Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

With Daniel Day-Lewis/Abraham Lincoln, Matthew McConaughey/Ron Woodruff, Eddie Redmayne/Stephen Hawking, and Leonardo DiCaprio/Hugh Glass, we've now had four consecutive Best Actor wins for actors playing real-life characters. The previous record was three with Jamie Foxx/Ray Charles, Philip Seymour...

PICTURE: The Revenant DIRECTOR: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant ACTOR: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant ACTRESS: Brie Larson, Room SUPP. ACTOR: Sylvester Stallone, Creed SUPP. ACTRESS: Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl ORIG. SCREENPLAY: Spotlight ADAPT. SCREENPLAY: The Big Short FOREIGN LANGUAGE P...

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Martian
3. Brooklyn
4. Room
5. The Big Short
6. Spotlight
7. The Revenant
8. Bridge of Spies

I'd consider 1-5 all great films.

Rabbit's Moon (Kenneth Anger, 1950) 7/10 Pierrot, Columbine, and Harlequin all encounter one another in a forest at night. Kenneth Anger is an interesting director. Knowing nothing about this, walking in, I was expecting more mustard on more genitals, but this is crazy different than "Scorpio ...

The Furies (Anthony Mann, 1950) 7/10 A ranchwoman seeks revenge against her father after he plans to remarry a woman she does not like and, later, hangs her lover. "The Furies" gnashes its teeth and goes in for the kill almost right away. It rears its head and bites with the fiercest Freu...

Why Anne Hathaway has SO many votes in this poll? We had a user named mojoe92 (he's posted below) who created about 20 different accounts to skew these polls in his own favor. They only show up in places he's passionate about such as with Jacki Weaver, Ronee Blakley, Quinn Cummings, and more. This ...

It Had to Happen (Roy Del Ruth, 1936) 4/10 An Italian immigrant (George Raft) in New York rises to become a racketeer and falls in love with a married rich society dame (Rosalind Russell). By-the-numbers plot with nothing new to say. So glad you posted this. Thanks for letting me know why it was by...

Mighty Joe Young (Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1949) 7/10 A huge gorilla is taken from his home with a young white girl with property in Africa to Hollywood where he's a star onstage and severely mistreated offstage. Where "King Kong" was adventurous and thrilling, "Mighty Joe Young" i...

Labyrinth (Jim Henson, 1986) 7/10 A teenage girls wishes the goblins from her favorite book would take her stepbrother away only to find him gone and herself in a chaotic maze to retrieve him. I've been meaning to see this for a long time, and it only took the death of my absolute favorite icon in ...

Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, 2015) 9/10 A lonely college freshman befriends her soon-to-be stepsister as they wind their way through entrepreneurship and writing in 2010s New York. Noah Baumbach hella turns up the charm here and makes something damn close to a Preston Sturges film. The movie's ...

Don't blame Oscar - blame the studios for not taking chances on people of color in films that don't specifically have to do with people of color. If no people of color are nominated, AMPAS is racist. If they nominate a couple, they're token nominees. If they nominate several and none win, AMPAS is r...

PICTURE 1. Spotlight 2. The Revenant 3. Bridge of Spies 4. Room 5. The Big Short If 6. Brooklyn If 7. The Martian If 8. Mad Max: Fury Road If 9. Carol If 10. Star Wars: The Force Awakens DIRECTOR 1. Lenny Abrahamson, Room 2. Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant 3. Tom McCarthy, Spotlight 4. Geo...

Another tip-off for when we resume the screenplay discussions: This Tuesday at 5:45AM ET, TCM is showing 1938's Blockade, one of the nominees I'm missing from the Original Story category. I wouldn't bother. It's godawful with Henry Fonda giving one of his worst-ever performances. But kudos to your ...

So, I heard an ad that started with someone worried he had missed a holiday sale and he talked about how busy he was eating fruitcake and attending ugly sweater parties. Curious, I Googled "ugly sweater party" and found it is a thing where during the holiday season people attend parties w...

Another tip-off for when we resume the screenplay discussions: This Tuesday at 5:45AM ET, TCM is showing 1938's Blockade, one of the nominees I'm missing from the Original Story category. I wouldn't bother. It's godawful with Henry Fonda giving one of his worst-ever performances. But kudos to your ...