Oscar 1997 Articles

THE SWEET HEREAFTER (1997) Direction: Atom Egoyan Cast: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Tom McCamus, Gabrielle Rose, Alberta Watson, Caerthan Banks, Maury Chaykin Screenplay: Atom Egoyan; from Russell Banks' novel Oscar Movies Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, The Sweet Hereafter By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: Some films are well crafted but lifeless. Others err by believing they can too readily make an audience care for [...]

Julie Christie in Alan Rudolph's Afterglow (top); Judi Dench in John Madden's Mrs. Brown (middle); Vanessa Zima, Peter Fonda in Victor Nunez's Ulee's Gold (bottom) Lynn Redgrave, James Coburn, Fernanda Montenegro: Oscar Veterans 1998 Julie Christie Julie Christie was nominated as Best Actress for Alan Rudolph's Afterglow. She lost to Helen Hunt in James L. Brooks' As Good As It Gets. Christie had two previous [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Titanic HOOP DREAMS: Biggest Oscar Snubs #7c The absence of Leonardo DiCaprio and James Cameron's Titanic screenplay from the list of 1997 Oscar nominations deserves its own slot because Titanic wasn't just a movie. As the biggest worldwide grosser ever until Avatar (not taking inflation into account), Cameron's romantic adventure-melodrama was a cultural and financial phenomenon. DiCaprio's failure to get a [...]