69th Academy Awards: The English Patient
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In this episode we discuss the sixty-ninth Best Picture winner, The English Patient! We discuss Gil Cates’s and Billy Crystal’s return to producing and hosting the Academy Awards Ceremony, Miramax’s grassroots campaign strategies for convincing voters to favor The English Patient, and Francis McDormand’s exciting Oscar win. We talk about Saul Zaents’s struggles finding a studio partner, director Anthony Minghella’s insistence on casting decisions, and Kristin Scott Thomas’s thoughts on the expectations for women in Hollywood.
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