Rewatching Oscar

Romantic-screwball comedies had to start sometime ... and that sometime was early 1934. And there was a film that took Hollywood by storm ... Frank Capra's It Happened One Night.  This film is one of…

It took over nine decades for the Academy to award the Best Picture of the year to a foreign language film.  And although there were hundreds of brilliant masterpieces that could have won, including …

Well, here's a film that won the Best Picture Oscar that was actually a remake. The was the epic silent version in 1925, but it's the 1959 Biblical classic that everyone remembers.  Ben-Hur ended up …

Here is a film that is eerily similar to what has been happening in the United States political world since 2016. The movie is All the King's Men, a story about greed, corruption, and those who blind…

Listen to film critic Jack Ferdman's take on it as he analyzes everything about 12 Years a Slave as well as many other films from that year, and hear which film he gives his Rewatch Oscar of 2013.

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Another year ... another biopic wins Best Picture. This time it's Gandhi's turn.  A film that covers 50 years of a man who has been revered by millions upon millions of people around the world. The p…

There literally was no other year like it. When you look at the list of films that were released in the calendar year of 1939, well, the films most people would consider brilliant classics are in the…

Film critic and historian, Jack Ferdman, loves this time of year!  He's a proud Torontonian ... so why wouldn't he love early September?  It's not just because of the beauty of fall in his hometown. …

Biopics Biopics Biopics!  The Academy loves biopics.  There are so many that have been nominated for Oscars ... and even some that have won the top prize, Best Picture. And in 2001, there was one tha…

There are a lot of Best Picture winners that are big, bold, and epic in size. Well, in 1936, MGM made something pretty big ... and long.  A film that brought people to the theatre to enjoy the specta…

There were tons of great films that came out in 1984.  However, there was one that took away 8 Oscars at the Academy Awards. Amadeus won the hearts of both fans and critics with its amazing story and…

Bing Crosby was the biggest star both in music and in film of the 1940s.  Going My Way put him on an even higher level of popularity.  The film earned him the Best Actor Oscar, which was the first of…

Here is another Bonus Episode, and this time it's all about ... the one, the only ... Meryl!!  Meryl Streep is undoubtedly one of the greatest performers to have ever graced the silver screen.  From …

Many great films came out in 1978 ... several because  Hollywood began to tell stories of what soldiers experienced both during the Vietnam war that had just ended a few years before, and also how th…

First, it was the famous novel by Charles Dickens back in 1838, then it hit the silver screen with many silent and sound ones.  Then it hit Broadway with the well-known musical version ... until fina…

The year 2020 was a very strange one ... for all of us.  The world for all intents and purposes, felt like it was put on pause. COVID-19 was really the only thing on our minds.  And because of it, ev…

In 2009 the Academy Awards increased the number of films that could be nominated for Best Picture.  For over 6 decades there used to be only 5 films selected.  However, the Academy decided that more …

There have been good, great, and even brilliant Best Picture winners over the past century.  Many stay with us forever, and we love watching them over and over and over again.  And then, well, there …

What an incredible year in cinema! There were so many great films to close out the decade.  It was a time when Hollywood turned a new page and began making deeper, darker, and more rich films.  And o…

There have only been three films that have swept the "big five" Oscars.  And this one, the ONLY so-called horror film to win, is the last to win Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay…