Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I confess I knew nothing till today of Peters' tragedy. And I don't that much now, after Googling. What sort of hunting accident involves a young woman? Does anyone have details? I fall on the Damien side of the Moorhead issue. I've long been aware it was a celebrated performance, so I've given it ...

I'm going to assume Magilla's sweeping dismissal wasn't aimed at my little throw-away line. dws, I'm somewhat hesitant to respond, because it seems it might open a can of worms I have neither the time nor energy to engage right now. But, to give you the courtesy of an answer... Michael Gebert says ...

Wasn't Rosemary Harris nominated for a Tony many years ago for The Royal Family? And, if so, was it for the same part she plays in this revival? Would have to be -- she hasn't got younger. (In fact, I haven't looked it up, but didn't she win that year (1976)?) The Outer Critics also resemble NBR in...

Italiano is exactly right that Wycherly's nice mother here can't hold a candle to her Ma Jarrett eight years later. Teresa Wright had a tendency toward the namby-pamby, and this role played all too fully into that. Collinge is certainly the more deserving of the Foxes nominees. I see it's not just ...

rain bard, well expressed all around. And I think your "depends on the country's exposure to US football" theory makes complete sense. It's also possible that the film's Oscar trajectory startled even Warners, and they'd made these plans thinking the film just a Bullock/sports vehicle, fo...

Damien wrote:Enron is a straight play, not a musical.

Wow -- that's how closely I'm following things this year. When you know you can't afford to go, I guess you lose interest.

I'm with flipp: Chenoweth complaining her character is annoying is unintended humor at its peak.

I think we need to wait for the Enron musical to open before we're sure which way the Tony is going. American Idiot was well-reviewed in the Times today, but you can never tell if certain critics are overstating love for rock musicals out of fear of non-hipsterism. I truly wonder how that touring c...

You're all way too kind to O'Neil -- her performance is atrocious; my wife and I have been laughing at it for years. The only thing that prevents it being the nadir of her film is that child who keeps saying ""Mamselle" in a deep Southern drawl. It's 15 years or so since I saw Primro...

It may be that Ouspenskaya's Wolf Man persona fatally affects my view of her meant-to-be-taken seriously performances -- in the same way I can't view early Leslie Nielsen of even Rip Torn dramatic roles without snickering thanks to their latter-day comic runs. But even if I did view Ouspenskaya dif...

Korjus trills at an Yma Sumac level, which apparently negated the fact she displayed no discernible acting ability. Oscar voters seemed in semi-awe of opera singers in the 30s -- witness the earlier Talbot and Grace Moore nods. Korjus is clearly the first elimination. Billie Burke is by far the mos...

I take BJ's point, that the very fact Gladiator was reclassified as an Oscar contender at year end, when all it ever was was a sumer movie with literary pretensions, is enough to tempt one to vote for it. But A Beautiful Mind is just so silly by the end -- and so manifestly inferior to some strong ...

As far as the casting big stars thing ... Kramer always justified it as necessary to bring in audiences for his Big Themes. As Pauline Kael (screw all of you who don't like her) pithily pointed out, this makes Kramer not the most qualified to dish out the absolutist moral judgments Tracy does in th...