Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Alfred Hitchcock has been nominated five times for Best Director, and in four of those times (1944, 1945, 1954, 1960) he was up against Billy Wilder, losing to him twice. There was a real possibility (though remote) that they could have gone head-to-head again in 1972. The Globes nominated Hitchcock...

Big Magilla wrote:Private Lives played Broadway May-July 1983 after which Taylor starred in a Broadway revival of The Corn Is Green in August and September.

A classy interlude between General Hospital and The Flintstones.

Jean Stapleton was a member of the actor's branch of the AMPAS.

Bullshit from Orson Welles is worth more than the wisdom of most, so I've ordered the book and can't wait to dig into it. Reading the NY Mag article it seemed odd that in 1983, Richard Burton would say, "Elizabeth is with me." They were long divorced and Burton was by then married to his l...

Thanks tootpadu for the clarification.

My previous email has been modified to remove Melvyn Douglas.

When Christoph Waltz won for Django Unchained and Sally Field lost for Lincoln they switched places on this particular record list. Name all performers who have a perfect record of Oscar wins-to-nominations, where the total nominations > 1. All these performers are a perfect 2 for 2. Helen Hayes Lui...

Oscar year 1968 would also technically count in the list of six different winning pictures in the top six categories. Oliver Charly The Lion in Winter Funny Girl The Subject was Roses Rosemary's Baby The tie between Hepburn and Streisand makes up for the double-win by Oliver for Best Picture and Bes...

For some reason I always thought that SH was much older than 74. When he first appeared on All in the Family as George Jefferson he was in his early 30s. Isabel Sanford was 20+ years older as wife "Weezy". They were both terrific. Sherman now knows what it's like to be "movin' on up&q...

Now that Ernest Borgnine is dead, Maximilian Schell is the earliest Best Actor winner who is still alive.

Indeed, for the Oscar year 1961, all four acting winners are still alive...Schell, Loren, Chakiris, Moreno.

The next earliest year when this is the case is 1978...Voight, Fonda, Walken, Smith.

Gidget unionizes a factory and becomes known thereafter as Widget.

Other interesting supporting performances this year include Arthur Kennedy (Lawrence of Arabia), Lee Marvin (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) and Jason Robards (Long Day’s Journey Into Night).

Is Rooney Mara playing Moe Howard's wife in the upcoming Three Stooges biopic?

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I'm very sad to hear of Damien Bona's passing. My prayers are with him, his family and friends. A sad loss for everyone. I used to be an avid listener of the old Larry King radio program on the Mutual Broadcasting Network. One night, guest host Jim Bohannon had two authors on promoting a new book ab...

Will electronic voting be used only for the final ballots or for the nominating ballots, as well? Does this type of system allow voters to change their votes if they change their minds before the final cutoff time? Unlike a postal ballot which is "final" would revisions be permissible? Sho...

Among this year's most likely leading actor nominees...Clooney, DiCaprio, Pitt, Shannon (men); Close, Davis, Streep, Williams (women)...what do they all have in common? They're ALL previous nominees for Best Supporting Actor/Actress. What is the record for most previously nominated in a supporting c...