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Article: OSCAR LOVES EPICS; HOW ABOUT YOU?(Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- March 24, 1996
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Byline: Douglass K. Daniel
It's a classic Hollywood recipe: Begin with a big story, one that spans years, covers a historical event and features a larger-than-life hero. Hire the brightest stars, lots of them. Spend millions on sets, costumes and action scenes. Add a cast of thousands.
What turns out?
An epic. With luck, a box-office blockbuster. And a fistful of Oscar nominations.
This year Mel Gibson's Braveheart won over Oscar voters, who nominated it for 10 Academy Awards. That's no surprise. Oscar has smiled on epics throughout his 68-year reign in Hollywood.
How well do you know the Oscar-winning epics? Take this quiz:
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