Check out these Oscar winning films at your local SCCLD library. Argo Best Picture Winner Best Adapted Screenplay Winner Best Film Editing Winner On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants storm the American embassy in Tehran and capture dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escape and a mid-level CIA agent named Antonio Mendez devises an . . . more »

. When I was a kid I found myself fascinated with the monsters in the movies by special effect legend Ray Harryhausen. I later found out that these monsters were brought to life by a process known as stop motion animation. There are lots of cool elements to this type of animation. Stop motion is made up of actual three dimensional figures that move by . . . more »

Skyfall is the eleventh Academy Award nomination for composer Thomas Newman who has yet to win the award. While Newman received his first Oscar nominations in 1994 for the scores of Little Women and Shawshank Redemption, it was not until his work with Alan Ball on American Beauty and the television series Six Feet Under that he made a strong impression on the public. Newman . . . more »

The 2013 Grammy Awards are being presented this Sunday, February 9th and while there is a lot of talk about if Frank Ocean or Fun. or Mumford and Sons is going to get the award, we don't hear a lot about the many other categories of music being recognized. The general field categories of the Grammys like "Album of the Year" "Song of the Year" . . . more »