Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

According to the Gold Derby News Desk: The Costume Designers Guild announced nominations for their 13th annual kudos in three categories of films: fantasy, contemporary and period. That latter category is where the majority of the eventual Oscar nominees originate. Last year, three of of the CDG ch...

Picture - Drama: The Social Network R/U: The King's Speech Picture - Comedy/Musical: The Kids Are All Right R/U: The Tourist Director: David Fincher R/U: David O. Russell Actor - Drama: Colin Firth R/U: Jesse Eisenberg Actor - Comedy/Musical: Paul Giamatti R/U: Jake Gyllenhaal Actress - Drama: Nata...

If anything other than INCEPTION wins in dramatic, I will be shocked. I dunno, the editing of Black Swan was crazy busy and the weaving in and out of trials/timelines of The Social Network was pretty daunting. I could easily see any of those three winning. That being said, I think the Dramatic pict...

A lot of people are missing the real landmark here and that's Roger Deakins (The Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, Kundun, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Man Who Wasn't There, No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and The Reader) might finally win his first Os...

I think the weakest of the five here might be Nolan, who has already shown that he isn't overly popular with the Academy (The Dark Knight "snub"), and because I think Inception feels more like a bottom-5 BP nominee than one of the top films (if we only had five films, it would not be near...

Garfield is probably the likeliest of these. I'm just unsure of his chances as he does not have a ton to do in The Social Network. The film fails to shift any kind of real focus over to him. He's quite good but none of the supporting performances have the gravity they need. I'm perhaps unwisely pre...

I sincerely hope that Black Swan makes it into the nominees, even into the Sound Editing category, too. If that happens, Black Swan may be the movie that ends up with the most nominations this year: Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Sound ...

From my recollection, they were: 2009 - Avatar, District 9, The Hurt Locker , Star Trek, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2008 - The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Quantum of Solace, Slumdog Millionaire , Wall-E 2007 - The Bourne Ultimatum, Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men , 300, Transformers 2006 ...

I would also like to contribute to the "holy crap, I'm holding out for a Best Visual Effects nomination for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World". I just recently watched it and had such a blast watching it, but the one thing I remembered was how it was on the semi-finalists list. Then when all of...

TRON LEGACY definitely deserves a nomination over the horrible looking ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Those sets (both real and computer generated) were just ugly! I will absolutely agree with this statement! Yeah, but for those three examples you also have the sets for SILVERADO, WYATT EARP, MAVERICK, 3:10 ...

Cinema Audio Society film Nominees Include Shutter Island by: Anne Thompson The Cinema Audio Society nominees for sound in motion pictures in 2010 are Black Swan, Inception, Shutter Island, The Social Network and True Grit. These are the bigger-scale movies of the year, the ones most likely to fact...

I would replace TRUE GRIT with TRON LEGACY. The majority of TRUE GRIT took place in the desert, and the sets were the typical "old timey west" buildings. The set designers rarely go for these. As AVATAR showed us, visual effects now count as sets. TRON LEGACY created a pretty amazingly de...

Contemporary Film 127 HOURS Production Designer: Suttirat Larlarb I have not seen this film yet, but I thought most of it took place in a desert? Was the rock fake or something? What part of it was a set? Yup, the cavern sets were fake so the environment could be controlled. Here's what they did Yo...