Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Congrats to Eric Messenger-Smith!

At this point I'm wondering if they're even going to do an In Memoriam?

Definite groan when Martin stepped up after Trayvon's heartfelt speech and started with "we'd like to thank Netflix."

"We swear we are running on time" - voiceover. Does not feel like it.

Really great speech - perhaps they did it so early because it seemed so foregone?

I do recall wishing speeches were allowed to run their course...kinda regretting that now.

"Speeches are going too long"

"Four days into shooting..."

"*silent*"

PICTURE: Judas and the Black Messiah DIRECTOR: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland ACTOR: Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal ACTRESS: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman SUPPORTING ACTOR: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Yug-jung Youn, Minari ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Judas and the Black Messia...

In the words of Sia: "grr fuckity fuck".

An anonymous male producer's ballot: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists ... est-ballot

I know this belongs in the TV department and speaks to how all the TV winners were white, but congrats to Catherine O'Hara for her spectacular year: she becomes just the fourth person to sweep all 5 major TV acting awards (TV Critics Association, Critics Choice Awards, the Emmys, the Golden Globes a...

H.E.R., a reliably safe R&B artist that the Grammys have been pushing hard for a few years now but whose music I can safely say I haven't encountered in the wild, won Song of the Year at last night's Grammys and is now an Oscar nominee, so she's having a good 12 hours. Leslie Odom Jr. becomes th...

Chalk it up to a topsy-turvy year, but I totally forgot the nominations were this morning and hence I missed watching them for the first time in what I could classify as "a decade-plus".

Do we dare weigh in on these awards? I don't have cable at the moment and couldn't be bothered to stream it or however a Canadian might access it, but thoughts? Taylor with a third Album of the Year; Billie Eilish with a B2B Record of the Year; Fiona finally wins after 23 years; Strokes win their fi...

I know it's a stretch to include her here, but the boundary-pushing trans Scottish producer was deeply (and I mean deeply ) beloved and respected in the music and young LGBTQ community, and her accidental death in Athens yesterday has provoked an avalanche of heartbroken tributes from a wide swath o...