And The AWARD Goes To... 80 Years Academy Awards DVD & Digital #Review #MillCreekEntertainment

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SYNOPSIS:
(From Mill Creek Entertainment)

80 Years of the Academy Awards®

Celebrate the crowning achievements in film making in this unique overview spotlighting the 80 year history of the Academy Awards®!  The biggest movies and the brightest stars have earned their place in Hollywood history and are revered in this extensive documentary collection!

Contents:

DISC 1 -
Birth of an Icon
The Golden Era
The Vintage Year
Hollywood Goes to War
The Post War Years

DISC 2 -
A Method and a Message
Movies Are Better Than Ever
The Epic Years
A Time of Change
Hollywood Comes of Age

DISC 3 -
1972-1976
1977-1981
1982-1986
1987-1991
1992-1996
1997-2002

My Thoughts:

Mill Creek Entertainment has a wide variety of DVDs and Blu-rays that you can't find any place else! They offer every genre for the whole family such as dramas, thrillers, comedies, television shows, children's and so much more!

Recently I had the opportunity to review And The Award Goes to...80 Years of the Academy Award, which is a DVD & Digital. It tells about movie stars too numerous to mention in this DVD Disc Set such as Elizabeth Taylor, Sidney Poitier, Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Jimmy Stewart, and Judy Garland - to name just a few.

The first disc goes back to the very beginning of how it all started in 1927, when they first gave a few honors out  at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

The first movie to win an actual Oscar was It Happened One Night with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in 1934. I also learned that in The Wizard of Oz  film that we all know and love from 1939  Judy Garland won an Oscar for a juvenile in movies.

Another great movie I really like that won Oscars was The Best Years of Our Lives from 1947. It was a story which told of some World War 11 veterans that returned home and became best friends, and how they adjusted to their new lives. It had 21 wins of which Fredric March won best actor for.

The film went on to the 50's where On The Waterfront that was one of the first films which was entirely filmed outside and won a total of 8 Oscars. Marlon Brando won best actor for it and Eva Marie Saint won best supporting actress. 

Another awesome film that I've always enjoyed was the movie Ben-Hur, which won a total of 11 Oscars and cost $15 million dollars. It made actor Charlton Heston a well known star.

In the 60's Sidney Poitier was the first black person to win a major acting award  and he was the second black person to win an Oscar. He won it for a film called Lilies of the Field. Another film from the 60's  that I wasn't familiar with called Midnight Cowboy, won an Oscar for best picture of the year. It stars Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight

One highlight I remember watching on television years ago is when Marlon Brando turned downed his Oscar for The Godfather in 1973. He was protesting the treatment of American Indians and sent a woman named Sacheen Littlefeather on stage to state that he could not accept the award. 

Also in 1977 Star Wars first came out and was nominated for ten Oscars. It made the creator of Star Wars, George Lucas a name we all would remember from then on.

So far, I am enjoying this disc set. from Mill Creek Entertainment. It tells a lot of information if you want to find out some history and learn who some of the actors that have won Oscars in the past were.