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The Oscars: The Secret History of Hollywood's Academy Awards | Anthony Holden

This week we celebrate the best in the books we read in the past year. It's time for the Book Oscars!! We debate fun categories such as best villain and best scene before announcing the winners for best book, best character, and best author. We love doing this episode!

Also, if you like upcoming book news we have a bit of that in the beginning. Thanks for listening and enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3KJ5tQM00jZlX7zqZeVy2Q

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lil1inblue

The Oscars: The Secret History of Hollywood's Academy Awards | Anthony Holden

I can't possibly pick favorites from this list. So random thoughts, instead:

🩵 Up is my favorite movie ever. It warms my icy heart. I cry 3 times during it to this day.
🩵 Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of my favorite actors. I'm so sad he died so young.
🩵 When Pulp Fiction came out, our local art theatre showed it during their Oscar series, and a bunch of elderly ladies who were regulars walked out in disgust. 🤣🫠

#threelistthursday @dabbe

wanderinglynn Love Up! ❤️ 2w

lil1inblue @wanderinglynn It's just a perfect movie! 😍 2w

wanderinglynn Totally agree. 2w

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dabbe I gulp-sob snot out of my nose every time I watch the opening of UP! 😭 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩵💙🩵 2w

dabbe Fab score, too! 🤩🤩🤩 2w

lil1inblue @dabbe Yeah, the opening scene is definitely an ugly cry for me, too. 😭 And the score is because the era covers my high school years, when I had a crush on a boy who wanted to become Stanley Kubrick. 😂 He broke my teenaged heart, but he also introduced me to so many good films! 😉 2w

dabbe @lil1inblue At least one good thing came out of it! 🤗 2w

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DGRachel

80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards | Robert Osborne

I think I missed the other two Oscar Nom list posts, so I‘ve done all three just now. Ive seen a total of 17, with 1963-1987 being my best at 10. But, the early years have some of my favorite movies ever - Gaslight, To Kill a Mockingbird, Captain Blood (OMG, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, AND Olivia de Havilland?? HEAVEN!), Adventures of Robin Hood, and Philadelphia Story (KATE!!). This was fun @dabbe Thank you. #threelistthursday #tlt

dabbe YW! A wee trip down memory lane! GASLIGHT is one of my top faves of all time! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🎬🍿📽️ 3w

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lil1inblue

80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards | Robert Osborne

This was a good list! It was hard to pick favorites. I picked these because of good memories of watching them with friends in high school.
🩵 Broadcast News (I really like Albert Brooks, btw)
🩵 Dr. Strangelove
🩵 Barry Lyndon
One that I can't believe I still haven't seen:
🩵 M.A.S.H.

Thanks for the tag, @Eggs

#TLT #threelistthursday @dabbe

dabbe Fab choices! M.A.S.H. is a hoot and a half! Thanks for playing and sharing. 📽️🍿🎬 3w

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dabbe

80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards | Robert Osborne

#ThreeListThursday #TLT @dabbe
Here's list #3! I think we'll all do a lot better on this one! 🤞🏻
1. Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/academy-awards-list-3-nominations-for-best
2. Share your score if you'd like.
3. Share your 3 favorites from the list or 3 that you might be interested in seeing, or 3 you thought were horrible or a combo of whatever you'd like.
4. Tag a few!
Tagging a few who've played before.

DebinHawaii, BookmarkTavern, wanderinglynn, peaKnit, Cuilin, AmyG, TheBookHippie, azulaco, Susanita, TrishB, TieDyeDude, Deblovestoread, thebacklistbook, MaleficentBookDragon, JessClark78, vivastory, Eggs, JenReadsAlot, Read4life, Itchyfeetreader, CindyMyLifeIsLit, vonnie862, BookwormAHN, TheBookgeekFrau, CoffeeNBooks, TheSpineView, CBee, TheAromaofBooks, bthegood, lil1inblue, The_Penniless_Author, julieclair

melissajayne 15/100

Three favourites include: All the President's Men, Butch Cassidy, Raiders. 3w

thebacklistbook 14/100 highlights are raiders, and star wars 3w

audraelizabeth 20/100 3w

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Lesliereadsalot I saw 79/100. Favorites include Nashville(loved the music and the characters), Coming Home (which I saw at the movies 17 days in a row, obsessed would be putting it mildly) and Midnight Express (scared me to death). 3w

Eggs 🩵💜💙 3w

Amor4Libros I got 10 this time!! 😂 3w

shortsarahrose 29 - I was pretty good on ones from the 1960s/70s, but not the ‘80s 3w

TheSpineView Thanks for the tag! 🥰💛🏷 3w

Deblovestoread Thanks for the tag! Will do 🥰 3w

BooksandCoffee4Me 30% but how fun to be reminded of the movies “Heaven Can Wait” and “Goodbye Girl!” 💛 3w

BooksandCoffee4Me @Lesliereadsalot Wow! “Coming Home” was so intense — how did seeing it so many times in two weeks affect you emotionally? 3w

DGRachel LOL. I‘ve heard of a ton of these but have only watched 10. Clearly, I dislike Academy Award winners as much as I dislike fancy book award winners. 🤣🤣 3w

dabbe @melissajayne I adore ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN. I've read the book numerous times, too! Thanks for playing and sharing. 📽️🍿🎬 3w

dabbe @thebacklistbook #epicsummermovies! Thanks for playing and sharing. 📽️🍿🎬 3w

dabbe @audraelizabeth Thanks for playing and sharing. 📽️🍿🎬 3w

dabbe @Lesliereadsalot What intriguing choices! 🤩 I'm scared to watch MIDNIGHT EXPRESS! Thanks for playing and sharing. 📽️🍿🎬 3w

dabbe @Eggs 🩵💙🩵 3w

dabbe @Amor4Libros Lots of fab ones to add to your TBW list! Thanks for playing and sharing. 📽️🍿🎬 3w

dabbe @shortsarahrose I start petering out in the 90s big time. 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 📽️🍿🎬 3w

dabbe @TheSpineView YW! 😘 3w

dabbe @Deblovestoread YW! 😘 3w

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me IKR? 🤣 Thanks for playing and sharing. 📽️🍿🎬 3w

dabbe @DGRachel You're in good company either way! 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing. 📽️🍿🎬 3w

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me @Lesliereadsalot #ditto! 🤩 3w

Lesliereadsalot I really had been oblivious to the Vietnam War and after seeing Coming Home the first time, I couldn‘t believe the war was going on around me and I felt compelled to see it over and over. I didn‘t know anybody who went to Vietnam, my parents never discussed it, it was so foreign to me. I‘ve never before or since felt so intensely about a movie. Totally blew me away! @BooksandCoffee4Me 3w

dabbe @Lesliereadsalot Thanks for sharing that. I was oblivious, too, and still have so much to learn about that tumultuous period. I never saw COMING HOME (added to my TBW list now) but BORN ON THE 4TH OF JULY at least made me more aware. That and GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM. The humor helped. 😊 3w

BooksandCoffee4Me @Lesliereadsalot @dabbe I‘ve made a point of sincerely thanking veterans for serving. Saw a biker wearing a Viet Nam Vet jacket and stopped where he was and thanked him. He teared up and looked so surprised. They received so little when they returned. It shouldn‘t have taken a decade or two to thank them with the wall. I was in middle school during the war and now have known many Nam vets. Most do not want to share their stories. 3w

dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me They bravely did their job and received nothing but hatred from most of us. Shameful. 😞 3w

Lesliereadsalot Very shameful! Our boys did not belong there. I‘ve seen all the Vietnam movies but Coming Home made the biggest impression as it‘s about the soldiers when they got back. You have to imagine what it was like for them and it‘s not a pretty picture. You guys are very thoughtful! @dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me 🩷🩷 3w

BookmarkTavern Thanks for the tag! 3w

peaKnit 26! I have rewatched All The President‘s Men so many times I should count it twice! :) and on Golden Pond, such sweet memories watching this one. 🥰 3w

dabbe @Lesliereadsalot So are you! 🩵💙🩵 3w

dabbe @BookmarkTavern YW! 😘 3w

dabbe @peaKnit #ditto feelings on both of your choices. I've just reread and rewatched ALL THE PRESIDENT'S to bring me comfort in this chaotic mess of a country we're currently living in. As @AmyG put it, Goldberg is our Woodward & Bernstein. 👊🏻 3w

peaKnit Amen! 3w

TheLudicReader 53/100. Did you know Children of a Lesser God was filmed in my hometown? Fun fact! So many flicks I love on that list but also so many flicks I am now too old to accurately remember whether I *actually* saw them or not. 🤣 3w

dabbe @TheLudicReader How cool is that? Is your hometown not St. John? I loved that movie, though I read that Hurt was an unbelievable jerk to Marlee Matlin while in a relationship with her. And I say if you wondered, you saw it! Thanks for playing and sharing. 📽️🍿🎬 3w

TheLudicReader @dabbe, I am not sure I understand your question about St. John. 🤣 My hometown is Saint John (as you know). St. John's is in Newfoundland. But Children of a Lesser God was filmed here in the 80s. 3w

dabbe @TheLudicReader I learn something new every day. 😊 I had no idea that St. was always spelled out. Now I know, thanks to you! I guess it threw me when you said just “hometown“, so I thought that maybe you grew up somewhere else in Canada besides Saint John. No excuse for me not knowing--except that I am more forgetful these days. (edited) 3w

TheLudicReader @dabbe 🤣🥰 3w

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Leftcoastzen

Hollywood musicals | Ted Sennett

#CoverStories #EveningGown A little Fred and Ginger for Oscar day/Night !

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

willaful I have so many books by Ted Sennett, including this one, though not lucky enough to have the cover pic. 2mo

Leftcoastzen @willaful it is a beautiful dust jacket . Sennett has written many books about the entertainment industry, found a copy of this one on my TBR

Your Show of Shows

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willaful I'm fond of his _Lunatics and Lovers_.

Lunatics and Lovers: A Tribute to the Giddy and Glittering Era of the Screen's "screwball" and Romantic Comedies

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Eggs They were perfection💃 2mo

Leftcoastzen @willaful I will check that out! 2mo

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bibliothecarivs

Images: My Life in Film | Ingmar Bergman

Apparently #FridayFilms isn't already a thing. I plan to watch Ingmar Bergman's Nattvardsgästerna (usually called 'Winter Light' or 'The Communicants' in the US) tonight with my adult daughter.

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