The Oscar Project

  The Case of Sergeant Grischa , another lost film, stars Chester Morris and Betty Compson, both of whom had been nominated for acting Oscar...

  Song of the Flame is a lost film from the early years of the Academy Awards; at least, it’s believed to be lost. At this point, only the ...

Watching All Quiet on the Western Front always brings to mind a key point in the debate over war films: Do they glorify war by making battl...

  You might need to know a little bit about the Irish nationalist movement to understand some of the finer points of Odd Man Out, a film th...

  Dirty Pretty Things can be a difficult film to categorize. It’s sometimes called a thriller or a crime drama or even a romance of sorts, ...

  Director Francois Truffaut reportedly based The 400 Blows on his own childhood. The lead character of Antoine Doinel (played for the firs...

  A Quiet Place is a masterful film in so many ways. It truly deserved more Oscar attention than it received (a sole nomination for its ama...