2011 was such a great year. Another wonderful film from that season was Beginners, which won Christopher Plummer his only Oscar, and Fincher’s version of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo remains one of my favourites.

Personally, I wonder what on Earth convinced anyone to give Meryl Streep Best Actress that year - I really love Meryl, but that was so far from her best performance, and leagues below the other nominees.

Poitier was in three films that year that could have landed him a nomination - ITHotN and To Sir With Love in lead, and potentially Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in supporting. I suspect his votes were split.

I’m happy with either winning, and I think the SAGs just clinched Yeoh. They both gave career-best performances, though.

Humphrey Bogart is often attributed as saying that acting awards aren’t valid unless everyone plays Hamlet, and if he did say that, I think there’s some truth to it. It gets so hard to compare two high-level performances when they’re very different. In the end, personal preference has to play a big part.

I would have SO much trouble deciding between these two.

The Harry Potter series! I remember having to wait two years to find out what happened next, and it was so exciting.

Casablanca uses “La Marseillaise”, and of course “As Time Goes By”, quite a bit in the score. Are the characters more important in this scene, or is the war? The score will tell you.

I got rejected several years after applying, a few times. Yeah, I wasn’t hanging around waiting for you to hire me all that time.

That makes so little sense (but then, book bans rarely do). These guys are working incredibly hard in a world that has no place for them, all for a dream of having their own home/farm, which they will presumably also work hard on. I never saw either of them as particularly lazy.

He definitely had relationships with men, one of which resulted in a huge scandal. I don’t know enough about him to tell you if he was exclusively gay, bi, etc. Not to mention sexuality was looked at from a different perspective at the time.

Yup, and two sons. His wife changed their surname to Holland to avoid scandal. One of the sons would later go on to die in WWI. Wilde has a living grandchild, Merlin Holland, and at least one great-grandchild.