BAFTA Scot Awards 2019, with Red Carpet Host Sanjeev Kohli
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🔝 and all photos are from Getty Images, reposted on: Outlander Online 5 November 2017 and on Outlander Online 3 November 2019
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It’s often helpful to have been here, Tumblring, since 2014, Season 1.* You know where the bodies are buried, usually recall who did or said what when, and almost always remember when you’ve seen particular photos before. All the photos on this post were taken, uploaded, and posted on the same days as the events they represent in 2017 and in 2019. (Brian subscribes to the Tumblr Economy Package, and is limited to using only 10 images per post, otherwise he would use more lovely photos from those events.)
But… if you look on the Getty Images website, you’ll see “Upload dates” of the 27th and the 29th of January 2024. 🤯 What the… how could that be, Brian? You just said the photos were uploaded on the same day they were taken.
They were. How else did Outlander Online, and fans on Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and elsewhere post them earlier than January of this year?
Remember when 🙃 Getty Images changed a server and all photo upload dates were, well, updated? It’s similar to when you might transfer your photos from one hard disk to another. The new disc retains data, such as when the photo was taken and any text included in the EXIF of that photo. However, the upload date changes, from the date of the original or the last upload, to the date you uploaded the photos to the new disk.
So… Getty Images uploaded the 2017 photos to another server on 27 January, and 2019’s on 29 January, 2024. 😃
BAFTA Scot Awards 2017, with Red Carpet Host Iain Stirling
With Wendy Kemp Forbes
Remember when everything new is old again?
*Brian-in-Finance has been here, Tumblring, since March 2021. I have been here much longer than Brian has.
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With Barbie, Greta Gerwig becomes the first woman to have directed three Best Picture nominees.
She’s also nominated along with Noah Baumbach for Best Adapted Screenplay at this year’s Oscars. 💖
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Oscar Nominee of All Time: Round 1, Group A
(info about nominees under the poll)
LEW AYRES (1908-1996)
NOMINATIONS:
Lead- 1948 for Johnny Belinda
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AL PACINO (1940-)
NOMINATIONS:
Supporting- 1972 for The Godfather, 1990 for Dick Tracy, 2019 for The Irishman
Lead- 1973 for Serpico, 1974 for The Godfather Part II, 1975 for Dog Day Afternoon, 1979 for And Justice For All
WINS:
Lead- 1992 for Scent of a Woman
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Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)
24/03/2024
Platoon is a 1986 film, written and directed by Oliver Stone, which deals with his time in Vietnam as a volunteer during the war and is inspired by the real experiences the director had between 1967 and 1971 during his military service.
The film won 4 Oscars out of 8 nominations and Oliver Stone was also awarded the Silver Bear in Berlin as best director. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in eighty-third place in the ranking of the one hundred best American films of all time, while ten years later, in the updated list, it dropped to eighty-sixth place. In 2019, it was chosen for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress.
The bloodiest episode, as in many other films dealing with the Vietnam War, is inspired by the most atrocious event of that conflict, known to history as the My Lai massacre, in which American soldiers committed atrocities including rape of very young girls, indiscriminate killings of innocent civilians, destruction of the homes and resources of the inhabitants, believed to be allies of the Viet Cong, despite there being no evidence. From this perspective, the figure of the platoon commander, Lieutenant Wolfe, both for his inability to control his men and for other characteristics, can be traced back to the main person responsible for My Lai, the then US Army Lieutenant William Calley, convicted to several years of military detention for that very affair.
Due to an error by Lieutenant Wolfe, who gives wrong coordinates via radio, the platoon is decimated by friendly artillery.
In the last war action of his volunteer service, Chris escapes a deadly ambush by the Viet Cong who almost completely annihilate the platoon and the subsequent American bombing with napalm.
Initially Hollywood snubs the script as many producers are of the opinion that what three is to say about the Vietnam War has already been reported in highly successful films such as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter, however the strength of Stone's script still attracts some producers who see enormous potential in him. He was then assigned to write a screenplay for another film, Stone accepted and wrote Midnight Express in 1977, thanks to which he won the Oscar for best non-original screenplay (first statuette for Stone) a fact that made all of Hollywood understand the Stone's enormous potential; it was therefore not difficult for him to find the producer to begin work on Platoon.
The film was shot, following the great example of Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, starting in February 1986. The film's production was almost canceled due to the political upheavals in country, due to Ferdinand Marcos, dictator of the country. Upon arrival in the Philippines, the cast members underwent a two-week course of intensive training by Dale Dye (former Marine captain during the Vietnam War and interpreter of Captain Harris), during which they had to dig trenches and suffer forced marches and night "ambushes".
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The Duchess of Cambridge attending the EE British Academy Film Awards held at the Royal Albert Hall on 10th February 2019
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Happy 40th Birthday to Academy Award Nominated filmmaker, writer and Golden Globe Nominated actress Greta Gerwig! ^__^
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Mahershala Ali’s Best Looks
Part 1
1. At the 2021 Deadline Contenders Film
2. Wearing Dzojchen at the season 3 premiere of ‘True Detective’ in 2019
3. Wearing Etro at the 2019 Golden Globe Awards
4. Wearing Etro at the premiere of ‘Green Book’ in 2018
5. Wearing Yumi Katsura at the 2018 Oscars
6. At the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival
7. Wearing Ermenegildo Zegna at the 2019 Emmys
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