The Man With the Golden Arm

In 1955, three titans of 20th-century art (Otto Preminger, Elmer Bernstein, and Frank Sinatra) united to adapt Nelson Algren's novel The Man with the Golden Arm into a motion picture. A critically acclaimed hit at the time, it remains a powerful (albeit adulterated) look at substance abuse from a time...

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All 53 of the 2024 Oscar-nominated Films Ranked

Ben Zauzmer is a baseball statistician and assistant general manager of the New York Mets. He's also really good at predicting Oscar winners. Last year, he accurately predicted nineteen out of twenty wins. His book about using math to predict the winners is called Oscarmetrics; think of him as the Nate...

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