Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

They announce their nominees Sunday. Here are my predictions: BEST PICTURE The Farewell Ford v. Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Knives Out Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood Parasite BEST DIRECTOR Martin Scorsese, The Irishman Taika Waititi, Jojo Rabbit Greta Gerwig, L...

The nominations have been announced.

This could give us a clue as to where the Animated Feature race is heading.

But not just that category, the Best Character Animation award apparently can also give us a hint on potential underdog nominees in the Visual Effects category as well.

BEST PICTURE: Parasite BEST DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese, The Irishman BEST ACTOR: Adam Driver, Marriage Story BEST ACTRESS: Saoirse Ronan, Little Women BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Al Pacino, The Irishman BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Laura Dern, Marriage Story BEST SCREENPLAY: Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin-won, Pa...

Atlantics , Senegal (Mati Diop) 8.5/10 - A young woman is in love with a young construction worker but she's promised to a rich man. Then her love goes out to sea for greener pastures abroad only to die. And that's just the beginning. You think you know where this story is going then it takes you i...

THE IRISHMAN Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, Stephen Graham, Jesse Plemons. Dir: Martin Scorsese. Allegedly based on a true story of Frank Sheeran, a war veteran recruited to become a hit man for an organized crime syndicate and be...

KNIVES OUT Cast: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Christopher Plummer, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, Noah Segan, Riki Lindhome, Edi Patterson, Frank Oz. Dir: Rian Johnson. The family patriarch dies of an ...

Stephanie Zacharek is the first to weigh in.

Surprised it wasn't Peter Travers.

They announce December 3rd. What the hell, here are my predictions: BEST PICTURE: The Irishman BEST DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese, The Irishman BEST ACTOR: Joaquin Phoenix, Joker BEST ACTRESS: Renee Zellweger, Judy BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Sam Rockwell, Richard Jewell BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jennifer Lop...

Thoughts, predictions and reactions on this thread. Here are my predictions: BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA 1917 Bombshell The Irishman Little Women Marriage Story BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL or COMEDY Cats Jojo Rabbit Knives Out Once Upon a Time in...Hollywood Rocketman BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTUR...

FROZEN II Cast: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Sterling K. Brown, Evan Rachel Wood, Alfred Molina, Martha Plimpton, Jason Ritter, Jeremy Sisto, Rachel Matthews, Alan Tudyk, Ciaran Hinds, Aurora (voices). Dirs: Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee. The sequel to the very popular block...

The official start of awards season is about to begin. Here are my pre-precursor predictions: BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR Ford v. Ferrari (20th Century Fox) Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and James Mangold, producers. The Irishman (Netflix) Martin Scorsese, Irwin Winkler, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Robert D...

The nominations have been announced.

Any thoughts on these?

Can anyone possibly care whether it’s Toy Story 4 or Frozen 2 for animated feature? Is there anything out there to relieve us of such a tedious choice? The French arthouse animated feature I Lost My Body seems to be a good candidate for that. Early word has it that it's great. Critics may push hard...

FORD V. FERRARI Cast: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe, Tracey Letts, Noah Jupe, Josh Lucas, Remo Girone, Ray McKinnon. Dir: James Mangold. This is the true story of how automotive designer and engineer Carroll Shelby and British race car driver Ken Miles under the Ford Moto...

THE TRUTH Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, Clementine Grenier, Manon Clavel, Roger Van Hool, Ludivine Sagnier. Dir: Hirokazu Koreeda. A famous French actress has written an autobiography and her daughter and her family comes to visit and this reopens some old wounds. I was ver...