OSCAR: The Academy Awards

Ever since TheColumnists.com began, we have specialized in our coverage of the annual Academy Awards celebrations. Each year, we vary the way we approach the topic, but there is almost always a review of the official awards telecast, which appears online shortly after the telecast ends, and some attempt to spot trends in the nearly 80-year history of the awards. We also have had an awful lot of fun with the whole idea of the awards over the years.

Here is an index to over columns, divided into categories that may help you find what you want to read:

REVIEWS OF THE TELECAST

RON MILLER: The 2006 Oscar Telecast: March 6, 2006

RON MILLER: The 2005 Oscar Telecast: Feb. 28, 2005

RON MILLER:  Reviewing the Oscar Show--2004: March 1, 2004

RON MILLER: Reviewing the Oscar Show: March 24, 2003

RON MILLER:  The Oscar Show 2002: March 25, 2002

RON MILLER: Review of 2001 Oscar Telecast

RON MILLER: Review of 2000 Oscar Telecast

The Best Film of... Personal essays on Oscar-winning Best Films

The BROADWAY MELODY (1928-29) by Ron Miller

ALL QUIET on the WESTERN FRONT (1929-30) by Ron Miller

CASABLANCA (1943) by Chuck McFadden

The BEST YEARS of OUR LIVES (1946) by John Stanley

ALL ABOUT EVE (1950) by James Bawden

ON the WATERFRONT (1954) by Ron Miller

BRIDGE on the RIVER KWAI (1957) by Murry Frymer

IN the HEAT of the NIGHT (1967) by Ron Miller

The GODFATHER (1972) by Gina Gallo

TERMS of ENDEARMENT (1983) by Gerald Nachman

RAIN MAN (1988) by Joanne MacDonnell

DRIVING MISS DAISY (1989) by Audrey Yeager

The SILENCE of the LAMBS (1991) by Kinney Littlefield

GLADIATOR (2000) by John Stanley

A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001) by Ron Miller

CRASH: Feb. 13, 2006

FEATURE COLUMNS, HUMOR & OPINION PIECES

JAMES BAWDEN: My Chat with Vincente Minnelli

MURRY FRYMER: My Night at the Oscars

MURRY FRYMER: How One Cow Never Made It

STAN ISAACS: Those Oscars Keep Letting Me Down

KINNEY LITTLEFIELD: Dressing Up for Oscar

CHUCK McFADDEN: How to Lose An Oscar Graciously

RON MILLER: How Oscar Got So Light On His Feet: Feb. 27, 2006

RON MILLER: The Year Oscar Ignored Hollywood: Feb. 27, 2006

RON MILLER: We're Losing Our Oscar Icons: March 20, 2006

RON MILLER: The First Oscar Night

RON MILLER: Hitchcock & the Oscars A special edition of DARK CORRIDORS

RON MILLER: The Decline & Fall of Oscar Songs

RON MILLER: Oscar Preview 2001

RON MILLER: Oscar Trivia Test

RON MILLER: Answers to Oscar Trivia Test

RON MILLER: Oscars For Westerns?

RON MILLER: The Roads Not Taken

RON MILLER: Oscar's Darkest Corridors

RON MILLER: 'Chicago' vs. Oscar's Past Musical Winners

RON MILLER: Going to Extremes (is the best way to win an Oscar)

RON MILLER: Oscar's 10 Most Underrated Winners

RON MILLER: Oscar's Favorite Mysteries

GERALD NACHMAN: A Movie Dope Dopes the Oscars (2001)

KAREN SHARPE: Les Oscars a Paris

JOHN STANLEY: My Great-Uncle George Created the Oscar

REVIEWS of BEST PICTURE NOMINEES

ELIAS CASTILLO: Traffic

RON MILLER: Capote: Feb. 20, 2006

RON MILLER: Brokeback Mountain: Feb. 27, 2006

RON MILLER: Munich: Feb. 27, 2006

RON MILLER: Chocolat

RON MILLER: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

RON MILLER: Erin Brockovich

MICHAEL JOHNSON: Good Night and Good Luck: Feb. 6, 2006

MICHAEL JOHNSON: The Pianist: March 17, 2003

MICHAEL JOHNSON:  Gosford Park: March 17, 2002

RON MILLER: In the Bedroom

RON MILLER: Moulin Rouge

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