Oscar Picks by Lindsay's Let's see if his right & healthy Cabbage With Dill

Hello to all my foodie friends out there in web land its me again and tonight we will be sending you Oscar picks by my friend Lindsey and he sent me these on the 20th of this month.  This is the Oscar's night.  Along with the picks am going to be sending you a recipe for Dill Cabbage which was very tasty and low in fat.  I have to start a diet based on my blood type and I have to eat more fruits and vegetables and a diet of no meats almost.  Turkey is about the only meat I can eat.  I do eat some Chicken and no dairy products.  So any who so sad but that's how it works sometimes folks.  Any who here is the recipe for Dill Cabbage the easy way.

Dill Cabbage

1 Head Cabbage, cut up and core removed
Salt & Pepper to taste
3 TBSP Oil
2 tsp. Onion & Garlic Powders
2 tsp. Dried Dill
1/2 cup water

Cut up the cabbage and place it in a pan with the oil heated.  Add your salt, pepper, onion & garlic powders.  Add your dill herb and remember to rub the dill as it goes into the pan to release the oils in the dill.  Once it starts cooking add about 1/2 cup of water to the mix and cover and cook until the cabbage is tender.  Stirring while it cooks.

Now here are Lindsay's Oscar picks and Happy Trails to you until we meet again.  Come like my fan page on face book at, Cooking With Madjon & Friends.

Yes I missed it last year because I was working 60 hours a week, and thank goodness that job is long gone and I have my sanity back.  So this year I am happy to reveal who I think will win.  With all my useless Oscar knowledge bursting at the seams, I am happy to present the following:

Best Picture – Boyhood  should win.  Kevin and I saw this on pay per view and it really was a great movie.  The concept of the actors aging 12 years without makeup was surely different and it obviously took a lot of commitments from the actors involved.  I personally think that American Sniper should win.  We saw it in the theatre and in my opinion is the best movie I have ever seen of all time.  It really moved me and told a true story of the effects of war on the person’s there as well as the family back home.  Bradley Cooper was amazing.  Another movie that we saw that should have been nominated was “Unbroken” the Angelina Jolie directed movie.  This movie was gravely overlooked and even Jolie should have been nominated for best director.

Best Actor – Eddie Redmayne will win and considering he has been winning every award leading up to the Oscars he should be a shoo in, plus historically “Biopics” tend to win more than conventional movies.  If Redmayne wins it will be an Oscar and a Tony win for him.  Glad to see Bradley Cooper nominated for the 3^rd year in a row.  We saw Benedict Cumberbatch in “Imitation Game” and is deserving of his nomination.  A spoiler to Redmayne would be Michael Keaton for Birdman. 

Best Actress – What a wonderful year for actresses.  There were so many great performances that it’s unfortunate that there can only be 5 nominees.  This is Julianne Moore’s year to win.  This is her 5^th nomination and will win.  I haven’t seen the movie “Sweet Alice” but understand it’s her best work of all time.  The first movie that I saw her in and her first nomination was 1997’s “Boogie Nights”.  I have been a fan for years.  Good luck Julianne.  No spoiler in this one it is Julieanne’s year to win.  A few actresses in the past won on their 5^th try such as:  Susan Hayward, Susan Sarandon, Shirley McClain, and Elizabeth Taylor.     What company to be in…… We saw Reese Witherspoon and Rosemund Pike and they were great.  I was disappointed that Amy Adams didn’t get nominated for Big Eyes.  She is my favorite actress currently. 

Best Supporting Actor – This year will be one sure winner and that is JK Simmons for “Whiplash”.  This is his first nomination.  Great actors in this category though.  Robert Duvall in his 7^th nomination which goes back to 1972 for the Godfather, Edward Norton in his 3^rd nomination, Mark Ruffalo in his 2^nd and of course Ethan Hawk in his 2^nd.  All were great.

Best Supporting Actress – Patricia Arquette will win for “Boyhood”.  She was great.  We saw everyone except Emma Stone.  Laura Dern  (2^nd nomination) was great in Wild as Reese Witherspoon’s mother.  Keira Knightly was amazing and this is her 2^nd nomination, and of course the marvelous Meryl up for her 19^th nomination and counting. She looked great in blue hair.

Best Director – Such controversy this year.  Politics played a part as it always does and sad that it does.  Clint Eastwood wasn’t nominated for American Sniper because of his Republican views in an all democratic academy.  The woman that directed Selma was overlooked because she purposely left out the fact that President Lyndon Johnson was a major player in getting the Civil Rights Act passed and she didn’t portray that in the movie and the mostly white academy didn’t like that.  Hey this is how the academy works.  Plus the director for Selma predicted this would happen.  Plus since Oprah is tied to this movie I think that had a negative effect.  I think Oprah’s flame has gone out.  I still think Angelina Jolie should have been nominated.  But the winner will be Richard Linklater for Boyhood.  Should be a slam dunk.

Best Original Song will go to the movie Selma.   One movie that I saw and absolutely hated and couldn’t understand what the hype was, is the “Grand Budapest Hotel”.     

I love the history of Oscar.  Do you know who came up with the word Oscar?  It really is called an Academy Award.  When Bette Davis won in 1935 for Dangerous, she went up the podium and looked at the statuette and said the award looked like her uncle Oscar.  From that moment it kind of stuck.  Speaking of the 10 time Academy Award nominee (twice a winner), Ms. Bette Davis is still in the record books for the most nominations in a row.  She was nominated from 1938 – 1942 (five years in a row) which has never been duplicated since. 

1938 – Jezebel

1939 – Dark Victory

1940 – The Letter

1941 – The Little Foxes

1942 – Now Voyager

Some have come close such as 4 nominations in a row:  Marlon Brando 1950-1954, Al Pacino 1972-1975, Elizabeth Taylor 1957-1960.  I know I need to get a life.  Lol

In closing I have an Oscar story for you.  Again it involves the great Bette Davis.  In 1962 Bette Davis had a huge comeback movie in “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane”.  Well in her 50’s and considered at the end of her movie career, she surprised everyone with a knock out performance.  Her 10^th and last Oscar nomination.  She paired up in this movie with her long-time foe Joan Crawford.  Neither actress liked the other and Davis always felt that Crawford was a B actress.  In the movie Davis slowly tortures Crawford (which I am sure she loved).  Davis was getting all the attention for her performance and when the Oscar nominations came out and Davis was nominated and not Crawford, Ms. Crawford went on the war path to sabotage Davis’s chance for winning.  It all started by Crawford telling the press how mean Davis was to her.  Crawford said she was a good actress and deserved to be nominated along with Davis.  Then Davis had enough and went to the press saying that “yes Crawford is a good actress as she has 3 nominations to her name”, “but I am a great actress with 10 nominations to my name, get over it”. 

It became clear that Crawford was sinking very low.  Davis had won the Golden Globe, the LA and NY Film Critics Award and was already planning her eventual 3^rd Oscar win and planning the after Oscar party and press statements.  She was that much of a shoo in for the win.  A validation that she was the greatest of her generation.  Crawford then sent letters to Academy members discrediting the movie and wouldn’t take part in promoting the movie.  Crawford then went to the other best actress nominees, Anne Bancroft, Katherine Hepburn, Lee Remick and Geraldine Page and offered to pick up their Oscar at the podium should they not be available to go.  This was underhanded.  Katherine Hepburn who never attended the awards told Crawford that she wouldn’t be there, but wanted the presenter (Maximillian Schell the previous year’s best actor winner) for that category to just accept for her.  Lee Remick and Geraldine Page were going to be there, however Anne Bancroft told her that she was busy on Broadway in NY and could not be there should she win.  Being young and not knowing what Crawford was doing, she told Ms. Crawford that if she won she could accept for her.  Then Crawford started rallying the academy members to vote for Bancroft for the Miracle Worker.  So on Oscar night the highly anticipated award for best actress was being read by Schell (last year’s best actor Oscar winner).  And the winner is:  “Anne Bancroft for the Miracle Worker”.  Bette Davis was stunned as Joan Crawford got out of her seat and paraded right by Bette Davis and went up on stage to accept the award for Anne.  She even told the audience that she was glad Anne had won.  So apparently the academy had enough of the Crawford and Davis feud and just went with the 2^nd choice.  But in the end Davis had the last laugh as this rejuvenated her career and also paved the way for a very successful TV movie career winning Emmy awards for made for TV movies and Crawford died a broken woman.