Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I've been snooping around. It turns out the cable channel that carried the Oscars here for the past few years, HBO Asia, did NOT renew the rights to broadcast it live here because it was too expensive. I'm looking and looking and it seems none of the other cable channels seemed have picked it up (i...

Destroyer (Karyn Kasuma, 2018) 6/10 Nicole Kidman gives a harrowing performance in this neo-noir thriller looking like death on two legs. I couldn't make out if it was Hollywood makeup magic that created her washed up, angst ridden freckled face or was it the other way round with Kidman's actual fac...

The Front Runner (Jason Reitman, 2018) 4/10 I've often wondered why the media in our country only concentrates on the corruption of politicians and avoid the subject of their sexual proclivities. Apparently the private sex lives of politicians was off limits in the United States too until suddenly i...

Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1969) 9/10 Mario Bava's cult film is based on a popular European comic strip. Exploiting every cliché Bava's film, not unlike a number of the Bond films, puts across a campy violent thriller with incredibly over-the-top sets, action set pieces, trendy E-type Jaguars, lo...

Big Magilla wrote:

Precious Doll wrote:Best Sup. Actor: Mahershala Ali

Point breakers:
2. Green Book

Ali wins supporting actor, but Green Book goes home empty-handed?

Maybe Precious is secretly hoping for a win by Richard E. Grant.

I guess Jessica Lange (in Sweet Dreams) gets brownie points because Karel Reisz, the director of her film, was not a sexual abuser. Rather a tedious bore having to constantly read folks relating someone's sexual kinks impacting another person's "performance". There is no co-relation whats...

nightwingnova wrote:There isn't. Artistic awards should be an artist's talent and product

Exactly and it's very possible that an artist can shine within a "product" that may not be received with overall critical acclaim.

One lip-synchs* in a badly reviewed movie made by a sexual abuser. I guess Jessica Lange (in Sweet Dreams) gets brownie points because Karel Reisz, the director of her film, was not a sexual abuser. Rather a tedious bore having to constantly read folks relating someone's sexual kinks impacting anot...

Some of the names added today have had impressive careers, but most of them are primarily either TV or action movie stars. How in Hell are they "Hollywood luminaries"? Hopefully 10 years from now most of these names will count as "Hollywood luminaries". Once upon a time we had t...

There was a sweet, affectionate moment between Cuaron and his presenter, Salma Hayek -- which somehow brought to my mind the fact he'd had his young actors masturbating to her in Y Tu Mama Tambien. Hilarious. I noticed that affectionate moment and wondered what connection she had to him. Googled th...

Both your home grown gals - Glenn Close & Regina King - will win Oscars.

Yes an excellent choice.

Apparently Finney told the Academy that he would not bother coming over to collect an honorary Oscar. Since the Academy does not present in absentia that was their last attempt at giving Finney one. Janet Gaynor and Myrna Loy were both awarded Oscars and their acceptance speech was filmed at their h...

Mister Tee wrote:Was he the last survivor of the Angry Young Man cohort, or do we count Tom Courtenay?

Maybe not quite from the "angry young man" school of cinema but I think his only surviving contemporaries from the 1960s are Tom Courtenay, Terence Stamp and Michael Caine.

Mister Tee wrote:Given his disdain for honors like a knighthood, it's entirely possible he was offered a lifetime achievement award and said no. He's certainly earned one in most people's estimation.

In 2001 he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship, their version of the honorary Oscar, which he very proudly accepted.