The Academy Awards are just around the corner, and past winners are being discussed in full. We all know Meryl Streep and Daniel Day-Lewis have three wins each, and Katherine Hepburn has them both beat with four. However, wouldn’t it be more interesting to look at which people have won multiple Academy Awards? Let me […]
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10 Actors Who Won Oscars For Their Roles As Villains
Hollywood is one of the few places where being a villain sometimes pays off. In an industry where they hand out awards to the good, the bad, and the ugly alike, actors have every incentive to tap into their dark sides and turn in deliciously diabolical performances. Though winning an Oscar is no foolproof measure […]
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10 Great Movie Directors Whose Styles Can’t Be Imitated
“To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body‒ both go together, they can’t be separated,” Jean-Luc Godard has said. Indeed, style is the parameter that translates ideas into art. It really represents the both polymorphic and transparent canvas […]
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10 Terrible Actors Who Won The Hollywood Lottery
There is a feeling often conveyed in retrospection by the Hollywood A-listers of the Tinseltown, that Hollywood was just like a normal place of employment for them, nothing more than that. It is disheartening to hear that it was just a matter of great luck for them to enter the industry, never a passion and […]
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The 30 Most Fearless Movie Directors of All Time (Part 2)
This is Part II of ToC’s exploration of fearless directors. If by any chance you, the reader, will think someone is missing, than relax-more is on the way. As always, knowledgeable feedback is welcome. 11. Glauber Rocha One doesn’t take on capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism with timidity. Rocha was a shining symbol of Cinema […]
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10 Directors Who Made 5 Great Movies in a Row
Being a great director is a little bit like being a great sportsman. It’s all about maintaining form. And just like a soccer player such as Messi or Ronaldo might have a run of five perfect years in a row, some of the very best filmmakers have strong periods where they keep knocking out hit […]