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,
MRS Bulletin MRS Bulletin MRS Bulletin is published by the Materials Research Society in partnership with Cambridge University Press. It was established in 1974 as the "MRS Newsletter" (Volume 1, Number 1). There was a year gap in 1981, and then in 1982, it came back as "MRS Bulletin". The current editor is Gopal R. Rao (2011–present). The previous editor was Elizabeth Fleischer (1991 to 2011). The journal is abstracted and indexed in According to "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 5.199, ranking it 38 out of 275 journals in the category "Materials Science, Multidisciplinary", and 19