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Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku) by #HirokazuKoreeda, "hitting brilliantly on an intellectual level but rarely inspiring deep feelings for the characters it contains"

BEST SOUND RECORDING 1956: Maybe it wasn't going to end up being the winner of the top prize, but Fox's lavish production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's THE KING AND I was certainly deemed the most technically impressive movie of the year, winning five Oscars including a Sound Award for CARL FAULKNER. Among other accomplishments on the project, the film features the best case (in classic Hollywood, anyway) of an actor's singing voice being dubbed, with Deborah Kerr seamlessly transitioning into Marnie Nixon for the musical numbers. Faulkner previously won Sci-Tech Awards in 1946 and 1953 and was nominated for Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), The Young Lions (1958) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) plus a special effects nomination for Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959). He died in 1967. MyOldAddiction.com #CarlFaulkner #KingandI #RodgersandHammerstein #Oscars #BestSound #SoundRecording #BestSoundRecording #AcademyAwards #WalterLang

Today's review on MyOldAddiction.com, If Beale Street Could Talk by #BarryJenkins starring #KiKiLayne, #StephanJmes and #ReginaKing, "another combination of elegant visuals and hard-edged storytelling"

BEST SOUND RECORDING 1955: Rodgers and Hammerstein's breakthrough 1943 musical changed Broadway forever, inspiring Hollywood to up their game (the MGM film The Harvey Girls was made as a direct response) but for some reason the industry didn't have the guts to tackle a film version until 1955. Worth the wait, though, as the result was a masterpiece that also changed the film game forever, leaving behind unfaithful stage adaptations of the past that gutted musical scores to suit studio demands (On The Town, Girl Crazy) and making way for prestige adaptations of popular shows; the most Best Picture-winning musicals happened in the sixties and Oklahoma is a big reason why. Fred Zinnemann's film won two Oscars in 1955, one of them for the sterling sound recording by FRED HYNES at Todd-AO Sound Department. Hynes had a wonderful track record at the Academy Awards, winning six of his eight career nominations, following this year's win with Oscars for South Pacific (1958), The Alamo (1960), West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965), plus earned a Medal of Commendation in 1980 and the Gordon E. Sawyer Sci-tech Award in 1987. He was also nominated for Porgy and Bess (1959) and Cleopatra (1963) and died in 1992. MyOldAddiction.com #Oklahoma #RodgersandHammerstein #FredZinnemann #BestSound #Oscars #BestSoundRecording

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