Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Back in ’98-’99 I was I was in glorious seclusion here as the greatest detractor of The Thin Red Line – an interesting failure, trapped in its own good intentions – and I always wondered if it had anything to do with the fact that (as far as I know) I’m the only one here who, unfortunately, was in ...

Yes, there is the question of ensemble pieces and episode films. Maggie Smith was the lead in a featurette that was part of California Suite. The Big Chill had eight roles of equal importance and about the same screen time. So either, as rolotomasi insists, we abolish any distinction, or, in a perf...

flipp525 wrote:Valerie Perrine in Lenny,

In the early '70s script girls were nominated as leading actresses for lack of contenders - not only of good lead preformances by women, but of any female lead.

And Marco, when it comes to Peck you seem to abandon any reasonable judgement :;): .

I think you're being too nostalgic. Strategy placement was prevalent in the past as well. I guess this nostalgia is all about the fact that in the past at least there was a sense of order (and we all love order, the more rigid the better). From the beginning the formation of the supporting categori...

Yes, today it’s all about “strategy”. It’s not about acknowledging achievements but spreading accessories. The agents and studio heads are bound contractually to get their clients the title “academy award winner” or at least nominee and the roles these actors are playing in the actual movies are ir...

I’ll second what Penelope said, and add that unsurprisingly, your arguments Criddic, reflect a deeply conservative point a view, which unfortunately is usually shared by the Academy. The idea is that there are not only supporting and leading performances in movies but supporting and leading people ...

I just don't want to see it. It looks far too...'Sound of Music'-y for my tastes. My advise to you – arrange for yourself to be in the right state of mind, preferably that of a three year old, and in the right era, say 1966. It worked perfectly for me. And I loved it the second time I saw it in the...

Lets start with some hair maintenance issues: Man being clean shaved no matter what the plotline is. Honorable mention: a man is being interrupted while shaving, he wipes the foam with a towel and surprise – his face is evenly shaves all over. An obviously dyed hair will stay the same, no matter wh...

And before anyone shouts foul – Betty Perske is here exactly because she was able to be transformed into a Lauren Bacall, and Goldie Hawn was never considered "ethnic". And no, Mrs. Eddie Fisher and Mrs. Arthur Miller were not either. Actually, Hayek, being partly Arabic, should be qualif...

Penelope/Bryan Ferry - Gosh, I don't know. It just seemed like the lead singer of Roxy Music going on to have a solo career singing standards would serve as a nice, flashy-but-not-too-flashy gay icon, even if he isn't gay himself, and a nice match. Er, what's this about Nazis? It’s all about the gl...

Uri - Greg Graffin "Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist Worldview: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology". Wow. That’s what's great about coming here. I’ve never heard about Greg Graffin before - I’m not exactly a punk rock kind of guy (though he seems to be a very mellow rocker, as liste...

Uri – Kurt Muller in Watch On The Rhine (Paul Lukas) Thank you Damien, first for linking me with a character I actually know about and then for picturing me as so fucking dignified. And I’ve always thought I was the epitome of fun round here… Anyway, Lukas was Kate’s professor Bear, so it’s fine by...