Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

OscarGuy wrote:How many people shifted American Beauty down their list years after its release?

Why should anyone do that? Because of Kevin Spacey?
Following that logic everybody should hate Robin Hood because it was revealed that Erroll Flynn was a Nazi spy.

The Academy has no moral right to take away Smith's Oscar as long as Harvey Weinstein, a convicted serial rapist, still has his.
Not to mention the optics of a black man losing the award while white guys, who arguably did much worse things, retain theirs.

Then came this: A full meeting of the Academy’s board of governors has been called for Wednesday evening, where the matter of Smith slapping presenter Chris Rock onstage at the ceremony is expected to be topic number one, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. The decision comes just hours...

CODA is now the lowest grossing film of all time to win the Best Picture prize with a recorded gross of $1 million globally. it would be one thing if the Academy shunned financially successful movies in order to recognize some artistically significant films that have been unfairly ignored by Joe Ma...

I don't know if this will ahve an effect on his career, but it sure doesn't help his public persona. And what's with Anthony Hopkins praising his actions before presenting Best Actress? If Mel Gibson can be rehabilitated then I can't see why Smith can't. Not to mention that I actually see a fair sh...

Can he be reprimanded or punished by the Academy for his outburst?
Will he?

And the Academy takes one more step towards irrelevancy.

Entertainment Weekly’s Anonymous Oscar Ballots article. I have to say: Penelope Cruz and The Worst Person in the World ’s screenplay are both doing very well in these anonymous Oscar ballots. Could they both shock? "The gay kid from Power of the Dog" Jesus effing Christ, do these people a...

In his defense, having read the book, it does describe the interiors as dark. It makes sense since this is set on a hot desert planet. The only way to keep things cool enough is to keep it dark with few to no windows. Now, if the parts set off-world were also darkly lit, that might be an issue, but...

In his defense, having read the book, it does describe the interiors as dark. It makes sense since this is set on a hot desert planet. The only way to keep things cool enough is to keep it dark with few to no windows. Now, if the parts set off-world were also darkly lit, that might be an issue, but...

I know I'm in the deep minority on this one but I think Dune's nomination is a travesty. I despise the fact that after the Dark Knight everyone tries to ape Nolan's style, mistakenly believing that darkness and drabness equal cinematic greatness. In this case my eyes got tired after about an hour an...

On the other hand, I purchased my present home eleven years ago from the estate of a deaf man who lived to be 94 or 95. He lost his hearing due to a childhood disease. He was quite a character, and not all good. An old Italian man, he kept mostly to himself. His only living relative was a son in th...

This could be either a man or a woman, but it seems to be a typical older female voter, possibly someone from the music branch. If you're looking for possible upsets, I would pay attention to what she says. I think I understand now what's going on with CODA from her statement that it "shows a ...

Here's another one. He's right about ABC and the Academy. Oh my God, the stupidity of this person. It hurts. 1)Sneering about "superhero movies". I guess superhero movies are guilty of everything wrong in the movie industry for many of these old farts. 2)Rachel Zegler shouldn't have been ...

The latest list of presenters. Not sure how Bill Murray made the cut -- he, unlike most of them, has done actual quality work in films (any work, for some). https://deadline.com/2022/03/oscar-presenters-2022-list-1234969901/ I can almost guarantee what'll happen here. The ratings will be up some --...