From the Archives
And the Oscar Goes To ... the Best Picture of 1912!
An imaginary Academy Awards ceremony in Fort Lee to honor the Best Pictures of 1912.
This Sunday, ABC will broadcast the 84th Academy Awards live from the newly named Hollywood and Highland Center, thanks to the bankruptcy of--believe it or not--Kodak, which bought the naming rights to the theatre several years ago. As noted in a previous From the Archives piece, nominated this year for Best Picture is an actual, honest-to-goodness silent film: The Artist. This superb film certainly opens the door to a look back at some images that pre-date the Oscars and the founding of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. What say we take a look at possible nominees for Best Picture, if the Oscars existed in 1912? Of course, since 100 years ago, Fort Lee was the center of film production in the United States, all of the films …
