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  1. Jan 15, 2020 · On paper, it certainly has all the markers of something that could easily be categorized as awards bait: A romantic drama set during the Second World War; a story of social issues and race that takes on a dark and oft-ignored part of American history; the presence of a two-time Oscar-nominated director and an A-Lister in the lead role (playing a...

  2. Jan 16, 2014 · It's one that never even received a single Oscar nomination: the 1990 drama Come See the Paradise, starring Dennis Quaid and directed by Alan Parker.

  3. In 2014, 2 UCLA professors went in and looked at 3000 movies made since 1985 and found that the most Oscar-bait movie was a film called Come See The Paradise. It starred Dennis Quaid and was about the treatment of Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor.

  4. Mar 11, 2024 · The results of the analyses can be seen in the list below of the top ten biggest ‘Oscar Bait’ projects. Alan Parker’s 1990 flm Come See the Paradise tops the list. The movie exposed the unjust treatment of Japanese Americans in the US following the attack on Pearl Harbour during World War II.

  5. Oscar bait. A 2014 study by Gabriel Rossman and Oliver Schilke, two sociologists at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), identified Come See the Paradise as the most deliberate example of Oscar bait in their study of 3,000 films released since 1985.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Oscar_baitOscar bait - Wikipedia

    In a 2014 study of 3,000 films released since 1985, two UCLA professors identified the 1990 film Come See the Paradise as the most deliberately targeted for the Oscars. It received generally positive reviews, but did not receive any nominations and failed at the box office.

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  8. Mar 9, 2024 · Their study showed that the biggest Oscar bait movie of the lot was the 1990 film Come See the Paradise, directed by Alan Parker. Starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita, it tells the story of a theatre projectionist in Los Angeles who is drafted in to fight in WWII, all while his Japanese-American wife and daughter are forced into an ...

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