Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Best Motion Picture: Drama: Trial of the Chicago 7 Best Motion Picture: Comedy or Musical: Hamilton Best International Film: Minari Best Animated Film: Soul Best Actor: Drama: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Best Actor: Comedy or Musical: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton Best Actress: Drama: ...

Some real craziness in here. The Visual Effects department offering some of the biggest shockers by snubbing WONDER WOMAN 1984 and THE INVISIBLE MAN while also nominating WELCOME TO CHECHNYA. This has to be the first time a documentary has ever been included in the shortlist for f/x. Has anyone see...

Does anyone know how accessible (or how pushed) Billie Holiday was? It seems to just be starting to pick up buzz (there was a big segment on CBS Sunday Morning this week, which tends to signal to me a push towards older voters), but I haven't seen a whole lot of screener push or Q&As yet. Not su...

Post-Golden Globes, final predictions here: BEST ENSEMBLE Da 5 Bloods Minari One Night in Miami... Promising Young Woman The Trial of the Chicago 7 BEST ACTOR Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods Anthony Hopkins, The Father Tahar Rahim, The M...

I second everything Wesley just said. This trend of criticism to focus on looks and age in deciding if someone is giving a good performance drives me nuts. We need to move beyond the John Simon type of reviewing. And that Variety review is infuriating.

Reza wrote The White Tiger (Ramin Bahrani, 2021) 9/10 The epic journey of a poor village boy who leaves the shack he lives in with his extended family, gets employed as a chauffeur to a rich couple in the city and discovers he wants much more in life. A life of poverty followed by servitude till th...

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE Daveed Diggs, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Christopher Jackson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos and Philippa Soo, Hamilton I hadn't thought about that, but that seems reall...

I always prefer it when the Spirit Awards are a little more off the beaten track, but in a year dominated by Independent cinema, this is a good list. Supporting Actor might be my favorite category here: Paul Raci is my favorite of the year, but Orion Lee is wonderful in First Cow, the two Ma Rainey'...

anonymous1980 wrote:Jane Fonda will receive the Cecil B. DeMille award.

Who presents it to her?

My guess: Lily Tomlin.

Other possibilities: Jennifer Lopez, Diane Keaton, Robert Redford

I saw this last night. I don't think it is going to be a big factor. On a quality scale, I would say that it is on the same level as MacDonald's Last King of Scotland, which was really only acknowledged for Whitaker's performance. This also has a terrific central performance in Tahar Rahim, but it i...

I think the Oscar Best Actor 5 will match this lineup. Best Actress will also match with the exception of Morfydd Clark who will be replaced by either Sophia Loren or Michelle Pfeiffer. Sidney Flanigan, if the Academy wants to follow the critics. I think Boseman may well get 2 nods this year. Andra...

Several Documentary Contenders: All In on Prime; The Mole Agent, Spaceship Earth, I Am Greta, The Artist and the Thief, and Totally Under Control on Hulu.

My guess is name recognition and prestige. These are the two to get major Broadway revivals and proven to be more in the public arena than some of the others. They are also the two that I read in Theatre history classes in undergrad...and along with Piano Lesson probably his most respected plays.

Boseman is in the film in flashback scenes. He's the dead guy whose remains the other four came back for. It's not much of a role but I guess it makes a convenient way to honor him if you're not going to give him Best Actor for Ma Rainey. It isn't, but he is pretty magnetic in the film and importan...

Sabin wrote:For me, I'm a Film Independent member. This is how they do screenings in 2020.

Same here.