Wim Wenders
Cinematic Obsessions: The Great American West, Existential Romantic Longing, The Barriers of Human Connection, Transient Spaces, Child/Parent Dynamics, The Psychological Effects of Neon, Spirituality and a Nostalgic Longing for an Absent Something, Emotional Isolation
Best Director Nominations: None
Best Films:Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire, Alice in the Cities, Pina
Terrence Malick
Cinematic obsessions: Wheatfields Gently Blowing in the Wind at Magic Hour, Sweeping Philosophical Voiceovers, The Confounding Nature of Existence, The Evils of Man, The Divine Presence in Everyday Life, Examining Humility and Grace Through Love, Man’s Existence with Nature Through Time, Redemption and Forgiveness
Best Director Nominations: The Tree of Life, The Thin Red Line
Best Films: Days of Heaven, Badlands, The Tree of Life
Cinema’s Best Directors to Never Win the Best Director Academy Award
There are those actors whose names come to mind immediately around Oscar season: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Gwyneth Paltrow, to name a few. And then there are those random Academy Award winners—those whose names we’ve forgotten, the movies we’ve never heard of, the surprising, sometimes blindsiding, wins. As we prepare for this weekend’s awards ceremony and its likely outcome (Daniel Day-Lewis for the block!), let’s take a look at some of those forgotten roles, unfamiliar names, and surpising wins in the last forty years.
Who Will Be Snubbed At Next Year’s Oscars?
It’s that time of year again: when I am preemptively pissed that Kirsten Dunst doesn’t have any Oscar nominations.
(via tylercoates)
Five Reasons Drive Won’t Do Well at the Oscars
But like, you never know. I mean, remember when Annie Hall beat out Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer took out Apocalypse Now?
American Beauty
Best Picture, 2000
The English Patient
Best Picture, 1997
