Film Critic Applies a Hacksaw to Best Picture Category
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At this Sunday’s 89th Annual Academy Awards, the most shocking theoretical upsets involve Mel Gibson. A Hacksaw Ridge win for either Best Picture or Best Director would be much more earth-shaking than say Denzel Washington taking home Best Actor for Fences.
Today in The Guardian, Paul MacInnes makes that general case. Under the headline “Why Hacksaw Ridge Should Win the Best Picture Oscar,” he argues that it is Gibson’s contentious personal beliefs that make the movie so memorable:
The film is more than a simple derring-do World War II flick, even one as epic and meticulously made as Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan (which earned 11 Oscar nominations and won five).
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