The Lost Weekend Articles
PORGY AND BESS, FORREST GUMP, BAMBI, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS: National Film Registry 2011 Movies
Best Picture winners The Lost Weekend (1945), Forrest Gump (right, 1994), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991), along with the Walt Disney Studios' animated classic Bambi (1942), Charles Chaplin's silent comedy-drama The Kid (1921), and Howard Hawks' early screwball comedy Twentieth Century (1934) are among the 25 "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant movies just added to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. Directed [...]
Oscar 2010: Preferential Voting System for Best Picture Winner
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra's 1934 comedy It Happened One Night (top); Ray Milland, Jane Wyman in Billy Wilder's 1945 drama The Lost Weekend (bottom). The first and last best picture Oscar winners by way of the preferential voting system. The winner of the 2010 best picture Oscar will be determined through the preferential voting system, which in the last six or so [...]