Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

All in all, a weird decade... don't know how future generations will see this choices, how respectable would they seem in years to come. The Director's line up is way better that the Best Picture one. The Departed is my favorite film of the bunch, the one I consider the best. No Country for Old Men...

Man, don't be this deffensive again! I'm not ridiculing anybody (does that verb actually exists?) but your point was, and I quote "this is no longer about rewarding the best". According to your statement, your voting process is better than FilmFan's... but actually it wasn't about to rewa...

Don't put it that way Wes... For my money had Wayne won for this one, it would have been a better win than the eventual True Grit one. I thought Crawford would keep his Oscar or that Peck was the one to take it away from him, but a victory from Wayne is not a bad one either... And of course all of ...

Sorry, thought it was Flipp's take... Apollo 13 is a deserving choice. However, Se7en gets this award. FilmFan720: Leading Actor '59 By the way, RainBard, I, for that matter, am not wishing anything in order for your choices to be changed. Of course (and thanks for remebering it) I would had given ...

Add Diahann Carroll, one of the 1968 awards' "ten friends of Oscar". "Ten Freiends of Oscar?"... Can you explain a little bit more of that? I saw I clip on youtube (maybe the best one of a previous Academy Award) where Carroll, Fonda, Russell, Bergman and Wood presented Best dir...

Thank God for the loosers! It's amazing how a minute Day-Lewis was the absolute favorite and now that he won he receives so many critics... his methods, he's looks, etc... Don care how he managed to do that... I thank him for the minutes I was able to watch him as that horrible but mesmerizing man!...

this wasn't a surprise, we talked that in here yesterday or the dya before... we were mentioning a lot of reasons that placed her ahead of Christie... the theory was proven right... Actually, it was kind of a boring night... can't believe that the only major shock came in the Visual Effects categor...

Hustler wrote:I wasn´t so sure about that. I was suspecting a possible win for P.T. Anderson.

and that would have been a nice surprise...