Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

At 12:30 AM EST, TCM is showing William Dieterle's Love Letters , a nominee for Actress (Jennifer Jones), Art Direction, Song, and Score. I know Damien is a pretty big fan of this. Ayn Rand, of all people, wrote the screenplay. This isn't available on DVD, and doesn't show up on TV very often, so t...

My last one ended up one page two on pretty short order. **** 1. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) 2. Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood) *** ½ 3. The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma) 4. Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood) 5. Fateless (Lajos Koltai) 6. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Pui...

I've actually seen more of these than I normally have, but still not very many. I have these left, some of which I'll see relatively soon, and some of which I'm not interested in ever seeing: Blood Diamond Half Nelson The Last King of Scotland The Pursuit of Happyness Venus Notes on A Scandal Pan's...

As a country music fan, I was disappointed. Carrie Underwood isn't a modern day Patsy Cline or Emmylou Harris--she's the heiress-apparent to those godawful shrieking divas of the 90's like Martina McBride and Faith Hill. If they wanted to award a breakthrough country singer, it should've been Miran...

Penelope wrote:I see Song of the Year, but I don't see Record of the Year or Album of the Year--do those categories still exist?

Yes. Dixie Chicks won both of those.

OscarGuy wrote:Who actually likes John Wayne?

Those of us who've been fortunate enough to have seen things like They Were Expendable, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, etc, etc.

A Goldderby poster (seanflynn) said that an ad for Murphy appeared in the trades today highlighting this quote:

"A Murphy performance so gripping you'll completely forget about all the bad career choices involving a fat suit."

God help us all... --------------------------------------- LOS ANGELES - Celine Dion will unveil her new song, "I Knew I Loved You," during a tribute to Italian composer Ennio Morricone at this year's Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Wednesday. Morricon...

Oscar the statue, meet Oscar the Grouch. Lawyers for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last week ordered the editor of the seven-year-old Oscarwatch.com web site to give up the name or face a lawsuit. At issue: The Academy owns the "Oscar" trademark and warned founding edito...