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Daniel Plainview: If you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that’s a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake. . .I. . .drink. . .your. . .milkshake! [beat] I drink it up!

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Tags: 2007, Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, Upton Sinclair

Miramax Offices Close – The End of An Era

Jan 29

Posted by Marya E. Gates

I hear on the grapevine though that the Weinsteins, who were bought out of Miramax years ago and started their own company – The Weinstein Company, are still trying to get the name back. I hope they do.

All through the 90s and early 00s Miramax, under the Weinsteins, pretty much dominated the Academy Awards.

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20 years of Best Actor nominees

Jan 16

Posted by Marya E. Gates

Much like my earlier post featuring my ten favorite performances nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars since 1989, I bring you my top performances nominated for Best Actor. However, there was no way I could limit this list to ten, even paring it down to fifteen was pretty hard. So here goes nothing. If you’re interested in buying any of the films listed below, click here.

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Tags: A Beautiful Mind, As Good As It Gets, Best Actor, Capote, Daniel Day-Lewis, Don Cheadle, Good Will Hunting, Hotel Rwanda, Jack Nicholson, Jerry Maguire, Johnny Depp, Life Is Beautiful, Matt Damon, Mickey Rourke, Milk, Mr. Holland's Opus, Oscars, Philadelphia, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Dreyfuss, Roberto Benigni, Russell Crowe, Sean Penn, Stephen Rea, the Academy Awards, The Crying Game, The English Patient, The Wrestler, There Will Be Blood, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks