Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

(Big Magilla @ Dec. 09 2010,1:49) If you look hard enough you can find ten films to like in any year, but 1995 had a larger percentage of crap than any other year I can think of. It was the year that us Waterworld, Showgirls, Safe, Braveheart and Restoration among other infuriating duds. I also had...

He does a Better Than list, where he makes mind-melding comparisons between two movies (one an adorned critical fave, the other a forgotten genre film) with on paper nothing in common. This is from his 2009 Better Than list where he starts by saying "Don’t talk about 2009 movies unless you’ve ...

(Mister Tee @ Dec. 09 2010,1:19) 1995 brought (in rough chronological order): Dolores Claiborne, Muriel's Wedding, Rob Roy, A Little Princess, Bridges of Madison County, Smoke, Apollo 13, Brides of Madison County, Clueless, Babe, The Usual Suspects, To Die For, seven, Devil in a Blue Dress, Get Sho...

Why would it piss me off? All the Harry Potter movies I've seen sound great. And I don't need to see it to assume this one is no different. Does Alexandre Desplat have better things to do be doing with his talents than scoring Harry Potter and goddamn Twilight movies? Sure, but a new boat's a new b...

(anonymous @ Dec. 08 2010,9:12) Someone from a Facebook group said something about Peter Travers that rings very true: He is, in some ways, the exact opposite of Armond White. I don't know. They're both incredibly predictable. But in terms of taste, oh yeah. They're as different as black and white....

(Sonic Youth @ Dec. 08 2010) Sabin's score received a one point deduction for incorrectly guessing a tie. Otherwise, he would have been the sole runner-up. Remember when Peter Travers somehow picked both Almost Famous and Crouching Tiger for the best film of the year, linking them in some archaic m...

I just listened to Alexandre Desplat's score for The King's Speech. It's kind of a shame that after three superior nominations (let alone Birth, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Beat My Heart Skipped, Lust, Caution, and The Painted Veil) that he's going to win for this. It's good in a Rachel Portman ...

(Big Magilla @ Dec. 08 2010,8:44) Inception is deliberately confusing and incoherent. The entire film is a dream. Nothing makes sense except within the context of a dream and even then things have double and triple meanings. Except it doesn't feel like a dream. And if it does, it's not an interesti...

(anonymous @ Dec. 07 2010,11:43) I don't get why people think it's confusing. It's easy to follow if you paid attention to the rules of the world and I thought the editing together of the action sequences and the juggling of the simultaneous level of consciousness was absolutely breathtaking when I...

Best Picture - Se7en Best Director - Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man Best Actor - Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas Best Actress - Jennifer Jason Leigh, Georgia Best Supporting Actor - Peter Friedman, Safe Best Supporting Actress - Catherine Keener, Living in Oblivion Best Ensemble - Nixon Best Original Scree...

I haven't seen Kinsey since its release in 2004, but I recall Linney being something of a co-lead in the film. If she is supporting, then she gets my vote for the year. At this point, Linney may never win an Oscar, but she certainly deserved one here. I remember thinking it would be nice though if ...

(ITALIANO @ Dec. 06 2010,3:35) The Ghost Writer isn't Polanski's best movie ever of course, but it's still, in my opinion, better than some much-promoted movies of this year. I wonder if it can get some Oscar nominations, despite its controversial director. I doubt it. His genre films are never tak...