Out of AfricaDirected By: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, and Klaus Maria Brandauer
Don't take too much stock in which film wins the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Oscars are political, and the winners often reflect this rather than a more qualitative assessment of the films released each year. Given this, the cinematic popularity contest often gets it wrong. How else could you make the case that Slumdog Millionaire topped The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (and ... Continue reading ...