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Oscar Loves... The Director's Medium
Oscar Loves Film Club
English - March 25, 2019 00:01 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBTV & Film oscars academyawards bestpicture film movies Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This month, a trio of OLFC podsters gather to discuss two films that won Best Picture but were not nominated for Best Director - a rarity for the Academy; and debrief on 2019's Oscars ceremony.
Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Bruce Beresford, is the only off-broadway play to be adapted for screen that has ever gone on to win an Academy Award. A 25-year journey exploring the relationship between Miss Daisy (Best Actress winner Jessica Tandy) and her driver, Hoke (Morgan Freeman), it's a chronicle of changing characters in a changing world.
A critical darling, there was widespread outrage when Ben Affleck failed to win a nomination for directing Argo, a historical drama documenting the real-life rescuing of 6 US diplomats from Iran in 1979. Taking some artistic licence with the facts, the film undoubtedly creates a masterful suspense, whilst off-setting this with comic counterpoint and scene-stealing turns from Alan Arkin and John Goodman.
Thank you to Thomas Whitelaw for our intro music and Rachel Valentine Smith for our artwork.