Release of ‘The Penguin Lessons’ Offers a Chance To Extol the Many Virtues of Steve Coogan
The comedian and actor was nominated for an Oscar as a screenwriter on Stephen Frears’s ‘Philomena,’ but to this critic’s lights he has been conspicuously overlooked by the Academy.
The Museum of the Moving Image has been hosting a group of films under the rubric “Forever Snubbed,” a series that serves as an “anti-tribute to the Oscars by highlighting those films and figures who have never won the little golden guy.”
The snarky tone may be off-putting, but MoMI’s lineup of snubbed movies is astonishing. Among the recent inclusions are “Carmen Jones” (1954), “3:10 to Yuma” (1957), “Don’t Look Now” (1973), “The Lady From Shanghai” (1947), and “Vertigo” (1958). Consider those achievements when mooting the pictures and performers honored at the recent Oscar ceremony.
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