Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I mean, Taylor Hicks much? Daughtry and that "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" chick (her name completely escapes me at the moment) are far more popular. Chris Daughtry and Elliott Yamin were the real winners that season, and probably the two most successful contestants who didn't reach the fi...

I considered picking Heat or Nixon for the BP slot instead of Bridges ; glad to see that I picked Bridges , since it's generated a lot of discussion. Cinemanolis: However i was disapointed that it replaced 'Sense and Sensibility' and not any other of that year's nominees. Sense and Sensibility and ...

The Bridges of Madison County is a lovely film, taking a so-so book and really finding a depth and beauty to it. From the excerpts I've read, so-so is a generous description. The movie is beautiful, though--probably second only to Unforgiven as far as my favorite Eastwood films are concerned, so mu...

In Best Picture, I'll replace Sense and Sensibility with The Bridges of Madison County , the chick-flick--which is very much an Eastwood film--that probably would've gotten several more nominations had it been released late in the year, rather than in summer. In Best Film Editing, I'm going to repl...

He was probably my first favorite actor, the first whose films I would watch because he was in them. (This was when I was seven or eight.) This meant seeing some bad movies, like The Far Horizons --with Donna Reed(!) as Sacajawea--some interesting failures like The Buccaneer (Anthony Quinn's sole d...

The big bang theory does not disprove the existence of God. It can be interpreted as the way He did it. Agree. Tracy: "You believe that Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel and that Cain slew Abel and went out into the world and begat the rest of the human race from which all of us are des...

I know it's my turn, but I don't think I haven any real changes to make. I haven't seen enough from 1934 to go very far playing this year.

So I'm just going to pass the baton to the next person.



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Thanks for that, Damien. I've been going through 1949 films a lot recently, via Netflix, and TCM schedules, and this is one I had overlooked. Speaking of 1949, Raoul Walsh's Colorado Territory , which TCM aired yesterday (I DVR'd and watched last night) airs again Wednesday night, early Thursday mo...

Why else woudldthey be talking about casting Robert Duvall as Cheney, Tommy Lee Jones as Rumsfeld, Jeffrey Wright as Colin Powell and Toby Jones as Karl Rove? Sounds like disastrous casting, given that the actors range in age from late seventies to forty, and their real-life conterparts range from ...