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Oscar Articles - 2002 to 2007
Critic's Picks and Reviews for Oscar nominated films and performances from 2002 - 2007.  Check back for this year's Oscar content.  Please use this link to read the articles and check out the Reader's Forum.

CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962)
Some great horror films hit you head-on with shock effects that make you jump out of your seat.  But the really great ones sneak up behind you, crawl under your skin, and slip into your subconscious to assault you in your dreams.  It’s the stuff that nightmares are made of! The sole survivor of a car accident that claims the lives of all her friends finds herself trapped between the realms of the living and the dead. 

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Years before it was considered as a viable film project, American Psycho was the eye of a storm of controversy. The ultra-violent novel by author Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero) was so violently protested by feminist groups in 1991 that the original publisher, Simon & Schuster dropped the manuscript, which was later picked up by Vintage Books. Continued mounting criticism, spearheaded by the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women, was then focused on the booksellers themselves. By and large, retailers, who were supportive of the author's First Amendment rights, were still cowed into avoiding prominent display of the book in most stores.

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Universally hailed as "America's Sweetheart" and cited by Vanity Fair as "poised to challenge Julia Roberts as Hollywood's biggest box office brunette", Sandra Bullock certainly keeps as busy as her unofficial rival. Each actress has turned out three theatrical features in little more than a year. Both are filming separate projects slated for release before the holidays.

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The Pianist - After a long absence from the acclaim of Hollywood, Roman Polanski has earned a Best Director nomination for his  adaptation of the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman published in 1946.  The film dramatizes the Polish pianist's struggle to overcome the Warsaw ghettos during World War II, his narrow escape from being sent to the Nazi concentration camps, and the music he brought to the world as a survivor.  Along with Best Director and Best Picture nominations, the film won nominations in 5 other categories, including a Best Actor nomination for Adrien Brody (pictured at left)  and Cinematography.

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The high number of quality movies released in 2002 makes this critic’s task of picking the Oscars® for 2003 more difficult than ever.

As always, studio politics will factor as importantly as artistic achievement in determining who warrants kudos.  In many cases, artists who win Oscars® will be those who best curry industry favor through campaigns waged in trade publications.  The obsequious antics are understandable, when the box office bucks generated by an Oscar® are considered.  An Academy Award is much more than a merit badge.  It is money.

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The Academy Awards also known as the Oscars (the nickname for the statuette) represent the main national film awards in the USA. They began innocuously enough on May 16, 1929 as a mere industry event, which provided an excuse for members of the movie-making community to socialize at a banquet at which time self-congratulatory prizes would be given out.

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