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- <text id=93TT1042>
- <title>
- Mar. 01, 1993: Independents' Day
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 01, 1993 You Say You Want a Revolution...
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 16
- SOCIETY
- Independents' Day
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- <body>
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- <p> There were the richly deserving, such as Clint Eastwood's three
- Oscar nominations for Unforgiven and Michelle Pfeiffer's one
- for Love Field. But if there was a message in the 65th annual
- Academy Awards nominations, it was that bigger movies aren't
- always better. Two low-budget independent films were among the
- top nomination grabbers: nine to the Merchant-Ivory drama Howards
- End and six to maverick Miramax Films' mystery The Crying Game,
- including Best Picture chances for each. In the crucial Best
- Director category, indies snagged two nominations, including
- one to Robert Altman for his savage dissection of Hollywood
- duplicity in The Player. Hollywood studios spent mightily to
- push a few big-budget pictures with Oscar apparently written
- all over them: Warner's Malcolm X, Fox's Hoffa and TriStar's
- Chaplin. But those movies got only seven nominations. Tiny Miramax's
- total haul of 12 nominations easily trumped studio giants TriStar,
- Universal and Fox, which had seven each.
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- </body>
- </article>
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