Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

It may be a bit too early for proper Oscar predictions but since they announce this around June/July, it isn't too early to speculate who will be this year's honorary awards recipients. In recent years, it seems they're no longer averse to giving the honorary awards to people who are young-ish and/...

I'm on the Paul Giamatti bandwagon this year! Not only for his past work but because I think he creates a really great character in The Holdovers . Murphy is deserving but for some reason I didn't get the "he's winning an Oscar for this" vibe when I saw the film last summer. Colman Domingo...

I would go with Sterling K. Brown. The performance isn't a co-lead, and he brings a range of comedy and pathos during his screen time that makes an impact on the film. His character makes us see the main character's many facets in a slightly different light than we might have at the beginning of the...

If Academy voters see The Zone of Interest and have the same mixed response I had, there could be another winner. But not having the option of nominating either Anatomy of a Fall or Godzilla Minus One , as more popular choices, I think the "important film" will prevail. It even made my own...

It's too bad the creature effects from The Last Voyage of the Demeter didn't make it past the shortlist phase. The work there was pretty impressive, but I still think the overall work on Poor Things will likely prevail here over Maestro . After all it is "makeup and hairstyling" and I thin...

I was glad to see "Oppenheimer" not get in here, because it would not have been deserving of a win considering its effects amounted to camera gimmicks and imagery we've actually seen before in terms of VFX. The film uses what it has effectively, but I think it would have kind of been cheat...

Picture: Oppenheimer Actor: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers (Cillian Murphy) Actress: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon (RU: Emma Stone) Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Original Sc...

BEST PICTURE Anatomy of a Fall Barbie The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Oppenheimer BEST DIRECTOR Greta Gerwig, Barbie Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Alexander Payne, The Holdovers Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall BEST ACTOR Colman Domingo, Rustin ...

I totally forgot to post my picks here

OscarGuy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 04, 2023 3:15 pm I don't see them surviving in 2023 anyway, especially with Trump at the top of the ticket.

Which gives Democrats an excellent chance to flip the House back and give Biden a fighting chance of passing more major legislation in a second term.

I'm honestly having a hard time remembering Republican debates before Donald Trump. Did they ever make points or policy proposals? Was it always just bickering and sabrerattling? He really is just there to attack Trump, isn't he? It's not working. I never thought he'd be able to bring his party bac...

Quick thought on Giamatti for Sideways: With Gere and DiCaprio, I have to believe the fact that there was some confusion about what category they truly belonged in. Gere has had some bad luck with the Academy. He's certainly been in well-received films and given performances that could have been no...

All of which to say, less than twelve hours after watching Elemental, it's hard to remember much about it. I think the creators came up with a nice little idea ("Can fire and water fall in love?" -- by the way, I'm here for that story! That's a good rom com conflict) and nothing beyond th...

The kind of charges Hunter Biden is up for rarely goes to trial, much less conviction. I agree that the deal was broken out of political reasons, in order to appear as if they are not being soft on him because he's the son of the president. I think that's a bad message to send, because it makes it s...

Mister Tee wrote: CODA's actress (mercifully) was not nominated.

Emilia Jones was my pick for best actress, and I didn't even nominate CODA for Best Picture.