Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Black Nazi refers to the crackpot Trump endorsed Republican Lt. Governor of North Carolina, who is running for Governor. It's a name he has given himself. He has also just been outed by CNN and Politico for using the Ashley Madison Adultery Website.

I think a larger trend that we will see play out will be the widening gender gap with young people in support for Republicans versus Democrats—it's a striking development. If it was Pete Buttigieg saying the same things I'm not sure your nephew would be voting Socialist. Regardless, despite clearly...

I don't know. I should probably ask their brother who lives in New York who he is voting for. The three of them usually think alike when it comes to politics. I tried to convince them that a vote for anyone other than Kamala was a vote for Trump, but they weren't having any of it despite the fact th...

I have Quo Vadis, Aida? on my 2021 list, the year of its U.S. release.

Ten Best Films of 2020 Minari (Lee Isaac Chung) Sound of Metal (Darius Marder) Nomadland (Chloé Zhao) The Father (Florian Zeller) Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell) Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King) One Night in Miami... (Regina King) The Mauritanian (Kevin Macdonald) News of the World (...

Yesterday I spoke at length with my sister and brother-in-law in the Dallas area and two of their three sons about the upcoming election. My sister and her husband, like my six other living siblings and their significant others, are voting for Kamala and in their case, Colin Allred for Senator. My t...

Complete list of 2024 TIFF awards: People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award presented by Rogers is: The Substance, dir. Coralie Fargeat | United Kingdom/USA/France First runner-up is: Dead Talents Society, dir. John Hsu | Taiwan Second runner-up is: Friendship, dir. Andrew DeYoung | USA People’s Choic...

We have a lot of what they're calling "low information voters" in this country. Sounds so much nicer than calling them dumbasses or shitheads.

I don't know whether Trump is having an affair with looney Laura or not, but just like Putin, Gaetz, and other deplorables of various stripes, she knows how to ring his bell by flattering him. She is his new favorite female which has thrown Marjorie Taylor Greene into a frenzy. I suspect that the on...

Clint Eastwood's film will be opening this year after all.

It will screen at the AFI Film Festival on 10/27 and open in a limited run on 11/1.

He was the CIA hero played by Ben Affleck in Argo. He was 81.

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That was exciting. I think Kamala Harris started shaky but became a lot more confident. At worst, she was evasive, didn't always answer the questions, or gets overwhelmed. But mostly I thought she was super prepared and had a lot of good moments. Really good moments. As for Trump? He just has the b...

Jones was almost always memorable. My favorite screen performance of his was another one that he and Brock Peters also shared. Peters, in fact, played it two decades before Jones. The film was the 1995 version of Alan Paton's anti-Apartheid 1948 novel, Cry, the Beloved Country , for which Jones rece...

I don't know what its chances of landing a Best Picture nod are, but Wall-E which both the Variety and Hollywood Reporter reviews reference, was nominated for six Oscars in the days of five-picture nominations. Had there been ten slots, it may well have gotten a seventh for Best Picture, so it's pos...

Smart move on A24's part. I suspect they will continue to push Sing Sing for Best Picture but not as heavily. They will likely also campaign Babygirl and Queer for Best Picture, but the emphasis has to be on The Brutalist which has the momentum. Nicole Kidman will get their sole push for Best Actres...