Oscar bait success of summer blockbusters like "Jaws" and "Star Wars" (both of which had also been nominated for Best Picture), independent filmmakers refined Carr's methods of exploiting the Oscars. Merchant Ivory, who produced lavish costume dramas, often based on novels by Henry James or E. M. Forster, began to time their releases to align with the awards season. Their 1985 adaptation of Forster's "A Room with a View" won three of the eight Oscars it was nominated for. By 1991 the modern film-release calendar, in which studios released the movies they had the highest Oscar hopes for in autumn and December,
Polly Holliday "The Golden Girls", where she played Rose Nylund's blind sister Lily, in a recurring role as Jill Taylor's mother on "Home Improvement", and a regular on "The Client". Holliday's notable roles in films include "All the President's Men", "Mrs. Doubtfire", the 1998 remake of "The Parent Trap" and her role as Mrs. Ruby Deagle in the 1984 box office smash "Gremlins". On the Broadway stage, she has appeared in revivals of "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1986) as Martha Brewster, one of the dotty, homicidal, sweet old aunties; "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1990), for which she was nominated for