Comments Thread For: Johnny Tapia Movie Moves Forward, Lead Actor Cast

[Mr. Philadel]

Damn all these boxing movies coming out, Mickey Ward biopic, Duran biopic, Tapia biopic, Eminem's boxing flick...I thought boxing was dying?

them MMA cats was spreading that mess and few naive boxing fans bought into it....boxing is the ****!!!..it will never die...the bad decisions and ducking has to end though

[BOLLOCKS]

Damn all these boxing movies coming out, Mickey Ward biopic, Duran biopic, Tapia biopic, Eminem's boxing flick...I thought boxing was dying?

Boxing wins you Oscars.

Complete list of all boxing movies that have won Oscars at the Academy Awards:

Best Picture
1954 - On the Waterfront
1976 - Rocky
2004 - Million Dollar Baby

Best Actor
1954 - Marlon Brando (as Terry Malloy) - On the Waterfront
1980 - Robert De Niro (as Jake LaMotta) - Raging Bull

Best Actress
2004 - Hilary Swank (as Maggie Fitzgerald) - Million Dollar Baby

Supportung Actor
2004 - Morgan Freeman (as Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris) - Million Dollar Baby
2010 - Christian Bale (as ****y Eklund) - The Fighter

Supporting Actress
1954 - Eva Marie Saint (as Edie Doyle) - On the Waterfront
2010 - Melissa Leo (as Alice Ward) - The Fighter

Best Director
1954 - Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
1976 - John G. Avildsen - Rocky
2004 - Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby

Best Documentary
1996 - When We Were Kings (directed by Leon Gast)

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
1941 - Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Sidney Buchman, Seton Miller from the play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
1954 - On the Waterfront - Budd Schulberg

Best Story (last awarded in 1956)
1932 - The Champ - Frances Marion
1941 - Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Harry Segall

Best Art Direction
1954 - On the Waterfront - Richard Day
1956 - Somebody Up There Likes Me - Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason

Best Cinematography
1954 - On the Waterfront - Boris Kaufman
1956 - Somebody Up There Likes Me - Joseph Ruttenberg

Best Film Editing
1947 - Body and Soul - Francis Lyon, Robert Parrish
1954 - On the Waterfront - Gene Milford
1976 - Rocky - Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad
1980 - Raging Bull - Thelma Schoonmaker

[Larry the boss]

cant wait to see it