Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Three films need not apply. That said, Nimona had pleasantly spiky energy and nice character design [and led the Annie Awards nominations]. The soundscape to Elemental was pleasingly serene and provides a lovely background to doing the dishes (or typing Oscar predictions). Robot Dreams is nicely abs...

dws1982 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:19 am This American Fiction win, which seems inevitable, is not going to age any better than Jojo Rabbit's.

Yeah.... I'm feeling this more and more.

I love, love, love the "winners tribunal" approach.

The nominees American Fiction, Laura Karpman Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, John Williams Killers of the Flower Moon, Robbie Robertson Oppenheimer, Ludwig Göransson Poor Things, Jerskin Fendrix I’m being slightly dishonest because I’m missing one of the films. But, honestly, I’m not even con...

Cillian Murphy is our new frontrunner. But why wouldn't he have already been our frontrunner? He won the Golden Globe and BAFTA. It really does seem like there was a mindset predetermined that Oppenheimer's coattails wouldn't extend to him despite having the titular role in a Best Picture juggernau...

I had pretty strong feeling Murphy would win here -- British isles guy, probably more familiar to these voters than stateside folk -- and don't see why that would mean any more to the Oscar outcome than a Giamatti SAG win. Which, of course, hasn't happened yet, but... Little-knowns have occasionall...

Things of interest

a) American Fiction winning screenplay over Poor Things and Oppenheimer
b) Emma Stone winning best actress - suggesting (as Sabin did) a steamroller
c) The Boy and the Heron winning animated film
d) Barbie going home empty handed

01. Past Lives
02. Oppenheimer
03. Poor Things
04. Killers of the Flower Moon
05. The Zone of Interest
06. Anatomy of a Fall
07. Barbie
08. American Fiction
09. Maestro
10. The Holdovers

Subject to change, as always.

But are you talking about the BFCA or BAFTA? Bc Gladstone was nominated for the former (lost to Stone), but not the latter. If you're saying Lily Gladstone missed out on a BAFTA nomination due to category confusion, well, why couldn't she get nominated over Fantasia Barrino (The Color Purple) or Vi...

The 80s, though, offered a turnaround; breakout women nearly every year. And, basically, none of them ever managed to win with AMPAS (the way the entire male cohort that preceded them had -- though it took hoo-ah Pacino all the way to the 90s to do it). If you had told me, around 1990, that we'd be...

Well, I'm not going to be a weenie and I am going to comment on the race. I think it's going to be Emma Stone. I posted something to this effect in another thread but I'll be brief. I just think for Emma Stone to not be considered the favorite going into Oscar night, she'd have to start to get real...

I think this is a four-way race. Whether I’m right or wrong, it’s rather fun to think in those terms. What I would give to replace Bening with someone else. It doesn’t have to be Robbie. It could be Greta Lee. It could be Virginie Efira (masterful in Other People’s Children). Teyana Taylor was singl...

Is it a weak category? I think so. We talk about the bloggers setting the tone for the race by predicting according to specific dictums and just sticking to it. Sometimes it’s the role itself. Sometimes it’s the pedigree of the performer. Sometimes it’s just predicting people from the big film. I th...

Yeah, I've youtubed the Tracy Chapman/Luke Combs performance a few times now.

I think that the Taylor Swift "backlash" as it currently exists is being promulgated by the MAGA right certainly prevents her from being dethroned any time soon. As someone who has yet to hear a full Swift song (I think), I'm basically fine with it - I find her and her fans fascinating.