Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Oh yeah and I see now why Damien was a little annoyed. The Chicago cast was smart enough to insert Rob Marshall’s praise into EVERY interview in 2002, gushing and lauding him effusively to the heavens. I credit Renee Zellwegger, Richard Gere and the Chicago producers with Marshall’s tenuous frontru...

Happy Holidays, everyone from Washington, D.C.! I'd like to "third" kaytodd's sentiments. After almost ten years on this board, a lot of you really are like family to me (yes, even the red-headed stepchild known as criddic3 ;) Granted, family that I've never seen, but you get the drift......

Did they pick United 93 over World Trade Center because the latter featured too much actual footage of the towers? WTC didn't do as well with critics (66 from Metacritic, 71% from RT) but is it because of that fact? I think they chose United 93 as the better, more representational film because Worl...

And I'm wondering about Nicholson, too. If Jackie Earle Haley doesn't make the cut, does this make Nicholson the frontrunner? If Haley manages to get nominated, I think he'll be the surprise winner as well. I think Eddie Murphy has a better chance of winning than Nicholson does of taking home his f...

i guess though with all the show tune loving queens on this board, you cannot make *predictions* based on some clips and other people's reviews. I find this extremely offensive as well. F u c k you. I might be gay and like showtunes but I'm probably more butch, masculine and muscular than your skin...

Not in a long time has there been a category filled with so many exciting, diverse characters and performances populated almost entirely with unknown, star-making turns. With the lead actor and actress races almost gelling to a point of consensus (sure we're all still arguing about those phantom fi...

They may bear some grudge against him - for many years now his career choices could be conceived as quite insulting, or maybe it something about his personality that turns them off – I don’t know. Which film choices do you think they found objectionable? The Ruling Class ? I am intrigued by the ide...

1975 Best Picture Barry Lyndon The Day of the Locust Dog Day Afternoon *Nashville One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Best Actor Gene Hackman, Night Moves *Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon Maximilian Schell, The Man in the Glass Booth Donald Sutherland, The D...

If Tatum O'Neal had been appropriately nominated in the lead category, I actually think she could've won that as well. The only real threat would've been from Joanne Woodward who was simply fantastic that year as Rita, the Ice Queen in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams and had the New York Film Critics ...

will AMPAS follow tradition and finally award O'Toole a competitive Oscar or follow the herd and give it to Whitaker? If they do the latter, then maybe it's time for the Academy to change its rules. I don't see why, it would only perpetuate society's tendency toward treating elderly people with kid...

It, thus, has a lot to say about the lack of quality films available for consideration and also about the people who are championing this comedy. Honestly, I think the latter part of this statement is reductive and elitist. I liked Little Miss Sunshine for what it was, a cute little road-trip film ...

That said, the size/function of Streep's role in Devil Wears Prada reminded me most of Anthony Hopkins in Silence and Amy Adams in Junebug. All three are their film's main attraction, all three have all the money scenes, all three have substantial screen time . . . and yet the main arc of the film ...