[Lionheart]

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Kinda off topic, but just watched Back to the Future yesterday and gawd damn it is such a good movie... just perfect pacing... you aren't bored for a single second from beginning to end.

Oscar nom for best screenplay - thoroughly deserved. It probably should have won. It's about as perfect as a script can get, and along with movies like 'Tootsie' it gets taught as an example of a great script.

IronicalLy, Tootsie lost most of its Oscars noms because of the Oscar bait juggernaut of Ghandi (E.T. suffered the same fate the same year). But the year of BttF was the year when Out of Africa won loads (the movie Pollack made after Tootsie). However, BttF lost in screenplay to Witness rather than OoA, because the latter was based on a book (it won in the category for best adapted screenplay though). Spielberg thought he had it in the bag with The Colour Purple, but he was blocked by OoA.