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Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, Topaz by #AlfredHitchcock starring #JohnForsythe and #FrederickStafford

BEST ACTOR 1989: He tried playing pool and being a good brother, but it wasn't until he actually went to Vietnam that Tom Cruise finally got a nomination, his work as Ron Kovic in Oliver Stone's Born On The Fourth of July earning the biggest movie star of the eighties critical plaudits and heavy bets on his chances at an Oscar. By the time the night came around, however, a much-adored Irish film (the first from that country to receive a Best Picture nomination) had snuck in and taken away all of Cruise's hopes, as he was only playing paraplegic while DANIEL DAY-LEWIS had to work with merely one left foot. As author Christy Brown, a man born with cerebral palsy who eventually became one of the nation's most beloved artists, Day-Lewis brought the kind of dedicated realism that would soon become synonymous with his name in Jim Sheridan's wonderful MY LEFT FOOT. Despite having already made a few notable films in the UK through the decade (A Room With A View, My Beautiful Laundrette), and coming from a pretty impressive background (he's the grandson of a poet laureate on one side, a film studio tycoon on the other) he wasn't that easy a prediction to make against impressive competition: besides the juggernaut of Cruise, he was up against Kenneth Branagh's celebrated directorial debut in Henry V, Morgan Freeman's remarkable work in Driving Daisy and Robin Williams' still most beloved role, as the inspirational teacher in Dead Poets Society. The Oscar that Day-Lewis said would provide him with "one hell of a weekend in Dublin", turned him into a movie star, though he only made one film shamelessly capitalizing on his sex appeal, Michael Mann's The Last Of The Mohicans, avoiding any kind of Hollywood genre nonsense and picking his projects very carefully since. Not too carefully that he hasn't found his way back to the awards show an impressive amount of times, winning two more Best Actor prizes and becoming the first actor ever to win more than twice in the leading male category (pretty amazing for a guy who has retired from acting more times than Cher has gone on a farewell tour). Day-Lewis won again for There Will Be Blood (2007) and Lincoln (2012) and was no

Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by #MikeNewell starring #LilyJames, #GlenPowell and #MichielHuisman

NEW EPISODE! #40, ARMAGEDDON: Michael Bay's 1998 summer blockbuster is not a film I love, but actor @joelchicoshow is fully into it, so I was happy to have him join me to talk about it. Find "My Criterions" on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. #CriterionCollection #Criterions #MichaelBay #Armageddon #BruceWillis #BenAffleck #LivTyler #Blockbusters #1998 #SummerMovies #Criterion #DVD #Podcast #FilmPodcast

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