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Oscars Challenge #13: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

OtherTue Nov 15 2022

Source: Oscars Challenge #13: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

It's true if we are talking about horror movies we are always visualizing ghosts, monsters, jumpscares, and zombies. However, we often do not talk about real horror in a real-life situation. The Best Picture winner of the 3rd Academy Awards, All Quiet on the Western Front is an anti-war film about young ecstatic German soldiers who were sent to participate in World War I. At first, they seem to be prepared to fight the battle but soon realized the real horror of being sent to the battlefield as

Oscars Challenge #4: You Can't Take It With You (1938)

OtherMon Oct 24 2022

Source: Oscars Challenge #4: You Can't Take It With You (1938)

Seriously, if this film was in technicolor it will still be funny even by today's standards. That is what I think about how hilarious this movie is. Winner of the 11th Academy Awards, You Can't Take Me With You takes you on a roller coaster and funny ride with Tony Kirby (James Stewart), a young rich Vice President of a bank who fell in love with his stenographer Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur). His life suddenly got intertwined when she introduced him to her very eccentric family of sorts. The fil

Oscars Challenge #3: American Beauty (1999)

OtherSun Oct 23 2022

Source: Oscars Challenge #3: American Beauty (1999)

It is not light-hearted and easy to understand, to be frank however it is beautiful no matter how you may define it. Winner of the Best Picture in the 72nd Academy Awards, American Beauty really lived up to its standards as a black comedy-drama film. It is about an advertising executive, Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), who is having a mid-life crisis after he becomes infatuated with his daughter's (Thora Birch) cheerleader friend while also struggling to keep his marriage with his wife (Annette B