Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Susan Backlinie, the First Victim of the Shark in ‘Jaws,’ Dies at 77 Steven Spielberg said he needed a stuntperson and expert swimmer who "knew how to endure what I imagined was going to be a whole lot of violent shaking." by Mike Barnes (Hd Reporter) 5/12/2024 Susan Backlinie, the stuntpe...

Les trois mousquetaires: D'Artagnan (Martin Bourboulon, 2023) 8/10 Part one of an adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel "The Three Musketeers". It is in a way also a french remake of the classic two-part Richard Lester version of the story made during the 1970s. While the former ...

One of the recent rare occasions where the Honorary Oscar he was given was so well deserved

Civil War (Alex Garland, 2024) 6/10 Dystopian story follows a group of journalists on a familiar road trip - there have been many featuring zombies - across a war torn United States ruled by a dictatorial president. The group is led by a Reuters journalist (Wagner Moura), a renowned war photojournal...

Plein Soleil / Purple Noon (René Clément, 1960) 8/10 Is this the best version of Patricia Highsmith's novel about American Ripley who covets his rich friend's life? It is the first version with Alain Delon in one of his signature (and first major) roles that made him into a star. The character has b...

Granted I don't follow Broadway but once upon a time one was familiar with every actor nominated in plays and musicals. In the last decade or so 80% of the actors nominated are names I've never heard. This year I count 14 acting nominees that are well known from films and/or television, including 8...

Verdict (André Cayatte, 1974) 6/10 A young man is charged with rape and murder of his lover and is brought to trial. His anguished mother (Sophia Loren) kidnaps the wife of a judge (Jean Gabin) and blackmails him so he can acquit her son. Rather hoary plot brings together for the first time two huge...

Granted I don't follow Broadway but once upon a time one was familiar with every actor nominated in plays and musicals. In the last decade or so 80% of the actors nominated are names I've never heard.

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese, 1974) 8/10 In search of a better life a widow (Ellen Burstyn) and her precocious son (Alfred Lutter) hope to drive from Texas to California. Along the way she stops in Arizona where she works as a lounge singer, has a brief affair with a violent mar...

Sabin your review makes it sound very interesting.

Am glad Josh O'Connor is going places. He has been consistently good over the years - brilliant in God's Own Country, Hope Gap, on tv in The Durrells and especially his Emmy-winning Prince Charles in The Crown.

Gunfighters (George Waggner, 1947) 4/10 A gunslinger (Randolph Scott) lays down his guns in order to settle down. When he is framed for the murder of his friend he goes after a rich rancher, his foreman (Bruce Cabot), a corrupt deputy (Grant Withers), and a hired hand (Forrest Tucker). He is aided b...

His film Heading South (2005) has a memorable Charlotte Rampling. And The Class (2008) - nominated for an Oscar - is a lovely little film.

Died too young. May he RIP.

Le fil / The String (Mehdi Ben Attia, 2009) 4/10 Utopia - a picture perfect setting of a white pavilion styled house in Tunisia which appears to be right out of a tropical paradise with palm trees at the front and the rushing waves of the Mediterranean sea at the back - gets slightly shattered when ...

Big Magilla wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:10 pm And the winners are...

Original: The Holdovers
Adapted: American Fiction
Documentary: The Pigeon Tunnel

Wonder what was the rational for coming up with their winners so late in life.

Bandini (1963) - 8/10 - Kalyani is a quiet resident of a women's prison in 1930s India. She volunteers to take care of a TB patient, a dangerous thing to do at the time. She gains the eye and the ear of one of the prison doctors and the story of how she came to be a prisoner is revealed in flashbac...