Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Will the fact that most of First Man's effects were practical, in-camera effects (no green screen or CGI was used, I believe) help it, hurt it, or have no effect?

I do wonder if maybe the tide is turning in another direction. What a weird Oscar season. I don't at all dispute your take, but what direction would that be? Beale Street -- a film that's been battered by the Guilds? Can You Ever Forgive Me?, a financial dud? The others seem fringe candidates for w...

Black Panther Can You Ever Forgive Me? The Death of Stalin If Beale Street Could Talk Leave No Trace This group has pretty solidly nailed the Adapted Screenplay award for the past decade. They don't always nominate the same five that the Academy nominates, but many years they nominate 4 out of 5 th...

Say three of the nominees get 45% of the vote: 20%, 15% and 10% (50, 37 and 25 votes), leaving 55% (138 votes) for the other two. There are 18 win/lose outcomes (87-51, 86-52, ..., 70-68) and one tie outcome (69-69); i.e., a 5.3% chance (1/19) of a tie. Shouldn't the win/lose outcomes be counted tw...

I strongly disliked this--as in, maybe even more than Green Book . Vice does make me appreciate even more how Oliver Stone handled Nixon and W. I liked The Big Short , and I felt like a lot of McKay's ideas worked, both as interesting ways to tell that story, and they all worked together. Here, like...

There was also a story today about how Peter Farrelly used to repeatedly flash his penis on movie sets.

Max, i don’t know how long you’ve tracked him but trust me, whatever has happened to Armond White is truly our loss. His review of A.I. Artificial Intelligence is one of the most important pieces of film writing of the 2000’s. He mattered. He challenged people, and wrote from a place of morality an...

Armond White's Better-Than List It's about what you would expect. Paul Schrader is apparently "craven". He lost me for good in 2012 when he suddenly decided that he hated Steven Spielberg after both mainstream and auteurist critics responded strongly to Lincoln . Ever since, Spielberg has...

I might have missed it, but when was the last time Best Drama went to a film without a corresponding director nomination? Scent of a Woman back in 1992. That one didn't have a Screenplay nomination either. It actually won Screenplay. I've been a big Rami Malek fan since The Pacific almost ten years...

Drama: Black Panther Comedy/Musical: The Favourite Actor, Drama: Bradley Cooper Actress, Drama: Lady Gaga Actor, Comedy/Musical: Christian Bale Actress, Comedy/Musical: Olivia Coleman Supporting Actor: Timothee Chalamet Supporting Actress: Amy Adams Screenplay: The Favourite Director: Alfonso Cuaron...

Sabin wrote:BEST PICTURE: THE RIDER (44 points)

How did it not figure into Cinematography with this much support?

Awesome choice; I slightly preferred 2018's other horse movie (Lean on Pete), but I'm really glad to see this movie get some unexpected recognition.

A Quiet Place got good notices and made money, but it's a monster movie -- not a revisionist, Douglas Sirk-influenced monster movie like The Shape of Water; a standard monster movie like Cloverfield. Since when have Academy voters been interested in anything like that? At least one performance of t...

If you missed The Innocents on Amazon Prime, good news--it unexpectedly showed up on Netflix this morning.

This seems to be a common thing lately--movies leaving Amazon only to turn up on Netflix (A24's catalog seems to be doing this), or leaving Netflix only to turn up right away on Amazon.

MaxWilder wrote Sabin wrote If I had to pick right now, I'd guess Nicole Kidman simply due to Annapurna strength. Aren't things a mess over there? Destroyer seems to have faded out. Yes, they are. Quite. But I do know that they spent a lot on it so I figured they would be insistent on getting it se...

This has turned out, in my view, a truly sub-par year, with no film fully satisfying me, and it’s honestly difficult for me to imagine any film out there taking either best film or best director. I seem to be the opposite of many--I think it's been a great year. I've already seen four or five movie...