Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

How can you call me crazy for predicting Robbie to win Best Actress while saying you get a Dallas Buyers Club from I, Tonya and recommending I predict it for Best Picture?

And I do hope Oldman doesn't win. It's certainly one of those situations where the 'preordained' narrative was so strong it stood up to uninspiring reviews, a viable slate of competitors and the performance itself being hammy and crappy. Think The Last King of Scotland but with a Best Picture nomina...

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Bob Odenkirk (The Post) Early word from the first screening of The Post last night says that only Streep and Hanks have enough to do in the film to warrant awards attention. There also seems to be a “haven’t we seen this before?” kind of response to the film. I see a respectfu...

Here's mine: BEST PICTURE Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird The Post * The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri BEST DIRECTOR * Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water) Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk...

I haven't seen Call Me by Your Name but I have a bias wrt taking the Spacey allegations' impact on its chances seriously - I wouldn't appreciate any film about this kind of intergenerational relationship that didn't treat it critically, but these particular kinds of adolescent relationships are supe...

Has anyone been considering 'It' as an Adapted Screenplay contender? It was a massive hit with strong reviews and the category is tundra with every contender save Call Me by Your Name dealing with heavy caveats: mixed reception (Molly's Game, Last Flag Flying, Wonderstruck, Stronger, Victoria and Ab...

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY * “Call Me by Your Name” “Darkest Hour”† “The Disaster Artist” “Molly’s Game” “The Post”† † - these productions are already slick, calculated Oscar bait of the most obnoxious kind and their campaign teams are highly likely to recognise the strength of the Original field vs. ...

Why is Michelle Dockery on this list? She's hardly an ingénue having been working for over a decade and being 36 years old. I included anyone fitting the bill born from the 80s on, except for Emily Blunt who's too established on both screens and the stage and has never really met this 'type' anyway...

New Big 8 predictions for both this year and the next: 2017 Predictions: BEST PICTURE “Call Me by Your Name” “Darkest Hour” “Dunkirk” “Get Out” “I, Tonya” “Lady Bird” “The Post” * “The Shape of Water” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” BEST DIRECTOR * Guillermo del Toro, for “The Shape of W...

Note - I voted for Sophie Turner, whose performance on Game of Thrones is interesting enough that I dread the kind of beige roles she's liable to be offered in movies, Olivia Cooke who is already making some laudable forays into the indie sector and Talulah Riley simply because having been married t...

As most aspects of the world and the industry are engaged in either a hardcore acceleration or a massive atavism, I've had my eye on recent casting trends and what they say about the sociopolitical, economic and industrial context they arrive in. With women this is always an interesting cultural stu...

Just for fun, here's my first acting predictions for 2018: But who will be the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees in 2028? The Republican Party will go the way of the Whig party in my fan fiction. Always happy to share my post-WWIII territorial changes predictions because I have spread...

ThePianist wrote:

bizarre wrote:Just for fun, here's my first acting predictions for 2018:

Not that there's anything wrong with going a little too overboard by predicting 2018--but where the actual f is Rami Malek?

In a Bryan Singer film, unfortunately.

The Original BJ wrote:

bizarre wrote:Just for fun, here's my first acting predictions for 2018:

But who will be the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees in 2028?

The 2016 election was the last under the current republic and the United States as we know it will have redrawn borders within 10 years.

Just for fun, here's my first acting predictions for 2018: Best Actor: Christian Bale (Backseat) Ben Foster (My Abandonment) * Ryan Gosling (First Man) Lucas Hedges (Boy Erased) Sebastian Street (Tomorrow) Best Actress: Viola Davis (Widows) KiKi Layne (If Beale Street Could Talk) Rosamund Pike (A Pr...