Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I don't see how people dying in Iraq and Georgia has anything to do with it. Rosalind Russell was not ancient in 1961, at 54 she was merely middle aged but well outside the range of the usual female superstar. Truth be told, though, I really cited her because I knew no one was going to give an offi...

Um, not to be a party-pooper, and I offer this up for debate, but aren't we supposed to be reserving the Special Citation category for achievements that cannot be honored in the other categories? No disrespect to Flipp or Magilla, but I'm under the impression that both Warren Beatty and Hayley Mill...

Best Picture: Fanny Best Director: Joshua Logan, Fanny Best Actor: Maurice Chevalier, Fanny Best Actress: Leslie Caron, Fanny Best Supporting Actor: Keir Dullea, The Hoodlum Priest Best Supporting Actress: Mary Astor, Return to Peyton Place Best Ensemble: Fanny Best Original Screenplay: Viridiana B...

flipp525 wrote:Ensemble: West Side Story

Original Screenplay: William Inge Splendor in the Grass

Adapted Screenplay: George Axelrod, Breakfast at Tiffany's

Editing: Judgment at Nuremberg

Song: "Moon River", Breakfast at Tiffany's

Already included.

flipp525 wrote:Best Director: Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita

Best Art Direction: La Dolce Vita

Ineligible - see below.

This game goes by year of first theatrical showing, usually in country of origin, not Academy Award eligibility.

Good to know. The Yellow Rolls-Royce is not a particularly good movie but it has a once in a lifetime cast that makes it fun to watch. Hopefully it will be released along with other fabulously costumed comedy-dramas. Travels with My Aunt, perhaps? Bombers B-52 was a B movie that has for some reason...

OscarGuy wrote:Best Director: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins - West Side Story

Already included.

flipp525 wrote:You can really be very unforgiving and passive-aggressive-y when it comes to all this. You need to take off the "manager" hat. You're retired now and we don't work under you.

LOL. You got me.

I really do have other things to do. I think I'll go do some of them now.

I love the story that Richard Haydn used to tell about having quit the Academy when Wilde was nominated. If there was an alternative to Milland it would have to be Peck who was in three of the year's biggest hits, The Keys of the Kingdom, The Valley of Decision and Spellbound. Decision belonged to ...

It's time to look at another new year: 1961, the year of the 34th Academy Awards. Good. Now we can all vote for our favorites without fear of someone else zapping them as in the other game stalled now for almost another 24 hours. Why is it that people lose interest in that game after their first tu...

Penelope wrote:Waterloo Bridge is available on DVD?

Yes, it's available through Amazon for under $10 - purchase only, no rentals.