The Funniest Girl ever is coming back! Barbra to sing @ the Oscars

The Funniest Girl ever is coming back! Barbra to sing @ the Oscars

Today's big news! Bab's @ the Oscars

 

A Record-Woman

 

We have to go back in 1977 to see Barbra Streisand singing at the Academy Award Ceremony. During that night, March 28, 1977 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Barbra Straisand won her second Academy Award for Best Original Song with "Evergreen", from the movie A Star is Born. 

She become the first woman winning an Oscar for Best Song as a composer, and she is also the only person  to win an Academy Award for both acting and songwriting.

She was the third woman winning an Oscar for Debut acting  in 1968 (Funny Girl), shared with Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter.

She is a Top Selling Artist with more than 71.5 Million albums sold in the US and more than 140 Million albums sold worldwide.

Barbra Straisand, Frank Sinatra, Cher and Shirley Jones are the only four artists being awarded with an Oscar for Acting and also recording a number-one single in the US chart.

 "Funny Girl" 1968

 "Evergreen" 1977

This year on February 24th, after 36 years from her last appearance on the stage performing her song, we'll have the pleasure to see her up on the stage again during the 85th Annual Academy Award. It will probably be a tribute to movie musicals that will also include performances by Norah Jones and Adele performing Skyfall with all the actors that played the role of James Bond.

it will be a glorious night...

stay tuned 

Uncleoscar

Spielberg/Williams: a Long-lasting Collaboration

Spielberg/Williams: a Long-lasting Collaboration

It will be useless to write the Never Ending list of Awards won by Spielberg in his glorious career. His remarkable work as a Director, Producer and Screenwriter started in early 70's, and just skyrocketing till today, thanks also to his friend and composer John Williams. 

John Williams is the living person with the highest number of academy awards Nominations (48)

From The Sugarland Express in 1974, to Jaws in 1975, in just one year Spielberg started to knock on our door, and never stopped. In 1977 he Directed Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and he made money enough to save Coulmbia from Bankruptcy. Spielberg is still making money from a bet with his friend George Lucas, earning 2.5% from Star Wars, and Lucas earning the same percentage from Close Encounters.  

He was the first bringing together on the big screen Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in "1941", after their success in the Saturday Night Live.   

In 1982 Spielberg created the most magical moment in cinema, thanks to E.T. and Elliott flight, in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; that is now the symbol of Amblin Entertainment, an American film and television production company founded by Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.

From 1981 to 2008 the character of Indiana Jones, with his hat and bullwhip appeared on the screen in four amazing movies, becoming the Hero of the Pop culture in the 80's.

In 1993 Jurassic Park, based on Michael Crichton best seller, become the highest-grossing film produced and directed by Spielberg.

For Shindler's List and Save Private Ryan respectively filmed in 1993 and 1997, Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director and for Shindler's List also the Academy award for Best Picture. 

The Spielberg-Williams Collaboration started in 1974 and, with Lincoln filmed in 2012, the 25th movie together with Spielberg as Director,  they have created one of the most creative and influential artistic collaborations in film history. 

List of Movies Directed by Spielberg: Awards Winning and Nominated Soundtracks by John Williams

1974 The Sugarland Express

1975 Jaws
Won: Grammy, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Oscar

1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Won: Grammy
Nominated: Golden Globe and Oscar

1979 1941
(with Dan Aykroyd and Joh Belushi)

1981 Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Won: Grammy
Nominated: Oscar

1981 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Won: Golden Globe, Oscar, BAFTA and Grammy

1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Nominated: Oscar

1986 Empire of the Sun
Won: BAFTA
Nominated: Grammy, Golden Globe and Oscar

1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Nominated: Grammy and Oscar

1991 Hook
Nominated: Grammy and Oscar

1991 Jurassic Park
Nominated: Grammy

1993 Schindler’s List
Won: Golden Globe, Oscar, Grammy, and BAFTA

1996 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Nominated: Grammy

1997 Saving Private Ryan
Nominated: Golden Globe, Grammy and Oscar

2000 A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Nominated: Golden Globe, Grammy and Oscar

2001 Minority Report

2002 Catch Me If You Can
Nominated: Grammy and Oscar

2004 The Terminal

2004 War of the Worlds
Nominated: Grammy

2005 Memoirs of a Geisha (Produced by Spielberg, Directed by Rob Marshall)
Won: Golden Globe, BAFTA and Grammy
Nominated: Oscar

2005 Munich
Won: Grammy
Nominated: Oscar

2007 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

2011 The Adventures of Tintin
Won: Annie Award
Nominated: Grammy and Oscar

2011 War Horse
Nominated: Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA

2012 Lincoln
Nominated: Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA (February 24th, 2013)

 

Am I just a Cameo?

Am I just a Cameo?

Alfred Hitchcock in The Birds

Yeah, but what's exactly a Cameo?

Originally, a cameo-role was a famous person playing himself in a movie. It could be a very short appearance (few seconds), or a bit longer (few minutes). 

Cecil B. DeMille playing himself in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard

Sean Connery as King Richard in “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”

Nowadays the Cameo is becoming more and more important, is like a signature, a kind of "hey I was there"!!! 

A cameo-role could be quickly recognizable to emphasize a particular moment in the movie, or hidden on purpose, so the funniest is for the director to try to hide important personalities with make up, wings or mustaches, the harder is to find it for the public.

One of the greatest examples of Cameos in a movie is Around the World in Eighty Days (1956). Director Mike Todd' vision was to introduce more than 40 famous performers in his movies, for which he won the Academy Award  in 1957. Some of the most remarkable cameos are those of Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra, José Greco and Buster Keaton, and some of them are also presented at the end of the movie.

Frank Sinatra in Around the World in Eighty Days

For sure the most famous cameos in movie history are those of Alfred Hitchcock, but other Directors like Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg love to take part in their movies. 

Quentin Tarantino in Django Unchained

Others like John Landis in The Blues Brothers chooses personalities and friends as an enrichment. In Blues Brothers, Director Frank Oz is seen at the very beginning of the movie while he's checking out John Belushi from the Prison, and also Spielberg had a little part in the Movie.

 Frank Oz in Blues Brothers

There are also writers and singers who love cameos! An example could be Stan Lee, the father of many great Marvel characters. Stan Lee appeared in Captain America, Iron Man (2), Hulk, The Avengers, Thor, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Spider Man. 

Stan Lee in Iron Man 

And here come the Answer of yesterday's post...

Guess Who... 

That's Martin Scorsese in Taxi Driver... 



Stay Tuned 
Uncleoscar

GUESS WHO?!

GUESS WHO?!

??? who r u ???

To introduce the next post Uncleoscar wants to know who's this guy... can you remember? also the movie?   

The answer: 

 http://uncleoscar.blogspot.it/2013/01/am-i-just-cameo.html

The Mexican Standoff

The Mexican Standoff

The Everybody vs everybody philosophy

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) Sergio Leone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The first Mexican Standoff in Motion Pictures History. Soundtrack by Ennio Morricone

The Mexican Standoff, differs from a duel, in fact the subject that goes first is in disadvantage. When we have three subjects no one is safe. So with three entities in conflict with each other is difficult to get out of a situation.

 

I'm sure you remember this scene from Pulp Fiction. Well that's another perfect exemple of a Mexican Standoff in Movies. No one is safe!

Imagine Honey Bunny shooting Jules Winnfield, the reaction to that could be Vincent shooting Honey Bunny, and maybe also Pumpkin. But here we have Vince and Jules stand together.

So can you think other movies where you can find the Mexican Satndoff? I had mine...

N'joy

stay tuned 

Uncleoscar

Make it double... Christoph!

Make it double... Christoph!

 

 

Christoph Waltz, Oscar Acceptance Speech 2010

After a Golden Globe... also an Oscar for Inglorious Basterds. After a Golden Globe... well we have to wait, but that's Christoph Waltz... jumping in his golden era!

"... and Quentin, with his unorthodox methods of navigation, this fearless explorer, took this ship across and brought it in with flying colors and that’s why I’m here. And this is your welcoming embrace and there’s no way I can ever thank you enough, but I can start right now. Thank you." (Oscar for Inglorious Basterds).

Mr Waltz's speech finished with a big and... superlative thank you to his Director Quentin Tarantino a couple of years ago.  

So the story repeats itself... same Director, same "unorthodox methods of navigation", same actor and same category, Actor in a Supporting Role. He has already in his hands the second Golden Globe, that he has won last week at the Golden Globe Awards (at the Beverly Hilton Hotel).

Now we are waiting for the 24th of February! Uncleoscar congratulates Mr Waltz for his performance! We'll see who will go home with the oscar this year.  

 

Golden Globe 2013  

 

Check the Supporting Role Category... hot stuff!!!  

Actor in a Supporting Role

Alan Arkin - Argo  

Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook  

Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master  

Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln

Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained

Stay Tuned ... Uncleoscar

Cecil B. DeMille Award: Jodie Foster - Golden Globe Awards - The Speech

It comes a moment in a lifetime when you want to talk, but not just talk, express your inner voices... It comes a moment in a lifetime when you have reached the conciousness of what life is and what that means for you. If you have six minutes of your life to... let's just say "waste" in a smart way, listen to Jodie's speech. It's not about coming out or not, personally I don't mind about that, but it's the love and the sensibility that are so proudly expressed that makes me honored to hear. It's not just to say thank you as everyone did yesterday night, it's something that goes beyond.

I give you Mrs Jodie Foster...

GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 2013 WINNERS 3

GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 2013 WINNERS 3

Sasha Baron Cohen:

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

BRAVE

Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios; Walt Disney Pictures

  


Liev Schreiber:
Life of Pi

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Lena Dunham   GIRLS

Robert Downey Jr introduces the special award,the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Jodie Foster.

I'M 50!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hhahahah lov uI AM SINGLE HAHAHA NO I AM KIDDING HAHAH
ONE OF THE GREATEST SPEECHES I HAVE EVER HEARD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE... WHAT A WOMAN!!! OH BOY... BRAVE TO BE OPENED SO TRULY TO THE PUBLIC... ABLE AS ANYBODY ELSE TO BRING IN 5 MINUTES SPEECH A WHOLE LIFE IN MOVIES... SO TRUE SO DEEP SO SINCERE SO... MRS FOSTER THANK YOU!

Halle Berry:

BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE

Ben Affleck                      ARGO

 

  Josh Brolin:

Moonrise Kingdom

Jay Leno and Jimmy Fellon:

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

GIRLS

HBO 
Apatow Productions and I am Jenni Konner Productions in association with HBO Entertainment

Christian Bale:
Silver Lining Playbook

Jennifer Garner:

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Hugh Jackman  LES MISERABLES

 

 Jeremy Renner:

Zero Dark Thirty

Dustin Hoffman:

BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

LES MISERABLES

Universal Pictures, A Working Title Films/Cameron Mackintosh Productions; Universal Pictures

George Clooney:

 BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

Jessica Chastain               ZERO DARK THIRTY

 

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

Danile Day-Lewis             LINCOLN

 Julia Roberts:

 BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

ARGO

Warner Bros. Pictures, GK Films, Smokehouse

ENJOY THE LIST OF WINNERS OF 2013 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 

 BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

ARGO

Warner Bros. Pictures, GK Films, Smokehouse

 BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

Jessica Chastain               ZERO DARK THIRTY

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

Danile Day-Lewis             LINCOLN

BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

LES MISERABLES

Universal Pictures, A Working Title Films/Cameron Mackintosh Productions; Universal Pictures

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Jennifer Lawrence          SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Hugh Jackman  LES MISERABLES

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

BRAVE

Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios; Walt Disney Pictures

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

AMOUR (AUSTRIA)

Les Films Du Losange, X Filme Creative Pool, Wega Film; Sony Pictures Classics

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

Anne Hathaway               LES MISERABLES

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

Christoph Waltz               DJANGO UNCHAINED

BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE

Ben Affleck                      ARGO

BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE

Quentin Tarantino          DJANGO UNCHAINED

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE

Mychael Danna                LIFE OF PI

BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE

 “SKYFALL”—SKYFALL

Music by: Adele, Paul EpworthLyrics by: Adele, Paul Epworth

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

HOMELAND

SHOWTIME 
SHOWTIME, Teakwood Lane Productions, Cherry Pie Productions, Keshet, Fox 21

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

Claire Danes      HOMELAND

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

Damian Lewis    HOMELAND

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

GIRLS

HBO 
Apatow Productions and I am Jenni Konner Productions in association with HBO Entertainment

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Lena Dunham   GIRLS

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

 Don Cheadle    HOUSE OF LIES

BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

 GAME CHANGE

HBO 
Playtone and Everyman Pictures in association with HBO Films

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Julianne Moore               GAME CHANGE

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

 Kevin Costner  HATFIELDS & MCCOYS

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

 Maggie Smith   DOWNTON ABBEY: SEASON 2

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Ed Harris              GAME CHANGE