Our Third Annual 31 Days of Oscars Blogathon wraps up today (Monday, Feb. 23) and tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb. 24) with Pictures and Directors. Another great week of fabulous posts, NEW ADDITIONS AT THE END OF THE LIST:
Girls Do Film – Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Jack Deth on Paula’s Cinema Club – The 48th Academy Awards
Silver Screenings – Norman Taurog for Boys Town
Outspoken and Freckled – The Imitation Game
Christy Putnam – The Story of G.I. Joe
The Fluff Is Raging – Trois couleurs: Rouge (The Woman in Red)
Wolffian Classic Movie Digest – George Cukor and My Fair Lady
The Stop Button – John Huston and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Cinephiled – Gentleman’s Agreement
Moon in Gemini – Defending Shakespeare in Love‘s Best Picture win
Second Sight Cinema – Leo McCarey won for the wrong movie!
Portraits by Jenni – The Lost Weekend
The Movie Rat – Actors who won as Best Director, not as Best Actor
Danny Reviews – 1986 Best Director Nominees
Lets Misbehave: A Tribute to Pre-Code Hollywood – William A. Wellman
The Wonderful World of Cinema – Three-time Best Director winner William Wyler
Still to come:
Amy’s Rib: A Life of Film – Ordinary People
Hi Paula, I just uploaded my post for Pictures & Directors: http://silverscreenings.org/2015/02/21/directing-giants-and-tragedy-in-boys-town/
I’m a few days early – I’m too excited to wait! 🙂
No problem at all, this is great. Thanks!
Hey Paula, I just uploaded my post (also an eager beaver!): https://girlsdofilm.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/kathryn-bigelow-the-hurt-locker-and-the-oscar-glass-ceiling/
Can’t wait to read all the entries 🙂
Got it, thanks so much, Miss Vicky!
thanks. this is a GREAT blogathon! Much better than the Oscars! 🙂
Glad you like it, Niall…I actually enjoyed the spectacle but i seem to be in the minority…what else is new 😉
well it is an enjoyable spectacle, but mostly in the way a slow motion train wreck has a perverse attractiveness
Hi, my post is now live!
https://debravega.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/award-for-most-unfairly-maligned-best-picture-winner-shakespeare-in-love/#more-4940
Thanks Lesley and Debra! I’m working tonight so will update the post and promote tomorrow. Looking forward to reading these 🙂
Hey Paula!
Copying you on the link I just posted to Aurora for my post on Leo McCarey:
Here’s the link to my McCarey post (pls fix link to say “wins for the wrong movie [singular]” —thanking you for all you do and for letting me participate!
http://secondsightcinema.com/make-way-for-tomorrow-1937-mccarey-wins-oscar-for-the-wrong-picture/
Hi Paula, I commented my post on William Wellman to Aurora’s site. Should I send it to you as well?
Yes, that would be easiest, as I am hosting this week. Thx
Paula, here’s my entry for today’s Oscars Blogathon. You can post it now… https://portraitsbyjenni.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/the-lost-weekend-for-31-days-of-oscars-blogathon/
It’s been posted
Here is my link Paula:
http://letsmisbehaveprecodefilmtribute.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/wild-bill-wellman-and-his-resume-of.html
Sorry for the delay. Thanks, Emma 🙂
I added it a link to it in this post a while ago. Thanks