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The technical guilds often make the difference. In a year when the big technical winners are films that are either not nominated for best picture or considered by many to be more commercial than artistic, best picture can go to something else, but when the technical awards go to a film that has som...

Well, since OG brought me into it, yes, I have to say his writing style has improved immensely and he takes constructive criticism very well. His review of The Wrestler is a good example. It doesn't contain spoilers. I haven't seen the film so I have no idea how it ends but since there's talk of a ...

Ok. I'm curious, not having seen the stage play, what the general consensus is about whether he did it or not. I firmly believed at the end that he did it. I had no doubt whatsoever. So, I'm curious why some people think he's innocent. The cite Streep's final statements that she has doubts about he...

Precious Doll wrote:Savage's Hollywood career has been over since the mid-1950s, yet she has had a resurgence over the past year with a starring role in Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin's "My Winnipeg."

I was going to ask what the hell she needed an agent for, but I guess he earned his pay after all.

Cinemanolis wrote:Actress
Katharine Hepburn - The Rainmaker

Good choice. I was torn between her and Nancy Kelly in The Bad Seed, hence my vote in the ensemble category instead.



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Eric wrote:I: I know this will give Magilla and others an aneurysm, but replace Quinn Cummings with Jean Hill from Desperate Living.

Not really. I have no idea who Jean Hill is, but that obnoxious little girl from The Goodbye Girl had to go.

Hustler, unfortunately you can't nominate an actor more than once in the same category and there is no way you could consider Goodbar a supporting performance. Annie Hall, maybe, but not Goodbar where she's in every freaking scene. Yes, Jane Fonda is gone while Marsha Mason remains. You only have t...

Doubt 8/10 Much better than I expected. Shanley's long hiatus from directing since Joe vs. the Volcano helped. Little is done to expand the play but little touches like the bleakness of Buffalo and even the boring food on the nuns' plates help to give it a good dose of realism. I didn't care for St...

Thankfully the only audience noise I encountered at my local theatre during the first Saturday matinee showing was occasional laughter and applause at the end. There was even a baby who kept quiet during the entire film and the old ladies behind me shut up once they were told to do so by the on-scr...