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69th Oscars – The Academy Awards

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Mar 1997

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Kicking off with an innovative and memorable montage that plops Billy Crystal into the year's nominees, the 69th Oscars begins with enough energy to sustain itself through a decidedly repetitive evening of English Patient domination.

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Richard Christiansen

Chicago Tribune

11/12/2019

I loved it all -- the appropriately dazzling bit of filmmaking in Billy Crystal's opening movie montage... and the Irish step-dance extravaganza by Michael Flatley that skipped around the big editing awards presentation.

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Frazier Moore

Associated Press

11/12/2019

Might as well have been on PBS. Meanwhile Crystal, upstaged by the classiness of the production and the non-Tinseltown-bred nominees, took home a consolation prize at best.

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Cintra Wilson

Salon.com

11/12/2019

Two great things about the Oscars: Billy Crystal, who is now so utterly relaxed and pleasant in front of everybody in the world that it doesn't matter what he says, he's just nice to watch, and Frances McDormand... She delivers the Joy.

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Alan Pergament

Buffalo News

11/12/2019

Too long, too passionless, too unmindful of the clock back East.

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Aired Mar 24, 1997

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Network: ABC
Genre: Special Interest
Release Date: Mar 24, 1997

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