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Best Oscar Nominated Movies

I was happy to see that Sandra Bullock received the Best Actress in a Leading Role award for The Blind Side and that Christoph Waltz won the award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Inglourious Basterds. I try to watch the Oscars as often as possible, and I routinely find that the movie that I liked best in a particular year is the winner for best picture. Let’s start with 2010, in which the best picture award went to The Hurt Locker. I thought that there were two movies that were better ...

The oscar winners

Heath Ledger, an Aussie, won best actor posthumously in 2009 for his phenomenal portrayal of the deranged Joker in The Dark Knight, a Batman movie unlike any other ever made. It was sad and ironic that after a short but brilliant career, Ledger would win the award but not live to receive it. It was a clean sweep that year for foreign Oscar winners as British born actress Kate Winslet won Best Actress for her role as a German woman who seduces a boy and is later found to have ties to the Nazis an...