Winners and Losers: Another Stroll Through Oscar History
Sunday, August 19th, 2007Ben Hur. Titanic. Gone With the Wind. What do these epic films have in common besides being longer than a baseball game? Try being nominated for a plethora (I had to get that word out of my system) of Academy Awards, while ultimately going on to win the pennant, the Best Picture of the Year. But what about the World Series washouts? Did they always deserve to lose to the prom-kings? If the aforementioned blockbusters and their allies (Forrest Gump, Gladiator, Chicago, etc.) are the Yankees of cinema, what about the Dodgers? The Yankees have been crowned world champions a…
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