Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

More and more, these responses -- Cheryl Boone Isaacs's included -- are starting to seem disrespectful to the actual nominees. Given what's on the table, I fail to see the problem there. (And Jada Pinkett Smith's performance in Magic Mike XXL is not only better than her husband's Oscar-bait fare th...

Neither of the best scores I heard this year -- Nils Frahm's for Victoria nor Cat's Eyes' for The Duke of Burgundy -- are here. *shrugs*

Sabin wrote:Foxcatcher succeeds on one front. It announces constantly that there is something sick and wrong with our country.

So did God's Not Dead.

FWIW, Citizenfour is far from Laura Poitras' first film.

I can think of worse crimes.

BJ OTM. Just awful.

The DNA profile for this type of role, though, seems to indicate that Imelda Staunton in Pride will be this year's biddy rooting interest.

Big Magilla wrote:Maggie Smith will get a push for My Old Lady

LOL, oh that's just too much.

Needless to say, the one and only time you'll see me voting for Payne.

Big Magilla wrote:I see no reason to take Diablo Cody's well-earned Oscar for Juno away from her.

No?

"That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch, this is one doodle that can't be undid, homeskillet."

Big Magilla wrote:I didn't find it even remotely in the same league as the soft porn realm of hacks like Radley Metzger.

Ain't that the truth. Daldry only wishes he could direct as well as Metzger, and The Reader would be lucky to be as good as "softcore porn crossed with Nazism" (e.g. Salon Kitty).

Closest to a surprise ... Bennett Miller taking director. Well-reviewed mainstream Hollywood films that seem like Oscar hopefuls -- LA Confidential, No Country for Old Men, Mystic River -- have tended to leave Cannes with great critical praise but few major prizes. Meh, take a look at the history o...

I also think that both Megan and Bonnie are finished. The curtain being closed on them in flight felt very final to me. It took Matthew Zoller Seitz's recap in Vulture to make it clear to me that Megan packing things and asking for the two of them to meet somewhere on "neutral territory" ...

The return of (and presumably final appearance of) Bob Benson was haunting, and made even more haunting given it was a moment the show understandably never afforded Sal.

Have seen all five. Consider Her 's screenplay more problematic than its direction and performances, but also think that its conceptual premise is underrated as a tenet of its screenplay. A ludicrously easy vote over the rest of this field. The closest runner up would likely be American Hustle , but...