Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

The Breaking Ice , Singapore (Anthony Chen) 7/10 - In one wintry weekend in a city right at the border of North Korea and China, three people: a young man from Shanghai, a tour guide who used to be an Olympian figure skater and a single father restaurant worker, befriend one another. This film kind...

ASTEROID CITY Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlet Johansson, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Matt Dillon, Hope Davis, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Jake Ryan, Hong Chau, Margot Robbie, Tony Revolori, Jeff Go...

I agree Song's newbie status is something of a handicap (though... ahem... Greta Gerwig got nominated for, basically, her first film). To be fair, Greta Gerwig has been well-known as both an actress and a writer by the time she made Lady Bird . Most people have not heard of Celine Song before Past ...

WONKA Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan Michael-Key, Paterson Joseph, Olivia Colman, Hugh Grant, Matt Lucas, Matthew Baynton, Jim Carter, Tom Davis, Rowan Atkinson, Natasha Rothwell, Sally Hawkins. Dir: Paul King This prequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory chronicles how Willy Wo...

THEATER CAMP Cast: Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin, Jimmy Tatro, Ayo Edebiri, Caroline Aaron, Amy Sedaris, Nathan Lee Graham, Patti Harrison, Owen Thiele, Alan Kim. Dirs: Nick Lieberman, Molly Gordon. A performing arts camp struggle to keep open after its owner falls into a coma and the managem...

Story.

A major one. RIP.

I'll throw in mine. BEST FILM : Oppenheimer BEST DIRECTOR : Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer BEST ACTOR : Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers BEST ACTRESS : Emma Stone, Poor Things BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR : Ryan Gosling, Barbie BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS : Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLA...

MAY DECEMBER Cast: Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman, Charles Melton, Cory Michael Smith. Dir: Todd Haynes. A married couple who had a notorious tabloid past is forced to confront those issues when an actress who wants to play the woman in a movie wishes to do research on them. Even though I am genera...

Godland , Iceland (Hlynur Palmason) 9/10 - In the 19th century, a Danish priest is assigned to help build a church in an isolated village in Iceland (under Danish rule at the time) and found that the isolation, culture clash, language barrier, rough terrain, etc. will prove challenging to both his ...

SILENT NIGHT Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Scott Mescudi, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Harold Torres. Dir: John Woo. After his son is hit and killed by stray bullet caused by a gunfight between two rival gangs during Christmas Eve, a man becomes hellbent on revenge. This is John Woo's first American film in a lo...

Let me join the fray: BEST FILM : Poor Things BEST DIRECTOR : Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon BEST ACTOR : Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers BEST ACTRESS : Sandra Huller, Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR : Charles Melton, May December BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS : ...

CASSANDRO Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla de la Rosa, Raul Castillo, Bad Bunny, Joaquin Cosio, El Hijo del Santo. Dir: Roger Ross Williams. This film tells the true story of Saul Armendariz, a gay amateur wrestler who gained fame in the Mexican wrestling circuit as the titular &qu...

Fallen Leaves , Finland (Aki Kaurismaki) 8/10 - Two blue collar workers try to make a romantic connection despite all the problems they have in the world. This is the latest from quite possibly the most famous Finnish director working today, Aki Kaurismaki. It is a romantic comedy but done of cours...

The Taste of Things , France (Tran Anh Hung) 10/10 - In 1885, a famous chef and his female cook/sous-chef have worked together for years and develop romantic feelings with one another as they cook their decadent dishes. I loved this film. It is very old-fashioned in the best way possible. It is a g...

ALL OF US STRANGERS Cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell. Dir: Andrew Haigh. As a man begins a new relationship with a mysterious stranger, he encounters the ghosts/visions of his parents who died when he was very young. There are moments in this film that even though both my pare...