Tagged: awards


2015 Medal of Freedom Recipients

In a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday, November 24th, President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Freedom to 17 Americans for their contributions in...

Birdman: 2014 Best Picture

The 87th Academy Awards ceremony were held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on February 22, 2015, honoring the best films of 2014. The Best Picture Oscar went to “Birdman...

2015 Oscars In Memoriam

Here is the in memoriam segment from the 2015 Oscars, honoring the following 50 entertainment figures: Mickey Rooney (9/23/1920-4/6/2014) Paul Mazursky (4/25/1930-6/30/2014) Geoffrey Holder (8/1/1930-10/5/2014) Nadia Bronson (d. 11/14/2014) James...

AFI Top 100 Films Facts and Trivia

Recently, they had a Final Jeopardy question and the category title was “The AFI’s 100 Greatest Films” when a much better title would have been just “1940s Film Favorites”. (If...

AFI Top 100 Films by Year

This is the AFI Top 100 Films by year, not rank, based upon the AFI’s 2007 update which eliminated a number of films from the original 1998 list. Years with...

The Hurt Locker: 2009 Best Picture

“The Hurt Locker” won 6 Oscars out of its 9 nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow). https://youtu.be/Namu4nsd1gM The other Best Picture nominees...

Slumdog Millionaire: 2008 Best Picture

“Slumdog Millionaire” won 8 Oscars out of its 10 nominations at the 81st Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Danny Boyle). The other Best Picture nominees were “The Curious...