Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

dws1982, You have some great underrated choices there like Jacqueline Bissett and the trio from the sublime Last Orders. I am curious to know if you have seen Domestic Violence 2? I very much admire Domestic Violence but I consider Part 2 up their with his very best films from the lates 60's early ...

Look at Me -- ***1/2 ...This is my first Agnes Jaoui film and I'm very, very eager to see what else she has written, directed, and acted in. Sabin, you should seek out The Taste of Others, Agnes Jaoui's earlier film which is even better then Look at Me. I remeber Sonic Youth was also enthusiastic a...

I've updated my 2004 picks. I still have more films from 2004 to see though. Best Film Downfall Million Dollar Baby Sideways **Vera Drake Walk on Water Best Director Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby Eyton Fox for Walk on Water Oliver Hirschbiegel for Downfall **Mike Leigh for Vera Drake Alexa...

I just picked up a really cheap copy of Mean Girls. I find it better to wait a couple of months for popular titles when the prices then drop dramatically. A couple of other titles I bought this week include Fear and Trembling, Torment, Up and best of all Faster Pussycat Kill Kill. I hadn't paid any...

though I must admit I have never seen Lou Jacobi in Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex, the one Woody Allen moive I have never been able to take more than a minute or two of. Magilla, I watched Everything About Sex for the first time in over twenty years about 12 months ago and it hasn't ...

Thanks for your comments Damien. I always enjoy reading your comments. I was lucky enough to see A Time to Live and a Time to Die at a Douglas Sirk retrospective that toured Australia in 1999. I can’t remember where the print came from but I suspect the UCLA. The quality of the print was also quite...

Best Film 1. Duck Soup 2. Queen Christina 3. Zoo in Budapest 4. Blood Money 5. Wild Boys of the Road Best Director 1. Leo McCarey, Duck Soup 2. Rouben Mamoulian, Queen Christina 3. Rowland V. Lee, Zoo in Budapest 4. Rowland Brown, Blood Money 5. William Wellman, Wild Boys of the Road Best Actor 1. C...

Best Film 1. The Scarlet Empress 2. Imitation of Life 3. Masquerade in Vienna 4. Death Takes a Holiday 5. Little Man, What Now? Best Director 1. Josef Von Sternberg, The Scarlet Empress 2. John M. Stahl, Imitation of Life 3. Willi Frost, Masquerade in Vienna 4. Mitchel Leisen, Death Takes a Holiday ...

Best Film 1. Carnival in Flanders 2. The Magnificent Obsession 3. Triumph of the Will 4. Ruggles of Red Gap 5. Peter Ibbetson Best Director 1. Leni Rienfensthal, Triumph of the Will 2. Jacques Feyder, Carnival in Flanders 3. John M. Stahl, The Magnificent Obsession 4. Leo McCarey, Ruggles of Red Gap...

Best Film 1. The Story of a Cheat 2. Modern Times 3. Show Boat 4. Camille 5. These Three Best Director 1. Sacha Guitry, The Story of a Cheat 2. Charles Chaplin, Modern Times 3. James Whale, Show Boat 4. George Cukor, Camille 5. William Wyler, These Three Best Actor 1. Spencer Tracy, Fury 2. Charles ...

Best Film 1. Make Way for Tomorrow 2. The Pearls of the Crown 3. La Grand Illusion 4. Bizarre, Bizarre 5. Dead End Best Director 1. Leo McCarey, Make Way for Tomorrow 2. Jean Renoir, La Grand Illusion 3. Sacha Guitry & Christan-Jacques, The Pearls of the Crown 4. Marcel Carne, Bizarre, Bizarre 5...

Best Film 1. Bringing Up Baby 2. La Bete Humaine 3. Pygmalion 4. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 5. The Citadel Best Director 1. Howard Hawks, Bringing Up Baby 2. Leni Riefenstahl, Olympia 3. Jean Renoir, La Bete Humaine 4. Anthony Asquith, Pygmalion 5. David Hand, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Be...

Best Film 1. The Wizard of Oz 2. Ninotchka 3. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums 4. The Rules of the Game 5. Gone with the Wind Best Director 1. Victor Fleming, The Wizard of Oz 2. Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka 3. Kenji Mizoguchi, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums 4. Jean Renoir, The Rules of the G...