Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

With Carly gone, this was the first week since the semi's that I actually watched the show as soon as I got home. The only really notable thing about the show was Paula's giving-away-of-the-script when they brought them all out after round one for judge critiques. And Jason might be voted off if th...

The Avenue Q people caused some controversy during the Tony season in 2004, by promising the road voters that yes, the show will go on tour, since they always like to vote based on what'll make money on the road. They did this to get those voters to vote their way (instead of Wicked 's, which every...

And here's a question, no one's touched Maureen Stapleton in Interiors. Presuming Jack doesn't preserve her or replace her, I've got an entirely selfish nominee to fill the spot, but I wanted to know, since I haven't seen Interiors, how good her performance is in it. She works well enough within th...

No, but Allen's imitation Bergman was the slot Malick should have taken. I was going to keep just change my Director choice (and keep Allen booted) but couldn't decide who I wanted to nominate (and yes, I did consider resucing Hal Ashby), and I wanted to decide before I turned the computer off for ...

In Best Director, I'll replace Woody Allen's work on the comedy Interiors with Terrence Malick's on Days of Heaven . In Best Editing, I'll replace The Boys From Brazil with Days of Heaven ; its offbeat rhythms are extremely important to the overall effect of the film. I don't have a change in the t...

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Ben-Hur

Preserve Interiors screenplay by Woody Allen This is my first big disagreement with the 1978 choices. Reasons why: "Renata, Renata! All I hear about is Renata!" "At the center of a sick psyche is a sick spirit." "It's been so long since I made love with someone I didn't fee...

Okay, I've had a long day and am just now getting around to this. In Best Supporting Actor, I'm going to replace Bruce Dern with John Savage in The Deer Hunter . In Best Score, just in case anyone gets carried away and makes a regrettable elimination, I'm going to preserve Ennio Morricone's score f...

FilmFan720 wrote:I preserve the art direction for Days of Heaven.

It actually didn't get in for Art Direction, for some strange reason.

I'll preserve Toy Story, mainly because I can't think of anything to take the place of Pocahontas. I will rescue Mira Sorvino, whom I love in that role (maybe this is the Woody Allen apologist coming out in me), and replace the very good Mare Winningham. That's too bad. I could be okay with Winnigh...

I know they're going by the Tony committee, but it's really backwards that Eve Best is in Lead and Raul Esparza is in Featured. She might actually have had a shot at winning the Tony in Featured since she wouldn't have to go up against the August ladies plus Linney and Merkerson. In Lead she'll be ...

Pick One: Replacing Anthony Hopkins (who is admittedly very good) with Linus Roache from Priest . How he doesn't have a bigger career I don't know, but he's definitely worthy here. Dammit. I was so close to preserving him on my turn. Hopefully space will still be open for me to rescue him when my n...

This is turning into a great lineup for cinematographers: Fujimoto, Green, Khondji, Richardson, and Lu Ye for the apparently glorious 'Shanghai Triad'. I was debating between Jack Green for Bridges and Dante Spinotti for Heat , another deserving contender who'll probably be squeezed out of contenti...