Three Faces of Link
Monday, February 11, 2013 at 9:22PM Inside TV Jacki Weaver gets a sitcom. It's called The McCarthys and she's playing a character possibly not unlike her Silver Linings Playbook character. Best part of the news: Jack McGee, who was so terrific as Mr Melissa Leo in The Fighter wins the male lead.
Nicks Flick Picks, always generous at heart if not generous in posting, is picking the highlights of every Oscar nominee's career in this growing post. That's a great way to celebrate the nominees even if you don't care for their latest nomination. That's me with Amy Adams I suppose. I am completely 50/50 on her Oscar nominations. Wouldn't trade the first and third for anything. Don't think she deserved the second and fourth.
Finally... have you seen this 85 Years of Oscar poster by Olly Moss?
Oscar is a real chameleon in this graphic set, switching costumes and poses to reflect each year's winning film. Like all multiplied efforts, there are hits and misses but I've included my favorites above: 1945 (Oscar gets the DTs), 1953 (Oscar in swim trunks), 1964, 1978, 1979, 1986 (a strong use of an iconic movie poster), 1988 (which I think is the best single image ... so minimalist but funny and "aha!"), 1999, 2001 (that one took me a second) and 2011.
Which were your favorite visual sum-ups?
Reader Comments (32)
Five Favourite: 57, 60, 62, 73, 94. Five Least Favourite: 74 (I'm not exactly in love with the 72 one, but I'd think choosing a different image would have been prudent), 80 (what does it have to do with it's subject on an easy glance. Maybe get BOTH hands off the mike and add a clipboard to Oscar's hands?), 91, 07 (It looks more like a woman, and they don't even get CLOSE to Chigurh's hairstyle), 08.
I'm so glad "Animal Kingdom" really opened up doors for Jacki Weaver. Most foreign nominees are just one-time wonders. It looks like she's here to stay.
I don't get 2001 actually... somebody fill me in?
Too bad The Man Who Wasn't There didn't win in 2001, because that would be way more fitting.
Best part of the news: Jack McGee, who was so terrific as Mr Melissa Leo in The Fighter wins the male lead.
Quick: Name the two Paul Verhoeven movies he cameo-ed in? Without doing an online search or having someone else butt in.
Quick: Name the two Paul Verhoeven movies he cameo-ed in? Without doing an online search or having someone else butt in.
I don't get 2001 either
Crash's is... inappropriate? That is, unless Olly Moss is suggesting that choosing Crash over Brokeback Mountain cast a dark cloud over that year.
Titanic's reminds me of the poster for Metropolis.
Is no one really going to explain 2001? John Nash is suffering from schizophrenia in A BEAUTIFUL MIND. One of the major plot points turns out to be that many of the people in the film are actually hallucinations.
2001 is probably my favourite for that, it's a nice concept.
The English Patient one is not very inspired. A shame.
I love the characters (and costume design) represented in the sixties, as well as the Annie Hall and Best Years of Our Lives selections. My only quibbles: 1) I don't dislike what they did for Rebecca, but I'd love to see Oscar done up as Mrs. Danvers and 2) The All About Eve Oscar should really be holding a Sarah Siddons Award.
I like many of the movement ones. My favorite is Chariots of Fire, and I also like West Side Story and Titanic. With out seeing the year, I thought the Platoon one was A Streetcar Named Desire ("Stella!"). Of the doll like ones, I liked It Happened One Night, My Fair Lady, and Bridge Over The River Kwai.
But some of them, like All About Eve, I wondered if he'd seen the movie. It seemed to be a reworking of the movie poster. My guess is that for many of them, he used stills and posters and plot descriptions rather than watching the movie and supplying his own take. Which is understandable, 80+ movies, you'd never get around to doing the actual artwork.
The concept for 2001 would make even more sense if "The Man Who Wasn't There" would have featured in major categories that year, wouldn't it?
- A series with Weaver and McGee sounds great. My only concern is CBS
- Amy again? Stop it!
- 1964, 1974, 1986
I love the Annie Hall and Best Years of Our Lives as well, and I love Forrest Gump; the pose is just right.
My favorites are West Side Story, Schindler's List and A Beautiful Mind. 1953 with the waves and the swim trunks is the most cheeky...I love it!
I love those images so much, especially The Apartment (since I love The Apartment) and Ordinary People and Rain Man.
I wonder what the image would be for Argo... I mean, for whatever wins this year.
Yes, I loved the one for The Apartment! That was my favorite along with The Sting.
The TV series is a great move for Jacki Weaver...Diane Kruger also has series coming on FX. There's just too much good TV to keep up with!
Agree with you on 2001; it took me a minute to figure out, really quite clever.
Could someone please explain 1973 to me? It's the only one I can't wrap my head around.
the one for Crash is stupid... now this with Brokeback would have been nicer
the best one is The lost weekend, and the one for Gandhi is hilariously cute
'73 is The Sting; the finger to the nose is the sign in the movie that the sting is on. Very clever.
If The Exorcist had won BP in 73, as it should have, can you imagine what Oscar would be doing with a bloody crucifix? Yowza!
2001 is definitly my favourite, the movie is horrible though
The Terms of Endearment one is SO creepy! wtf?
ITA, dan. A Beautiful Mind is one of the worst BP winners of all time. Right down there with Crash. It's like a big screen version of a Lifetime movie. Only thing missing was the ending where they walked hand in hand into the dogwoods to the tinkly piano music.
I still think "Cimarron" is worse than both "A Beautiful Mind" and "Crash." It's nearly unwatchable. (Or to say it the way Richard Dix says everything in that movie, "IT"S NEARLY UNWATCHABLE!!!!"
my favorites on the freaky oscars
because they're CLEVER: the sting, a beautiful mind, ben hur
because they're OBVIOUSLY ACCURATE: gandhi, west side story, my fair lady, charriots of fire
my least favorites on the freaky oscars
because they're UNINSPIRED: titanic, the english patient, slumdog millionaire
because they're OUTRIGHT FREAKY: marty, crash, cavalcade, it happened one night, deer hunter
I don't get Crash? Am I missing something?
This is a good way to realize that good roles are given to men much more often and hollywood is kind of sexist.
brookesboy, the worst thing was Ron's Oscar. I mean, you have Lynch and Altman in a list and people voted for Ron Howard?
AR -- Thanks for clearing that up. I have seen the movie but didn't remember that particular scene; clever indeed.
2001Imagine People?
dan, I guess my Repressed Memory Syndrome has blocked out most of Beautiful Mind, but what lingers poisonously in my memory is the cheesy shots of terrified faces in darkened corners revealed in flashes of lightning as the camera bounced around. The TV show Night Gallery had more style and subtlety. Possibly Howard's worst movie, but I haven't seen The Dilemma.