Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Several of those films got multiple acting nominations though. That’s not quite “collapse” territory for me. Wasn’t Selma even an Oscar winner for Best Original Song? The Color Purple seems to be wholesale botching out (I haven’t seen it). Could Danielle Brooks’s somewhat assured nomination be in pe...

Yes, okay, I got 9 points. But I also didn’t copy-and-paste everyone else’s choices and decided (for the Globes, at least, since like who cares it’s the Globes) to choose some “no guts no glory” picks. I won this thing in 2005, I believe, so I’m fine with a dead-last finish this year. Thanks for add...

Best Picture – Drama: Oppenheimer Best Picture – Musical/Comedy: Barbie Best Female Actor – Motion Picture – Drama: Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall Best Male Actor – Motion Picture – Drama: Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers Best Female Actor – Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy: Margot Robbie, Barbie ...

Best Picture: Killers of the Flower Moon (RU: Past Lives) Best Director: Celine Song, Past Lives (RU: Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon) Best Actor: Teo Yoo, Past Lives (RU: Glen Powell, Hit Man) Best Actress: Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall (RU: Greta Lee, Past Lives) Best Supporting Ac...

You all know that I’ve been incessantly beating the drum on All of Us Strangers since November so I was very pleased by its showing today. I predicted that all four actors would be longlisted. Also psyched about the love for Saltburn which is hitting the zeitgeist right now and is on everyone’s lips...

Fix your formatting, Reza.

Supporting Actress lineups with these regional awards seems the most fluid which makes me think (as I’ve thought all season) that there will be some shockers come nomination morning.

Happy Christmas from Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire! Having a very Gosford Park-esque Christmas this year.

Love the strong showing for the brilliant All of Us Strangers. And thank god someone finally fucking nominated Claire Foy! I bet these citations for the film repeat at BAFTA.

I am so confused by the Erika Alexander talk for American Fiction . She’s always a likable presence and does nicely with the love interest role in the film, but there is nothing there for a nomination. Trust me. Tracie Ellis Ross does more in her much more limited screen time. I could even see a vet...

I’m still honestly dumbfounded that Claire Foy has not made a foothold in this race for her superb performance in All of Us Strangers . It was so affecting and beyond anything I’ve seen her do before. I thought she was just perfect. She would be my number one if I had a ballot. Foy seems to be a per...

I read something somewhere about Zone of Interest having won here to show support for Israel in the Israeli-Hamas War. I don't know where that is coming from. I haven't seen it, but descriptions of the film remind me of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) with Asa Butterfield as the son of a newl...

When American Fiction introduces the central problem of Theolonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) during an early scene at Issa Rae’s character’s book reading, I knew that this film was going to be something special, smart, and fun. I had also just finished All of Us Strangers maybe only a half an...

Over 15 years ago, Terence Davies wanted to adapt one of my grad school mentor’s novels for film and had actually written a full screenplay for it. Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann. Richard and Terence had been in conversation on and off for years about this project (Richard really wanted Paul Da...

Glad to see Andrew Scott make an appearance here. He’s my winner in that category by a country mile. Also, thrilled that Julianne Moore is starting to get citations. She is the best she’s been in years in May December. Ditto Natalie Portman who I think people have been sleeping on in Best Actress. N...

I recently read The Zone of Interest and will be very interested to see how this is translated to film. Intelligently written and rather unflinching, it’s told in the viewpoints of a highly connected SS officer, the commandant of the camp (Auschwitz) and a Jewish kapo who is in charge of figuring ou...