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We run to overestimate the value of winning an Academy Award . The more optimistic among Hollywood ’s denizens believe it will confab upon their motion-picture show a kind of immortality , but how many people today have fancy John Ford’sHow Green Was My Valley , whichbeatCitizen Kanefor Best Picture in 1941 , or 1967 ’s multi - Oscar - winningDoctor Dolittle , which features a passion song to a cachet ?
The truth is , many great film have won Oscars and then faded into comparative obscurity . While the moving-picture show below may not be really apart , they offer a sample of the cinematic delights available to stream that are far from needed viewing for most , despite their Academy wins .
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
Wes Anderson won his first and so far only Oscar , for Best Live Action Short Film , for this 39 - minute short circuit based on the 1977 short account by Roald Dahl . Benedict Cumberbatch plays a gambler who condition himself on the teachings of an Indian guru to “ see without using his eyes , ” the better to multiply his profits . It ’s an utterly clean and straightforward niggling film ; the deficiency of assorted medallion in the narrative end up absolutely fit Anderson ’s more - is - more aesthetic . Overall , Henry Sugaris a endearing homage to the theater and snitch tricks enwrap in admiration for a literary master .
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugarisstreaming on Netflix .
A Room with a View (1985)
In 1985 , the team at Merchant Ivory Productions – consisting of manufacturer Ismail Merchant , director James Ivory , and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – had been making micro - budget literary adaptations for 20 years , many set in Merchant ’s aboriginal India . Then they stumbled upon adapting the works of the British schoolmaster E.M. Forster , resulting in three films that would deliver the goods them some of their greatest acclaim . The first wasA Room with a View , a Firenze - correct romance found on Forster ’s early - career novel from 1908 . It ’s a gorgeous , lush photographic film , painted in light , and starring the impossibly youthful Helena Bonham Carter in her first film office . It luxuriously earned its three Oscars for Adapted Screenplay , Art Direction , and Costume Design .
A Room with a Viewisstreaming on Max .
Stalag 17 (1953)
William Holden won Best Actor for this Billy Wilder photographic film , about American airmen lag in a German prisoner - of - state of war bivouac during World War II . Like all Wilder films , Stalag 17is aggressively write and frequently screaming , playing on the camaraderie among the airmen as they represent an attempted escape ( the photographic film antedate the more famousThe Great Escape , wrap up similar circumstances , by a decade ) . Particularly delightful is the Austrian Jewish director Otto Preminger in a rare acting performance as the pitiless but ridiculous Nazi warden of the camp , Colonel von Scherbach . Preminger , himself a refugee from Nazi hostility , presumably reveled in the satire .
Stalag 17isstreaming on Tubi .
Gigi (1958)
1958 ’s Best Picture ( among nine total Oscar wins of nine nominations ) , this movie musical based on a 1944 novella has a checkered reputation , and for beneficial rationality . The title character ( Leslie Caron ) is a untried womanhood ( the film declines to say exactlyhowyoung ) being prepare as a courtesan , or “ keep back woman , ” in Belle Epoque Paris . She finally fall into the arms of a much older man ( Louis Jourdan ) – but as his intended , not as a schoolmistress . Is this material dated ? Certainly . But what ca n’t be forfend is thatGigiis a feast for the senses , swash peradventure the most ravishing colouring in any film melodic and one of the best score ever , by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe , straight off their Broadway triumph withMy Fair Lady . The title issue , which won Best Original Song , is transporting – as another Lerner and Loewe song would have it , it ’s almost like being in love .
Gigiisstreaming on Tubi .
Blithe Spirit (1945)
Before he madeThe Bridge on the River Kwai , Lawrence of Arabia , andDoctor Zhivago , managing director David Lean co - wrote and directed this adaptation of the smash hit Noël Coward stage comedy from 1941 . The all - clock time stage and concealment heavy - batter Rex Harrison play a novelist who detect his home occupy both by his current wife ( Constance Cummings ) and go former married woman ( Kay Hammond ) after a séance gone wrong . effect artist Tom Howard , who would afterward help to handle SFX for2001 : A Space Odyssey , won the Best Visual Effects Oscar for his employment on the motion-picture show ’s various ghost , who luminesce an unearthly but alluring green .
Blithe Spiritis streaming on Max .
