The Unawarded: July 2000

We have now gone halfway through the year 2000, with 49 films logged and 73 films to go - the back end is always heavy, studios save their "prestige" projects for the winter awards season, banking on immediacy and short memories. But as we saw, lots of films in the first half of the year went on to nominations and wins! In fact, the only two months with no Oscar nominees in the year 2000 are January and July. Why July? I don't know, let's take a look at the options:

Legends Are Born (and Retired): 2003, Day Two

Continuing our journey through 2003 with the films of May 2 through July 25. A lot happened in this period: the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean, the end of Sean Connery, Pixar and comic book films leveling up artistically and commercially. It was quite the time to be alive.

Of these thirteen, three were brand new to me (Camp, Capturing the Friedmans, Dirty Pretty Things). Of the remaining ten, I’d only seen half of them multiple times before this (X2, The Room, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Down with Love, 28 Days Later).