OSCAR NEWS
Warren
Beatty
The ambitious and radical star who crafted a
remarkable and uncompromising slate of
mainstream movies takes home an Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Oscar on
Sunday.
By Stephanie Zacharek
03/20/00
Who in the world
watches the Oscars?
Oscar claims to have billions of viewers in hundreds of countries. The
truth is somewhat different.
By Lance Gould
03/22/00
Age and the
academy
A new study of Oscar nominees shows that older guys and younger women
get the stauettes.
By Jeff Stark
03/13/00
Scooping the
Oscars
Does the Wall Street Journal know who will win? Not if the academy can
help it.
By Joe Mader
03/14/00
Winners and losers
Why have so many actors who've won Oscars seen their careers tank?
By Donna Freydkin
03/22/00
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THIS YEAR'S BEST PICTURE NOMINEES
"American Beauty"
"American
Beauty"
Kevin Spacey keeps a biting suburban satire from eating itself alive.
By Andrew O'Hehir (09/15/99)
Kevin Spacey knows
our secrets
The enigmatic actor's roles embody manipulation and cunning.
By Michael Sragow
(09/10/99)
Laughter
after irony
Are new movies like "Holy Smoke" and "American
Beauty" reinventing screen comedy?
By Christopher Kelly
(01/18/00)
"The Insider"
"The
Insider"
An actionless thriller about a solved mystery somehow emerges as one of
the best films of the year.
By Andrew O'Hehir
(11/05/99)
All the corporations'
men
"The Insider" director Michael Mann talks about corporate morality,
muckraking and the drama of making real-life decisions.
By Michael Sragow
(11/04/99)
Not just blowing
smoke
"60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman reveals the real story behind "The
Insider."
By David Weir
(11/05/99)
"The Cider House Rules"
"The
Cider House Rules"
Driven by Tobey Maguire's marvelously layered performance, Lasse
Hallstrvm's old-fashioned cinematic yarn-spinning yields genuine emotion
without sentimentality.
By Stephanie Zacharek
(01/25/00)
The John Irving
rules
Oscar watch: The author of "The Cider House Rules" talks about his
Academy Award nomination, abortion and his strange fixation on oral sex.
By Jeff Stark
(03/08/00)
"The Sixth Sense"
"The Sixth Sense"
A clumsy supernatural thriller searches -- and searches and searches --
for the soul of a little boy, but finds only the edge of exploitation.
By Charles Taylor
(08/06/99)
"The Green Mile"
"The Green
Mile"
Tom Hanks and a sparkling cast squeeze Stephen King's story for
surprisingly effective Hollywood melodrama.
By Andrew O'Hehir
(12/10/99)
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REVIEWS AND FEATURES ON OTHER NOMINATED MOVIES
"Boys Don't
Cry"
The fictionalized account of the Brandon Teena story is sensationalistic
storytelling at its best.
By Stephanie Zacharek
(10/11/99)
The secret behind
"Boys Don't Cry"
Director Kimberly Peirce says it's fun -- until the bitter end.
By Michael Sragow
(03/09/00)
"The
Straight Story"
Forget the G rating -- this road movie is as weird as David Lynch gets.
By Charles Taylor
(10/15/99)
"I want a dream when
I go to a film"
David Lynch, the human tuning fork, talks about his most unusual movie
-- a G-rated adventure about a man, a lawnmower and an emotional
journey.
By Michael Sragow (10/28/99)
"Being John
Malkovich"
Director Spike Jonze puts his brilliantly offbeat twist on the "15
minutes of fame" theory.
By Andrew O'Hehir (10/29/99)
"The End of
the Affair"
Julianne Moore triumphs in Neil Jordan's latest crying game.
By Michael Sragow (12/03/99)
"Sweet and
Lowdown"
Rising star Samantha Morton shines in this charming,
finely crafted film from Woody Allen.
By Stephanie Zacharek
(12/03/99)
The roar of the
greasepaint, the smell of the crowd
Director Mike Leigh gives Gilbert and Sullivan the Dickens in
"Topsy-Turvy."
By Michael Sragow
(12/23/99)
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CAMILLE PAGLIA AND CINTRA WILSON WRITE ON LAST YEAR'S ACADEMY AWARDS
And the frumps
are ...
The 71st Academy Awards are a parade of pomaded pretty boys and
washed-out drag queens from lame movies. Where is the glamour?
By Camille Paglia
(03/22/99)
Not
abhorrent!
Just when you're ready to give up on awards shows altogether, the Oscars
turn out to be halfway entertaining.
By Cintra Wilson
(03/22/99)
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