Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I first came across Wes’s website in November 1995 when he was predicting The Crucible would sweep the following year.

My first recollections of the board date back to the 1999 awards. We even had an academy nominee as a member. The editor of The Sixth Sense.

I had a feeling America Ferrera would pull off… But why did she have to "pull off"? She didn’t “have to”. It’s an out of the box nomination, usually a cottail, for limited screen time roles that sometimes show up in the list. Marina de Tavira, Laura Dern in Wild are the most recent exampl...

Okri wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:30 am More thoughts to come, but the level of applause for Diane Warren floored me. I'm petty enough wish-cast it as ironic, though

Absolutely. Same goes with John Williams and the Indiana Jones nomination. The branch just ticks the name off…

Only 13 movies nominated under acting+picture. One of the lowest ever after the expansion of the best picture category.

I had a feeling America Ferrera would pull off…

Nothing meaningful left until Tuesday. Here are my final predictions for the top 6 categories: PICTURE American Fiction Anatomy of a Fall Barbie The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Oppenheimer Origin Past Lives Poor Things DIRECTOR Greta Gerwig “Barbie” Alexander Payne “The Holdovers” M...

I guess the grass roots campaign for Origin is paying off.

Now just watch it getting nominated for best picture, actress and adapted screenplay next week.

Apparently Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is being pushed hard in the best actress category for Ava DuVernay’s Origin in the last couple of days.

I’m feeling Andrea Riseborough vibes.

I think we need to contextualize The Color Purple's box office performance. If you look back at past Tyler Perry films, they had a similar great debut and subsequent quick fade. From that context, I really don't think it should be considered a flop. It got an A CinemaScore, which is from the target...

Did these ever correlated 100% with best picture at the Oscars? Because this list sure looks like the nominated 10

I do understand that the foreign members have a significant impact in the directors branch and I predicted Pawlikowski, Ostlund, Vinterberg and Yamaguchi in my last predictions before the announcement. These five seem very likely to replicate. If any of them are to be left out I think it’s Payne, wh...

I think this will go five for five at the oscars

More on The Color Purple. Over the last two days, Taraji P. Henson came out complaining that Oprah only gave them rental cars to drive themselves to set (not drivers) and Danielle Brooks complained that they didn't have dressing room or food for rehearsals. Are those valid complaints? In a $100m mo...

Mister Tee wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:44 pm

mlrg wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:50 pm Best Picture – Drama:
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My friend, you seem to have omitted a best director pick (probably because you, like me, worked from the initial post of nominations here, which left the category out).

Thanks a lot for pointing that out. Fixed.

Major surprises seem to be the omissions of Willem Dafoe and Charles Melton.

Rachel Mcadams keeps showing in critics list but I don’t know if she was eligible here.