Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Retrospective Catalog: Ben-Hur

🅐 Animated Film

🅑 Best Picture Winner

🅒 Criterion Release

🅝 National Film Registry Selection

🅢 Silent Film

🅣 Television Production 


Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) 🅝🅢

Ben-Hur (1959) 🅑🅝

Ben-Hur (2003) 🅐

Ben-Hur (2010) 🅣

Ben-Hur (2016)

Ben-Hur: The Conclusions

Sunday, August 28, 2022

Retrospective Catalog: Best Actress Oscar Winners

🅑 Best Picture Winner

🅒 Criterion Release

🅕 Foreign Language Film

🅝 National Film Registry Selection

🅢 Silent Film


Best Actress Retrospective: An Introduction

Best Actress Retrospective: The Ten Best Winners

Best Actress Retrospective: The Ten Worst Winners

1928: Janet Gaynor (7th Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise) 🅢 

(7th Heaven and Sunrise) 🅝

1929: Mary Pickford (Coquette)

1930: Norma Shearer (The Divorcee)

1931: Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)

1932: Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet)

1933: Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory)

1934: Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night) 🅑🅒🅝

1935: Bette Davis (Dangerous)

1936: Louise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld) 🅑

1937: Louise Rainer (The Good Earth)

1938: Bette Davis (Jezebel) 🅝

1939: Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind) 🅑🅝

1940: Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle)

1941: Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)

1942: Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver) 🅑

1943: Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette)

1944: Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight) 🅝

1945: Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce) 🅒

1946: Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own)

1947: Loretta Young (The Farmer's Daughter)

1948: Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)

1949: Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress) 🅒🅝

1950: Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday) 🅝

1951: Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire) 🅝

1952: Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba)

1953: Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday) 🅝

1954: Grace Kelly (The Country Girl)

1955: Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo)

1956: Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)

1957: Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve)

1958: Susan Hayward (I Want to Live!)

1959: Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)

1960: Elizabeth Taylor (Butterfield 8)

1961: Sofia Loren (Two Women) 🅕

1962: Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker) 🅝

1963: Patricia Neal (Hud)

1964: Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) 🅝

1965: Julie Christie (Darling)

1966: Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) 🅝

1967: Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) 🅝

1968 (Tie): Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter)

1968 (Tie): Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) 🅒🅝

1969: Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brody)

1970: Glenda Jackson (Women in Love)

1971: Jane Fonda (Klute) 🅒

1972: Liza Minnelli (Cabaret) 🅝

1973: Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class)

1974: Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)

1975: Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) 🅑🅝

1976: Faye Dunaway (Network) 🅝

1977: Diane Keaton (Annie Hall) 🅑🅝

1978: Jane Fonda (Coming Home)

1979: Sally Field (Norma Rae)

1980: Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner's Daughter) 🅝

1981: Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond)

1982: Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)

1983: Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment) 🅑

1984: Sally Field (Places in the Heart)

1985: Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful)

1986: Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God)

1987: Cher (Moonstruck) 🅒

1988: Jodie Foster (The Accused)

1989: Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy) 🅑

1990: Kathy Bates (Misery)

1991: Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs) 🅑🅒🅝

1992: Emma Thompson (Howards End)

1993: Holly Hunter (The Piano) 🅒

1994: Jessica Lange (Blue Sky)

1995: Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking)

1996: Frances McDormand (Fargo) 🅝

1997: Helen Hunt (As Good as it Gets)

1998: Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love) 🅑

1999: Hillary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) 🅝

2000: Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich)

2001: Halle Berry (Monster's Ball)

2002: Nicole Kidman (The Hours)

2003: Charlize Theron (Monster)

2004: Hillary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) 🅑

2005: Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)

2006: Helen Mirren (The Queen)

2007: Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) 🅕

2008: Kate Winslet (The Reader)

2009: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)

2010: Natalie Portman (Black Swan)

2011: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)

2012: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)

2013: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

2014: Julianne Moore (Still Alice)

2015: Brie Larson (Room)

2016: Emma Stone (La La Land)

2017: Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

2018: Olivia Coleman (The Favourite)

2019: Renee Zellweger (Judy)

2020: Frances McDormand (Nomadland) 🅑

2021: Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)

2022: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) 🅑

2023: Emma Stone (Poor Things)

2024: Mickey Madison (Anora) 🅑🅒

Thursday, August 25, 2022

Retrospective Catalog: Best and Worst of the Year

2009 IN REVIEW



Some Odds and Bitter Ends 


2010 IN REVIEW 

The Best of 2010

The Worst of 2010

Some Odds and Bitter Ends 


2011 IN REVIEW



Some Odds and Bitter Ends 


2012 IN REVIEW



Some Odds and Bitter Ends 








2019 IN REVIEW





2020 IN REVIEW

The Best of 2020 

The Worst of 2020

Some Odds and Bitter Ends 


2021 IN REVIEW

The Best of 2021

The Worst of 2021

Some Odds and Bitter Ends 


2022 IN REVIEW

The Best of 2022

The Worst of 2022

Some Odds and Bitter Ends 


2023 IN REVIEW

The Best of 2023

The Worst of 2023

Some Odds and Bitter Ends 


2024 IN REVIEW



Some Odds and Bitter Ends 


2025 IN REVIEW

The Best of 2025

The Worst of 2025

Some Odds and Bitter Ends




















Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Retrospective Catalog: Emma

🅑 Best Picture Winner

🅒 Criterion Release

🅘 Inspired by Emma

🅝 National Film Registry Selection

🅣 Television Production 


Clueless 🅘

Emma (1972) 🅣

Emma (1996) 

Emma (2009) 🅣

Emma (2020)

Emma: The Conclusions

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Retrospective Catalog: Great Expectations

🅑 Best Picture Winner

🅒 Criterion Release

🅝 National Film Registry Selection

🅣 Television Production 


Great Expectations (1947) 🅒 

Great Expectations (1974) 

Great Expectations (1981) 🅣

Great Expectations (1998) 

Great Expectations (1999) 🅣

Great Expectations (2011) 🅣

Great Expectations (2013) 

Great Expectations (2023) 🅣

Great Expectations: The Conclusions

Monday, August 22, 2022

Retrospective Catalog: The Great Gatsby

🅑 Best Picture Winner

🅒 Criterion Release

🅝 National Film Registry Selection

🅣 Television Production 


The Great Gatsby (1974)

The Great Gatsby (2000) 🅣

The Great Gatsby (2013)

The Great Gatsby: The Conclusions

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Retrospective Catalog: Katharine Hepburn Oscar Nominations

🅑 Best Picture Winner

🅒 Criterion Release

🅝 National Film Registry Selection

🅦 Oscar-Winning Performance 


Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: An Introduction 

Nomination One: Morning Glory 🅦

Nomination Two: Alice Adams

Nomination Three: The Philadelphia Story 🅒🅝

Nomination Four: Woman of the Year 🅒🅝

Nomination Five: The African Queen 🅝

Nomination Six: Summertime 🅒

Nomination Seven: The Rainmaker

Nomination Eight: Suddenly, Last Summer

Nomination Nine: Long Day's Journey into Night

Nomination Ten: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 🅝🅦

Nomination Eleven: The Lion in Winter 🅦

Nomination Twelve: On Golden Pond 🅦 

Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: The Conclusions 


Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: 1934 in Review

Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: 1936 in Review

Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: 1941 in Review

Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: 1943 in Review

Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: 1952 in Review

Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: 1956 in Review

Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: 1957 in Review

Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: 1960 in Review

Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: 1963 in Review

Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: 1968 in Review

Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: 1969 in Review

Katharine Hepburn Oscar Retrospective: 1982 in Review

Saturday, August 20, 2022

Friday, August 19, 2022

Retrospective Catalog: Peter O'Toole Oscar Nominations



Nomination One: Lawrence of Arabia

Nomination Two: Becket

Nomination Three: The Lion in Winter

Nomination Four: Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Nomination Five: The Ruling Class

Nomination Six: The Stunt Man

Nomination Seven: My Favorite Year

Nomination Eight: Venus

Peter O'Toole Oscar Retrospective: The Conclusions 


Peter O'Toole Oscar Retrospective: 1962 in Review

Peter O'Toole Oscar Retrospective: 1964 in Review

Peter O'Toole Oscar Retrospective: 1968 in Review

Peter O'Toole Oscar Retrospective: 1969 in Review

Peter O'Toole Oscar Retrospective: 1972 in Review

Peter O'Toole Oscar Retrospective: 1980 in Review

Peter O'Toole Oscar Retrospective: 1982 in Review

Peter O'Toole Oscar Retrospective: 2006 in Review

Thursday, August 18, 2022

Retrospective Catalog: Peter Pan

🅐 Animated Film

🅑 Best Picture Winner

🅒 Criterion Release

🅝 National Film Registry Selection

🅢 Silent Film

🅣 Television Production 





Peter Pan (1954) 🅣




Neverland 🅣


Come Away 

Peter Pan & Wendy 🅣

Peter Pan: The Conclusions

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Retrospective Catalog: Pride and Prejudice

🅑 Best Picture Winner

🅒 Criterion Release 

🅘 Inspired by Pride and Prejudice

🅝 National Film Registry Selection

🅣 Television Production 


Austenland 🅘

Death Comes to Pemberley 🅘🅣

Bride and Prejudice 🅘

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Pride and Prejudice (1980) 🅣

Pride and Prejudice (1995) 🅣

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 🅘

Pride and Prejudice: The Conclusions

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Retrospective Catalog: Robin Hood

🅐 Animated Film

🅑 Best Picture Winner

🅒 Criterion Release

🅘 Inspired by Robin Hood

🅝 National Film Registry Selection

🅢 Silent Film

🅣 Television Production 




 

The Son of Robin Hood (1958)

Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) 🅘




Robin of Sherwood 🅣



The New Adventures of Robin Hood 🅣

Robin Hood 🅣




Monday, August 15, 2022

Retrospective Catalog: Sense and Sensibility

 🅑 Best Picture Winner

🅒 Criterion Release

🅘 Inspired by Sense and Sensibility

🅝 National Film Registry Selection

🅣 Television Production 


Sense and Sensibility (1981) 🅣

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Sense and Sensibility (2008) 🅣