Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

The nominees: The Creator Godzilla Minus One Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One Napoleon Ever since Dune Part II decided to move to 2024 and Oppenheimer failed to make the bake-off list, this category has become one of the most contentious and confusing of a...

AMERICAN FICTION Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Issa Rae, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Tracee Ellis Ross, Adam Brody, Leslie Uggams. Dir: Cord Jefferson. An African-American writer is having getting his works published and decides to write a stereotypical "black" book then experi...

POOR THINGS Cast: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, Kathryn Hunter, Christopher Abbott, Hannah Schygulla, Suzy Bemba, Margaret Qualley. Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos A young woman who's been brought back to life by a deformed scientist through a brain transplant from h...

SUNCOAST Cast: Nico Parker, Laura Linney, Woody Harrelson, Matt Walsh. Dir: Laura Chinn. This is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama about a teenage girl befriending a right-to-life activist during the Terri Schiavo controversy and trying to have fun after helping to care for her terminally ...

Christopher Nolan has won DGA.

Celine Song wins First-Time Feature Director.

Finished this category as well. The ABC's of Book Banning - A group of children are interviewed and give their thoughts on the issue of banning certain books. This is what I call a "no shit, Sherlock" documentary, meaning if you already agree with the premise, it just reinforces it. But it...

MEAN GIRLS Cast: Angourie Rice, Renee Rapp, Auli'i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Christopher Briney, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Jenna Fischer, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows. Dirs: Samantha Jayne & Arturo Perez Jr. This is the film version of the stage musical adaptation of the 2004 teen comedy where a homeschooled...

LISA FRANKENSTEIN Cast: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Carla Gugino, Henry Eikenberry, Joe Chrest. Dir: Zelda Williams. A sullen teenage girl whose mother has been murdered gets obsessed with a dead musician in an abandoned cemetery then after lightning strikes, this dead musician come...

Here's my assessment of the live-action shorts: The After - David Oyelowo plays a man who becomes an Uber driver after an unspeakable tragedy happens to him. The main thing this film has it going for it is David Oyelowo's truly great performance. I don't know if this one works as a short, it feels l...

ORION AND THE DARK Cast: Jacob Tremblay, Paul Walter Hauser, Angela Bassett, Colin Hanks, Mia Akemi Brown, Natasia Demetriou, Nat Faxon, Ike Barinholtz, Carla Gugino, Werner Herzog (voices). Dir: Sean Charmatz A young boy who's afraid of most everything especially the dark is visited by the actual e...

PRISCILLA Cast: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Dagmara Domińczyk, Ari Cohen. Dir: Sofia Coppola. Based on her memoirs, this film chronicles Priscilla Presley's relationship and marriage to Elvis Presley from the time she met him when she was 14 through their separation/divorce in the early '70s. This ...

Story.

This one’s a bit of a surprise since he’s been having quite a comeback in this past couple of years.

R.I.P.

With Don Murray passing away, the earliest Supporting Actor nominee still alive is Russ Tamblyn, who’s also active on Twitter.

To people who have known me a long time, they would know I have been to the United States several times in the past...as a child and a couple of times as an adolescent. But I haven't been since. In case you didn't know, it is quite difficult to get a U.S. tourist visa as a young, single Filipino cit...

Correctly predicting the shorts often make or break one's Oscar pool so I decided to review all the shorts as soon as I see everything in one category. First up...Best Animated Short. Letter to a Pig is about a Holocaust survivor recounting his experiences to a classroom of children, in particular h...