)

6 Shots From 6 Best Picture Winners: The 1970s

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!

Today, I’m using this feature to take a look at the history of the Academy Award for Best Picture.  Decade by decade, I’m going to highlight my picks for best of the winning films.  To start with, here are 6 shots from 6 Films that won Best Picture during the 1970s!  Here are….

6 Shots From 6 Best Picture Winners: The 1970s

The French Connection (1971, dir by William Friedkin, DP: Owen Roizman)

The Godfather (1972, dir by Francis Ford Coppola, DP: Gordon Willis)

The Godfather Part II (dir by Francis Ford Coppola, DP: Gordon Willis)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, dir by Milos Forman, DP: Haskell Wexler and Bill Butler)

Rocky (1976, dir by John G. Avildsen, DP: James Crabe)

The Deer Hunter (1978, dir by Michael Cimino, DP: Vilmos Zsigmond)

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 1960s

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!

Today, I’m using this feature to take a look at the history of the Academy Award for Best Picture.  Decade by decade, I’m going to highlight my picks for best of the winning films.  To start with, here are 4 shots from 4 Films that won Best Picture during the 1960s!  Here are….

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 1960s

The Apartment (1960, dir by Billy Wilder, DP: Ernest Laszlo)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962, dir by David Lean, DP: Freddie A. Young)

In The Heat of the Night (1967, dir by Norman Jewison, DP: Haskell Wexler)

Midnight Cowboy (1969; Dir by John Schlesinger, DP: Adam Holender)

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 1950s

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!

Today, I’m using this feature to take a look at the history of the Academy Award for Best Picture.  Decade by decade, I’m going to highlight my picks for best of the winning films.  To start with, here are 4 shots from 4 Films that won Best Picture during the 1950s!  Here are….

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 1950s

All About Eve (1950, dir by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, DP: Milton R. Krassner)

The Greatest Show On Earth (1952, dir by Cecil B. Demille, DP: George Barnes)

On The Waterfront (1954, dir by Elia Kazan, DP: Boris Kaufman)

Ben-Hur (1959, dir by William Wyler, DP: Robert Surtees)

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 1940s

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!

Today, I’m using this feature to take a look at the history of the Academy Award for Best Picture.  Decade by decade, I’m going to highlight my picks for best of the winning films.  To start with, here are 4 shots from 4 Films that won Best Picture during the 1940s!  Here are….

4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 1940s

Rebecca (1940, dir by Alfred Hitchcock, DP: George Barnes)

Casablanca (1942, dir by Michael Curtiz, DP: Arthur Edeson)

The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946, dir by William Wyler, DP: Gregg Toland)

Hamlet (1948, dir by Laurence Olivier, DP: Desmond Dickinson)

6 Shots From 6 Best Picture Winners: 1927 — 1939

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!

Today, I’m using this feature to take a look at the history of the Academy Award for Best Picture.  Decade by decade, I’m going to highlight my picks for best of the winning films.  To start with, here are 6 shots from 6 Films that won Best Picture during the early days of the Academy Awards!  Here are….

6 Shots From 6 Best Picture Winners

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, dir by F.W. Murnau, DP: Charles Rosher and Karl Struss)

Wings (1927, dir by William Wellman, DP: Harry Perry)

All Quiet On The Western Front (1930, dir by Lewis Milestone, DP: Arthur Edeson)

It Happened One Night (1934, dir by Frank Capra, DP: Joseph Walker)

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, dir by Frank Lloyd, DP: Arthur Edeson)

Gone With The Wind (1939, dir by Victor Fleming, DP: Ernest Haller)

My Official 2023 Oscar Predictions

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

It’s no guts, no glory time!  (This phrase was coined, as far as it relates to the Oscars, by Sasha Stone of Awards Daily.  We all use the phrase but, too often, we don’t give proper credit to the person who started the trend.)  Below you’ll find my official predictions for who and what will win when the Oscars are handed out later tonight.

(Actually, this year didn’t require much in the way of guts.  All of the winners seem to be pretty obvious at this point.)

Best Picture: Oppenheimer

Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Actress: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Actor: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer

Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey, Jr., Oppenheimer

Best Adapted Screenplay: Barbie

Best Original Screenplay: Past Lives

Best Cinematography: Oppenheimer

Best Costume Design: Poor Things

Best Film Editing: Oppenheimer

Best Make-Up and Hair-Styling: Maestro

Best Production Design: Poor Things

Best Score: Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Song: “I’m Ken” from Barbie

Best Sound: Oppenheimer

Best Visual Effects: Godzilla Minus One

Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

Best Documentary Feature: 20 Days In Mariupol

Best International Film: The Zone of Interest

Best Animated Short: Our Uniform

Best Documentary Short: The Barber of Little Rock

Best Live Action Short: The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar

We’ll see how right (or wrong) I am in just a few more hours!