Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Someone on another board is reporting that these are the winners: Best Picture: "No Country for Old Men" Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men" Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood" Best Actress: Ellen Page, "Juno" Best Sup...

Although I hate the group, Cate Blanchett did win the New York Online Film Critics prize. So, Ryan hasn't won everything. I don't really count them. I'm a "big four" type of person--although sweeping the little fringe groups always looks good for a performer--but when the New York Online ...

How many times have we believed a performance was better or that a performance was so Oscar baity that it was going to win and didn't...It's what led to upsets like Marisa Tomei and Juliette Binoche. No, what lead to those upsets were frontrunners who no felt strongly enough about to vote for (Bino...

I'm kind of surprised--but happy--they nominated Hirsch in Lead Actor rather than in the Younger Actor category, where he still would've been eligible. (Not sure what the cutoff is, but if Paul Dano and Jesse Eisenberg were nominated for Young Actor at age 22 in the past two years, Hirsch should've...

The child from Atonement didn't even get into the "Come back when you're older" category.

And Sweeney Todd hasn't been mentioned anywhere since the National Board of Review, has it?



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I've known people with Alzheimers, and Julie Christie's performance is certainly better than Judi Dench's in Iris (the nadir of Oscar-baiting disease performances). Christie still has a movie-star's charisma, which is what the role requires, and she does her best, like the rest of the cast, with so...

My list is on page two. Time for another post: **** ...pending, I hope... *** ½ 1. We Own The Night (James Gray) 2. Into The Wild (Sean Penn) 3. This Is England (Shane Meadows) 4. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) 5. Bug (William Friedkin) 6. Regular Lovers (Phillippe Garrel) 7...

I've been so bummed by most of the Best Actress contenders this year, I can't gripe too much about Cotillard . . . except when she's beating Julie Christie. Haven't seen Cotillard--I should get it from Netflix sometime next week--but I guess it's as good a time as any to come out and say that all o...

This is what AwardsDaily (formerly Oscar Watch) is reporting. Nothing is posted on the official Association website yet, so I wouldn't consider them official or anything yet. Supporting actress: Amy Ryan for "Gone Baby Gone" and "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" Supporting ac...

Marion Cotilliard is Best Actress

Frank Langella is Best Actor



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Supporting Actor is Javier Bardem.

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Sidenote: They tend to favor Boston-set films here, don't they? Will they leave it at New Filmmaker for Gone Baby Gone, or might they extend it to Best Picture or Best Actor for Affleck (most likely for both films)?



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This is a tough category for me. None of these filmmakers are on my list of all-time favorites, but these respective films represent them at their peaks for the most part. Clarence Brown goes out first. The Yearling is enjoyable enough, but an Oscar nomination is a little much, especially consideri...

And while I liked Hal Holbrook's much-buzzed performance in the movie, I was even more impressed by Brian Dierker (Keener's "old man"). According to IMDb, this is his first picture/ Anyone know his background? Agree about Keener, who I've never really cared much for, but who really got pa...