Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

The senator died due to complications from a fall, his family said.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/former- ... =108568720

RFK Jr. has announced that his running mate is Nicole Shanahan. Who? Exactly. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/26/nicole-shanahan-rfk-jr-2024-bio-00149015 EDITED FOR LENGTH: I've been a bit more concerned about the impact of RFK Jr.'s candidacy towards Biden than most on this board. I ...

Didn't see this coming. Trump social media company will go public as DWAC shareholders approve merger.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/22/trump-c ... -vote.html

That's his legal fees, right?

Terrific actor. Thought he had already passed.

Greg wrote
Trump is unable to make the almost half-billion-dollar bond necessary to appeal his New York civil fraud verdict. It appears the New York AG will start seizing Trump's property in about a week.

He's gonna do a lot of normal stuff when that happens.

For the first 30 minutes, I found Julio Torres' Problemista irritating but as it went along I liked it more. It's the story of an El Salvadoran immigrant who comes to the U.S. for the opportunity to apply to work at a toy company and quickly afterwards finds one financial trap after another as he tr...

Mister Tee wrote Not a revolution, but I'd say progress. What's closer to a revolution is the number of women nominated for Best Director. This decade alone (if we start in 2020), we've seen almost as many nominated (4) than in all of Academy history combined (5). Not to mention twice as many winne...

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Oscar-winning screenwriter of The King's Speech. He was 86.

Bog wrote A Complete Unknown (Dylan "stan" since I could walk & a Chalamet film even making ME eager!!! (will it be this year though??) I was going to say "Let's be honest... will it be ANY year" but it looks like they have started filming this year. Will it be ready? Ford v...

Okri wrote
Wasn't the recent Ari Aster film on that level (expense wise)?

Beau is Afraid cost (I think) $35m and then spent a lot marketing it. It didn't make that money back at all.

I'd imagine this would have a better shot.

I mentioned elsewhere that the film cost $50m which is A24's biggest budget to date. You have to imagine they wouldn't make an investment like this if they weren't sure about its commercial appeal and how to get it.

Mister Tee wrote For me, Alex Garland is one decent film a decade ago -- not much to hang hopes on. Film just premiered at SXSW. Early reactions are very positive. I'm going to wait for more proper film reviews (y'know, it's the SXSW crowd). I'm not the biggest Garland fan but 28 Days Later... was ...

This just in. Kinds of Kindness is coming out this summer. Probably debuting at Cannes.

Eastwood in 2004 vibes?

Big Magilla wrote
Meanwhile Georgia judge just threw out the infamous phone call and five other charges in that case.

Trump is going to get away with everything outside of New York, isn't he?

Yes.

Greg wrote
The Republican margin in the House is going to drop to 218-213 as Colorado Representative Ken Buck will resign by the end of the week.

So three more resignations and Jeffries is Speaker. Do I dare to dream?