Please, God…don’t give the 2007 Best Picture Oscar to Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Not because it doesn’t deserve the honor (I’ve seen nothing, know nothing) but because of that atrocious, calcified coffee-table book title. It sounds like a PBS documentary with a fund-drive during the intermission. Ask yourself, readership: if you were Shekhar Kapur and feeling wonderful about having directed a real, full-hearted “movie” that was also a stirring historical drama about Queen Elizabeth (who reigned from 1558 to 1603) with the great Cate Blanchett in the lead role, would you want it to be called “Name, Colon, Bland Allusion to Rich Cultural Era in 16th Century England“?
