1. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz/William Keighley, 1938) Picture, Art Direction, Film Editing, Music-Original Score
2. Bus Stop (Joshua Logan, 1956) Supporting Actor
3. Phaedra (Jules Dassin, 1962) Costume Design - Black and White
4. Klaus (Sergio Pablos, 2019) Animated Feature
5. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019) (cinema) Picture, Actor, Actress, Screenplay - Original, Score, Supporting Actress
6. Jojo Rabbit (Taikia Waititi, 2019) (cinema) Picture, Costume Design, Film Editing, Production Design, Screenplay - Adapted, Supporting Actress
7. Little Women (Gillian Armstrong, 1994) Actress, Costume Design, Original Score
8-10. SHORTS 17+25+21+22+17+7+15+8+12+9+28=181 minutes total
a) Une soeur (Delphine Girard, 2018) Live Action Short Film
b) Brotherhood (Meryam Joobeur, 2018) Live Action Short Film
c) The Neighbor's Window (Marshall Curry, 2019) Live Action Short Film
d) Saria (Brian Buckley, 2019) Live Action Short Film
e) Nefta Football Club (Yves Piat, 2018) Live Action Short Film
f) Hair Love (Matthew A. Cherry/Everett Downing Jr/Bruce W. Smith, 2019) Animated Short Film
g) Dcera (Daria Kashcheeva, 2019) Animated Short Film
h) Sister (Siqi Song, 2018) Animated Short Film
i) Mémorable (Bruno Collet, 2019) Animated Short Film
j) Kitbull (Rosanna Sullivan, 2019) Animated Short Film
k) In the Absence (Seung-jun Yi, 2018) Documentary Short Subject
11. J'ai perdu mon corps / I Lost My Body (Jérémy Clapin, 2019) Animated Feature
12. Little Women (Greta Gerwig, 2019) Picture, Actress, Costume Design, Score, Screenplay - Adapted, Supporting Actress (re-watch, cinema)
13. When Harry Met Sally... (Rob Reiner, 1989) Screenplay - Original (re-watch)
14. Raffles (George Fitzmaurice, 1930) Sound (re-watch)
15. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945) Actress, Director, Screenplay (re-watch)
16. Sons and Lovers (Jack Cardiff, 1960) Picture, Actor, Art/Set Direction - B/W, Cinematography - B/W, Director, Screenplay - Adapted, Supporting Actress
17. Hors la loi / Outside the Law (Rachid Bouchareb, 2010) Foreign Language Film
18. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013) Cinematography, Foreign Language Film
19.
La ciocara / Two Women (Vittorio De Sica, 1960)
Actress
TCM. As the TCM host reminded us both before and after the film, Sophia Loren was the first winner of an acting award at the Oscars for a performance not in English. This strikes me from the vantage point I sit at 60 years later as very much a style-of-the-times award; not that she isn't good exactly, but this particular vision of the long-suffering yet always sensual and proud Italian woman is one that fit in with Hollywood's views at the time, and the performance - like all the performances in this film and some of De Sica's others - seems often over-the-top today, at least to me. It's a portrait of a woman who has made it good running a shop in Rome who has to flee with her 11-year-old daughter (Eleonora Brown) into the mountains during World War II, suffering privation and eventually much worse at the hands of... well that's spoiling it a bit. Loren was only 25 when this was filmed and Brown really was 11 but they both look a few years older - still the age difference is disconcertingly small. Jean-Paul Belmondo appears (dubbed by another actor) as a radical Christian anti-fascist. This was consistently worth watching but ultimately didn't add up to that much for me - I'm not as entranced by the neorealist movement as most, and I generally prefer De Sica (and Loren I guess) in a more comic mode, as in
L'oro di Napoli.
20.
Una giornata particulare / A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977)
Actor, Foreign Language Film
TCM. Mastroianni got his second Oscar nom for this and his performance holds up well against the contenders, though I'd have probably given it to Richard Dreyfuss, the winner for
The Goodbye Girl, myself. I've only seen one of the other Foreign Film noms, so can't say much there. This seems to be one of those films that has aged well for a lot of people, and while I liked it a lot myself I'm not necessarily sure I see what the fuss is about either. Mastroianni is a middle-aged gay anti-fascist writer and radio host who has been fired from his job and is about to be deported to imprisonment in Sardinia, while Sophia Loren is a naive, uneducated housewife who goes along with her fascist husband and children who have mostly likewise been drinking the kool-aid, though on some level even early in the film she resents it. They live in aparments across a courtyard, and on the day that Hitler comes to Italy for parades and mass rallies, both alone, they meet and have a potentially life-changing experience. It's all beautifully done and I for one think Loren's performance is the real standout here (though Mastroianni is certainly good); it's notable for the extremely color-drained, almost sepia photography which works better here than it does in many films, though I suspect I would only really love the look here if I got to see it in 35mm. Very moving but I guess it doesn't quite add up to brilliance for me; then again the last scene is really wonderfully done. I dunno, feels like something that may improve later...
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Will I watch more eligible films over the next two days? Only time will tell...