Tonight on TCM 31 Days of Oscar -BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ
Every year, Turner Classic Movies celebrates Academy Awards legacy with a sampling of Oscar nominated and Oscar winning films throughout the history of Hollywood, and this year is no exception.Eskimo (1963), along with Citizen Kane (’41) are among the Oscar winning movies that will premiere on February 1st to kick off this year’s 31 Days of Oscar and will conclude with Jane Fonda’s California Suite on March 3rd.
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is getting trivial with its annual 31 DAYS OF OSCAR® festival in February. The 2011 edition of the month-long event will feature more than 340 Academy Award®-nominated and winning movies, scheduled in trivia-inspired marathons. In addition, each night will feature a
Best Picture Oscar winner at 10 p.m. (ET).
TCM host Robert Osborne, who is also the official biographer of the Academy Awards and the Academy’s red carpet greeter, will host 31 DAYS OF OSCAR, which will mark its 17th year on Turner Classic Movies. The 2011 edition will feature several high-profile films making their debuts on TCM, including three Best Picture winners: Cavalcade (1933), Amadeus (1984) and Forrest Gump (1994). The month also includes the TCM debuts of the blockbusters Pretty Woman (1990) and Thelma & Louise (1991), as well as outstanding dramas like Hugh Hudson’s Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), Hector Babenco’s Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989)
and Michael Mann’s Ali (2001).
Several excellent actress showcases are planned for TCM for the first time, including Janet Gaynor in Street Angel (1928), Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc (1948) and The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958), Marilyn Monroe in Bus Stop (1956), Julie Andrews in Star! (1968) and Cathy Burns in Last Summer (1969). Also, such international classics as Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes (1964), Constantine Costa-Gavras’ Z (1969), Jean-Charles Tacchella’s Cousin, Cousine (1975), Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors: Red (1994) will come to TCM for the first time.
Among the month’s many interesting marathons are a collection of films starring Jack Nicholson, the most nominated performer of all time; four films that received nominations in all four acting categories; an entire day featuring all ten Best Picture nominees for Hollywood’s Golden Year, 1939, including Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz; a day of romantic comedies on Valentine’s Day; a night of Oscar firsts; a slate of films that earned Best Director nominations but failed to earn Best Picture nods; and a night of films that earned participants posthumous nominations.
The Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 will be presented live on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center® and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.



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Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster and directed by John Frankenheimer.[1][2] It is a fictionalized version of the life ofRobert Stroud, a federal prison inmate known as the “Birdman of Alcatraz” because of his life with birds.
I have a copy of Birdman of Alcatraz to give away.
To Enter: Answer the following Trivia Question:
Robert Stroud was transferred to Alcatraz and wasn’t allowed to keep his birds,
despite of what the movie portrayed.
What is the name of the other prison where he was able to keep 40 birds on his cell.
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The Bird-man of Alctraz is an amazing movie and also story. The location where he was allowed to keep birds was at Leavenworth … not far from where I live. Thanks for the opportunity.
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Please enter me. Love to read this. The other prison was Leavenworth.
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Oh, that it's easy! Leavenworth (Kansas)–right up the road from me!
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