Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Best Actor: Paul Giamatti Best Actress: Sandra Huller Best Supporting Actor: Ryan Gosling Best Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph Best Director: Christopher Nolan Best Original Screenplay: Past Lives Best Adapted Screenplay: Poor Things Best Cinematography: Killers of the Flower Moon Best Cost...

DAMSEL Cast: Millie Bobby Brown, Ray Winstone, Robin Wright, Angela Bassett, Nick Robinson, Brooke Carter, voice of Shohreh Aghdashloo. Dir: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. The fantasy trope of a heroic prince having to save a damsel in distress from a dragon gets an updated modern twist where this time a ...

My personal rankings for this category: 01. Perfect Days 02. Io Capitano 03. Society of the Snow 04. The Zone of Interest 05. The Teachers' Lounge In the old days of "Academy members MUST see all five and prove it", I think a front-runner like The Zone of Interest could be vulnerable to a ...

The nominees: Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall David Hemingson, The Holdovers Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer, Maestro Sami Burch and Alex Mechanic, May December Celine Song, Past Lives Unlike Adapted Screenplay, this category has one clear front-runner. Anatomy of a Fall has won th...

THE COLOR PURPLE Cast: Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Colman Domingo, Danielle Brooks, Corey Hawkins, H.E.R., Halle Bailey, Ciara, Louis Gossett Jr., Jon Batiste, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, David Allan Grier, Deon Cole. Dir: Blitz Bazawule. This is the film version of the stage musical adaptation o...

The nominees: Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer Ryan Gosling, Barbie Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things It's going to be Robert Downey Jr. He swept the precursors and has both momentum and narrative. It's not surprising but I wished ...

Picture: Oppenheimer Actor: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Actress: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon Supp. Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer Supp. Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Original Screenplay: Justine Triet & Arthur Harari, ...

The nominees: Bradley Coooper, Maestro Colman Domingo, Rustin Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction Is this race over? Bradley Cooper came into this season looking like the front-runner: He has a very baity role of a very famous person with showy m...

Here are the rules just in case you guys forgot them: 01. Predict the winners in all 23 categories. 02. You can predict one winner and one OPTIONAL runner-up. 03. A correct prediction with a runner-up gets 2 points, a correct runner-up gets 1 point and a correct prediction with no runner-up gets 3 p...

Yes, this was a shocker here. They still haven't released the cause of death. She wasn't even 60 yet. Yes, she's one of our major actresses who actually started out as a young, sexy ingénue in her younger years then quickly transitioned into one of our most versatile and reliable character actresses...

The nominees: The Boy and the Heron Elemental Nimona Robot Dreams Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Everyone who has seen Robot Dreams loves it and is utterly charmed by it (including yours truly) but I don't think there's enough of them that will vote for it. Nimona and Elemental have their respe...

SPACEMAN Cast: Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Isabella Rossellini, Kunal Nayyar, Lena Olin, voice of Paul Dano. Dir: Johan Renck A cosmonaut (I think, since the character is supposed to be Czech) is on a one-man mission to Jupiter and meets an talking alien spider. This is a film that's firing in all...

DUNE PART II Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Stellan Skarsgaard, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Lea Seydoux, Charlotte Rampling. Dir: Denis Villenueve. The continuation of the story of Paul Atreides and his rise to pow...

The nominees: Barbie Killers of the Flower Moon Napoleon Oppenheimer Poor Things I agree with people here that this is The Favourite v. Black Panther Part 2 when it comes to both design awards. Oppenheimer is firmly in third place. It could win if the Academy decides to give it everything. Killers a...

The nominees: Cord Jefferson, American Fiction Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Tony McNamara, Poor Things Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest This is another contentious which I think is a genuine three-way race. Let's eliminate the ones with minimal chances: ...