Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I'm not as well-versed on the Nobel Literature winners, but isn't Ishiguro's seven novels a relatively small body of work for the Nobel prize? Not that it would EVER happen, but my off-the-wall Nobel Literature wish is always Wendell Berry. His Port William novels are worthy of Faulkner, his poetry ...

I would never say that Once Upon A Time In America is pro-rape, or even that it's misogynistic (I think it's too complicated to be reduced to simple adjectives like that), but I also won't sit through those scenes and say "that's just how things were then" without engaging them on a moral ...

I've never seen Once Upon a Time in America (largely because I didn't want to watch the truncated version) so I can't comment on that one... ...Amadeus has great production design and costumes, but its images aren't that memorable. Wish you had seen Once Upon A Time In America because I'd definitel...

Amadeus , quite easily. Agree with Big Magilla about Once Upon a Time In America , which I recently had the opportunity to see at the Belcourt in Nashville. It is most definitely a gorgeous-looking film. I know the 1984 version was the linear 140 minute version, but those childhood sequences were p...

This was one of those races where I wasn't quite sure whether it would be a landslide in one direction, or if the votes would split fairly evenly between two films, which is what has happened so far. I ultimately sided with The Right Stuff , but those who side with Fanny and Alexander get no argumen...

I guess everyone's good and sick of Veep/Julia Louis-Dreyfuss winning, but, from what I've seen of it (at other people's houses, as I don't have HBO), it's still a quite funny show. Season six is probably the "weakest" since the first season, but that's more an indication of how great sea...

1982...the year of my birth. Which, I don't even want to think about how old I just turned, and instead I'll focus on being in more-or-less the best physical shape of my life, and the fact that I'm about to close on my first home. I could be wrong, but this may be the earliest Cinematography lineup ...

He did make some movies, but it's hard to remember what any of them were without looking on IMDB; he's certainly far more notable for what he did in theatre. It says that he had been diagnosed with dementia in 2011. My grandmother just died this past summer after years of suffering from dementia for...

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "this scene was not played as master-beating-slave." The scene is LITERALLY a master beating her slave. Yeah, and I think it's worth pointing out that Scarlett has the freedom to slap Prissy because of their respective positions in the social hierarchy....

Kind of surprising to see such a new distributor take this, especially with Netflix offering upwards of $10 million. Maybe missing out on a few high-profile films like this will get Netflix to rethink their distribution model.

They handed out the Creative Arts awards this weekend, which is the first hundred or so categories. Saturday Night Live , Stranger Things , and Westworld were the top winners with five awards each. The Night Of won four well-deserved technical awards, including a Cinematography award for Fred Elmes,...

I'll side with Magilla this time around: though I didn't love Chariots of Fire overall, I found its cinematography exquisite -- it looked like tintypes from the 20s brought to life. I was sorry it wasn't cited, and happy for David Watkin that he won several years on. (He'd also done great work on L...

D.A. Pennebaker got one a few years back as well. I don't think it's quite accurate to label Burnett a documentary filmmaker, though. He's made some documentaries (none of which has been widely shown), but Agnes Varda has probably made as many as he has, and the movies he's most known for are narrat...

Frankly I've never seen anything from Charles Brackett. After looking him up at IMDb his filmography looks very slim and nothing stand out. He's a hugely important filmmaker, and Killer of Sheep and To Sleep With Anger alone make him worthy of this recognition. And Nightjohn is one of the best chil...

Frankly I've never seen anything from Charles Brackett. After looking him up at IMDb his filmography looks very slim and nothing stand out. He's a hugely important filmmaker, and Killer of Sheep and To Sleep With Anger alone make him worthy of this recognition. And Nightjohn is one of the best chil...