Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

As she is still in prison, Narges Mohammadi was not able to accept her Nobel Peace Prize in person. The ceremony had an empty chair representing her as well as her picture. Her acceptance speech was smuggled out of prison and read by her 17-year-old-twin daughter and son Kiana and Ali Rahmani, in, I...

Mister Tee wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:13 pm . . . pretty much everyone in sight outclassed him in What's Up, Doc?. . .

I thought his laconic demeanor suited the character quite well.

I saw excerpts from the most recent Republican Presidential debate on YouTube. These debates don't need moderators; they need kindergarten teachers.

"Norman Lear Was Still Making TV a Week Before His Death:"

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv ... 235714999/

Supposedly, when CBS had All In The Family, Mash, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, and The Carol Burnett Show all on one after the other on Saturday night, it became the biggest night in television history.

The multi-talented stage, screen, and TV actress who originated the roles in On Golden Pond and Driving Miss Daisy that later won Oscars for Katharine Hepburn and Jessica Tandy was 93. Didn't that mean she played Ethel Thayer when she was in her forties and Daisy Werthan when she was in her fifties?

Billionaire Charles Koch is backing Nikki Haley.

U.S., Israel and Hamas reach tentative deal to pause conflict and free dozens of hostages- WaPo:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea ... 023-11-19/

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter enters hospice care at home, family says:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fo ... rcna125770

Sabin wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:37 pm

danfrank wrote
Yep, and The Godfather, Part 2 received five a couple of years before Network.

Greg wrote
Network got five acting nominations.

You guys are nerds.

Who here isn't?

Sabin wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 2:26 pm . . .
-overly enthusiastic; first film in almost sixty years to get five acting nominations (since Bonnie and Clyde). . .

Network got five acting nominations.

Ironic that he had been President of the Academy while having never been nominated for an Oscar.

STRIKE OVER: Actors Make a Deal With Studios After 118 Days:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busin ... 235607563/

Well, the House does have a Speaker now, obscure Louisiana representative Mike Johnson who supported Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Big Magilla wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:32 pm
. . . Poor Things, is a satire, a comedy genre that has never won.

Birdman?