Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

That scene in the 1979 The Champ is a good example. The scene that teared me up the most when I first saw it was the one in which Debra Winger sees her sons for the last time in Terms Of Endearment. I fell in love with Emma and was rooting for her big time to improve her and her kids' lives. Watchin...

Yesterday, I was reading the Wikipedia entry on that great San Francisco rock band Moby Grape (long story as to why I was researching them). The article contained a reference to Owsley and his renowned recipes for LSD. I cliked on his name because because he was an interesting character and I wanted...

This is a pretty amazing story: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/27/us-india-corruption-idUSTRE77Q1SQ20110827 I hope the ombusdman will actually have the real promised power to investigate and publicly report on corruption at all levels of Indian government. And I pray this will make a real di...

I need to see My Favorite Year. I'll post back here in a few days then I will vote. I envy you. I remember seeing My Favorite Year during its first theatrical run and laughing out loud several times. A thoroughly enjoyable experience. And O'Toole's performance is very deserving of the nomination an...

I am looking forward to participating in this as well.

The hearings at which Rupert and James Murdoch involve very serious matters. But I was disappointed when the protester got so close to Rupert without nailing him in the face with the pie. A picture of Rupert after being hit with it would have been a pleasure to see. Now, we need pies in the face for...

When can we expect the final lineups of the Telluride Film Festival (Sept. 2-5) and Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 8-18) to be announced? I always look forward to the reviews of films I have been anticipating all year and I always wonder if some film I had heard nothing or very little ab...

I am not sure this is the proper place for this thread. I did not want it to get lost in the massive Current Events thread. As a young woman, she was a model for the Ford Agency who was frequently in front of the camera, so here it is (check out pictures of her as a young woman!). A woman deserving ...

Downfall (2004) rating: 8/10 director: Oliver Hirschbiegel Bruno Ganz' performance as Hitler was off the chart terrific but the other actors were fine but only servicable. But I had a hard time keeping my eyes off Corinna Harfouch as she played Frau Goebbels but that might have been because I knew w...

The Mysterious Flame Of Queen Loana (Umberto Eco) Picked it up on a total impulse at a used book store. I had never read anything of Eco's. I always thought of him as an academic who wrote some highly accalaimed novels like Foucault's Pendulum and The Name Of The Rose. The back cover made it sound l...

I'm on board! Thanks Wes. Beautiful shade of blue, BTW.

This is the first post in this thread in almost four months. I hope that is because we are all too busy reading quality literature. I think the world is improved a little bit every time somebody reads a piece of quality literature. March (Geraldine Brooks). Many of you will remember this as the win...

My mother, who was a teenager when Granger's Hollywood film career was at its peak, had a huge crush on him when he was a star. I teased her a little when these recent stories about his bisexuality came out. She said she did not care. She said if she had had the chance she would have wrapped him up...

I think I'll wait to see it myself before labeling it a disaster. What the hell is "Hd Reporter" anyway? Pointing out the lack of psychological reasoning for Veda's behavior as a flaw of the film seems rather pointless to me. It's clear, almost from her first appearance on screen, that Ve...

Just reported on MSNBC. More detailed posts are forthcoming. One thing I want to say right now is that she is one of the most extraordinary figures in Hollywood history. IMO, no remarkable acting work since Virginia Woolf. But she has remained one of the most recognizable and interesting people on ...