And the envelope please...
The red carpet will roll out for the 85th Academy Awards on Sunday and many Silver Screen greats are up for awards. The Oscar buzz is in a whir, with some of the buzziest talk surrounding who will win the categories of best actor and best actress in a supporting roll. But just whose names do Upper Marlboro folk want to sound when they hear, "and the envelope please." Let us know in the comments below. And the nominees are... See the complete list of nominees for the 85th Annual Academy Awards.
Nation's Capital features prominently in three Best Picture nominees.
Three Academy Award nominees for Best Picture prominently feature Washington, DC: Argo, Zero Dark Thirty and, of course, Lincoln. While serving as a location for major films is nothing new to Washington, DC, I can't think of another year in which so many DC-centric movies have been nominated. The Washington Post described each movie as "an engrossing, superbly crafted story that plunges viewers into otherwise opaque and unknowable worlds made distant by time, secrecy or both" and believe film attendees will be pleased that the films "enthusiastically celebrate institutions more often mired in dysfunction and public malodor." Argo, the Ben Affleck-directed tale of a CIA mission to rescue Americans caught up in the 1979 Iranian hostage …
