Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

B/W
1. The Hustler
2. Judgement at Nuremberg
3. One, Two, Three
4. The Children's Hour
5. The Absent-Minded Professor

Colour
1. Fanny
2. Flower Drum Song
3. West Side Story
4. One-Eyed Jacks
5. A Majority of One

The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000) 6/10 Cold clinical adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel which was a bitter indictment against the morally corrupt upper class in turn of the century New York. Lily Bart (Gillian Anderson) is a well-bred but impoversished woman on the wrong side of marriageabl...

Tab Hunter Confidential (Jeffrey Schwarz, 2015) 6/10 Clean-cut documentary on the life of closeted and clean-cut Hollywood actor, Tab Hunter, who was made into a star during the 1950s by agent Henry Willson. A new name was created - as Willson did earlier for Rock Hudson - and his career took off wi...

Good Dame (Marion Gering, 1934) 2/10 Chorus girl (Sylvia Sidney) gets her bag stolen at a Carnival, loses all her money, gets stranded and tussles with the crude man (Fredric March) partially responsible for her dilemma. Forced into becoming a hooch dancer she gets arrested but later bailed out by t...

Three For the Show (H.C. Potter, 1955) 4/10 Son of India (Jacques Feyder, 1931) 5/10 Paris Calling (Edwin L. Marin, 1941) 5/10 Bel Canto (Paul Weitz, 2018) 6/10 Pigskin Parade (David Butler, 1936) 2/10 The Crowd Roars (Richard Thorpe, 1938) 3/10 Kid Nightingale (George Amy, 1939) 4/10 Iron Man (Tod ...

The Kiss Before the Mirror (James Whale, 1933) 8/10 Striking psychological pre-code melodrama (based on an Austrian play) involves adultry, obsession, deceit and murder and is one of the director's many forgotten non-horror films. A glamourous married woman (Gloria Stuart) in a tryst with her lover ...

The Chinese Bungalow (George King, 1940) 6/10 Suspension of disbelief allows us to enjoy a lot of stuff that comes out of Hollywood like the movies based on the Marvel comics. However, it's not only funny but takes time to be convinced by European actor, Paul Lukas, play a Chinese in this B-movie. I...

Final Assignment (Paul Almond, 1980) 5/10 Potboiler thriller has an interesting cast. A Canadian reporter (Geneviève Bujold), in the Soviet Union for an assignment covering the Prime Minister, gets involved in a plot involving kids being given steroids as an experiment. So defying all odds she decid...

Big Magilla wrote:I'd replace Birdman of Alcatraz, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and the godawful Two for the Seesaw

All three of these films had striking cinematography and I think deserved their nods.

SUSPIRIA Cast: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jessica Harper, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Renée Soutendijk, Alek Wek. Dir: Luca Guadagnino. Dario Argento's classic giallo film is one of my favorite horror films of all time. But even I thought it would be interesting ...

On the other hand, I was shocked and saddened to discover that there are people in their 60s who only know the story from the Barbra Stresiand version, which they (excuse me while I gag), love. Well, the Streisand version is still the only previous A Star Is Born that wasn't initially released befo...

Allows only one vote. Cannot vote in both categories together. B/W 1. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 2. The Longest Day 3. To Kill a Mockingbird 4. Birdman of Alcatraz 5. Two For the Seesaw Colour 1. Lawrence of Arabia 2. Mutiny on the Bounty 3. Hatari! 4. The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ...

flipp is right, Erwin is a clear lead; he's also pretty much insufferable. He'd have deserved a nomination two years earlier, for Viva Villa. The only reason to watch Pigskin is for the now-inside joke of little Judy continually insisting she can sing and no one paying attention till the end of the...

Sobibor (Russia) 7/10 This one deals directly with the Holocaust and in a rather all over the place manner. Its at times sentimental, exploitive, artful and crude. It certainly is compulsively watchable, excessively violent and genuinely moving. One scene that takes us into the gas-chamber is truel...

B/W
1. Hud
2. Love With the Proper Stranger
3. Lilies of the Field
4. The Balcony
5. The Caretakers

Colour
1. Cleopatra
2. The Cardinal
3. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
4. How the West Was Won
5. Irma La Douce