Oscar 2000
Toga! Toga! Toga!
The amazing
Oscar nominations: "Gladiator"
gets 12! Steven Soderbergh gets
dual nods for picture, direction!
Wait -- where's "Cast Away"?
By Andrew O'Hehir
Our pro picks flix
The author of "Inside Oscar," the definitive history of the Academy Awards, reports on the 2000 race.
By Damien Bona
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Salon's critics' top ten lists for the year
Pairs of pleasure
A much-pilloried year really wasn't so bad: Here's a top 10 list that's 17 movies long!
By Michael Sragow
Mission to ... Denmark?
Rock 'n' roll, Hamlet, Mars and the Depression starred in 2000's best films.
By Charles Taylor
The boys on the (rock 'n' roll tour) bus and an imprisoned but defiant Marquis de Sade lit up screens in 2000.
By Stephanie Zacharek
A world of spectacle
It was the worst of year, it was the worst of years -- in the U.S. at least. Filmgoers turned to romance from China, stasis from Iran, an epic from Korea and Dogma from Denmark.
By Andrew O'Hehir
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Camille Paglia and Cintra Wilson's coverage of Oscar years past
Look out! Here comes a sound bite! Being at the Academy Awards has a strange effect on the attendees. Some are moved to eloquence, some to idiocy, while others become just plain insufferable.
By Amy Reiter
[03/27/00]
Oscars 2000 Untethered hooters! Suave cocksmiths! But even Billy Crystal and Hilary Swank couldn't save a crushingly boring show.
By Cintra Wilson
[03/27/00]
The last Oscar speech On the night of the Academy Awards one actress will have the courage to stand onstage, her statuette clutched to her bosom, and speak directly from her heart ...
By Deanne Stillman
[03/25/00]
Who in the world watches the Oscars? The Academy Awards program claims to have billions of viewers in hundreds of countries. The truth is somewhat different.
By Lance Gould
[03/22/00]
And the frumps are ... Camille Paglia on the 71st Oscars.
By Camille Paglia
[03/22/99]
Not Abhorrent! The 71st Oscars: 30 percent less abhorrent than last year.
By Cintra Wilson
[03/22/99]
Well, Whadja Expect? The Triumph of Art? Last night's suck-up-to-the-bucks monstrosity proved once again that the Oscars are the Grammies of film.
By Cintra Wilson
[03/25/98]
Camille does the Oscars Winslet blooms, Madonna clunks, Stone styles: a Paglia's-eye-view of the Academy Awards
By Camille Paglia
[03/24/98]
