Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I'll have to once again stand with Italiano, and have some faith that Oscar voters will see the folly in this and go with Streep in the end. How blisteringly sad, that we have to pray for that to redeem an otherwise drearily predictable if not dismal Oscar night. Same here. Interestingly, I think i...

It's not a contradiction to say that The Blind Side is offensive AND that Bullock's performance is lousy. In fact, both of those statements are correct. That some people (here and on other boards) can't imagine why this kind of film would be offensive/racist only proves the point that many white pe...

But I wasn't lying about my poor English; trust me, it's easier to explain what's wrong in The Blind Side than what's right in The White Ribbon. Your English seems perfectly fine to me; in the short time I've been here, your posts stand out as among the most intelligent, witty and insightful. And I...

1 star (out of 4). Wow, I thought The Changeling and Gran Torino were bad, but this is a new low for Eastwood. Boring and irrelevant, with Eastwood's typical inability to deal with the nuances of race relations (and an inability to transcend his own latent racism) front and center this time, instea...

1/2 star out of 4

Atrocious. Worst Rob Marshall film since the last Rob Marshall film.



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From "A Time to Kill" to "Crash" and now, "The Blind Side", Bullock may be approaching some kind of record for films where the virtues of white people are extolled at the expense of black people. Paying lip service to race equality while actually being racist is the ne...

I imagine Cameron having a sunken bird chest combined with a bowling ball stomach. Pasty white skin with strawberry moles all over

Hey, whatever gets you off...



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Matt Damon should have won this category hands down. He has been one of the most consistent actors ever since his breakthrough performance in the otherwise overrated Good Will Hunting, and it's hard to believe he hasn't been nominated since (!), not even for his fearless performance in The Talented...

Up is a gorgeous, gorgeous score and if it wins it will be the best winner in this category since The Fellowship of the Ring, maybe even further back. I'd go further back. Howard Schore's score for the Rings films is lovely, but Up is one of the best film scores I've ever heard. It would be the bes...

After the boring across-the-board precursory consensus of 2007 and 2008, is anyone else excited by the possibility that this year we could have a real Oscar race? I realize there's still time for the Globes/Guild Awards to fall in line and render this year a dull trek to the Oscar finish line, but ...

What in this "true story" appealed to the development people, marketers, producers, filmmakers? What made them think this would be a good project, a potentially successful one, which would touch people and earn bucks at the box-office? To say, "but it's a true story!" or some va...

I'm really hoping you're all collectively full of it. Because if "Up In the Air" - which I'm seeing tomorrow - isn't winning Best Picture, that means "Avatar" is. (What, you really think "Hurt Locker" has a chance?) This is probably (and sadly) true. Unless you believe...

What I see here is a star (or thereabouts) willing to call out the Oscar hype machine for what it really is: a vehicle to drive profits. Ah yes, and who better to call out the Oscar whore machine than a black star (or thereabouts) who willingly sold out for money in a modern minstrel movie? That be...

"Dreamgirls" is right up there with "Cold Mountain" for me; two overblown, overrated films shoved down our throats by their Oscar campaigners (and people like Tom O'Neil), thereby making it even more delicious when they were righfully snubbed. I think there's a somewhat similar ...