Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

In the face of Crash, I'm amazed that there so much hate for other screenplays on this list...shocking, I say. Not really. There's two solo picks, and half as much hatred for Little Miss Sunshine which I certainly understand. I always thought this was going to be a grudge match between these two. R...

After much deliberation, Eternal Sunshine because it's more pompous and aggressively awful -- it assualts the viewer.

How so?



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There are only two films here that qualify as bad screenwriting. There are some that may not be deserving of an Oscar but are successfully academic like the reporter-ly work of The Hurt Locker, the charming Screenwriting 101 of Juno, or the successfully cobbled biopia of Milk. Even though Almost Fa...

Mirren is a very good winner in a weak decade. It's not necessarily Winslet's fault that she is as ridiculous as anything in Little Children, but she is. It's a shame that she would win for something equally ridiculous. Streep is fine. I would prefer she win here than in Julie & Julia or whatev...

New Moon (Chris Weitz) I love how this film is so unabashedly over-the-top romantic, a movie which certainly risks the ridiculous by aiming for the sublime -- and more often than not, it hits the latter. It's gloriously operatic in its treatment of love and passion -- recalling such great films as ...

Emmanuelle Devos in Kings and Queen being the prime example. Good call -- she absolutely deserved far more attention than she got this year and easily rated a spot on the Best Actress ballot. Not to mention Mathieu Amalric. 2005 is an outstanding lineup of Best Actor nominees but Amalric certainly ...

Usually a stronger crop of nominees than those for Best Picture, and with a couple exceptions stronger winners than the Best Pictures. The winners from the first half of the decade are all fine films. I think Almost Famous and Lost in Translation aren't exactly structural paradigms, but they thrive...

Connelly, Zeta-Jones, and Zellweger. A boring, anonymous performance. A boring, slightly less anonymous performance. And a performance that deserves some kind of Oscar for an Oscar campaign that somehow got Academy members to ignore the fact that they clearly didn't like the film and choose a perfo...

I think this year's lineup is pretty awesome. I have no idea what you're talking about. I voted for Imelda Staunton. Although I would have personally loved to have seen Kate Winslet win for this performance, Staunton's is the superior work. I think Annette Bening, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Hilar...

There is not a single winner here that I felt was better than her competition. The ones that come the closest in my opinion are Mo'Nique, Swinton, Weisz, Blanchett, and Harden. I haven't seen Pollock in ages. I recall her being good but I can't remember a single scene of the film. It all rather blu...

A fine year for female actors in leading roles. I would have gone for Maggie Gyllenhaal for Secretary, Ronit Elkabetz for Late Marriage, or Esther Kahn for Esther Kahn (if you count its '02 release), and far more deserving of praise than four of the five are Isabelle Huppert for The Piano Teacher, ...