Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

OscarGuy wrote:How long did it officially run over? I lost count.

About 20-21 minutes, if you count closing credits.

anonymous wrote:I might as well start this.

Good Lord. The ceremony's barely over. I'll come back to this thread after the dust settles on this year. (Or maybe I'm just holding off because I've always considered this Mister Tee's thread.)



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Related point: whose STUPID idea was it to present this category so early in the evening? It practically killed the suspense for the rest of the night. That's true. If they had wanted to give out a lead acting award that early, it should've been Actor, so we would still have had some suspense to ta...

Damien wrote:Horrible actor. Horrible speech. By all reports he's a very nice (if eccentric) guy, but he makes me wish Stanislavsky had never been born.

HA!

I didn't mind him too much in There Will Be Blood, but I still think that Tommy Lee Jones's performance was far better.

I'm not crazy about this mediocrity of a song (sounds like a throwaway cut on a singer-songwriter's album circa 1971, and I hate how it goes upscale, which plays against the emotions of the lyrics), but loved that Jon Stewart brought the chick back. Let this be an everlasting slap in the face of th...

Sonic Youth wrote:I just realized four of the nominees are war films.

Apparently, the other one (12), has wartime flashbacks. And it's also an adaptation of 12 Angry Men, although I never would've guessed either of those things in the short clip they showed.

I don't think I'll be too upset at the end of the night. My favorite of the nominees is the frontrunner in Picture and Director. In Actor, Tommy Lee Jones is far and away my favorite, but I'm resigned to Daniel Day-Lewis winning. His performance is big and attention-grabbing, while Jones's is quiet...

Picture: No Country For Old Men (RU: There Will Be Blood) Director: The Coen Borthers (RU: Paul Thomas Anderson) Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (RU: Tommy Lee Jones) Actress: Marion Cotillard (RU: Julie Christie) Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem (RU: Hal Holbrook) Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan (RU: Tilda Sw...

Something that actually could take over the Carly thing in terms of media attention is a statement Garrett made in one of his post-elimination interviews. I'd bet most of the money in my bank account that the media doesn't pick up on it, but it definitely indicates something rotten in the state of ...

People just take him for an ass because he doesn't give all the puppies dog treats like...Randy. What? Randy's probably a bigger asshole than Simon. I'd actually contend that Paula is the only judge who pretty much always gives an honest reaction to the performances. Edited By dws1982 on 1203830160

Also, I agree with dws that it's nice to see more contemporary films like American Gangster recognized. Too bad, though, that the '70's epic recognized here wasn't Zodiac. After watching American Gangster last night, I agree that Zodiac would've been a more deserving nominee in this category. Gangs...

I'm a major American Idol conspiracy-theorist, Zahveed. The media is talking about Carly's failed album a lot. Much more than the Idol powers that be are comfortable with, especially since they don't want it to be really wide knowledge that Carly was signed to MCA during Randy Jackson's tenure ther...

Whether or not Colton Berry has a shot at a successful recording career is irrelevant, and unknowable, to me since we barely saw him at all on the show. My point is that Simon took that last minute advice thing as an opportunity to take the knife and twist it around. His comments were out of line, ...

Scott Feinberg polled three voters himself to get these results. Actually I suspect he polled more than three and just used the most interesting results (three different votes in Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplays), but here it is: ACTRESS A legendary star of the st...