Primal Fear, The People vs Larry Flint, and Everyone Says I Love You. All good-to-great performances, all before he had a film credit to his name.

JLC over pretty much any of the best supporting actresses . Her character was purely for laughs and frankly I didn't think it was that well acted anyway. Kerry Condon deserved it the most, then Hsu, then Hong Chau, then Bassett, then jlc. Should've just given her the lifetime award.

Tarantino openly admitted "City on fire" was an inspiration for "Reservoir Dogs", but they are very different films. Tarantino could have mentioned pretty much any other heist-gone-wrong movie out there. When I first saw "Reservoir Dogs" in the 1990s I thought of it as his take on Kubrick's "The Killing".

Good point 🤔 I wasn't aware of that

Imagine having Adam Sandler at your funeral watching hubbie Halloween.... Epic

Poitier was in three films that year that could have landed him a nomination - ITHotN and To Sir With Love in lead, and potentially Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in supporting. I suspect his votes were split.

hubie halloween.

That was a beautiful scene.

La La Land seemed like a slam dunk. But Moonlight won.

"The Making of King Kong: The Story Behind a Film Classic" by Orville Goldner and George Turner.

Kung Pow?

I think the Oscar's do that quite a bit. Now it is for far more political reasons other than artistic but in the past it was using the award to recognize careers at the expense of the best performance of the year...righting past wrongs so to speak. I am thinking of Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman, Paul Newman, Henry Fonda etc. Not that their performance wasn't necessarily worthy but the were beaten before and the overall career deemed winning one a priority for the voters.

The Possessed, The Big Sleep, The lady from Shanghai, The Misfits...

It’s perhaps my favourite Coppola; I’m sure most would (understandably) disagree, but I just really love it.

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The Shawshank Redemption. My favorite movie, let's all enjoy Andys tale one last time together.

There Will Be Blood.

Pitch Black... try it

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People are so embarrassed they got it wrong that they are downvoting you.

Infinity War/Endgame, feel you can’t have one without the other

The Godfather Part 1/2

Star Wars OG trilogy

The Scream series

The LOTR trilogy

Fight Club

Inception

T2

Back to the Future part 2

Gladiator

American History X

TDK

Good Will Hunting

The Big Lebowski

The Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy

Scarface

Avatar 1 and 2

Metropolis

Top Gun Maverick

The Wolf of Wall Street

Shutter Island

Kill Bill

And probably a lot more that I just can’t remember

Ya got no loyalty, Navajo!

Two that I really enjoyed (one about a classic and one about a bomb):

• "Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece"
• "The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood"

Thanks! I enjoyed the documentary based on the book, but I'm pretty sure I never got around to reading the book itself.

Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Menu, Nope, The Batman, The Northman, and that’s literally just off the top of my head.

And the first 3 are all movies with orignal stories, development, and good dialogue