The Oscar

When oh WHEN, will whom ever owns the rights to this classic HOOT, ever release it on video (VHS/DVD)? I'd buy it in a NANU SECOND! It's got to be the funniest "Drama" ever! The fact that NOBODY involved in... Read more at imdb.com

Did Harlan Ellison really contribute to the screenplay of this film? Did he really script the scene at the end when Oscar nominations are read and we find that Richard Burton is a nominee for something called "Grapes In Winter"?... Read more at imdb.com

I believe that this movie was a career killer for Stephen Boyd. He made a brief resurgence in Fantastic Voyage, but the die was cast after this epic.If you look at his career after making this film, you will definitely... Read more at imdb.com

There is no other way to concieve of this film getting made other than being the by-product of extraterrestrials intercepting tv signals of DYNASTY, MELROSE PLACE and the like and recreating them as a realistic depiction of the way Earthlings... Read more at imdb.com

Above and beyond all the semi-enjoyable camp and melodrama of "The Oscar" is this...and it doesn't surface until the final scene, and final bit of dialogue: Frank Sinatra is shown to be the "good guy"...the role model for Frank Fane... Read more at imdb.com

....you come up smelling like fleas". One of the lines actually spoken (by Tony Bennett)in "The Oscar". Words can not describe this film. It is so so bad...it is GREAT! Stephen Boyd's performance is way way way over the top... Read more at imdb.com

I just saw this film and I had to go out to buy it. Why? it's so bad its good!This film was supposed to show all the nasty side of how an Oscar nomination goes to the head of its... Read more at imdb.com

Absolutely atrocious film from producer Joseph Levine, here ripping the lid off the Hollywood can but getting nothing out of it except hot air. Ruthless Stephen Boyd scratches his way up from seamy strip joints (as manager for the non-blushing... Read more at imdb.com

This obscure, sublimely over-heated film is a second cousin to "Valley of the Dolls" in terms of pure, unadulterated Hollywood camp. The film is like a massive wad of cotton candy for those who enjoy a two hour trip to... Read more at imdb.com

I also love this movie. I first saw it about 12-15 years ago on a short-lived series on TNT called "Bad movies we love" or something like that. For many years I traditionally watched it right before the Oscar broadcast.... Read more at imdb.com

Charlton Heston, for example, was smack in the middle of his historical figure fetish, having appeared in the Oscar-winning Ben-Hur (1959) and in a string of period films that included The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), The War Lord (1965), and Khartoum (1966), whereas director Anthony Mann had just been fired from Spartacus by producer/star Kirk Douglas, and was still feeling lousy after the failure of Cimarron (1960), a misstep to critics who felt Mann's prior small-scale, character-based westerns with Jam ... Full Review

When the first Academy Awards were handed out on May 16, 1929, movies had just begun to talk.That first ceremony took place during an Academy banquet in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. ... Full Article

The youngest ever winner of the Best Actor Oscar was Richard Dreyfuss, for 1977's The Goodbye Girl .He was 29.The youngest winner of the Best Actress award was Marlee Matlin, for 1986's Children Of A Lesser God . ... Full Article

Last year when I first launched my trek through the DVDs for all of the films that won the Oscar Best Picture award, the Fifties provided one of the worst-represented decades. ... Full Article

It's pretty likely that if you are a fan of cult and kitsch movies, that sometime you have sat down to watch the goofy all-star The Oscar , and that you also plan to shout out the title the next... ... Full Article