Oscar 1989 Articles
Michael Moore's ROGER & ME: Biggest Oscar Snubs #7b
Errol Morris' THE THIN BLUE LINE: Biggest Oscar Snubs #7a Michael Moore's Roger & Me was attacked in some quarters for distorting facts so as to fit them into Moore's political agenda. In The New Yorker, for instance, Pauline Kael wrote: "I’ve heard it said that Michael Moore’s muckraking documentary Roger & Me is scathing and Voltairean. I’ve read that Michael Moore is 'a satirist [...]
Jessica Tandy-Morgan Freeman's DRIVING MISS DAISY NY Academy Screening
Driving Miss Daisy: Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman (top); Freeman, Dan Aykroyd (bottom) Driving Miss Daisy, Bruce Beresford's 1989 Best Picture Oscar winner, will be the final 2010 presentation in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' "Monday Nights with Oscar" film series. Driving Miss Daisy, which stars Oscar winner Jessica Tandy, and Oscar nominees Morgan Freeman and Dan Aykroyd, will be screened on Monday, [...]
THE ABYSS Screening
The Abyss, the costly, special-effect-laden, deep-sea adventure drama about underwater aliens and a bickering married couple, will be screened at a special 20th anniversary event by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, June 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. This Academy screening will premiere a newly struck 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive. Considering that [...]