Best Oscar-Winning Films Of All Time

Winning an Academy Award is a great honor for the film. Every year, only the best of the best get the opportunity of taking home the prestigious Oscar Award. They are achievement awards given to films by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Listed below are some of our best picks of Oscar-winning films.

The Godfather: Part II

Year of Release – 1974

This American epic crime film stars Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, and Robert De Niro. The second installment of The Godfather Trilogy is partially based on Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel, The Godfather.

The Godfather: Part II was nominated for eleven Oscars at the 47Th Academy Awards and became the first sequel to have won Best Picture award. The film won a total of six awards, which included Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay.

Casablanca

Year of Release – 1943

This American romantic drama film is set during the Second World War. It focuses on an American expatriate who is in a situation where he can either choose love for the woman by turning her husband to the Police or help her save her husband and escaping from Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans.

Casablanca was an A-list film that won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Lawrence of Arabia

Year of Release – 1962

This British epic historical drama film is based on the life of T.E. Lawrence in the Ottoman Empire’s provinces of Hejaz and Greater Syria during the First World War.

Lawrence of Arabia was nominated for ten Oscars while winning seven at the 35th Academy awards.

All About Eve

Year of Release – 1952

This American drama film is based on the 1946 short story by Mary Orr, The Wisdom of Eve and stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing and Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington

All About Eve recorded a total of 14 nominations and won seven of them that included Best Picture and Best Actress.

The Godfather: Part I 

Year of Release – 1972

The first part of The Godfather Trilogy, The Godfather: Part I, stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and James Caan. The story chronicles the transformation of Michael Corleone from a reluctant family outsider to a ruthless mafia.

The film won three Oscars at the 45th Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

The French Connection

Year of Release – 1971

This American action-thriller film tells the story of New York Police Department detectives, Jimmy Doyle and Buddy Russo, whose real-life counterparts are two Narcotics Detectives, in pursuit of a wealthy French heroin smuggler.

The film won five Oscars at the 44th Academy Awards that included Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor.

The Apartment

Year of Release – 1960

It is a romantic comedy film that follows an insurance clerk, C. C. Baxter, who lends his Upper West Side apartment to his boss for sexual recreation in the hope of climbing the corporate ladder. He later falls in love with someone who has been seeing his Boss.

The film became the eighth highest-grossing film of 1960 and won five Oscars out of ten nominations that included Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Screenplay.

Schindler’s List

Year of Release – 1993

This historical drama film is directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and is considered one of the best movies based on the Second World War events. The film follows a German industrialist, Oskar Schindler, who, along with his wife, saved more than a thousand Polish-Jewish refugees from being sent to the Auschwitz concentration camps.

The film was nominated for twelve Oscars and won seven out of them including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. These were some of the best movies ever to win an Oscar in the 90 years of Oscar history.

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Best Free DJ Software and Mixers

Remixing songs is fun. There are many paid DJ software tools such as Virtual DJ, FL Studio, and Magix ACID Pro, but not everyone can’t afford these software programs as they may seem expensive to some. The list has brought you some of the best DJ software programs and that you can use for free. These software programs come with a wide range of useful tools and allow you to mix songs like a pro. Let’s have a look at the best free DJ software tools.

Mixxx

Mixxx is one of the best DJ tools that a large number of people appreciate. It offers a wide range of features to assist you in remixing songs. No hardware is required to run this DJ software. It offers MIDI support. You can connect your midi hardware to the PC and use it. Mixxx offers a great number of effects such as reverb, scratch, or flanger. It detects BPM and helps you sync the tempo of the tracks. No other free DJ software tools can match this one in terms of features and stylish user interface. If you are looking for an excellent DJ software tool to remix, Mixxx may be a great option for you. Be it Windows, macOS, and Linux, it works great on all platforms.

MixPad Free

MixPad is one of the best mixing tools. It offers numerous features to mix multiple tracks. It contains all the useful features such as vocal recording, music mixing, and editing. You can compose your own beats with the help of the beat designer in MixPad. It offers a number of instruments and some vocal effects such as echo, delay, and flanger. MixPad allows you to create your own mixes within a couple of minutes. The thing many don’t like about MixPad is, the user interface of the software is not attractive. The free version of MixPad has some limited access to features. If you want to take advantage of every feature, you can purchase the full version. It works on Windows, macOS, and Android too.

UltraMixer

UltraMixer is regarded as the professional DJ program. Looking at the interface of UltraMixer will make you drool over it. It lets you mix multiple tracks together. It comes with some good features such as looping, channel sampler, and hot-cue buttons. It has many other effects such as echo, flanger, scratch, backspin, or reverb, but these features won’t be accessible unless you purchase the full version of UltraMixer. You can download UltraMixer from the official website.

Anvil Studio

Anvil Studio is one of the best DJ software programs on the list. It lets you mix multiple tracks in a professional way. It offers great arrangement tools by which you can sequence multiple tracks. It is an advanced editor along with recording software. You can create powerful mixes in just a couple of minutes. It offers a number of useful features. If you want to take advantage of every feature, you can purchase the full version.

Zulu DJ

Zulu DJ is one of the most popular DJ software programs. It offers many great features. You can mix multiple tracks and apply the effects to the tracks individually. It offers several effects such as echo, flanger, reverb, and backspin. It offers loop mode too. All these features make Zulu DJ a great DJ software.

You can create your own music remixes with the help of the DJ software and mixer tools mentioned above.

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Stray: The New Cat Adventure Game on PS5 Announces New Story & Gameplay Mechanics

Stray has shared about the new details of the game’s story, flying drone companion, and the gameplay.

The adorable little kitty was seen firstly during The Future of Gaming event on PlayStation in June 2020. The trailer showed us about the wandering and lost kitty that walked around the streets and was jumping over the rooftops of a neon-lit city with a backpack. This kitty was trying to figure out its way home. The trailer of the Stray was the most adorable PS5 trailer we have seen so far. If you have viewed it and felt it and want to know further about this game, then we have bought some news regarding it for you. Recently, PlayStation has revealed some more information regarding the game’s story and gameplay mechanics.

The recently updated information of the Stray on its PS5 webpage has shown about the new game overview.

The page further continues to provide information about what all will happen and how the lost little kitty would be exploring the strange cybercity and how it will protect itself from all the threats that it will have to face in that neon metropolis. The webpage information also hints about how we will have to solve the mysteries of that city where there is nothing except some droids and the dangerous creatures.

The cat owners or the people who have watched how the cats behave would be knowing how funny and daft they become sometimes. The game developer BlueTwelve Studio succeeded in keeping this attitude of the cat within the game.

The cats sometimes behave in an annoying nature. Other than that, the webpage of the Stray signifies about how the cat befriends the small flying drone known as B12, and with the help of this new companion, it tries (actually they both) to find its way out.

These instructions and other gameplay details make it sound like the game will be very entertaining and full of fun compilation. We cannot wait further to know more about the gameplay mechanics and trailers and about what all adventures this adorable kitty will go through.

Stray would launch on the PS5 most probably by 2021. We hope it will launch a bit earlier. However, we are sure that by the time it launches, by God’s grace, we will surely learn more about its gameplay and story than we know right now.

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Shows to Watch If You Like ‘Schitt’s Creek’

Schitt’s Creek feels refreshing, unique, and smart in its approach to comedy. This Canadian gem of a sitcom became a hit by its sixth and final season that aired in April this year. Now that we have bid a final goodbye to the series, you might be wondering about the next shows to binge-watch. We have listed down some of the shows that are similar to Schitt’s Creek and will give you a similar vibe.

Arrested Development

Genre – Sitcom

IMDb Rating – 8.7 / 10

Number of Episodes – 84

The show is centered around Michael Bluth, who finds himself forced to stay in Orange County to run the family estate business after his father is sent to jail for committing white-collar crime. He tries to juggle the family’s wants and needs while trying to be a good role model for his teenage son.

Kim’s Convenience

Genre – Sitcom

IMDb Rating – 8.1 / 10

Number of Episodes – 52

The show follows the misadventures of a Korean-Canadian family who run a convenience store. The story is funny and heartfelt and explores a diversification of culture that seems very genuine.

Grace Frankie

Genre – Comedy

IMDb Rating – 8.3 / 10

Number of Episodes – 78

The show follows the lives of two women, Grace and Frankie, who try to cope with the circumstances after finding out that their husbands are not just working partners but also have been romantically involved for the last twenty years.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Genre – Sitcom

IMDb Rating – 7.6 / 10

Number of Episodes – 52

The show revolves around Kimmy Schmidt, who decides to move to New York City to have an everyday life after being rescued from an underground bunker. Although she faces many obstacles, Kimmy makes the best of her new life while adapting to the modern world.

Shameless

Genre – Comedy-drama

IMDb Rating – 8.6 / 10

Number of Episodes – 122

Shameless revolves around the story of a family of six kids and their drunk father. Fiona, the eldest daughter, has to raise the family on her own. Due to the lack of food and other means, they end up stealing food and money to survive, which the father snatches away for his own pleasures.

Atypical

Genre – Comedy-drama

IMDb Rating – 8.3 / 10

Number of Episodes – 28

The show revolves around an 18-year-old autistic boy, Sam, who decides to find himself a girlfriend. This journey sets Sam’s mom on her own life-changing journey as Sam tries to seek independence. It is a coming-of-age story about love and independence.

Raising Hope

Genre – Sitcom

IMDb Rating – 8 / 10

Number of Episodes – 88

The show revolves around Jimmy who becomes a single parent to an infant after having a one-night stand with the mother who later ends up on death row.

Workin’ Moms

Genre – Comedy-drama

IMDb Rating – 7.5 / 10

Number of Episodes – 47

This Canadian drama show follows the lives of a group of four working mothers who try to balance their family life, jobs, and love life in Toronto. They try to face all the good and bad with grace and humor.

Parks & Recreation

Genre – Sitcom

IMDb Rating – 8.6 / 10

Number of Episodes – 126

The show revolves around Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat who tries to beautify her town by helping a local nurse, Ann Perkins, and turn an abandoned construction site into a community park. However, the project is stymied at every turn.

Schitt’s Creek made history at the 2020 Emmy Awards by winning all seven categories in the comedy series and becoming the first comedy series to win all four main acting awards. And here is our concluded list of shows that you can watch if you love comedy-family drama shows like Schitt’s Creek.

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Monster Slaying Manga from Shonen Jump That You Should Try

Since Monster-slaying seems to be in fashion, we had a look at some of the most praised and loved Manga in the genre that you should checkout. The list contains stories that have been running for decades to reasonably new ones that challenge even the well-established ones.

Our Blood Oath 

Our Blood Oath is one of the reasonably new titles on Shonen Jump. It is based on Red pledge and follows the story of two siblings. Shin and Ko are no ordinary siblings since Ko is a vampire while Shin is a human. Even though they have a bloodline full of vampires, the brothers choose to fight the blood-sucking monsters to protect innocent people.

The series has evolved some great vampire designs that are previously unseen. They have shown the courage to move past generic humanoid designs as the animalistic monster vampires do set the series apart from others in its genre. Although it is ranked relatively low, it would be unfair to judge it from its ranking only since the series is relatively new, and very little of it is out as of now. But the Manga, with its unique plot, does seem very promising, and it would be intriguing to see how it builds upon its promising start. 

 Hell Warden Higuma

Hell Warden Higuma, as its name suggests, focuses on the life of Higuma, who is a Hell Warden. Started alongside Chainsaw Man in 2018, the protagonist of the Manga is given the responsibility to find evil demons that have possessed innocent humans. He has to exorcise the human to send the demons back to hell. Higuma has an army of hands at his disposal to help him with his job. 

A human possessed by a demon will probably not know, but the signs are there. The human will tend to undergo a significant personality shift, which often transpires as the possessed picks up destructive and sinister traits. The aim of the demons is to absorb the lifespan of its victims to sustain itself. Hell Warden Higuma gives a lot of time to Higuma and his history; by doing this, it presents a very close look at the effects of monster hunting on an individual. It also shows what type of person would choose to sign up from such a job. 

 Burn the Witch

The Manga Bleach created by Titu Kubo needs no introduction. It quickly grew popularity after its release and got an anime adaptation as well. Burn the Witch is set in the same world as Bleach and focuses on the deuteragonist Noel Niihasi and Ninny Spangcole. Both of them are witches who spend most of their time-fighting dragons who are taking over the city. 

Burn the Witch in 2018, was published as a one-shot, but it had to be serialized this year because of its growing popularity. If you are not familiar with the world of Bleach, you won’t be able to resonate with this series. But, if you are someone aware of the Bleach world, then Burn the Witch is probably the Manga you are looking for.

 Jujutsu Kaisen 

Jujutsu Kaisen is the story of a high school student named Yūji Itadori. He joins an Occult Research Club in his school only with the motive that he will have enough time to meet his grandfather, who is in the hospital. The Occult Club accidentally finds a talisman that holds a very dangerous curse. After the club accidentally unleashes the curse, many other evil curses descend on the school since the powerful talisman curse can give anyone the power to destroy the world.

To protect the people he loves, Yūji consumes the rotting finger talisman himself and becomes the host of the curse. He is then introduced to the world of shamans who are doing their bit to protect the world from falling into chaos. The school’s superiors finally had to decide to sentence Yūji to death, but before he is killed, he has to consume all the cursed rotten fingers so that both can be destroyed simultaneously.  

Jujutsu Kaisen is a unique monster-slaying manga that is hard to replace. Even though you might not be a fan of the genre, Jujutsu Kaisen has the potential to make you a fan.

Chainsaw Man

Chainsaw Man has been running on Shonen Jump since 2018 and has been a massive hit of 2020. It is set in a world where devils regularly attack humans, so hunting devils obviously becomes a lucrative career choice. But there are also humans who make pacts with devils for materialistic gains.

Denji, the protagonist, is an unfortunate young man who is struggling to pay off his father’s debt to the yakuza. He earns money by selling his organs, hunting devils, and working as a lumberjack. His dog Pochita is a devil who can turn itself into a chainsaw, which proves very useful for Denji in his lumberjacking. The yakuza are aware that they can make Denji do whatever they want, so they send him to fight a zombie devil. But it turns out that the yakuza had made a pact with the devil and wanted to use Denji as a sacrifice. When the devil kills Denji, his dog Pochita fuses with him giving him all his powers and a new life. Denji, with Pochita’s power, quickly destroys the zombie devil; when a team of government devil hunters arrives, they offer him to join them, which kicks off his journey as a Public Safety Devil Hunter.

Chainsaw Man is often compared with Deadpool because of the violence and brutality that it portrays. But the series is able to stand out on its own because of its unique and well-written characters. The show deserves to be a sleeper hit, and if there is one series that you should go for from Shonen Jump, then it must be Chainsaw Man.

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Netflix’s The Witcher season 2 loses Eskel actor Thue Ersted Rasmussen

The second season of Netflix’s The Witcher series has recently resumed production, but the sad part is that the show has lost actor Thue Ersted Rasmussen, who was going to play the role of the witcher, Eskel. According to one of the statements revealed by Rasmussen, he will no longer portray Eskel in the second season because of some scheduling conflicts due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the information, Thue Ersted Rasmussen was very sad about not resuming the second season of The Witcher. He said, “It’s heartbreaking, but I mostly feel happy and grateful for the days I got to spend on set earlier this year.” According to the book series, the role of Eskel is included in the further story of Geralt and Ciri’s journey. Therefore, the streaming service will have to recast for the replacement of Thue Ersted Rasmussen.

The Witcher is an excellent story of fate and family. It is based on one of the best-selling fantasy series of books. Geralt of Rivia is a solitary monster hunter, who struggles to find his place in a world of people that are wicked than beasts. However, destiny forcefully moves him toward a powerful sorceress and young princess with a dangerous secret. But, the three should learn to navigate the increasingly volatile Continent with each other.

In Netflix’s series The Witcher, Henry Cavill is playing the role of Geralt of Rivia, Anya Chalotra is playing the role of Yennefer, and Freya Allan is playing the role of Ciri. Several other stars have been cast for this series such as Jodhi May, Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson, Adam Levy, MyAnna Buring, Mimi Ndiweni, Therica Wilson-Read, Emma Appleton, Eamon Farren, Joey Batey, Lars Mikkelsen, Royce Pierreson, Maciej Musial, Wilson Radjou-Pujalte, and Anna Shaffe.

Some new members have added to the list of other cast members for season two of The Witcher. The list of the new cast members is as follows: Kim Bodnia is playing the role of Vesemir, Yasen Atour is playing the role of Coen, Agnes Bjorn is playing the role of Vereena, Paul Bullion is playing the role of Lambert, Aisha Fabienne Ross is playing the role of Lydia, Kristofer Hivju as Nivellen, and Mecia Simson as Francesca.

After discussing the upcoming season two of the Netflix’s series The Witcher, we have concluded that the upcoming season of the series The Witcher is going to be the best season of this series so far with the inclusion of a lot of new cast members and continuation of the story with new ideas.

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RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Complete Edition is Epic Games Store’s free game this week

The classic RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 and all of its DLC are being brought to the Epic Games Store as its free game this week by Frontier Developments and Frontier Foundry. RollerCoaster Tycoon has been a very similar game, and that is the reason it fell out of the hands of developer Frontier Developments. But for now, one of the kings of tycoon franchises is back, and the developer of the game, Frontier Developments is re-releasing the game RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 in a complete edition with all of the DLC that came with it. The best part is that RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Complete Edition is available for free on the Epic Games Store this week.

The RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Complete Edition was re-launched by Frontier Developments on Steam and Epic Games Store for PC and Nintendo Switch on September 24, 2020. The game has launched Frontier Foundry, as a part of its development arm which is focused independently. RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 comes with the classic and a lovable part of the series back with all of its DLC in one full package. One of its best things is that the game is available for free on Epic Games Store as its free game this week. Therefore, you can claim this game for free from September 24 to October 1, 2020.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 was undoubtedly one of the best highlights of the RollerCoaster Tycoon series before Atari snatched the control of this game from the director Chris Sawyer and developers Frontier to create the much pathetic RollerCoaster Tycoon World. Frontier would go on to make the most popular and famous Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo along with Jurassic World Evolution, but at that time, the license of the RollerCoaster Tycoon fell back into the hands of Frontier. After taking charge of RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, Frontier Developers created one of the best games of the RollerCoaster series by adding the newest and advanced features to it. Moreover, this game is available to claim for free from Epic Games Store this week.

If we talk about the features of RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, it allows the players to create whatever they want and also allows the users to access all the tools and features to build the amusement park of their own choice. To run the park smoothly and succeed in the game, you need to satisfy the needs of your guests. It can be done by controlling the finances, shops, services, and staff so that you can succeed in various scenarios. This complete edition of RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 includes all the contents from Soaked! and Wild! expansion packs. In this way, the game will allow you to create and manage beautiful waterparks and spectacular animal habitats.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 comes with enhanced features for PC and increased compatibility for new PC hardware. You can play this game in widescreen for the first time with a full 1080p resolution. You can ride whatever you have created with RollerCoaster Tycoon 3’s signature coaster cam. It also offers you more than 300 coasters and rides, 500 scenery pieces, 60 shops and services, and 20 animals to rear and raise. It also allows you to create your guests and experience whatever you have created for them through their eyes. One of the best features of RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 is that it allows you to greet your visitors with custom laser light and firework displays to make the amusement park more attractive and a fantastic experience for them.

If we talk about the system requirements for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 on PC, it is highly recommended that the operating system should be Windows 7 or above. The processor should be Intel i3. To play this game, a PC should have 4GB of RAM and 2GB of available storage space. The minimum graphics required for this game is 256MB Graphics Memory/Intel HD 4000. However, Nvidia GTX560 is the most recommended graphic card for playing this game smoothly.

After discussing all the details and features of this new game, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, we have concluded that this game is going to be real fun. It includes various new and advanced features as compared to the previous versions of RollerCoaster Tycoon. It doesn’t matter where you play RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Complete Edition, what matters the most is the game is in the hands of Frontier Developers. We also hope that RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Complete Edition re-release is not the last we have seen of this tremendous franchise.

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