The Purple Rose Of Cairo (1985)
Lights! Camera! Action! Fangirl Cecilia (Mia Farrow) is so besotted with romantic comedy The Purple Rose Of Cairo - and specifically it☂s hero, Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels) - she goes back to the cine𝓀ma to see it over and over again.
Trouble On Set: Tom♒ notices Cecilia and walks out of the film to talk to h🔯e, leaving his fellow characters twiddling their thumbs.
Chances Of An Oscar: It's unlikel𒁃y the studio will be promoting a film that even its lead character isn't interested in.
Living In Oblivion (1995)
Lights! Camera! Action! Aspiring indie filmmaker Nick Reve (Steve Buscemi) is⛎ trying to shoot his low-budget relationship🤪 drama.
Trouble On Set: A preening star (James LeGros) and a dwarf (Peter Dinklage) unhappy about being typ🎃ecast - "Do you know anyone who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? No! I don't even have dreams with dwarves in them."
Chances Of An Oscar: Slim. Reve's film is at the sp♉it-and-sawdust level of indie cinema.
A Star Is Born (1954)
Lights! Camera! Action! Faded star Norman Maine (James Mason) gets a shot at redemption when he falls in🔴 love with up-and-comer Esther Blodgett (Judy Garland).
Trouble On Set: A tale of two stars - Esther, renamed Vicki Lester, hits the ♏big time; while Norman becom♕es an unemployed alcoholic.
Chances Of An Oscar: A win for Vicki Lester… eve🗹🐻n if drunken Norman derails the ceremony.
Super 8 (2011)
Lights! Camera! Action! Adolescent auteur Charles Kaznyk (Riley Griffiths) enlists the help of his classmates to make amateur zombie epic The Case .
Trouble On Set: An attem🃏pt to add production 🤪values by shooting in a railway station goes awry when the camera accidentally films an alien escaping from a train smash.
Chances Of An Oscar: On the strength of The Case , probably not, but it's🌼 early days. Give Kaznyk a sequel!
King Kong (1933)
Lights! Camera! Action! Ca𒐪rl Denham (Robert Armstrong) hires Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) to play the love interest in his latest adventure documentary.
Trouble On Set: ꧒ Denham probably hadn't counted on just how single-minded the island's giant ape was when it cam൲e to falling in love.
Chances Of An Oscar: Denham ꦉgives up on the idea of completing his film and decides to make his money by parading Kong on the New York stagꦛe. Bad idea.
Sherlock, Jr (1924)
Lights! Camera! Action! ꦯ A daydreaming projectionist (Buster Keaton) must play detective wheꦗn he's framed for theft.
Trouble On Set: Keaton dreams that he 'walkꦗs' into a film, only to find he's in various difficulties when each shot cu🦩ts to the next.
Chances Of An Oscar: It's all in Bus🍎ter's head. He'll have to make do with clearing his name and winning the girl.
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Lights! Camera! Action! Aspiring actress Betty (Naomi Watts) stuns with an audition piece for director Adam Kesher's (Justin Theroux) latest film, The Sylvia North Story .
Trouble On Set: It's likely that 'Betty' is the construct for failed wannabe Diane Selwyn (also Watts), ಌfacing a bleak future after too many professional and romantic rejections.
Chances Of An Oscar: None whatsoever for Diane... but someღwhere Betty is winning Best Actress.
