What did you think of the video? Are there any other Oscar ceremonies you would like to see a similar breakdown of? I find it interesting to see how few of these have stood the test of time and how many we still talk about today. In 70 years, which films from this year's Oscars do you think people will have heard of and still be watching?

@slc2466

Жыл бұрын

Enjoyed your overview of the 1952 Awards. Regarding t.v., it may have been created in 1927, but it didn't start showing up in households in large numbers until the late 1940's, so 1953 is fairly early into television's arrival as a norm for Oscar telecasts to begin. Also, regarding "Little Sheba," it's true Burt Lancaster was younger than Shirley Booth, but the characters in the film (Doc and Lola) have been married for a long time and I think are supposed to be much closer age than the stars of the film were (Sidney Blackmer, who originated the role of Doc on Broadway, was born in 1895 and was three years older than Booth). Lancaster was playing against type in a character part to stretch as an actor and I think he does an interesting take on Doc, while Booth was luckily allowed to recreate her Broadway Tony Award-winning role, and is unforgettable.

@melodyelson3202

Жыл бұрын

more then excelent your comments share insights 🎉keep doing more !°•~\ thanks I'll share with friend & family

@happinesstan

Жыл бұрын

Straight away, Hope's opening gambit demonstrates how out of touch Hollywood will always be with ordinary people. Also interesting that they included obvious propaganda as documentary., even when filmed in the style of a movie.

@happinesstan

Жыл бұрын

@@slc2466 Hope saying the TV was just a piece of furniture was way off the mark also. It was already beginning to dominate the households of the ordinary, non-hollywood people.

@Lolly1122dooda

Жыл бұрын

What did I think of this video? I was expecting to hear the people featured, the old stars. Not just see short clips of people and hear you talk the whole time.

A very well done documentary on a fascinating subject. One point, Bob Hope hosted the Academy Awards for years and years and one of his running gags was that he had never won an Oscar. That’s why his repeated jokes about that. He had done it for years before and he did it for years after. It wasn’t arrogance, it was a running comedy bit.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Ah, I didn’t know that! I knew he had hosted ceremonies before, but that definitely adds more context!

It's amazing that Singing in the Rain was barely nominated and never won anything. It's an absolute classic. (For some reason, I thought it was an older film.)

@hpotter22090

Жыл бұрын

Well it is a 1950s film trying to recreate the 1920s with songs written in the 20-30s and multiple scenes where a 1950s costume designer interprets 1700s France. Though 1943’s Du Barry Was a Lady sort of did it intentionally with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra dressed in 1700s clothing and playing swing music in a French castle.

@williamashton9235

Жыл бұрын

Gene Kelly's previous Best Picture winning musical, "An American in Paris," was more expensive to make, and probably considered more arty and "high brow" at the time. Maybe MGM didn't want to put its weight behind a "lesser" musical!

@DavidN369

Жыл бұрын

"Singin' in the Rain," strange as it seems today, was not a huge financial hit at the time, whereas "Ivanhoe" ditto, was a box-office smash. Guess which film MGM put their Oscar campaign muscle behind?

@billolsen4360

Жыл бұрын

@@williamashton9235 Older people remember fondly and young people still delight discovering "Singin; in the Rain" today. "An American in Paris," not so much.

I believe that I saw the 1953 Academy Awards, at age 7, when it was first broadcast & loved seeing all the current movie stars all in one place! Bob Hope was one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th Century, both comedic & philathropic & had hosted the "Oscars", previously on radio, I believe! The 1950's was a magical time for motion pictures!

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome to hear your perspective. Yes, Bob Hope had hosted several ceremonies before this but this was his first on radio. Although difficult to tell, he is wearing a blue suit while hosting as it looked better on black-and-white television than a black one would. Thanks for watching!

@allend2749

Жыл бұрын

i started going with my girl in 1953 and we are still together in 2023. wow, 70 friggin years and we have had thousands of arguments and she has never been wrong once!

@billolsen4360

Жыл бұрын

@@allend2749 Her argumentative powers have held your marriage together

I really wish you people could get some things right. The reason the Oscars weren't televised wasn't just that the movies didn't like the small screen. Yes, TV was around in the late 1920's but the Great Depression and WWII delayed establishing transmission lines. In addition people were occupied with surviving during the Depression and the war. Ivanhoe is pronounced: I van (as in minivan) ho. Finally, most people of that time thought Bob Hope was great. Look at the comments on any of his biographies.

This was fantastic! Shirley Booth had won her second Tony for COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA on Broadway. I had no idea RCA sponsored the awards and that was the only reason they aired. Side note: It's EYE-vahn-hoe with emphasis on the first syllable and a long "I". Looking forward to more of these!

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I knew Shirley Booth won the Tony for Come Back, Little Sheba, as she is one of very few performers to win multiple acting awards for the same role - I believe the most recent is Viola Davis for Fences. And thank you for the pronunciation correction! I am glad you liked the video and thanks for the feedback :)

@brandyjean7015

Жыл бұрын

​@@whenthepicturesgotbigger you get bonus points for accepting the correction graciously. I'm fond of googling pronunciations nowadays when I'm in doubt. Good luck with your channel.

While TV had been around for a quarter century before, mass-produced televisions didn't take off until the early 1950s, basically due to "I Love Lucy" and the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. It's not really true that the Academy waited on the sidelines for a quarter century, because coast-to-coast TV and a national viewing audience wasn't available until the early 1950s.

@billolsen4360

Жыл бұрын

Recall that The Three Stooges starred in a 1940 Columbia short where they were fixing plumbing in a mansion full of guests in evening gowns and tuxedos watching a TV broadcast of Niagara Falls and then Curly falls down out of the bathroom in the story above, landing right on the TV, followed by gushing water from a ill-repaired pipe.

This is a smart narration with fascinating clips. Looking forward to more of the same from other years.

In the 1950s, a reporter asked a writer whose script had been nominated for an Oscar - and lost - how she felt about losing. She said: "Look - Hollywood is a place where they give Charlton Heston awards for acting, okay?"

@graymoreghost

Жыл бұрын

There are other names I could insert as well: Cher, Casey Affleck. Will Smith (not because of the slap... he's just a meh actor) , Tatum O'Neal, Gwyneth Paltrow. To name a few (but mostly Cher. Wtf were they thinking? )

Terrific video! One thing: I believe "Ivanhoe" is pronounced with the emphasis on the FIRST syllable.

@SailorAllan

Жыл бұрын

right--NOT I-van-hoe , it's ivan-hoe .

Nice video. You mention that the Oscars were not televised in the 1920s because the film industry did not want to stoop to the level of television. I would say that there were other, more serious reasons that the Oscars were not televised until the 1950s. Yes, television was "around" in 1929 but only as more or less a fanciful item of curiosity. It was horribly primitive and had only about 60 lines of resolution. The vast majority of Americans did not have a television nor had they even seen a television. Only in the 1930s did it become possible to start mass producing televisions of sufficient quality, but all that was halted rather abruptly by something called World War II. Had World War II not happened, the Golden Age of Television would have been the 1940s instead of the 1950s. Instead, World War II did happen. It wasn't until 1948 that broadcast television began in earnest, and even then most American did not have a TV. This changed very quickly in the early 1950s. It was in the 1950s that television really began to leave its mark and it was in the 1950s that television became a fixture in the American home.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Great info! Thanks for watching and for the background :)

@erik_griswold

Жыл бұрын

Another factor was the establishment (connection) of the actual TV networks from coast to coast in the Lower 48. This really did not happen until 1951.

Great video. Make more! I've subscribed. You are possibly incorrect however about one detail. Burt Lancaster wore make up to appear older--the plot of that movie is not that he married an older woman. They are supposed to be the same age. As brilliant as Burt is, he was miscast. Burt is my favorite actor, but he tried his best to play an older man. The couple is supposed to be the same age. The story is, he got her pregnant, she married him, then lost the baby, lost her dog who she dreams about, he became an alcoholic, then is now one year sober, and now she is very depressed and they are stuck together. She even tries to leave him in the end, but has no place to go. Her family still rejects her. You are right: it's one of the best performances by any actress on film up to that point. Shirley Booth was a theater legend, playing many various roles, before getting stuck in Hazel, a tv sitcom and paycheck. That show was watchable because of Shirley.

I'm taking advanteges of channels like this to practice my English and my listening skills. Thank you! I'd love to watch a breakdown of 1988 ceremony.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

That is awesome! Thanks for the suggestion :)

This is awesome, I'd love to see other break downs of particularly interesting years in the Oscars

Currently making my way through all your videos and I absolutely adore these overviews! You give so much wonderful insight and background and have a very entertaining way of telling these facts and stories! Wishing you all the best for your channel, you deserve the world!

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I love your channel, too!

Amazing video, interesting and entertaining. Congrats, I hope you can keep on creating this series.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

whoa what an amazing video, I'm like 7 minutes in but this is such a refreshing watch

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great video! Your editing is great, I like your reccomendations and you provide a lot of context for the viewer for stuff we don't know. I love learning more about film history, I'll keep an eye out for more of your stuff. it's unbelieveable this is your second video.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind feedback! That is so nice of you to say :)

@cinemaretrospective

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree! It’s well researched and great quality for only the second video. Can’t wait to see more from this channel as we love film history too.

I love this. It's beautiful nostalgis to me. I seen all of these films when I was a young man. I don't see many films that they make today. I would love to see more Academy Awards shows. In those days the winners didn't talk, talk, * thank everybody but their pit for the Oscar.

Born in 1953 I am a child of the movies. So much film under the bridge. I love movies to this day and popcorn with extra butter. This year it is Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. I am totally content to be lost in the Multiverse of moving pictures.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome to get your perspective! Thanks for commenting :)

This was OUTSTANDING! Immediately subscribed.

This is top content. Thanks for the recommendations, would love to see more vids like this one.

Another fascinating episode!

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! I am glad you liked it and thank you for the continued support :)

Great video, and you sound like a young Jake Gyllenhaal (can't unhear it! 😂).

I believe the New York component was filmed at NBC's beautiful Center Theatre (opened as the sister theatre to Radio City Music Hall and conceived by "Roxy" Rothafel), The theatre fell to the wreckers in 1954, just a short time after it provided this first simulcast with the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.

Yes!! Another great video! I love your narration and commentary! I definitely have to check out your recommendations. Keep up the amazing content! 😊👍

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching again :) I am glad you found some movies you'd want to watch! :)

At 27:28 we apparently see Katharine DeMille Quinn, Anthony Quinn's wife and Cecil B. DeMille's adopted daughter, whom Quinn later divorced, accepting his award, however I could have sworn that was Greer Garson.

Super interesting. Well done

How he mispronounces Elia Kazan and Ivanhoe is killing me LMAO

beautifully done very impressive

Great video ❤️😃👍👍

This was very well done. Your dedication to watching, much less finding the forgotten nominees in categories that didn't get much press 70 years ago when they were current is impressive. I bet your homework was done by dinnertime on Friday. Can't wait to see what you do with this channel!

Lovely video! You did an amazing job. Someone has probably mentioned this, but I found it so weird that the other Singin in the Rain nomination was Jean Hagen in Supporting Actress. She portrays the villainous bad actress. I'm not even a fan of Singin in the Rain but I thought Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds were fantastic. Was the competition really that good that they went unnoticed?

I found you in the comments of Reccolects video about all the oscar movies. Very professionally written and put together video. Loved it. I am excited to keep up with what else you make. My hot take here is I saw The Quiet Man in a theatre and I absolutely hated it. I do not understand the praise for that one from people, it doesn’t seem to have any goal as to what it wants to be and it’s just weird and sexist. I think it’s supposed to be a comedy but sometimes comedy just doesn’t translate over 70 years yknow? Maybe I was missing something there but yknow.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking it out! Yeah, comedy is the genre that usually has the shortest lifespan I find; even comedies from a decade ago are already starting to age poorly, and so I get it completely.

That Canadian animation was almost identical to South Parks Canada.

And I think the narrator is is wonderful. I understand every word he's saying. You can't say that for most of people who do these .

Yay😀, neighbours👍🇨🇦😊. And thank you for praising “the romance of transportation in Canada”😀👍🇨🇦.

@ianhilmer2673

Жыл бұрын

Oh😃, and go Mary Pickford🇨🇦🇨🇦👍😅.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!! :) 🇨🇦🇨🇦

0:23 The snobbery of the Academy might have something to do with the awards not being televised til 1952. It seems worth mentioning though, that while television technology existed in 1927, TV sets were not popularly available until after WW II. In 1950, only 9% of American households had TVs. It wasn't til the mid '50's that most people owned one. Not much point in broadcasting an award ceremony that practically no one would be able to watch. I'm surprised the televised it as early as 1952.

I love what you are doing here. You do it incredibly well. PLEASE do more Oscar ceremonies, preferrably pre-80s,

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

I definitely will! I’m going to do a 1968 Oscars breakdown soon :)

@williamreed2558

Жыл бұрын

Excellent. An exciting year. The year when Cabaret squared off against Godfather 1 is also fascinating. Also 64 and 65. Thanks so much

5:45: I believe a similar technique was used by Chuck Menville some 14 years later in his Oscar nominated Short STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Interesting, thanks for the info!

I don't think we got a TV until '54. I've watched every one since then, from age 6 to 75.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

That’s amazing! Thanks for commenting :)

if this serious? the tv may have been around since 1927, but it wasnt mass produced and most americans didnt have a tv until the 50s and 60s the awards were broadcast on radio....but only clips until 1945, when the show was broadcast in it's entirety the movie industry always saw the tv as a competitor

Thank you for such an interesting and well researched look at this ceremony. Great work! If you are still taking ideas for the next ceremony to look into I vote for the 1969 oscars (the year Midnight Cowboy won best picture). That year also seemed to be about the rise of a new generation in Hollywood.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

That’s a great recommendation! I will definitely consider it; pretty much any ceremony from 1967-1969 would be fun to break down!

Good job, but Hope and Wayne were funny back then - people knew their personalities and didn't think it was mean or arrogant.

Not too long, at all, and like so many others, I will anticipate further excursions into other Oscar nights, especially when backed up with intelligent and researched commentary; it does not hurt that your opinions are strong, giving credit to folks such as Shirley Booth, who might otherwise fade into obscurity, and discredit pompous boors whose idea of humor is edged with machismo. I saw these when first broadcast and have only missed a couple of broadcasts when I was on holiday in remote locations--today, there would likely be a source to experience the often tedious but frequently memorable moments that Hollywood and now world-wide filmmakers provide for both entertainment and sometimes needed social criticism.

Ive never seen a movie this old except for film class but you make me want to watch hollywood classics. Ever seen Django, twelve angry men, bedtime for bonzo ? That’s what we watched at xavier

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Never seen Django or Bedtime for Bonzo, but both sound good! I have seen 12 Angry Men many times; most recently, I rewatched it two days ago!

Best thing I've seen in months, love old Oscar ceremonies, High Noon and Bad/Beautiful. How I explain the odd numbers, given the branches rule. Bad/Beautiful had technical support mainly, was nominated there, and voters among actors. But the Academy then had loads of "old guys" who were producers, executives, "nothing-ers" - people outside the branches. You only have these votes in the Best Picture category, but their size was able to change trends then (see Crash). Those guys didn't like Bad/Beautiful's the cinema portrait. They overcame the branches. When the final voting came, with nominees set, branches made sure the movie they liked (Bad/Beautiful) would be recognized. They were atronger at that point, with everyone voting in every category. That was enough for BB to beat the cranky old guys. They Shoot Horses in 1969 sounds more weird to me. I think Alfred Newman won all of those Oscars and especially the nominations because he was the head of the department on Fox. Anything produced there ran under his name - which doesn't make him a John Williams, despite the numbers. Tks for the fun!

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

This is really helpful information, thank you! I appreciate your insight :)

I enjoyed your thoughts on the films of 1952 and the Oscars celebrating them. What a great year that was for movies! I hope you'll take the following as constructive criticism however. I don't remember all of the little errors you made, but a couple: 1. Of course the Oscar ceremony was not televised from 1927 until the early 1950's. Electronic television was not even invented in 1927, and commercial TV in the US didn't get underway until the late 1940's. It was only in the early 1950's that TV became a major entertainment source, with enough people staying home to watch that it was having a negative effect on movie attendence. 2. You mispronounced a few names that would be very easy to find the correct pronounciation of -- Ivanhoe is the one I remember at the moment. I'll give my two cents about why Singin' In The Rain was pretty much ignored at the Oscars. The year before An American In Paris won best picture and Gene Kelly was given a special Oscar. It's usual that after a person or movie wins, they usually don't win or sometimes even get nominated in the two or three years afterwards, even though they might deserve it. Despite the above, I appreciated your insights and look forward to watching more of your video essays. By the way, I agree with your theory that the reason The Bad and the Beautiful wasn't nominated for best picture, despite winning six Oscars, was probably because it was an expose, though an affectionate one, of the film industry. It was one of the first, if not the first, dramatic movies that delt with the dark side of Hollywood and the film industry.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

2 ай бұрын

I appreciate your constructive feedback. This was my second ever video and I was definitely still learning how to tell these stories efficiently and effectively. I plan on redoing this video at some point in the future, as I've begun to make Oscar breakdowns much longer and more in-depth than this one. I encourage you to check them out if you're interested, and I appreciate the feedback for when I eventually circle back around to this one!

I have to compliment this video and its narrator for the amount of research and work that was evident in its creation. As I write this on the eve of the 95th Academy Awards, it makes me more excited for a night that has always been a special one in my family. Which I see has been passed down to the next generation. And since you asked about other Academy Award ceremony recommendations, I'll suggest a video or just running comments on some of the best or memorable acceptance speeches of all-time. Although you appropriately indicated John Wayne was fairly arrogant in his speeches, I always thought his last appearance when he presented the Best Picture award at the 1979 Oscars just months before his death was touching and his acceptance speech in 1970 for True Grit (kzread.info/dash/bejne/aaWFyrF9p8zcfLg.html) was notably humble. I'd put Jodie Foster's speech for her victory in The Accused near the top of my acceptance award speeches list and also remember watching honorary ceremonies for Charlie Chaplin and Billy Wilder with reverence even though I was just a lad for each of those last two moments. Excellent job on the video!

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Those speeches are great! Thanks for sharing them here. I don’t dislike John Wayne, but I find he’s fairly rough around the edges at times. Jodie Foster’s acceptance is very nice. I think we will be getting some pretty humble and moving speeches tomorrow night as well. Thanks for watching!

Thank you so much for this insightful look at the Oscars. As an avowed cinephile I throughly enjoyed it. I believe the remark you made about movies winning from which hands were in the pie still goes on. My most hated movie of 2019 was Parasite. Okay, give it the Oscar for best foreign film but Not both! It was a cruel, disheartening look at humanity and the hopelessness of the class struggle. It was Not a “win” for the Asian community but mainly for Koreans and I think for that particular film, “the fix was in.” A friend of mine tried to compare it to this years win, EEAAO, but there is no comparison. This inspirational, uplifting movie was truly an internationally celebrated film. The Oscars , stupid, self serving, frivolous and yet a universal cultural touchstone for humanity.

@kathleenhartnellharper7234

Жыл бұрын

I mistakenly thought you implied that when movies win “the fix was in”, when you were actually talking about nominations. But I still stand by my belief that certain terrible movies win because people have taken bribes.

Interesting pronunciation of Ivanhoe. Cool video nonetheless.

It's so odd that "Singin' In The Rain" got so few nominations ! It was better than ALL of the movies nominated . Go figure .

A great recap. My only criticism is that you completely overlooked the politics of the time with HUAC, Blacklisting, High Noon’s political subtext, the fact that John Wayne was offered the Cooper part but turned it down saying it was ‘un-American’. I think you are knocking Wayne for the wrong reasons. And you don’t really think thats the way to pronounce ‘Ivanhoe’ do you?

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the insightful comment! I agree that I should have dived deeper into these important issues, and I’m actually in the process of tackling this series in a much more comprehensive way. Next month I will be releasing a much longer and more detailed look at the first Academy Awards, and I plan on continuing the series with subsequent ceremonies. When I eventually work my way back to the 25th ceremony, I would expect a much, much longer video that explains all of this and touches on every film nominated in an all-encompassing way.

This ceremony was the 25th anniversary for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as it was then called. But your Gen Z (or are you Millennial?) types only know it as "the Oscars" named after the gilded little man given out to winners. The comments (not to sound spiteful) have already corrected your view about the reason it took until the 1953 ceremony to televise it. The state of broadcasting technology. This ceremony certainly looked backward as well as forward. C.B. DeMille made his name and fame in the world of silent film, and his win for the circus movie had more of a lifetime achievement award vibe to it. The presenter was Mary Pickford, Hollywood's first female superstar of the silent era (forgotten by gen Z of course) and not shown by you, was Harold Lloyd comic star of early Hollywood who got an honorary Oscar for both his work and truth be told his conservative politics. Hollywood was VERY different then.

The Sea Around us talking about climate change 70 years ago and still the world is clueless.

@creatrixZBD

Жыл бұрын

The first major environmental groups (conservationists) were formed in the 30s. The movement/philosophy of conservation is much older than many realise.

Great presentation, would love to see more of these, just cracked me up when you made Ivanhoe words, I van hoe it's Ivan hoe one name. But the other thing I enjoyed was short film. The part I didn't like was Bob Hope and his girlfriend flaunting themselves back then, and John Wayne thinking he was all that! He was a great actor but for that year Gregory peck out acted them all. But high noon is definitely more fun to watch over and over every year. You can sure tell who voters favorites were. But all and all just a great watch.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and for the kind words!

Television had been around since 1927? It really arrived in 1946. That was when American TV was standardized in NTSC, and the TV sets and the content being broadcast became appealing to the masses. TV networks and TV repairment did help, the Great Depression and World War 2 did not.

a truly excellent docu. only one little teeny correction. the name 'ivanhoe' is pronounced: i van hoe, with the emphasis on the first syllable.

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and for the feedback! I appreciate the correction; I can’t believe I messed that up!

@brucemiller5356

Жыл бұрын

considering how many ghastly mispronunications i have heard lately, yours was but a whisper. @@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Great video! I've already seen 4 of your 5 recommendations. I enjoyed watching "Come Back, Little Sheba," "The Lavender Hill Mob," and "The Narrow Margin." However, I didn't like "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." I thought it was too arrogant and boring. I would like to watch that "documentary" though lol!

WoW! I've always pronounced Ivanhoe as "eye-van-hoe"

Interesting video. A few pronounciation notes...Ivanhoe...the stress is on the first, not second syllable..IvanHOE. And Elia Kazan's name is pronounced EEEleeah...stress on the first syllable.

cannot believe how violent "Neighbors" is, throwing a toddler then kicking it? this type of imagery was allowed?

Shirley Booth first actress to for her debut film? er Gale Sondergaard.

@lottaandgus

Жыл бұрын

Yes, there were four actors who won for their first film before this, but they were all in the supporting category.

Neighbours was made by Norman McLaren, not, "McClean"

Come back little sheba is absolutely amazing, great acting, I highly recommend. Moulin Rouge is a great movie too.

It's official. I'll watch anything.

Did they think it would make Brando look more Mexican if they gave him weird eyelids?

How about a video on Bob Fosse winning the "Crown" in 1973, the only Director to do so as far as I know. Could juxtapose that with Scorsese trying to achieve the same thing in 1978, but failed dismally.

People behaved like ladies and gentlemen. NO POLITICS

Never slap the host!

You have a strange way of saying some words. Such as posthumously, which can be pronounced several ways but not the way you did it, just Google it. But the most glaring mistake was Ivanhoe. I've no idea where you came up with this. 😊It's not eye-VON-ho. It's EYE-vin-ho with the accent on the first syllable Otherwise, I thoroughly enjoyed your video and learned some things myself!

@barbaraacard9729

Жыл бұрын

Also ....totally mispronounced Elia Kazan's name.

@graymoreghost

Жыл бұрын

@Barbara Acard oh, yes... I debated saying anything because I've heard actors directed by him even say his name wrong. It's l like Martin Scorcese. Almost everyone says "score-SAY-zee" when, according to Martin, it's pronounced "score-SESSY"

So what is the actual pronunciation of Ivanhoe?

@barbaraacard9729

Жыл бұрын

Eye vin Hoe

Hey pal: u didn’t tell us y Bob Hope won an Oscar!

It was Hollywood patting themselves of the back but entertaining and not yet a political and social forum to present complaints and "beefs"......

Our annual measure of Hollywoid's demise.

Oscars went TRASH a looooooooon time ago ……..

HIGH NOON is my favorite Western. Sorry, I know you’re a Ford fan 😂

@whenthepicturesgotbigger

Жыл бұрын

Haha, High Noon is so great! Definitely in my top 10 Westerns for sure :)

I do not understand why there is so much explaining on the less important categories.

You didn’t even answer the titular question‽ just narrated the ceremony with your opinion here and there.

i like ur beanie

SNOR

*I*v’nhoe not iVUNhoe 😊

Television around since 1927?????????????

@lannypanlock

Жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed. And I have some ads for television career training schools from 1932.

OMG - I know this guy is offering his opinion of the show, but does he have to talk ALL the time, without letting us watch hardly any of the actual show?!!

I always thought it was a shame that the US was never known for giving out prestigious awards for scientific and medical discoveries and advancements. But there was always plenty of money for this drivel. And the fact that it holds the US spellbound every year says more about us as a society than it does about Hollywood.

Climate change 1952 and yet we're all still here. 🤷‍♂️🙄

Answer nothing less than nothing zilch nada zero

Obviously, you’re not a John Wayne or Bob hope fan. Those Oscar shows were so much better than the political BS that’s out there today. The ratings for today’s Oscars show have deteriorated rapidly. For my generation and many more, John Wayne represented the American male better than anybody. There will never be anybody like the Duke, he was the best.

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He's a boring actor imo, though I really like his last movie and acting in it too.

Too long who cares some of greatest movies never won anything .

Is it just me or does this guy talk too quickly?

There was a time when I believed that the Oscars were objective and an honest award for quality. When Gwyneth Paltrow won the Oscar, I realized the truth. It’s how you campaign.