Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

My friend who saw The Color Purple last Tuesday night at the NYC screening (with the cast in attendance) said that all instances of rape and incest have been pretty much deleted from the storyline. Considering how much those crimes wreak havoc on the women in both the book and 1985 film (think Oprah...

I really don’t understand the lumping together of male and female performances in separate lead and supporting rosters. It seems like a total overreaction to the “gender issue” yet deprives two additional actors of potential recognition. So it’s basically just dumb. That said, these are great nomina...

I love the Sterling K. Brown nomination. That category seems too crowded for him to make it in this year but he is hysterical in American Fiction and steals every scene he’s in.

I’ll write about this later since I think I might be the only person who has seen it on this board, but I think American Fiction could be the eventual Best Picture winner.

My college friend is Frances’s cousin and I texted her earlier when I heard the news. She said that the whole family thinks of her as a “legend.” And she was! My favorite is her role in Misery but she had so many memorable roles to choose from. R.I.P.

Yes it’s Talented Mr. Ripley meets Brideshead Revisited meets, oh I don’t know, the maze in The Shining ? But it’s more than a rip-off of any one of those and it is a heck of a lot of fun. I’m going to focus on the performances: Barry Keoghan completely goes there in this film, pushing his chameleon...

Mister Tee wrote To wit: I'd already done The Bear on my previous trip, so I was marginally acquainted with actress Molly Gordon for her Claire role. . I honestly think it's an act of insecurity that we can only observe them in a state of panic. Like, I haven't worked in that kind of restaurant but...

I saw All of Us Strangers yesterday. This film is an absolute masterpiece. One of the most real and genuinely stunning depictions of loneliness, grief, love, and longing that has ever been put onto film. Bring a BOX of tissues. There are major plot points that occur in this film that are not even hi...

Someone on Twitter who I trust just saw The Color Purple and said that Danielle Brooks could become the frontrunner now for Best Supporting Actress.

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There's a little bit of talk going around about how the "birth of the FBI" angle was minimized in the film. Did you find the movie that we ended up with lacking in any way? Or needing something like that? Refresh my memory, how did you feel about Scorsese's last handful of projects and ho...

Sonic Youth wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 12:53 pm

anonymous1980 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 11:38 am The ending puts this over the top.

Just to clarify. By 'over the top' you mean it makes a great film even better, not 'over the top' meaning 'overdone', yes?

Having also seen it, I’m pretty sure he means the former. It has a really great ending/coda.

flipp525 wrote Not to be a schoolmarm again but Ariana DeBose won just two years ago for West Side Story. Meant to write “not up for Best Picture.” Copy that. With the expansion of the Best Picture category, I feel like I have to add an *asterisk to a lot of those milestones. I was not a huge fan o...

Sabin, the “birth of the FBI” storyline (which, as I’ve gathered is a HUGE part of the book) is minimized in favor of telling the emotional story of this extended family and what happens to them. I felt like it was just the right amount of it and that Scorsese struck the right balance between the tw...

Sabin wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 10:37 am The last time a performance won an Oscar for a musical was Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls.

Not to be a schoolmarm again but Ariana DeBose won just two years ago for West Side Story.