The British sports activities biopic “Chariots of Fire” ran away with the prize as a substitute. The epic story of the first Americans in house, “The Right Stuff” gained 4 Oscars, but it did not have the proper stuff for Best Picture, where James L. Brooks’ mother-daughter dramedy “Terms of Endearment” scored a rare Best Picture win for a feminine-driven film. At the Oscars, “The Insider,” a drama a couple of tobacco-trade whistleblower, went oh-for-seven; “American Beauty,” a satirical look at the suburbs, gained 5 awards, together with Best Picture. If critics had the vote, Ben Affleck would not have capped his Hollywood comeback with a Best Picture Oscar for “Argo,” his story concerning the rescue of Americans taken hostage in Iran. Rather, filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, simply three years removed from “The Hurt Locker,” would’ve scored her second profession Best Picture win with the very fact-primarily based thriller “Zero Dark … Read More
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