PoA musings

[Tim]

Both The Godfather and The Godfather 2 won best picture Oscars.  The 
other franchises you left out was Star Wars, Star Trek, Back to the 
Future, and Indiana Jones.

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, artsylynda at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 7/28/2003 6:00:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:
> 
> > I can't really think of any other film franchises except Lord 
> > of the Rings at the moment, but I'd think that Oscar doesn't 
> > particularly recognize such movies.
> > 
> 
> Franchises (or at least series of movies with the same characters, 
etc., I 
> can think of offhand):  The Matrix; The Godfather; Die Hard; Lethal 
Weapon; 
> Crocodile Dundee; Shaft (I think there were several); Rocky; Alien; 
Terminator; 
> what else?  Many of these have won Oscars for various things -- one 
of the 
> "Godfather" movies got Best Picture, I believe.  But how many KIDS 
movies (and I 
> don't really think of HP as "kids' movies" beyond CoS) have won 
Oscars?  I don't 
> know, I'm not an Oscar buff enough to recall.  Anyone else know?
> 
> Lynda 
> * * *
> ". . .the cat's among the pixies now."  Mrs. Figg, OoP
> 
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