Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...properly perplexed at the vision of a man (Lester) playing a woman (Rosalind), who for the sake of a jest is playing a man. Simon Coates is deliciously censorious as Rosalind's companion, Celia, a young lady well bred in exasperation; some day she may grow up to be Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell...
...even the moguls realize that women's pictures often have a gentility, an expanse of emotion, absent from True Lies or The Mask. And, hell, somebody's got to fill those five slots for the Best Actress Oscar nominations. So come December, when the Oscar-qualification deadline looms, the women's club is allowed in. This month will see movies starring such divas as Susan Sarandon % (in two films), Jessica Tandy (two), Geena Davis, Sigourney Weaver, Anjelica Huston, Winona Ryder and Jennifer Jason Leigh...
...Oscar night they all may be applauding Foster. In Nell the two-time winner (for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs) plays a North Carolina woodswoman who has grown up utterly isolated from the outside world. Now her only companion, her mother, has died, and Nell is a rich woman -- but still barely a girl. She speaks her own dialect, recoiling from the doctor (Liam Neeson) and the psychologist (Natasha Richardson) who would help her, use her, perhaps destroy her, and who will be forever touched by her innocent sorcery...
Assistant Editors: Tam Martinides Gray (Research Chief), Ariadna Victoria Rainert (Administration), Oscar Chiang, Mary McC. Fernandez, Lois Gilman, Valerie Johanna Marchant, Adrianne Jucius Navon...
...final installment in the Kieslowski-Piesiewicz Blue, White and Red trilogy. The films treat the subjects of liberty, equality and fraternity in three different countries (France, Poland, Switzerland). Red was shot in Geneva, with a mostly Swiss cast, yet when the Swiss submitted the film for a foreign-language Oscar, the word came down that Red was ineligible -- guilty, apparently, of insufficient Swissness. The decision was stupid. Someone should tell the Motion Picture Academy that films are made by individuals, not by nations...