STACK #136 Feb 2016

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Founder Nic Short Editor-in-Chief Paul Jones Film & DVD Editor Scott Hocking Music Editor Zoë Radas JuniorWriter Alesha Kolbe Creative Director Justin Buxton DVD Consultant Michelle Black Games Consultant Stuart Duncan

Issue 136

FEBRUARY 2016

WELCOME “And the Oscar goes to…”Chicago-based R.S. Owens & Company has already applied the finishing touches to this year’s Oscar statuettes, a contract it has fulfilled since 1982. Standing at 34 centimetres (13 and half inches in old money), and comprised of gold-plated britannium, it signifies the highest award obtainable in the film industry and can make, and occasionally break, careers. The history of the awards is of course littered with upsets. John Ford was famously overlooked for Best Director on The Searchers , arguably the greatest film of the Western genre; Kubrick’s groundbreaking 2001: A Space Odyssey lost to Oliver! ; and Star Wars was unforgivably pipped at the post by Woody Allen’s Annie Hall . The list of dubious winners goes on. Given how predictable the Oscars have now become, from the saccharine acceptance speeches and laboriously scripted parlance from forgettable hosts, to the obvious category winners, will the 88th Annual Academy Awards actually deliver a surprise or three? Our portentous film editor has already forecast his predictions in this issue – who do you think will win on Hollywood’s night of nights? Paul Jones, Editor-in-Chief

Music Consultants Mike Glynn, Fleur Parker Chief Contributors Bob Jones , Amy Flower Contributors John Ferguson, Graham Reid, Michael Dwyer, Jeff Jenkins, Emily Kelly, Simon Lukic, Chris Murray, Billy Pinnell, Denise Hylands, Simon Winkler, Gill Pringle, Ryan Huff, John Roebuck Social Media Manager Sally Carlier-Hull Photographer Chip Mooney Production Manager Craig Patterson Accounts Coordinator Tracy Kingman

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