Films: "The Matrix" (1999), "The Matrix Reloaded" (2003), "The Matrix Revolutions" (2003)
Director: The Wachowskis
Best of the bunch: "The Matrix"
Weakest Link: "The Mat...
Yeah, yeah: Boyle's jumped-up survival story -- the tale that launched a thousand terrible "rock and a hard place" puns -- got a Best Picture nomination. But so have any number of glib technical exercises, a...
Seasons: 1985-1986
Best known for: Nancy Reagan, Joan Collins, Diana Ross
Overshadowed by: Pretty much just Jon Lovitz and Dennis Miller
Why: You've probably never heard of Terry Sweeney and good luck trying to fi...
Master German expressionist F.W. Murnau had already sealed his place in film history in his native industry with his seminal interpretations of "Nosferatu" and "Faust" when Hollywood came calling. ...
Pro: No branch of the Academy is friendlier towards foreign-language fare than the writers, and as with “A Separation” last year, Haneke's Palme d'Or winner is the kind of intimate, articulate, character-d...
Director: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
The Lowdown: Pixar failed to land a nomination in this category for the first time ever last year when the critically maligned ...
Pro: Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winner keeps accumulating critical superlatives, while its moving account of love enduring the indignities of dementia should hit home with older voters – and that's most the Aca...
Do I really need to make a written case for this, or will the picture to your left suffice? The costume design world lost one of its greatest artists earlier this year in Eiko Ishioka, a former Oscar winner for "...
The Freshman Class of 2011-2012 had a number of hits, from "Person of Interest" to "Once Upon a Time" to "Revenge" to "Suburgatory" to "2 Broke Girls."
But those succ...
