Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Mister Tee wrote But what if ASC follows its British cousins and goes for Poor Things? It's not as if the film isn't stunningly photographed -- I'd put the lighting of the skies in Lisbon up against any image in Oppenheimer. Would we simply say, ASC being weird, and stick to our Oppenheimer guns? A...

Rewatched Killers of the Flower Moon. I think it's an easier movie to admire than to love but there's lots to admire. It's full of exciting filmmaking and it's an engrossing (if still a bit unclear) world. But in talking what's so great about it, I can't help but feel it's like describing a beautifu...

This is probably the only Oscar race I can think of where I was both 100% confident in at least a mini-sweep by one film but every other category was a coin flip. Oppenheimer seems destined to walk away with at least six Oscars: Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Original Score, Cinematograph...

Over on the DGA Winner thread, we have a conversation about the number of competitive races. At this point, the only categories I would consider open and shut are all Oppenheimer (Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Original Score, Cinematography, Film Editing) plus Da'Vine Joy Randolph and I ...

I'm holding off on presenting my rankings but at this point I think Poor Things is the average favorite film of the nominees of the board despite being nobody's favorite. Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, and Past Lives split both top of the middle of the rank.

Big Magilla wrote I watched a couple of interviews by TV reporters of Russian supporters of Navalny who were shocked that none of his supporters thought he would die in prison. They thought he would be the Russian George Washington, but instead turned out to be the Russian Martin Luther King. It's ...

Last week went about as poorly for Biden as a week could go. His cleanest line to knocking Trump off the ballot dissipated, the Hur report dropped, and Biden's immediate response (while not IMO pointing to senility) did nothing to help him. And the return of Jon Stewart didn't spare Biden an inch sa...

Someone should say something... I remember when Jeffrey Epstein died in prison, there were a handful of people "Let's not rush to judgement"-ed it. It was as fishy a death as any I've seen until this week. Is there anybody who read the news and didn't immediately jump to logical conclusion...

I'm posting this because literally months ago, a friend asked me under what circumstances at this point would someone other than Biden be the nominee and I basically laid out these scenarios. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/12/joe-biden-democrat-plan-b-nominee-00140790 I'm a bit mixed...

Okri wrote Thanks Sabin. Some thoughts a) I could very well be making a race where there isn't any. I have a tendency to do that. So, in that vein... I don't take the BFCA very seriously, if I'm being honest. I don't view them as dispositive. I almost assume that Gladstone lost because there was st...

Okri wrote What precursor advantage specifically? Globe + BFCA but losing the Oscar? Jessica Chastain had that for Zero Dark Thirty. So did Glenn Close (+ the SAG). Probably not worth anything, but Stone didn't win the BFCA in 2016 - Portman did. I also don't think that Stone is in an "Oscar-y...

Well, I'm not going to be a weenie and I am going to comment on the race. I think it's going to be Emma Stone. I posted something to this effect in another thread but I'll be brief. I just think for Emma Stone to not be considered the favorite going into Oscar night, she'd have to start to get reall...

Mister Tee wrote Limiting it to sweeps narrows the field significantly, since only 4 films have won picture/director since 2014, and one of them (Parasite/Bong Joon-ho) was an upset from DGA. If you broaden it to "won best director after previous go", Jane Campion would be in that camp. A...

Decided to update the name of this thread. I'm trying to think of the last time a Best Picture winner was so apparently and the first answer that leaps to mind is Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire. An interesting connection with that year is by far the dominant story was the "snubbing" of ...

dws1982 wrote I would vote Penelope Cruz in Ferrari over any of these, though. Very strange that she didn't get any real hold on this category; the long-suffering wife is an Oscar cliche, and you can't argue that she's too subtle, because the movie gives her a great deal to do in several big scenes...