Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I've tried to block the memory of Pacino's win. I know the win was for an awful performance but what was the consensus on Pacino winning that year. After all he was nominated for two awards (his 7th and 8th nods). Was it a given that he would win the award? And what was the audience reaction? Did h...

Big Magilla wrote:Ingrid Bergman (Cactus Flower)

I thought she was badly miscast in the part and there was zero chemistry with Walter Matthau...and she looked older than him....or was she supposed to??

Ultimately, however, I went with Peggy Ashcroft in The Nun's Story because how can you include Beatrice Straight who I barely remember without including Ashcroft, Ruth White, Patricia Collinge or Colleen Dewhurst, all of whom were more memorable in The Nun's Story? It boggles the mind. Haven't seen...

I don't begrudge Geraldine Page her eight nominations, but oh, how delicious it would have been for her to have been nominated for her exquisitely loony harridans in Toys in the Attic, What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? and The Beguiled instead of those other films. Throw in her take on Aimee Semple...

It's a shame Geraldine Page didn't win an Oscar for Summer and Smoke. We might have spared those throwaway nominations for You're a Big Boy Now and Pete 'n' Tillie. Taking it a step further had she won another (in support IMO) for Interiors we might have spared the one for The Pope of Greenwich Vil...

--Mister Tee wrote:It (1984) was a truly dreary year (and '85 was mostly the same).

Three of my favourite Brit films came out in 1985.

Plenty, Dance With a Stranger and Wetherby....with great performances by Meryl Streep, Miranda Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave respectively.



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NY Times March 10, 2009 Jimmy Boyd, Actor and Child Singer, Dies at 70 By DENNIS HEVESI Jimmy Boyd, who as a skinny, red-headed kid of 12 recorded “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” then reprised it dozens of times on television variety shows in the 1950s and went on to an acting career in movies a...

London Guardian 3/7/09 Laurence Payne Actor and author best known as the vintage detective Sexton Blake Laurence Payne, who has died aged 89, was known offstage as "Larry Two" in deference to the king, "Larry" Olivier, and for a short time he was almost as well known. He was a s...

Actor Judd dies aged 77 Published Monday 9 March 2009 at 11:10 by Patrick Newley Leading British screen and television actor Edward Judd has died at the age of 77. Judd won international fame in the sixties when he starred in a series of classic sci-fi films including The Day the Earth Caught Fire,...

--OscarGuy wrote:I know we could probably get another year end before the end of the month, but I'd rather not risk it. So, consider this game on pause until after the board is brought back up in April.

Is the board going to be on hiatus?? Will we have access to the threads?



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Round 2 for the year 1959 is over. Actual nominees....Anatomy of a Murder, Charlton Heston, Hugh Griffith, Arthur O’Connell, Robert Vaughn, Thelma Ritter and William Wyler did not make the grade with the voters on the Board. Also some of the other ''Left-Overs'' from 1959: Best Picture Anatomy of a...