Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

ITALIANO wrote:Today, Meryl Streep would be a wonderful choice.

Apart from Lynne Fontanne and Jane Alexander, who else have played the part on stage?

Neither Jack Lemmon nor Glenda Jackson deserved Oscars in 1973, but I thought I could understand Jackson's nomination for keeping a straight face through some of the most atrocious dialogue of the decade and for holding her head high while wearing the most hideous wig since Barbara Stanwyck in Doub...

Scott Foundas on Sydney Pollack's Early TV Work LA Weekly 5/28/08 In 2007, LA Weekly film critic Scott Foundas was asked to contribute an essay about Sydney Pollack's early television work to an Italian-language book about the director published in connection with a retrospective at the Alba Film F...

Has anyone here ever seen the Visit ? I've been dying to watch it ever since I learned of its existence several years ago. It's based on a brilliant play by Freidrich Durenmatt, and I've always wondered if its lack of availability signaled mediocrity (but then again, there's so many examples of una...

So it WAS rather simple after all. Hooray, I'm not a complete moron! Count me in. I also feel that a film should be included in the year it was originally released in its country of origin. I find it absurd that Limelight and Tokyo Story fit into 1972 just because the films were released in America...

So the nominees we get to add in each category could be from the actual list of nominees OR a film or performance from that year which was NOT nominated?



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Big Magilla wrote:If Laurence Olivier were to be nominated for anything in 1960 it should have been for his supporting role in Spartacus, not his hamola performance in The Entertainer, a role Lemmon played much better in the TV remake years later.

Wasn't Olivier's character supposed to be a ham?

I would like to play but as with the other game just trying to understand what it is all about makes me want to run in the opposite direction. Sorry but reading all your posts has made me confused. Don't understand the game at all. I guess I'm out on this one. Penelope's game is simple so I'll just...

Maybe those passing OscarGuy his categories in this game ought to stick to the 70's (or 80's) and up since he's always saying that he gets categories where he hasn't seen the films. I'll remember to do just that (best to stick to the 90s and 00s to make it easier for OscarGuy) unless Penelope chang...

OscarGuy wrote:attack

I haven't done this since Osama took off into the hills.

Mister Tee wrote:Being a good guy and having a 40-year film career at the highest level isn't that easy to pull off, so let's salute one who did.

Hear, hear!

I really hate these old years. I am absolutely shocked at this reaction. I did not know that we had this sort of attitude about old films (and surely 1965 is not that far back) on our Board. I'd hate to think what you feel about the period before 1965. And this coming from the Board's creator! Ok I...

I really hate these old years. I am absolutely shocked at this reaction. I did not know that we had this sort of attitude about old films (and surely 1965 is not that far back) on our Board. I'd hate to think what you feel about the period before 1965. And this coming from the Board's creator! Edit...