Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Uri wrote:

mlrg wrote:You sure didn't like this year's films did you?

I’m afraid I've been cranky for quite a few years now – but it’s not that I’m not big, it’s the pictures that got small.

You sure didn't like this year's films did you?

Big Magilla wrote:If Abdi follows through with an Oscar win, he will be the third non-actor to win Best Supporting Actor after Harold Russell and Haing S. Ngor.

We all know he's not winning the oscar.

As much as I love Arcade Fire, my favourite of the bunch is Gravity. Yes, it's LOUD, but it's perfectly fit into the film. I find it very hard that it doesn't win here.

At least Lawrence actually acted in her film. Nyong'o's performance is awful and on the line of campy. "I stinks so bad ah makes mahself gag" is girl power 2013 at its worst. Squibb and Hawkins are the only ones who deserve winning, let alone a nomination. THIS Ditto Lupita. A win for her...

Eric wrote:

Big Magilla wrote:Lupita Nyong'o should and will win for both her amazing debut performance and as tribute to all the real life Patseys who never had a chance.

... to win an Oscar?

lololol

As I’ve written in other posts, I think Lupita gives the weakest performance of the four that I’ve seen (still haven’t seen Nebraska). But she will eventually win. Weaker than Julia Roberts? Well, there goes your credibility. I'm not going to get into a debate (again) with the posters who somehow c...

As I’ve written in other posts, I think Lupita gives the weakest performance of the four that I’ve seen (still haven’t seen Nebraska). But she will eventually win.

One of the weakest line ups in my book.

Voted for Slumdog and Boyle.

Winners

Captain Phillips
American Huslte
Frozen

There was an old video put out by the Academy on VHS when Karl Malden was President of the Academy that had the Chaplin presentation as well as many more moments from the 70s and 80s, maybe early 90s. This thing was OK as a teaser, but it's really there to sell TCM's 31 Days of Oscar. I own this VH...

Patricia Norris is nominated for 12 Years a Slave. She has been previoulsy nominated 5 times but never won. At the age of 83 they might consider her as overdue.

One of my biggest regrets ever was not being able to see him on stage in Death Of a Salesman when I was in New York two years ago.

Probably my favourite character actor working today. His performance in The Master is, in book, one for the ages.

He trully will be missed.

Did anybody watch the TCM Documentary "And the Oscar Goes to..." that premiered yeasterday? Was it any good?

OscarGuy wrote:I hate to admit this, but I thought he had died some time ago.

Me too.