Here is some Academy Award trivia for your Oscar weekend…
Oscar’s “Lucky 13!”
This isn’t the kind of image you equate with the Oscars, is it? Well here’s some obscure Academy Award trivia for you – there have been THIRTEEN oscar nominations associated with X-rated movies!
Talk About An “Adult” Oscar!
The history of the Academy Awards is full of great moments and trivia – and this is one of the most fascinating to me…
Time to look at the biggest awards night of the year in a different way: there was a time when Oscar not only tolerated sex in the movies, they rewarded it with some of the night’s biggest awards!
There have been thirteen Academy Award nominations tied to X-rated movies…it happened in an era when the film industry gave filmmakers the freedom to tell stories in a very adult way – let’s look at this fascinating part of Oscar lore…
Here Come The Ratings!
The ratings…
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Well I knew Midnight Cowboy was the only X Rated film to win Best Picture and that Temple of Doom led to the creation of the PG-13 rating but the rest is a real eye opener. We have an R rating for 18 or over so always find it interesting NC-17 is a more restrictive rating than R in America. The history of ratings is kind of interesting. I’m yet to see Last Tango in Paris so skipped that part of your post. Something that struck me about Midnight Cowboy is that by today’s standards it’s fairly passable for adult standards. It tells a hard story about a hard life and is haunting but hardly confronting compared to your average horror slasher. A Clockwork Orange is something else, in the way that Kubrick shoots it and the unrelenting nature of its rape and torture scenes it remains a viewing experience that can be very upsetting. As bad as what you see is though, I think again it’s how Kubrick shows it more than what he shows. A truly gifted filmmaker. An anecdote I’m sure you’ve heard. The director of Midnight Cowboy once shared his concerns with Jon Voight on set, saying maybe the film was too graphic and sick. Voight grabbed him and said “Listen to me, I believe this film will stand the test of time as our greatest achievement that will live on beyond our lives.” Voight is as pleased as anyone that his words said in desperation and kindness have been borne out.
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I often forget just how good Hoffman was in Midnight Cowboy. I was never much of a fan of John Voigt until his roles as an older man, but I loved that film at the time.
I didn’t rate ‘Last Tango’ that much. I thought that Brando overplayed the broodiness to extremes.
But I can watch a Russ Meyer film any day of the week!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Pete, “Midnight Cowboy” is such a time capsule of a certain time – fascinating to watch and the acting is really terrific. Hoffman lost that year to John Wayne!
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Well we had to give it to John fer sumthing pilgrim.
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Yes, definitely a “Career achievement” award – and the film is fun, and he is clearly trying to show some range…thanks for the comment!
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No worries, hey here’s a redundant question I’ll ask you anyway. Have you seen The Searchers?
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I am embarrassed to say that I have NOT seen this classic film! But I have seen so many later John Wayne films, I MUST get to this one! I love westerns
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Well it got me thinking, I have many John Wayne films to see but I have seen True Grit, Rio Bravo, Stagecoach, The Searchers and The Shootist. They are fine films and Wayne is a star in all perhaps trading on sentiment for his established persona and the vulnerability that comes with age in True Grit and The Shootist. But by postmodern standards The Searchers was his best and certainly one of a few performances where he did more than star, more than charmed, more than sell physicality or professionalism or sentiment. It is the one where he acted. I only discovered it a couple of years ago and it is a great film.
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I will watch it…I posted this story about him and his two very similar films, both great fun: https://johnrieber.com/2016/03/02/grab-your-six-shooter-true-grit-clint-eastwood-bob-dylan-classic-westerns/
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My two favourite films from Wayne are also The Searchers and The Shootist. Both are much more than simple westerns, and gave him a rare chance to really act too.
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There’s something poignant in The Shootist given his cancer diagnosis and setting it in 1901 is just right.
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Completely agree
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And Richard Boone is the perfect co-star too.
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Agree, he was a terrific “bad guy”
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Yes, and Don Siegel directed “The Shootist” giving the Duke room to act
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You see it and I’ll try and track down Last Tango in Paris before somebody spoils what the butter line was all about.:-)
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‘True Grit’ was a great film, but Wayne was no Hoffman. Maybe it was an ‘about time’ award?
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Yes indeed, “Career achievement” award, which they tend to do, usually at the exact WRONG time!
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