Nominees:
Elizabeth
Life Is Beautiful
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
The Thin Red Line
Winner:
Shakespeare in Love
Elizabeth
Life Is Beautiful
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
The Thin Red Line
Winner:
Shakespeare in Love
Story: Young playwright William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) struggles with his latest work "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter". A great fan of Shakespeare's plays is young, wealthy Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow) who is about to be married to the cold-hearted Lord Wessex, but constantly dreams of becoming an actress. Women were not allowed to act on stage at that time (female roles were played by men, too), but dressed up as a boy, Viola successfully auditions for the part of Romeo. Soon she and William are caught in a forbidden romance that provides rich inspiration for his play. Hilarity ensues.Trivia: 1998 was the only year that two actors were nominated for Academy Awards for playing the same character in two different films in the same year. Dame Judi Dench was nominated (and won) for Best Supporting Actress for playing Queen Elizabeth I in this movie and Cate Blanchett was nominated for Best Actress for portraying Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998)
So, tell me what you think? Did you like Shakespeare In Love? Would you have picked another movie as Best Picture? Why?
Posts
5 comments:
Strange year, 2 movies that are english period pieces, 2 that are war movies, and one that is a foreign film.
Shakspeare In Love is a remake of that modern classic, Tootsie. In Tootsie Dustin Hoffman can't get work as an actor so he gets it as an actress, he then falls in love with a fellow actress. In Shakespeare In Love Gwyneth Paltrow can't work as an actress so she works as an actor, and then she falls in love with a fellow actor. Okay, so maybe it isn't a remake, but I made you think there for a minute.
Elizabeth - A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
Life Is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella) - A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp. Remember Roberto Benigni jumping up and down going crazy when he won the Best Actor Oscar?
The Thin Red Line - Director Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
Saving Private Ryan - my pick - In World War II, it is found that 3 soldiers who have been killed are brothers. The mother will be receiving three death notices on the same day. The army discovers that there were actually four brothers. A mission is deployed to find Private James Ryan and send him home. If you saw the first twenty minutes of this movie (the allied assault of Omaha beach on D-Day), you will never forget it. I was physically exhausted. This movie lead to Band Of Brothers, a mini series which if anything was actually better then Saving Private Ryan.
Saving Private Ryan is my pick for this year too. Why didn't it win? Those snooty academy people, I tell ya. So, I'm assuming that Saving Private Ryan won at the People's Choice Awards? Since it is the peoples choice for these peoples. As for the rest of the movies in this year, the woman who played Elizabeth in Elizabeth was the white witch in Narnia. heheheh, that's my trivia contribution today.
Hey, cool little link buttons on the right. I'm glad you put in IMDB since we're allowed to do honest research now. :o)
I saw all but Life is Beautiful. Shakespear In Love was good, but I can't see how Saving Private Ryan didn't win best picture. So I guess that makes three of us.
The People's Choice Awards are different then the Oscars, Saving Private Ryan lost to Titanic, at the Oscars, they were in different years.
Post a Comment