Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I'm ambivalent about Accidental Tourist -- I think 2/3 of it is a near-perfect transposal of Tyler's peculiar sensibility to the screen. But the last half-hour collapses; a friend of mine said it was the first movie she'd ever seen that died when it went to Paris (of course, she hadn't yet seen Fre...

From Time : NOTES ON A SCANDAL Smirk, smirk. Pretty, slightly ditzy schoolteacher (Cate Blanchett) gets it on with one of her teenage students, and predictable consequences follow. But Notes is not really about age-inappropriate sex or child victimization. The boy involved is always the rather ugly...

Ok, so I know who did it. The British chick from the coffee shop. Yeah, Jana's totally fishy but I think, ultimately, a red herring. I think she and Professor Korbel are actually working together to recover the Grugeon reliquary for the Nazis and that the killer is one of the more established membe...

The more I'm seeing of this report - on Jennifer Hudson linking same-sex desire with sin - the more this feels like a set-up. Or a situation out of Studio 60. I'm just watching that episode of Studio 60 last night and finally got this. Wow, what Jennifer said is almost verbatim to what the characte...

I really, really, REALLY do not get why people insist on keeping Will Smith in their predictions. His movie looks like sappy, manipulative crap in the veins of Pay It Forward and Stepmom . He didn't even come in SECOND or THIRD in any critics awards while Gosling has gotten some "Breakthrough&...

Six Degrees was very entertaining, with exceptional performances, but there was more competition that year in most categories than usual. The exception was best actress, which is how I think Channing managed a nod. I totally disagree. Angela Basset and Holly Hunter's performances are easily two of ...

World Trade Center, for all its flaws, is a better film than either though I suspect it will be years before we'll see the definitive film on this tragedy. I agree with that. The definitive film 9/11 is really going to have to involve some of the stories of the people who were actually inside the b...

DOWNFALL ( Der Untergang ) (2004) cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler, Heino Ferch, Christian Berkel; dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel Equally bold as it is aesthetically pleasing and artistically accurate, this well-rounded look into Hitler's final days...

I was so sure there would be no announcements this year until all the categories were done. And it looks like the official website decided not to update beyond Best Film. Is this because they caught wind of the leaks? To me, the big news is Ryan Gosling's anemic showing so far. If he were going to ...

Speaking as someone from DC and still living here, Sonic's statement is very true. Washingtonians are also big Christopher Buckley fans. Both the book and the film version of Thank You For Smoking were both very insider; the book, frankly, in a more clever way. Heck, I had to read it for high schoo...

It's been awhile since the Best Supporting Actress race was this wide open. It seems like this year's lineup is almost entirely populated with unknown performers and underappreciated veterans and fan favorites in scene-stealing roles. The only bigger name actresses I can even think of who might fac...