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Bil Antoniou
Criterion Maestro
Bil Antoniou is a Toronto-based actor and playwright who co-hosts the podcast BGM: Bad Gay Movies/Bitchy Gay Men and his own personal memory project podcast My Criterions. The rest of the time, he's usually watching movies and blogging about them at MyOldAddiction.com.Articles by Bil Antoniou:
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May 18, 2025
The Classics Shelf: The 1994 Academy Awards, Part 4 – The Final Hour: And the Winner IsThe 67th Academy Award ended a long night with Forrest Gump winning the popular vote over critical favourite Pulp Fiction.
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May 17, 2025
The Classics Shelf: The 1994 Academy Awards, Part 3 – The Second Hour: I’m Sure They’re Pissed Off About SomethingIf you thought Adrien Brody’s Oscar speech was long, you should have seen the 1994 Oscars! Our look back continues with the hour that celebrated docs, an historic tie, and more!
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May 17, 2025
The Classics Shelf: The 1994 Academy Awards, Part 2 – The First Hour: The Hollywood Variety ShowDuring the 1994 Academy Awards, Lizzie Gardiner made fashion history with her win for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert , and Dianne Wiest won for an all-timer performance.
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May 17, 2025
The Classics Shelf: The 1994 Academy Awards, Thirty Years LaterRevisiting the Academy Awards honouring the best films of 1994, where Forrest Gump trumped Pulp Fiction in one of the Oscars’ Best Picture wins that hasn’t aged so gracefully.
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February 10, 2025
The Classics Shelf: The 1934 Venice Film FestivalRevisiting the films of the 1934 Venice Film Festival, including It Happened One Night, Little Women, Twentieth Century, and Masquerade in Vienna.
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November 16, 2024
The Classics Shelf: Billy WilderNobody’s perfect, but Billy Wilder came damn near close. The latest edition of The Classics Shelf looks at the career of the director behind classics like The Apartment and Some Like It Hot .
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September 21, 2024
The Classics Shelf: The First OscarsRevisiting the winners and nominees of the inaugural Academy Awards in 1927, including Wings , Sunrise , and The Crowd .
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August 12, 2024
The Classics Shelf: The 2013 Berlin Film FestivalThis edition of the Classics Shelf reviews the 2013 Berlin Film Festival where Child’s Pose won the Golden Bear in a modest competition.
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July 4, 2024
The Classics Shelf: The 1999 Cannes Film FestivalThe Cannes Film Festival held in May 1999 was the last before the new, for some dreaded, millennium, and featured its own watershed moments, including an Almodóvar film that aged far better than the Palme winner.
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June 9, 2024
The Classics Shelf: Anjelica HustonThat Shelf salutes the career of Anjelica Huston by surveying her films like The Dead , The Grifters , Prizzi’s Honor , The Addams Family , and Enemies, A Love Story .
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May 7, 2024
The Classics Shelf: The Films Of Jan HrebejkHe has an Oscar nomination for Divided We Fall and his films screen at prominent festivals worldwide, so why isn’t Czech filmmaker Jan Hrebejk a household name in the arthouse circuit?
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March 16, 2024
The Classics Shelf: Cannes ’82Revisiting the 1982 Cannes Film Festival where Missing and Yol shared the Palme d’Or, but only one of them has stood the test of time.
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February 3, 2024
The Criterion Shelf: The Films of Yasujiro OzuPaying tribute to the films of Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu, including Tokyo Story, Early Summer, , Floating Weeds and Late Spring .
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