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To Kill A Mockingbird – 3 Stars (Good)

Gregory Peck won a Best Actor Oscar in this adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about white lawyer Atticus Finch defending an innocent African American man accused of raping a white woman.

This is a story that illuminates everything that is wrong about hate, prejudice, bigotry, ignorance, stupidity, lack of backbone and lack of a heart. It is a story about an all-white male jury who makes important life decisions without right thinking and right motives.

Finch (Gregory Peck) suffers retribution because of his defense of Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) who is accused of raping Mayella Violet Ewell (Collin Wilcox). The real villain is her father Bob Ewell (James Anderson) who beats her and tries to kill Finch’s daughter Scout (Mary Badham) and son Jem (Phillip Alford).

Scout narrates this story about her childhood memories. She and Jem team up with friend Dill Harris (John Megna) in a subplot involving “Boo” Radley (Robert Duvall) who ultimately saves Scout and Jem from Bob Ewell by killing Ewell with his own knife.

Sheriff Heck Tate (Frank Overton) would later claim that Ewell fell on his own knife. Tate knew that Ewell was two legs and bad news coming in the form of one bigoted human being; there would be no charges filed against Boo.

In the end, the innocent Tom Robinson is found guilty and shot to death when he tries to flee his injustice.

It is no irony that this 1932 story takes place in Macon County, Georgia, a cesspool of racially motivated hate even in 1962 when this film was released.

To Kill a Mockingbird shows that some people will never have any discernable personal growth in their entire life; thank God that others do.

Boo, a scary recluse who only came out at night, was Duvall’s first movie role. Duvall apparently stayed out of the sun for six weeks and dyed his hair blond in preparation for the role.

Dill was modeled after author Harper Lee’s childhood friend Truman Capote. Finch was the middle name of Harper Lee’s father.

Horton Foote, who wrote the screenplay for To Kill a Mockingbird, won an Oscar and the film also won for Best Art Direction for a black and white film. The film earned 5 other Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, won by Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif.

Gregory Peck picked up the Golden Globe for Best Actor, and the film also won another for Promoting International Understanding. Peck has said that this film was his favorite work.

His character Atticus Finch was voted the top screen hero of the last 100 years by the American Film Institute. This is truly a no-spin honor. To Kill a Mockingbird is also ranked No. 2 on AFI’s 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time (It’s a Wonderful Life with James Stewart is No. 1).

The evidence of just how emotional To Kill a Mockingbird is comes from Brock Peters (the accused) who started to naturally cry while shooting the testifying scene. Gregory Peck said he had to look past him to keep from choking up himself.

Racial bigotry is an extremely emotional and hateful occurrence that continues to linger with us today. Were it not for a loving God who is color blind, the hurt would be even deeper and more destructive.

To Kill a Mockingbird is as appropriate today as it was when it was released. Each generation must work to progress past the sins of past generations. Tom Robinson may rest in peace knowing his descendants will then have a better system of justice.

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The last five decades have produced a score of films, each better than the last. But come Oscar night, only one movie could walk away with the distinction of Best Picture of the Year. And here you will find a list of the Best Picture winners from 1950 to today.

2006: The Departed
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson

2005: Crash
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon
Director: Paul Haggis

2004: Million Dollar Baby
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman
Director: Clint Eastwood

2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Starring: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin
Director: Peter Jackson

The Oscars2002: Chicago
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta Jones, Richard Gere
Director: Rob Marshall

2001: A Beautiful Mind
Starring: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris
Director: Ron Howard

2000: Gladiator
Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix
Director: Ridley Scott

1999: American Beauty
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening
Director: Sam Mendes

American Beauty1998: Shakespeare In Love
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow
Director: John Madden

1997: Titanic
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
Director: James Cameron

1996: The English Patient
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche
Director: Anthony Minghella

1995: Braveheart
Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
Director: Mel Gibson

Titanic1994: Forrest Gump
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Senise
Director: Robert Zemeckis

1993: Schindler’s List
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley
Director: Steven Spielberg

1992: Unforgiven
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman
Director: Clint Eastwood

1991: The Silence of the Lambs
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins
Director: Jonathan Demme

Forrest Gump1990: Dances With Wolves
Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell
Director: Kevin Costner

1989: Driving Miss Daisy
Starring: Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman
Director: Bruce Beresford

1988: Rain Man
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise
Director: Barry Levinson

1987: The Last Emperor
Starring: John Lone, Joan Chen
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Rain Man1986: Platoon
Starring: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe
Director: Oliver Stone

1985: Out of Africa
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
Director: Sydney Pollack

1984: Amadeus
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce
Director: Milos Forman

1983: Terms of Endearment
Starring: Shirley Maclain, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
Director: James L. Brooks

The Deer Hunter1982: Gandhi
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen
Director: Sir Richard Attenborough

1981: Chariots of Fire
Starring: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson
Director: Hugh Hudson

1980: Ordinary People
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore
Director: Robert Redford

1979: Kramer VS. Kramer
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep
Director: Robert Benton

Rocky1978: The Deer Hunter
Starring: Robert De Niro, John Cazale
Director: Michael Cimino

1977: Annie Hall
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
Director: Woody Allen

1976: Rocky
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire
Director: John G. Avildsen

1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher
Director: Milos Forman

The Godfather1974: The Godfather Part II
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro
Director: Francis Ford Coppola

1973: The Sting
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford
Director: George Roy Hill

1972: The Godfather
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duval
Director: Francis Ford Coppola

1971: The French Connection
Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey
Director: William Friedkin

The Sound of Music1970: Patton
Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

1969: Midnight Cowboy
Starring: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman
Director: John Schlesinger

1968: Oliver!
Starring: Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed
Director: Carol Reed

1967: In the Heat of the Night
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
Director: Norman Jewison

My Fair Lady1966: A Man for All Seasons
Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller
Director: Fred Zinnemann

1965: The Sound of Music
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
Director: Robert Wise

1964: My Fair Lady
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison
Director: George Cukor

1963: Tom Jones
Starring: Albert Finney, Susannah York,
Director: Tony Richardson

Ben-Hur1962: Lawrence of Arabia
Starring: Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness
Director: David Lean

1961: West Side Story
Starring: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer
Director: Jerome Robbins

1960: The Apartment
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Billy Wilder

1959: Ben-Hur
Starring: Charlton Heston
Director: William Wyler

On the Waterfront1958: Gigi
Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier
Director: Vincente Minnelli

1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Starring: Alec Guinness, William Holden
Director: David Lean

1956: Around the World in 80 Days
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, David Niven, and countless cameos
Director: Mike Todd

1955: Marty
Starring: Ernest Borgnine
Director: Delbert Mann

An American in Paris1954: On the Waterfront
Starring: Marlon Brando
Director: Elia Kazan

1953: From Here to Eternity
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Frank Sinatra
Director: Fred Zinnemann

1952: The Greatest Show on Earth
Starring: Charlton Heston, Jimmy Stewart
Director: Cecil B. DeMille

1951: An American in Paris
Starring: Gene Kelly
Director: Vincente Minnelli

1950: All About Eve
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