Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski) - 7.5/10 2/3rds Polanski, 1/3rd Grisham depending on the breaks. It's a lot of fun. The formalism Polanski-for-hire brings to the table (let alone his perverse fun with performances) is invigorating, but the precise moment this movie reveals its hand with what is *...

2006 - The Departed was the best of the nominees, but Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men were better. 2007 - I preferred There Will Be Blood to No Country for Old Men. I am fairly certain that the number of times my number one choice for Best Film of The Year will stand a chance at winning the Osc...

I've come across gay guys whose tastes are more similar to teenage girls in that they also believe New Moon was robbed of a Best Picture nomination. Y'know, I'm looking at this sentence...and... I mean, I just know there's some kind of sexual innuendo I could remark. There's coming across gay guys ...

SPOILERS FOR CRAZY HEART and AN EDUCATION... ... ... ... ... ...I'm trying to think of a time in the history of the planet Earth in which Maggie Gyllenhaal's character would allow Bad Blake to be this visible around her child. He is clearly not worth a shit, married five times, and will only presen...

http://www.inreviewonline.com/inrevie....11.html Thank you, FF. My reviews of The Royal Tenenbaums and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are my favorite things #6 -- THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (Wes Anderson) Wes Anderson built the house on Archer Avenue in the winter of his thirty-first year. Over th...

Coco Before Chanel (Anne Fontaine) Very much a "Tradition of Quality" work and as such it is well-mounted with a fine sense of time and place but is generally dull and uninvolving. The movie is pretty basic in its delineation of the psychology and motivations and the men in her life don't...

Best Picture 1. Inglourious Basterds 2. Fantastic Mr. Fox Best Director 1. Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds 2. Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Best Actor 1. Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers 2. Nicolas Cage, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans Best Actress 1. Tilda Swinton, Julia 2. Ch...

Music + SFX + Dialogue + ADR + Background Noise + Foreground Noise = Sound Mixing. Slumdog Millionaire, The Bourne Ultimatum, Dreamgirls, King Kong, Ray, The Return of the King, Chicago, Black Hawk Down, and Gladiator. Songs factor into Slumdog, Dreamgirls, Ray, and Chicago heavily and all but Slum...

This is a group set up back in '95 by some alt.user critics including Mike D'Angelo. Their winners have included Leaving Las Vegas, Breaking the Waves, The Sweet Hereafter, Out of Sight, Being John Malkovich, Yi Yi, In the Mood for Love, 25th Hour, Irreversible, Dogville, Grizzly Man, The Departed,...

Check out more of the Decade in Review, including my reviews of Before Sunset AND Spirited Away. Also: SOMEBODY FUCKING COMMENT! http://www.inreviewonline.com/inreviewonline/Decade_100_Films_-_8.html #32 -- BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater) He’s a beatnik novelist playing daycare with his wife. She...