Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Yes, thanks for posting those, Reza. Mostly solid choices, I would say, with a smattering of questionable ones. I think Donald Sutherland was an excellent choice, as he is the kind of highly skilled actor who hasn’t won that many awards (I still think he should have been nominated for Ordinary Peopl...

I’m not keen on honoring either Ford or Cruise. They’re both been enormously successful (which is perhaps reward enough), but they’re both fairly limited as actors. Ford is good at playing grumpy and Cruise is sometimes good at playing earnest, when he’s not overdoing it pouring on the smiley charm...

I’m not keen on honoring either Ford or Cruise. They’re both been enormously successful (which is perhaps reward enough), but they’re both fairly limited as actors. Ford is good at playing grumpy and Cruise is sometimes good at playing earnest, when he’s not overdoing it pouring on the smiley charm....

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I think he was the first black actor to win an Emmy award - for Roots. He was memorable in so many films and made a superb Anwar Sadat in Sadat (1983). R.I.P. I know that Bill Cosby won an acting Emmy in 1968 for I Spy. I’m not sure if there were others. Harry Bel...

Looking through his credits in IMDB, I realize I’ve seen him in very little, save for A Raisin in the Sun, Roots, An Officer and a Gentleman, The Color Purple, and perhaps the odd TV guest appearance. He certainly made an impression on the teenage me playing Fiddler in Roots. He was one of the few f...

Thanks, that’s quite the thorough preview. Where do you get your information about stages of production? IMDB only has pre-, in, and post- categories with no details.

Youn Yuh-jung is one of ten performers to date to win an Oscar playing a character that spoke partially or primarily in a language other than English. The others are Sophia Loren, Robert De Niro, Roberto Benigni, Benicio Del Toro, Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Christoph Waltz, Michelle Yeoh and ...

Just a terrific actor and screen presence. When I heard of his passing the first image that came to mind was his playing the empathic swimming coach in Ordinary People, saying to Conrad, “Are you having any fun out there?”

Rest in Peace.

Mister Tee wrote Not a revolution, but I'd say progress. What's closer to a revolution is the number of women nominated for Best Director. This decade alone (if we start in 2020), we've seen almost as many nominated (4) than in all of Academy history combined (5). Not to mention twice as many winne...

That was a super-enjoyable read, Tee. Happy 25th anniversary for this post, one that I always look forward to. Your reasoning on these guesses is solid, but with many of these actors and directors it really comes down to a hunch. My hunch is that Jeffrey Wright, now that the Oscar door has opened fo...

What people seem to be buzzing most about in this film is that California and Texas form an alliance in the depicted civil war. Fiction, for sure.

The term “hyperlink” is relatively new to the lexicon, e.g., Robert Altman wasn’t using that term when he made Nashville or Short Cuts. Bottom line there are various ways to edit and package films telling multiple and distinct stories. Sometimes they’re tied together thematically, tonally, stylistic...

One can argue whether a film is considered an anthology film depending on whether the stories are told consecutively or edited such that the film switches back and forth among the stories. Other films that could be considered as anthology films and have been nominated for Oscars include Amores Perro...

Some of these may get pushed to 2025. Kinds of Kindness could be one. Emma Stone under Lanthimos' direction two years in a row might feed into the narrative of they never do the same thing twice in a row. Besides which it's an anthology piece in which the three leads (Stone, Margaret Qualley, Jesse...

Plus… Anora (Sean Baker) Bird (Andrea Arnold) Gladiator 2 (Ridley Scott). You never know Kinds of Kindness (Lanthimos) Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass) already out with very solid reviews Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho) Nosferatu (Robert Eggers) Polaris (Lynne Ramsay) Queer (Luca Guadagnino) The Shrouds (Cr...