Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Do we really think that Daniel Day-Lewis is going to win another Oscar so soon after winning for There Will Be Blood ? I mean, he's a great actor and all, but seeing how long it took for the Academy to finally give Meryl Streep her third Oscar, I could see it taking a similar length of time for them...

Best Picture: Lincoln (r.u. Silver Linings Playbook) Best Director: Steven Spielberg - Lincoln (r.u. David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook) Best Actor: Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook (r.u. Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln) Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook (r.u. Jess...

The Dark Knight Rises and The Hunger Games are now the first 2 films to gross more than $400 million at the North American box-office to get completely shut out at the Oscars.

The Hobbit, Lincoln, and Men in Black 3 will be the nominees. Maybe Les Miserables instead of Men in Black, but The Hobbit wins this one regardless.

Be honest... Is it really a three star movie? Or is it a two/two and a half star movie and you're waiting to see if the other two are much better so you can feel more comfortable knowing that the aggregate rating is stronger than the disappointing first entry? It's actually more like 2 3/4 stars. T...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was my most anticipated film of the year. Hell, it was my most anticipated film since The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 9 years ago. I am an unabashed, unapologetic Lord of the Rings nerd. I've watched Jackson's trilogy countless times, read Tolkien's n...

My updated predictions: Best Picture Argo Beasts of the Southern Wild Les Misérables Lincoln The Master Moonrise Kingdom Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty Best Director Ben Affleck - Argo Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty Tom Hooper - Les Misérables David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG-13) By Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York Time Out rating: * * * * A mesmerizing study in excess, Peter Jackson and company’s long-awaited prequel to the Lord of the Rings saga is bursting with surplus characters, wall-to-wall special effects, unapologetically draw...

Review: 'The Hobbit' a ponderous journey By Charlie McCollum cmccollum@mercurynews.com mercurynews.com Posted: 12/11/2012 03:00:00 PM PST There are some truly wondrous things to behold in "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," director Peter Jackson's return to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth....

Review from the New Yorker Ring Cycle Peter Jackson returns to Middle-Earth. by Anthony Lane December 17, 2012 The subtitle of “The Hobbit,” written by J. R. R. Tolkien and published in 1937, is “There and Back Again.” Crisp, decisive, and comforting, like the book. The first part of Peter Jackson’s...

MOVIE REVIEW THE HOBBIT * * * Running time: 174 minutes. Rated PG-13 (intense fantasy violence, scary images). Opens Thursday night at midnight at the Lincoln Square IMAX, the E-Walk, the Cinema 1, others. 'The Hobbit' is worth the three-hour journey By LOU LUMENICK All good stories deserve embellis...

'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' review: charming *** Originally published: December 11, 2012 5:08 PM Updated: December 11, 2012 5:18 PM By RAFER GUZMÁN rafer.guzman@newsday.com Dwarves, orcs and wizards abound in "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," and we'll get to them in a moment. B...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - *** 1/2 'The Hobbit': Take the journey By Glenn Kenny, Special to MSN Movies When the ostensibly adult film reviewer is called on to foray into the realm of what was once called "fan-boy culture" and is now, one gathers, called "nerd culture" (...

A positive review from Slant Magazine... The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ***/**** By Ed Gonzalez PETER JACKSON'S LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY transports us to a mythic land haunted by gruesome ghoulies and gripped by seemingly endless warfare, allowing us to recognize something of ourselves, our mode...

Review: Is 'The Hobbit' Less a Movie Than Theme Park Ride? If So, It's a Fun One by Eric Kohn More than a decade has passed since Peter Jackson and company first ventured to Middle Earth with "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." At this point, audiences pretty much know wha...