Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

As for Crash, not only do I not get its Best Picture win, I don't get its editing win. Cross-cutting. And a weak-ass year. Wasn't gonna be Cinderella Man, The Constant Gardener, or Walk the Line. Films that win that are not nominated for Best Picture that win in this category are The Matrix, The Bo...

The decade continues onward...! #88 -- A CHRISTMAS TALE (Arnaud Desplechin) The epilogue of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream likens its raucous players to offending shadows, whereas Arnaud Desplechin begins with shadow-draped puppets show prologue capable of reducing a viewer to tear...

...of those I've seen. BEST Jane Darwell, The Grapes of Wrath Eva Marie Saint, On the Waterfront Jo Van Fleet, East of Eden Vanessa Redgrave, Julia Dianne Wiest, Bullets over Broadway (edging out Dianne Wiest, Hannah and Her Sisters) Special Mention to -- Tatum O'Neal, for giving a brilliant leadin...

Yeah, I don't think Marie Antoinette was a shoo-in at all. I thought it was going to be Dreamgirls. In retrospect, the Academy probably made the best choice if they couldn't give it to The Devil Wears Prada. Marie Antoinette is one of the better sets of corsets this decade to honor. I remember thin...

I actually think of the score in Fantastic Mr. Fox more than the score itself. And this is the first Wes Anderson in which I can say that. I guess it's fitting then that the first Best Original Score nomination for a Wes Anderson film comes for Alexandre Desplat instead of Mark Mothersbaugh's iconi...

To be honest, I wasn't certain that Up would get nominated because I don't really remember "hearing" anything special in the film aside from the glorious score. Certainly that obnoxious bird noise doesn't strike me as anything Oscar worthy. It's a PIXAR movie so it certainly deserves a no...

Here is my review of Almost Famous: Untitled as an Honorable Mention. Almost Famous: Untitled (Cameron Crowe) Released to largely indifferent audiences in the fall of 2000, Almost Famous played like a jet-lagged evocation of runaway youth watched from the outside of a fish bowl. Released on DVD wit...

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this is the best group of nominees since 2001 saw A.I., A Beautiful Mind, The Fellowship of the Ring, Harry Potter, and Monsters Inc. up for the prize. I think it's safe to say that this race is between Avatar and Up, the anthemic vs. the melodic. The Hurt...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/mynameiskhan/ This is the trailer for My Name is Khan, a Fox Searchlight Film that I am excited about. There was some controversy the previous year about the actor Shahrukh Khan being detained at Newark airport, but far more interesting is that it featu...