Sentence examples for oscar years from inspiring English sources

In really bad Oscar years, when some dumb blockbuster of a movie cleans up, groups of viewers all over the metropolitan area enter a communal trance state.

Weller's inclusion has been compared to the nomination of an older actor who had perhaps missed out on an Oscar years before.

William J. Tuttle, a Hollywood makeup artist whose work was so renowned that he won an Oscar years before there was an official Academy Award for makeup, died on July 27 at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

A1 Business Digest C2 OBITUARIES C10 William J. Tuttle A Hollywood makeup artist whose work was so renowned that he won an Oscar years before there was an official Academy Award for makeup, he was 95.

Speaking on the Today Show on Radio 4 on Friday, Rampling's fellow sixties icon Michael Caine advised black actors to "be patient", and said it had taken him "years to get an Oscar, years".

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday, Michael Caine advised black actors to be patient, and said it had taken him "years to get an Oscar, years".

Having said this, there are some reservations that should be voiced, however tentatively, about 2008's Vintage Oscar Year.

In almost any competitive Oscar year there are proponents for a film who also spend at least some of their energy talking about the shortcomings of its rivals.

Every Oscar year has its forehead-slapping moment of bad taste and Anderson's film does at least have acting nominations for Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams – of which Hoffman might be worth a bet.

Dan Jolin, features editor of Empire magazine, said: "Every Oscar year, you tend to get people for whom there's an overwhelming sense of it really, finally being their time.

"I think it is the most wide open and uncertain Oscar year that I can ever remember," said Michael Schamberg, a veteran producer whose "Erin Brockovich" was among last year's award winners.