Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

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BEST PICTURE 1. Before Sunset 2. Dogville 3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 4. Sideways 5. Closer BEST DIRECTOR 1. Lars Von Trier - Dogville 2. Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 3. Alexander Payne - Sideways 4. Bernardo Bertolucci – The Dreamers 5. Walter Salles - The Moto...

THE GREAT BEAUTY The movie is very long, full of characters, and it deals with important issues which are probably universal, or at least shared by those countries which like Italy are going through an economical and cultural crisis - yet it's mostly a movie about Rome. Rome, with its endless, ofte...

Reza wrote:Voted for LOTR and Jackson.

My picks for 2003:

Best Picture
2. Dogville

Best Director
2. Lars Von Trier, Dogville

I love Dogville as well, but don't you usually follow the US release dates Reza? If so then i think "Dogville" is a 2004 release.

Happy Birthday Wes!

Voted for Mendes and American Beauty BEST PICTURE 1. American Beauty 2. The Talented Mr. Ripley 3. All About My Mother 4. The End of the Affair 5. Magnolia BEST DIRECTOR 1. Anthony Minghella - The Talented Mr. Ripley 2. Sam Mendes – American Beauty 3. Pedro Almadovar – All About My Mother 4. Paul Th...

It's seldom that i get excited about a greek film and even though i can't say that Lanthimos' cinema is my cup of tea it's hard not to be impressed by the cast of his first english language film. Ben Whishaw, Jason Clarke, Olivia Colman, Lea Seydoux have signed on as well as his regulars Ariane Labe...

Sad news. I had the pleasure of meeting him during the Venice Film Festival back in 2005 i think, were he was presenting Gabrielle with Isabelle Huppert. I also had the pleasure of seeing him performing "Notes from the Underground" on stage in Athens around 2004, a stripped-down reading of...

Patrice Chereau, the French director of opera, theater and films such as “Queen Margot” and “Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train,” died Monday in Paris of lung cancer. He was 68. A screenwriter and actor as well, Chereau was director of the Theatre des Amandiers in Nanterre, France. His unusual pro...

PICTURE *It’s a Wonderful Life The Best Years of Our Lives The Yearling A Matter of Life and Death Children of Paradise DIRECTOR *Frank Capra - It’s a Wonderful Life Alfred Hitchcock - Notorious Laurence Olivier - Henry V Marcel Carne - Children of Paradise Roberto Rossellini – Rome, Open City Micha...

PICTURE I Know Where I’m Going The Lost Weekend *A Tree Grows In Brooklyn And Then There Were None To Have and Have Not The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp DIRECTOR Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound *Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger - Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend Eli...

PICTURE Double Indemnity Gaslight *Lifeboat Hail the Conquering Hero Going My Way DIRECTOR Billy Wilder - Double Indemnity Preston Sturges - Hail the Conquering Hero *Alfred Hitchcock - Lifeboat Leo McCarey - Going My Way Vittorio De Sica - The Children Are Watching Us ACTOR Fred MacMurray - Double ...

PICTURE For Whom the Bell Tolls The Human Comedy *Casablanca Shadow of a Doubt The Ox-Bow Incident DIRECTOR George Stevens - The More The Merrier *Michael Curtiz - Casablanca Alfred Hitchcock - Shadow of a Doubt William A. Wellman - The Ox-Bow Incident Carl Theodore Dryer – Day of Wrath ACTOR Gary C...

PICTURE Now, Voyager *To Be or Not to Be The Man Who Came to Dinner The Palm Beach Story The Magnificent Ambersons DIRECTOR Irvin Rapper – Now, Voyager Ernst Lubitsch – To Be or Not to Be William Keighley – The Man Who Came to Dinner *Preston Sturges – Sullivan’s Travels Orson Welles – The Magnifice...

PICTURE How Green Was My Valley *Citizen Kane The Maltese Falcon Meet John Doe The Little Foxes DIRECTOR John Ford - How Green Was My Valley *Orson Welles - Citizen Kane John Huston - The Maltese Falcon William Wyler - The Little Foxes Frank Capra - Meet John Doe ACTOR Gary Cooper - Meet John Doe *O...