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The 10 biggest Oscar snubs of all time, from 'Saving Private Ryan' to Alfred Hitchcock

The 10 biggest Oscar snubs of all time, from 'Saving Private Ryan' to Alfred Hitchcock
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Best Picture Potentials Offer a Time Capsule of the Current Zeitgeist

Best Picture Potentials Offer a Time Capsule of the Current Zeitgeist
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Oscars are a time capsule. Though pundits may quibble about nominees or winners, one thing is beyond question: The film choices reflect the year in which they were released.
For example, in 1946, “The Best Years of Our Lives” hit a nerve as people were trying to rebuild their lives after WWII. The 1969 “Midnight Cowboy” captured all the sexual confusion, excitement and fear of that tumultuous decade.
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This year’s contenders similarly reflect the moment we’re living in: a time of racial tension, gender battles, political wars, health issues and an overriding sense of doubt and isolation. A montage of 2020 film highlights would sum up the year just as accurately as newsreel clips.

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pick up where we left off? after everything that we have seen and learned. the cost of war is what is communicated in "the best years of our lives" better than any war movie i've ever seen. >> these guys are just trying to get home. >> this is my street. >> they never knew each other before the war, but they all meet and they become fast friends. and their lives start to really interconnect as they start to work out the huge damage that the war causes our emotional core. >> the film was made right after the war, and as the camera cranes up you see this vast world war ii graveyard of old hulks, no digital photography or matte work. >> that phenomenonal scene when dana andrews is sitting in the junked plane reliving his missions as a bombardier, it communicates that oppressive weight of the experience, of putting your life on hold and going off and maybe coming back, maybe not coming back at all. or maybe coming back with no hands. >> i've learned how to take this harness off. >> the fact that they cast harold russell, a guy who lost

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20181121:01:54:00

seriously discombobulated by capital letters or applause, are you likely to do any of the things you just mentioned there, like a scramble over a trench, or get out of a jam and weighed the beaches of normandy. in other words, is this where the last generation of functioning civilization ends up? >> that's what i'm worried about. demographically, as you read about, we are not reproducing ourselves. we are not becoming adults in our 20s. those of the best years of our lives. we are not buying homes, starting businesses. we have the lives of pajama boy 20-somethings who try to take offense at everything and play professional victims. history hasn't stopped and there's a lot of people who don't like western civilization and we are existential enemies, and we need people to protect us. we have a few, in america we have these great soldiers who do it, but we are not getting guidance, we are not getting

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20181121:05:54:00

for a moment, if you are seriously discombobulated by capital letters or applause, are you likely to do any of the things you just mentioned there, like a scramble over a trench or get out of a troop carrier and wade ashore on the beaches of normandy. in other words, is this where the last generation of functioning civilization ends up? >> that's what i'm worried about. demographically, as you read about, we are not reproducing ourselves. we are not becoming adults in our 20s. those of the best years of our lives. we are not buying homes, starting businesses. we have the lives of julia pajama boy 20-somethings who try to take offense at everything and play professional victims. history hasn't stopped.. and there's a lot of people who there's a lot of people who don't like western civilization and we are existential enemies, and we need people to protect us. we have a few. in america, we have these great soldiers who do it, but we are

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