Archived February, 2012

Forrest Gump – Academy Awards History

Monday, February 27th, 2012

 

Tom Hanks holds his Oscar for “Forrest Gump” during the 1995 Academy Awards.

Tom Hanks holds his Oscar for “Forrest Gump” during the 1995 Academy Awards.

Congratulations to the 2012 Academy Award two big winners. Both “The Artist” and “Hugo” won five Oscars each.

 

“The Artist” won for Best Picture, Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius), Best Actor (Jean Dujardin), Best Costume Design (Mark Bridges), and Best Original Score (Ludovic Bounce).

 

“Hugo” won for Best Cinematography (Robert Richardson), Best Art Direction (Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schavo), Best Sound Editing (Phillip Stockton and Eugene Gearty), Best Sound Mixing (Tom Fleischman and John Midgley), and Best Visual Effects.

 

Seventeen years ago, “Forrest Gump” won six awards at the 1995 Academy Awards. It was nominated in a total of thirteen categories.

 

Here is the complete list of “Forrest Gump” nominations and Oscars won during the 67th Academy Awards held on March 27, 1995, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The host that year was David Letterman.

 

Wow, the 1995 nominations indicated what a great year it was for the motion picture industry!

 

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Cerebrate – Five Things I Learned

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

 

Five more pieces of the life puzzle fall into place.

Five more pieces of the life puzzle fall into place.

In my previous post, I attempted to describe Cerebrate as the event it was. It described the who, what, where, when, and why. But Cerebrate really isn’t a logistical thing; rather, it’s an opportunity for personal self-discovery. My guess is everyone who participated learned something new about him or herself. The process of sharing, conversing, and focusing without the distractions of everyday living allows new personal discoveries.

 

Here are five things I learned either about myself or about my future self.

 

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Cerebrate

Monday, February 20th, 2012

 

Cerebrate #4 group photo taken on Sunday, February 12, 2012. Photo Credit: Qasim Virjee

Cerebrate #4 group photo taken on Sunday, February 12, 2012. Photo Credit: Qasim Virjee

Last weekend I had the good fortune to attend Rajesh Setty’s 4th Cerebrate. The event is held twice annually. It was my first time attending, and I believe each event has been a little bit different and continues to evolve.

 

It has always been held at the Mount Madonna Center overlooking the Monterey Bay. In advance, we were only told to arrive on Friday night by 4:30 p.m. and that it would end early on Sunday afternoon. There was little advance details that we (the participants) were given as to how things will work. It’s that way by design. It’s a little mysterious.

 

But it was an awesome experience …

 

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Life Chapters and Life SubChapters

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

 

How many books will you fill with your life chapters and subchapters?

How many books will you fill with your life chapters and subchapters?

In the previous post, I pointed out the major life chapters that occurred in Forrest Gump’s life. Because it is only a two-hour-and–forty-minute movie covering several decades of Forrest’s life, the life chapters are clearly defined. It’s easy to see how one chapter evolved, ended, and then led directly to a new, next life chapter. In the case of this movie, these changes were both dramatic and definitive.

 

What the movie didn’t have time to reveal were all of the subchapters and stories within the story. Most likely, many more details, events, and subchapters were also occurring … and they were not part of the movie.

 

One example of a chapter and subchapters that did occur was …

 

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Life Chapters

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

 

Life-Chapters-of-Forrest-Gump

The accompanying chart neatly shows the major life chapters of Forrest Gump as they chronologically took place in the movie.

 

Because the movie covered several decades of Forrest’s life, it is very easy to see the transition from one life chapter to another. One obvious life chapter change occurs when Forrest is in the Army gymnasium. He is diligently practicing his ping-pong. An Officer approaches Forrest and hands him his discharge papers. Forrest runs out the door while he proclaims in a voice-over, “And just like that, my service in the United States Army was over. So I went home.” The very next scene shows Forrest walking up to the family home in Greenbow. He is greeted at the front door by his mother and simply says, “I’m home, Momma.”

 

One life chapter ends … A new life chapter is about to begin.

 

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I Thought I Was Tricking My Mother

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

 

And I thought I was fooling my mother … stupid is as stupid does!

And I thought I was fooling my mother … stupid is as stupid does!

When I was a boy attending elementary school, I’d fake an illness a few times a year so I could have a day off. I wasn’t really sick. But my loving mother would dutifully take my temperature, listen to my contrived coughs, and lovingly pat me on the forehead and tell me that she thought I was too sick to go to school.

 

YEAH! I tricked Mom and had a day off.

 

Years later, she told me she knew I wasn’t sick and she knew I was faking it. But she also said, “I knew you needed a day off.”

 

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