All About the Oscars: Trivia, Highlights and Lowlights

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Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About the Academy Awards (*But Were Afraid to Ask)

Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About the Academy Awards (*But Were Afraid to Ask): Oscar Highlights, Lowlights and Trivia

Ah, Oscar Monday: Video guides are hung by the fireplace with care, children sleep with visions of Reese’s Pieces dancing in their heads, and we all await the arrival of Oscar the Great. Everyone is happy and, for a single day, America considers film as the most wondrous of art forms, well beyond familiar notions of mindless entertainment. Bearing these warm Dickensian thoughts in mind, Prsented below are some highlights and lowlights from Oscar’s long history for you to peruse during the Best Documentary Short Subject award or any number of “I want to thank my dog and my dog’s agent and her puppies and her puppies’ agents…”-style acceptance speeches. The envelope, please!

Ah, Oscar Monday: Video guides are hung by the fireplace with care, children sleep with visions of Reese’s Pieces dancing in their heads, and we all await the arrival of Oscar the Great. Everyone is happy and, for a single day, America considers film as the most wondrous of art forms, well beyond familiar notions of mindless entertainment. Bearing these warm Dickensian thoughts in mind, Prsented below are some highlights and lowlights from Oscar’s long history for you to peruse during the Best Documentary Short Subject award or any number of “I want to thank my dog and my dog’s agent and her puppies and her puppies’ agents…”-style acceptance speeches. The envelope, please!

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Takeaways Did You Know

Citizen Kane did not win the Best Picture Oscar.
Marlon Brando has never taken home an Oscar.
A Shakespeare film has not been nominated for an Oscar since 1948.

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Timothy Sexton

Okay, well, to begin with, Brando won two Best Actor Oscars, though it is true that he probably only took his On the Waterfront one home. Secondly, I assume you meant that no Shakespeare movie was nominated for Best Picture since 1948 because Kenneth Branagh was nominated for Best Actor and Director for Henry V and Best Screenplay for Hamlet. In addition, in 1981 the real favorite that Chariots of Fire beat out wasn't On Golden Pond, but Reds. Warren Beatty did at least win Best Director even if they got it all wrong when they voted for Best Picture.

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