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IT'S OSCAR NIGHT!
OSCAR POOL WINNERS!
Congratulations to S. MacDonald, our second prize winner, and to G. Pansegrau our grand prize winner! Both our winners had 17 out of 24 correct on their oscar ballot. Thanks to BRACK for the DVD player!
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Welcome to NOW's Oscar minisite!
Check out the menu to the right for our current offerings.
Want to brush up on the movies nominated? We've gathered the list of nominees and NOW's reviews throughout the year.
TOUGH OSCAR TRIVIA
My mother and father both won Academy Awards. My aunt and husband were nominated, as was my grandfather, but I've never been nominated. Neither has my sister. Who am I?
Answer: Natasha Richardson
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TOUGH OSCAR TRIVIA 2
If Beautiful Mind wins best picture, Russell Crowe will have starred in back-to-back best picture winners, an extremely rare phenomenon. Name three other actors who've managed it - with the note that the word "starred" is being used in a rather elastic sense of the word.
Answer: Clark Gable in It Happened One Night and Mutiny On The Bounty, Walter
Pidgeon in How Green Was My Valley and Mrs. Miniver, Meryl Streep in
The Deer Hunter and Kramer Vs. Kramer
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Here's an essential link - oscar.com, the official Oscar site - with everything you need to know about how the awards work.
 ...and now, a little about
JOHN HARKNESS FILM WRITER
Present at the birth of NOW -- he was the one fainting at the sight of blood -- senior film writer John Harkness has written on film, music and books since the first issue of NOW in 1981.
Beyond the pages of NOW, John contributed articles to Sight And Sound, Take One, and the Cinematheque Ontario programme. He also spent several years as trade reporter for Screen International and Cinema Canada. "Anyone who wants to review film," he says, "should spend a year covering the industry. It tends to knock out a lot of one's illusions about the art of cinema." His book on the Oscars, The Academy Awards Handbook (Pinnacle Press) is currently in its eighth edition.
His favorite interviews over the years have been with the subjects he found most intimidating -- Susan Sontag, David Mamet, Harlan Ellison, and Peter Greenaway. "These are people whom you do not want to ask stupid questions."
Harkness' preferred leisure activity is poker, and has won several poker tournaments in Las Vegas. He plans to play in the prestigious Tournament of Champions this summer, and hopes to play in the World Series of Poker next spring.
Harkness was born in Montreal, but grew up in Sarnia and Halifax before obtaining a degree in English at Carleton University and doing post-graduate work in Cinema Studies at Columbia University,where he studied with the American critic Andrew Sarris and spent a great deal of time in New York's repertory cinemas. "Fifteen movies a week," he recalls, "and none of them on tape."
NOW senior film writer John Harkness is the author of The Academy Awards Handbook 2002 edition. Find it at Indigo.ca or amazon.com
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