Siskel & Ebert: Memo To The Academy (1996)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- First of all, this episode comes from Larry Koehn of Siskel and Ebert movie Reviews website. Thank you Larry.
This episode goes over Siskel and Eberts pick for Academy awards.
Fun show to watch!
So many great films that year. Great directors, great actors, scripts. Most of their recommendations made the ballot. I'm glad they didn't mention Braveheart for best picture, even though that went on to win best picture and director. I love the extra plug for Hoop Dreams, Ebert loved that film.
Gene: Crumb could have won over Hoop Dreams!
Roger: Gene don't go too far
Still haven’t watched Hoop Dreams all the way through, and I love docs so I gotta get on that. Gotta say it has to be phenomenal to make me like it over Crumb, one of my fave films of all time…
@@schmeltingaccident It's on youtube for free. I haven't seen it in 30 years and back then Ebert hyped it so much that I thought it was boring. I'll probably give it another try.
Okay, I did a bit of research to remind myself who were nominated and who won. First of all, Siskel & Ebert failed miserably in claiming who were the shoo-ins to be nominated. Out of the nine for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress, they only got three right . . . one for each category. I think they should have avoided predicting who would get in and just focused on who they would've liked to see be nominated. They actually fared better in that regard. Out of the 16 they mentioned, eight were indeed nominated and two of those actually won. Quite frankly, eventual winners are almost always gonna be shoo-ins to be nominated, so I'm surprised that they would think Nicolas Cage and Susan Sarandon needed a leg up. I agree that "Toy Story" deserved a Best Picture nomination, but no other animated films had been nominated in that category before except "Beauty and the Beast," so it just wasn't gonna happen. Extending the number of Best Picture nominees beyond the usual five allowed certain genres to pop in there once in a while, but adding a category for animated features also gave them an excuse to continue ignoring them for the top award. One thing that was unusual this year was that Ron Howard didn't get a nomination for Best Director even though he won the Director's Guild Award (DGA) for "Apollo 13." The winner of the DGA almost always wins the Oscar, so not getting a nomination was certainly unexpected!
If possible, can you upload the memos to the academy of 1992 (full), 1997 (full), and 1998?
Interesting they thought The American President (a great movie) would get lots of noms. It only got a score nom.
I hated Leaving Las Vegas, I found it so extreme to be completely uninteresting. Hated the character.
overacted but no one noticed because Cage was still kinda new.
not to mention the played-out “hooker with a heart of gold” story that’s basically melodrama but it pretentiously masquerades as gritty realism.
Gene was so right about Toy Story for Best Picture. John Lasseter…..We know what happened to him.
“…movies we hope don’t get overlooked in the Best Picture category.” The American President. The American President. The American President. The American President. The American President.
Babe shuuda won! We was robbed!!!
WINNERS: actor Nicolas Cage/s actor Kevin Spacey/actress Susan Sarandon/s actress Mira Sorvino/director Braveheart Mel Gibson/documentary Anne Frank Remembered/picture Braveheart.
I think this show got a lot of noms up and Cage and Sarandon the win. Tough call between Spacey & Roth-might have had something to do with Spacey's Q-rating at the time and Roth just being too good at being bad: ruclips.net/video/1Ws0bGpZylo/видео.html
Ebert hates Usual Suspects but that was the best film that year. I didn’t care for Braveheart.