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The Billy Wilder vote was crazy close. One movie with 9 votes, one with 8 votes and two with 7 votes.
Something you may not know is that Wikkid had an incredible reverence for Australian director Peter Weir. He even had some 2nd hand connections with him. Here's Wikkid's own words on Weir:
Rd 1: Jaws for Spielberg (50%)
Rd 2: Alien for Ridley Scott (43%)
Rd 3: Psycho for Alfred Hitchcock (44%)
Rd 4: 2001: A Space Odyssey for Stanley Kubrick (31%)
Rd 5: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre for John Huston(46%)
Rd 6: Titanic for James Cameron (26%)
Rd 7: Some Like It Hot for Billy Wilder (25%)
Something you may not know is that Wikkid had an incredible reverence for Australian director Peter Weir. He even had some 2nd hand connections with him. Here's Wikkid's own words on Weir:
my ol' drinking/poker buddy, the late Bill Kelley, wrote the (Oscar-winning) script for Witness. Bill was amazed by three things - poker skill, the human hunger to capture God & Peter Weir. we talked a great deal about writing for the screen (he wrote a thousand Gunsmokes/Kung Fus/ etcs) and he would steamily marvel that, while some directors got a lot, some directors got precious little of what he was going for in a script, Weir - without all that much consult - put what Bill "saw" as he was writing Witness onto the screen as tho he'd drawn it out of his skull with a straw.
because of that, i recommended Weir to my director cousin when he got to helm Memoirs of a Geisha, when all he'd done was musicals. he arranged dinner with him during the next awards season, and went from nothing but doubts about the visual logic of the piece to no worries at all in the course of one lonely meal. just an extraordinary sense of place, and taking one to places they havent been is what flikkashows do best.
Rd 1: Jaws for Spielberg (50%)
Rd 2: Alien for Ridley Scott (43%)
Rd 3: Psycho for Alfred Hitchcock (44%)
Rd 4: 2001: A Space Odyssey for Stanley Kubrick (31%)
Rd 5: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre for John Huston(46%)
Rd 6: Titanic for James Cameron (26%)
Rd 7: Some Like It Hot for Billy Wilder (25%)
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