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Samuel L. Jackson: ‘I Should’ve Won’ an Oscar, but Oscars Don’t Get ‘Asses in Seats’ Like I Do https://t.co/99jL3jeGqz Variety (@Variety) March 1, 2022 Tipped to receive an Honorary Oscar, Samuel L. Jackson reflect on his previous nomination for Pulp Fiction, and one that he feels he…

Nolte: What Should’ve Won the Best Picture Oscar – 2000 to 2009 24 Apr 2021 In part eight of this series, we look at the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 2000 and 2009. The millennium started out well enough with Gladiator, but with a few exceptions, it was all downhill from there. I’ve once again added my “see also” recommendations but (with some individual exceptions) don’t feel as much passion for them as with previous decades. This was also the decade ...

Nolte: What Should’ve Won the Best Picture Oscar – 1980 to 1989 23 Apr 2021 In part seven of this series we look at the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1980 and 1989. Like the fifties, because a Republican president very much defined the era, the eighties continue to be unfairly maligned as a terrible decade for movies by foo foo critics. As you will see below this is an outrageous and anti-science lie. Let’s begin… Raging Bull and only Raging Bull should’v...

Nolte: What Should’ve Won the Best Picture Oscar – 1990 to 1999 23 Apr 2021 In part eight of this series, we look at the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1990 and 1999. For the first half of the decade, movies remained as great as ever, and then began a long decline in 1996, a decline that has only worsened. That’s not to say there were not some great movies made after 1995. It’s just that overall, as you’ll see, this is when Hollywood stopped making ‘em li...

Nolte: What Should’ve Won the Best Picture Oscar – 1970 to 1979 22 Apr 2021 In part six of this series we look at the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1970 and 1979. By 1970 the old studio system and the Production Code were officially dead, the New Hollywood-era was in full bloom, and what an era it was. As you will see below, the swingin’ seventies produced classic after classic, and although many were filled with R-rated content, they were almost old-fashioned...

Nolte: What Should’ve Won the Best Picture Oscar – 1960 to 1969 20 Apr 2021 In part five of this series we look at the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1960 and 1969. Let’s begin… The Apartment Director, co-writer Billy Wilder took home all kinds of Oscars for his heartwarming look at life as a corporate drone in Manhattan as told through a poignant love affair between Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. Gorgeously shot in black and white widescreen, but like so ...

Nolte: What Should’ve Won the Best Picture Oscar – 1950 to 1959 20 Apr 2021 In part four of this series we look at the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1950 and 1959. The cult of oh-so-sophisticated movie writers love to run down the 50’s, as a decade lost to Eisenhower-era conformity and cinematic bloat crafted by studios desperate to compete with TV. As you’ll see below, nothing could be further from the truth. The 1950s were an embarrassment of movie riches....

Nolte: Movies that Should Have Won the Best Picture Oscar – Part 2 Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images 17 Apr 2021 Yesterday we looked at the very first years of Best Picture winners, 1927 to 1930. Today, as we march through the decades, we look at 1931 to 1939. Let’s begin… Grand Hotel Hard to argue with a picture that proves, once again, that MGM did indeed have more stars than were found in Heaven: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, a gorgeous Joan Crawford (who steals the movie), Wallace B...