Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992) - 6.5/10 - Aamir Khan portrays a slacker who goes to the 'poor' school in the area and hangs out with his friends. Their rivals are a nearby 'rich' school which has a few jerks of their own, including the big man on campus and his followers. This isn't a great film, bu...

Voted for Gleason here. My picks for 1961: 1. Maximillian Schell, Judgement at Nuremberg 2. Jackie Gleason, The Hustler 3. Montgomery Clift, Judgement at Nuremberg 4. George Chakiris, West Side Story 5. George C. Scott, The Hustler The 6th Spot: Rod Steiger, The Mark I would throw out Chakiris and ...

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 1937: Darryl F. Zanuck 1938: Hal B. Wallis 1939: David O. Selznick 1941: Walt Disney 1942: Sidney Franklin 1943: Hal B. Wallis 1944: Darryl F. Zanuck 1946: Samuel Goldwyn 1948: Jerry Wald 1950: Darryl F. Zanuck 1951: Arthur Freed 1952: Cecil B. DeMille 1953: George ...

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 1956: Y. Frank Freeman 1957: Samuel Goldwyn 1959: Bob Hope 1960: Sol Lesser 1961: George Seaton 1962: Steve Broidy 1965: Edmond L. DePatie 1966: George Bagnall 1967: Gregory Peck 1968: Martha Raye 1969: George Jessel 1970: Frank Sinatra 1972: Rosalind Russell 1973: L...

List of Honorary Oscars before the Governors Awards: 1927/28 Charles Chaplin for The Circus Warner Bros for The Jazz Singer - first talkie 1931/32 Walt Disney for Mickey Mouse 1934 Shirley Temple 1935 D.W. Griffith 1936 W. Howard Greene & Harold Rosson for the colour cinematography in The Garden...

Star of It Came from Outer Space ? Yes she was a lovely presence in the films you mention. That obituary headline is to attract readers - the Space film title. You think people today remember any of the films you have mentioned. Nobody does sadly. Ask any of the younger Board members here - apart f...

I think the host's silly never ending opening banter is to please the youthful tv audience who would probably rather listen to a stand-up comic-like banter than look out for old stars - most of whom they probably don't even recognise or know of anyway. Its only actors in the Marvel series (or stars ...

I've since changed my opinion on Burl Ives' win. His win for The Big Country was deserved. He is vicious at the start and then absolutely heartbreaking towards the end of the film (which is magnificent and one of Wyler's most underrated). There is more depth to his performance here than in Cat on a ...

Barbara Rush, Star of ‘It Came From Outer Space’ and ‘Peyton Place,’ Dies at 97 by Pat Saperstein (Variety) 3/31/2024 Barbara Rush, who won a Golden Globe for most promising newcomer in “It Came From Outer Space” and went on to appear in “Peyton Place” and many other movies and TV shows, died Sunday...

A look-back at who won at the Governors Awards. 1st Annual Governors Awards Academy Honorary Award: Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman, and Gordon Willis Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: John Calley 2nd Annual Governors Awards Academy Honorary Award: Kevin Brownlow, Jean-Luc Godard, and Eli Wallach Irvin...

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I think he was the first black actor to win an Emmy award - for Roots.

He was memorable in so many films and made a superb Anwar Sadat in Sadat (1983).

R.I.P.

CalWilliam wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:37 am What about Tom Cruise?

He does not fit the Academy's usual choice of honoring doddery old actors.

Yes, they gave one to Angela Bassett but then we all know the reason behind that absurd choice.

Big Magilla wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:23 am While Harrison Ford's place in film history is unquestionable, I'm not sure he is as popular with the Academy's board of governors as he is with the general public.

Why is he unpopular with the Academy's board of governors?

Leslie Caron & Isabelle Adjani would be good choices too.

They should give one posthumous Honorary award each year to deserving actors or technicians who were never rewarded - Swanson, Burton, Irene Dunne....

Depardieu with all the rape charges hanging over him will never get to the podium at the Academy.