Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

There's a ton of controversy around Jonathan Glazer's comments ranging from disagreement to straight-up mangling his (admittedly somewhat unclear) statement. Controversy for the sake of controversy. Frankly there is no controversy. It was absolutely clear that Glazer was soundly condemning both the...

Jefforey Smith wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:46 amA reasonable deadline could be when the show begins.

Yes once the silly monologue begins by the host that could be the perfect time for the deadline. Its usually a while before the first Oscar is handed out.

Big Magilla wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:19 amBest Picture may be something we haven't heard of, but it could also be something we've already heard the title of but haven't given much thought to, like Blitz perhaps?

Blitz sounds like Hanover Street from way back in 1979 with Harrison Ford and Lesley Anne Down.

Slow Horses: Dead Lions (Jeremy Lovering, 2022) - Season Two 10/10 The group at Slough House - an offshoot house for a bunch of disgraced MI5 agents - are led by the scruffy, smelly, chain smoking Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman). Based on the series of novels by Mick Herron the plots go on to show that t...

Mister Tee wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:49 am Something...anything...interesting -- please, happen.

Annette Bening?

Steve Lawrence, Grammy-Winning Pop Stylist & Actor, Dies at 88 His late wife, singer Eydie Gormé, was his "partner onstage and in life" for more than 55 years. by Mike Barnes (Hd Reporter) 3/7/2024 Steve Lawrence, the charismatic Grammy- and Emmy-winning crooner who delighted audiences...

Best Film All of Us Strangers American Fiction *Oppenheimer Past Lives Poor Things Best Actor Adam Driver, Ferrari Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers *Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction Best Actress Annette Bening, Nyad Penelope Cruz, Ferrari Abb...

I don't really get how and why Da'Vine Joy Randolph has become such a juggernaut for her performance in The Holdovers. She is good. Not bad at all....but she hasn't brought anything new to the table. It almost seems like a repeat of what we saw Hattie McDaniel do in Gone With the Wind. A modern vers...

Picture: Oppenheimer Actor: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Actress: Annette Bening: Nyad (Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon) Supp. Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer Supp. Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Original Screenplay: Anatomy of a...

I would prefer if they go the old-fashioned route where they award it to the one here who has paid her dues - a career award - Bening. All the others are young and are sure to get their time in the limelight down the line. Although if not, then Gladstone will be an historic win. I think its too soon...

Sonic Youth wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:58 pm

Reza wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:09 pm I kept wondering how the riders dismounted from the worm after the ride was over.

Did you ever think you'd write such a sentence?

Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023) 8/10 By turns outrageous, hilarious, wise and sad, this film, based on the novel by Alasdair Gray, sort of echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. A medical student (Ramy Youssef) becomes an assistant to an eccentric doctor (Willem Dafoe) and falls in love with his c...

Great visuals but the rest is such a bore with repetitious action sequences that are not even thrilling. I kept wondering how the riders dismounted from the worm after the ride was over.

Paolo Taviani, Award-Winning Italian Director, Dies at 92 by Nick Vivarelli (Variety) 3/1/2024 Italian director Paolo Taviani, who with his late brother Vittorio formed the revered filmmaking duo that in 1977 won the Cannes Palme d’Or for “Padre Padrone,” has died at 92. Taviani died on Thursday in ...

Murder is Easy (Meenu Gaur, 2023) 6/10 Agatha Christie's latest adaptation has a twist in its casting. The original story's lead protagonist is changed here from a white English police officer to a Nigerian attaché which totally changes the dynamics of the story but in a good way. With black actor D...