Showbiz History: Babs hits #1 and RuPaul's Drag Race debuts

5 random things that happened on this day, February 2nd, in showbiz history...

1970 The 27th Golden Globes honoring 1969 cinema were held with Anne of the Thousand Days (drama) and something called The Secret of Santa Vittoria (comedy) winning Best Picture. We've literally never heard of the latter until this very moment which is rare for us when it comes to films named "Best Picture" at any award show. Most of the actors who won (barring comedy categories of course) repeated their wins on Oscar night except Best Actress Genevieve Bujold (Anne of th Thousand Days)... 

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Watch at Home: 1917 Again.

A biweekly look at what's new for home viewing...

New on DVD or Blu-Ray
• 1917 - Sam Mendes continuous shot war epic took home 3 Oscars. We shudder to think how reduced it will be via motion-smoothing on the nation's TVs.
• Clemency -Too somber to win legions of fans but this death row drama has amazing performances
• Come to Daddy - Elijah Wood sure does make a lot of indies, doesn't he?
• The Current War - After years of sitting on a shelf and then a swift wide release, we're definitely curious...

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Best Performances by Actors in Limited Roles

Andrew Scott gives incredible cynical cameo in "1917"

And now a semi-tangential train of thought. Over the 20 years of doing the Film Bitch Awards we've noticed that our cameo categories have gone from being a fun place to shine the spotlight on unknown actors who we're curious about to an annual war between not-quite household names or "it" girls and guys who are appearing in everything. The problem for lesser known actors trying to catch a break these days is that we're long past the years when mid-level stars, or even major stars, had egos about the size of their roles. More and more stars will happily become day-players as if everyone wants to be working 24/7 and has never heard of the concept of over-exposure...

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Did you see any movies over Oscar weekend?

This past weekend's box office results suggest that a lot of people were trying to catch up on Oscar nominees before the big show. Here are all the titles still in wide release and their counterparts in limited release...

Weekend Box Office February 7th-9th (ESTIMATES) 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = recommended
WIDE RELEASE (800+ screens)	PLATFORM TITLES
Margot Robbie in "Birds of Prey"	Oscar WINNING Short Film "Hair Love"
1 🔺 BIRDS OF PREY  $33 *NEW* REVIEW	1 🔺 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS $870k on 535  screens (cum. $2.7) REVIEW,  THE CHARTS ★
2 BAD BOYS FOR LIFE  $12 (cum. $166.3)	2 THE LAST FULL MEASURE $214k on 617 screens (cum. $2.5)

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The 92nd Oscars Afterthoughts and the Complete Winners List

by Nathaniel R

You know how we do at The Film Experience. We'll have a few days of post-mortem on the 92nd Academy Awards, honoring the films of 2019. So it's not quite over yet but the rest is the after-party if you will. And we think you will feel like partying. We sure do. Parasite won 55% of your votes in our readers poll for who SHOULD win (with Hollywood and 1917 fighting for a distant second place on the Best Picture chart) and it also took the top prize at both the Team Experience Awards and my own prizes right here. And then it actually went and won Hollywood's top honor, too, defying all odds (again) to become the first Foreign Language picture ever to triumph at the Oscars. It will go down as history as one of the best choices the Academy ever made in the top category along with films like Moonlight, Silence of the Lambs, Amadeus, All About Eve, and other classics...

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