Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Correctly predicting the shorts often make or break one's Oscar pool so I decided to review all the shorts as soon as I see everything in one category. First up...Best Animated Short. Letter to a Pig is about a Holocaust survivor recounting his experiences to a classroom of children, in particular h...

Will edit as soon as I see them. This includes shorts.


The Color Purple
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
Golda
Io Capitano
To Kill a Tiger

ANATOMY OF A FALL Cast: Sandra Huller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, Jehnny Beth, Saadia Bentaieb, Camille Rutherford, Anne Rotger. Dir: Justine Triet. When her husband is found dead from an apparent fall, a woman is tried for his murder. But was it? The premise ...

AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM Cast: Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman, Yahya Abdul Mahteen II, Randall Park, Temuera Morrison, Dolph Lundgren, Martin Short. Dir: James Wan. Black Manta still wanting revenge for the death of his father, wants to unleash an evil into the world. Aq...

I wish they’d go back to having only Oscar nominated or Oscar winning actors announce the nominations. I don’t think either of these people are even Academy members yet.

BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR American Fiction (MGM/Orion Pictures) Cord Jefferson, Jermaine Johnson, Nikos Karamigios and Ben LeClair, producers. Anatomy of a Fall (Neon) David Thion and Marie-Ange Luciani, producers. Barbie (Warner Bros.) David Heyman, Tom Ackerley, Robbie Brenner and Margot Robbie, p...

FINAL PREDICTIONS! OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES Succession (HBO) OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES Ted Lasso (AppleTV+) OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES Beef (Netflix) OUTSTANDING VARIETY TALK SERIES The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS) OUTSTANDING VARIETY SCRIPTED SERIES Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) ...

FOE Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, Aaron Pierre. Dir: Garth Davis. It's 2065 and a young couple in a secluded ranch is approached by a mysterious stranger with a strange proposal involving one of them becoming part of a space colony. I thought the trailer was intriguing. When this started to get ...

THE BOY AND THE HERON Cast: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura, Shōhei Hino, Ko Shibasaki, Takuya Kimura (voices). Dir: Hayao Miyazaki. It's World War II and a young boy still grieving the death of his mother moves with his stepmother and father in the country and then meets a heron w...

THE HOLDOVERS Cast: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston. Dir: Alexander Payne. A not-very-well-liked teacher at an bougie all-boys boarding school gets stuck looking after the "holdovers", students who have to stay in school over the Christmas holidays and fo...

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Greta Gerwig, Barbie Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Alexander Payne, The Holdovers Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director Chloe Domont,...

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE Michael Cera, Will Ferrell, America Ferrera, Ryan Gosling, Ariana Greenblatt, Kate McKinnon, Helen Mirren, Rhea Perlman, Issa Rae and Margot Robbie, Barbie Halle Bailey, Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins, Taraji P....

Here is how you can catch up on the shorts (please let me know how you can view the ones I didn't manage to find): Documentary Short Subject “The ABCs of Book Banning” - Paramount+ “The Barber of Little Rock” “Bear” “Between Earth & Sky” - Vimeo “Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games” “Camp ...

THE RESULTS! Only two people, dws1982 and Oscar Guy predicted Cillian Murphy in Best Drama Actor, earning them double points. The answer to the optional bonus question is ZERO so anyone who answered that gets an additional five points. Okay, here are the results! Please do let me know if there are a...

I almost forgot to join my own contest. BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA Oppenheimer BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL or COMEDY Barbie BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA Bradley Cooper, Maestro BEST ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PIC...