Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Among some very choice entries are The husband and wife nominations for Joel Coen and Frances McDormand for 1996's Fargo came almost twenty years after the last time a husband and wife team were nominated in the same year. John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands were nominated for 1974's A Woman Under th...

Posting my traditional evaluation this year feels kind of like taking my finale bow on the stage of this board. I wish I could say I do it solely as a bravura gesture in the name of free speech, but I’m afraid I’m suffering material fatigue, my passion is not as it used to be. I will be hanging arou...

Actually, back in 1947, Jennifer Jones was just shy of her 28th birthday when she received her (consecutive, like Taylor's) forth nomination. And on this very rare occasion I'm posting here - I do have my issues with the board right now, obviously - I'll add the followings: Pacino is nominated 47 ye...

And I can't help myself:

Boyhood

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Sonic Youth wrote But no one's mentioned the main reason why I think this movie is going nowhere with the Oscars, and it's simply this: the protagonist is a 10 year old boy, and it's about his "coming of age". How many Oscar nominated films fit that profile? I can only think of "Extr...

First – it’s a better film than Bohemian Rhapsody (this is the first observation one must make, isn’t it?). Or maybe it's just an easier one to accept, and it has a lot to do, indeed, with the fact that rather than a (not good) biopic about a musician, it’s a musical inspired by a musician’s life. A...

And we’re (or at least I am) back to my pet peeve of including/excluding “foreign”, i.e. non-English speaking, films for awards consideration. I remember we had once (Damien was still with us) a discussion about best loved songs from films. And even the most non-Hollywood-centric members of this boa...

1927 – Alfred Abel, Metropolis 1937 – Erich von Sternberg (*), Grand Illusion 1965 – Jean-Claude Brialy, La Mandragola 2004 – Knut Berger, Walk on Water 2007 – Michel Blanc, The Witnesses 2016 - Dong-seok Ma, Train to Busan 2018 – Steven Yuen, Burning C'est tout? In over nine decades? (* you've got...

Precious Doll wrote: his character was gay which would have been a big ask for the Academy back then.

Actually, the year before Peter Finch was nominated for playing a gay character in Sunday, Bloody Sunday.

Doris Day has always fascinated me, since, when it comes to the preforming arts, I’m a big sucker for confidence. Not arrogance, but confidence. And Day was an extremely confident performer. She had it all – the voice, the musicality, the movement, the face, the body (hers was maybe the greatest ath...

I LOVE Lillian Gish. As I said on many occasions, the highlight of my life as a movie goer was seeing her in the flesh back in 1984. Yet, as much as I want her to be beyond reproach, I do acknowledge that she was a product of her time. There was a second reason Gish supposedly would not marry Nathan...

Precious Doll wrote:But increasing the field to 10 is ridiculous.

It's not about increasing the number of actual nominees from five to ten but adding one more "finalist" to the nine we had in recent years.

It's interesting you mentioned Vera Lynn - I was thinking of her as some kind of an equivalent to Smith when it comes to "national chanteuses" - both seemed to lack the kind of grand pathos others - like Mercedes Sosa or Amália Rodrigues - had. There was always a safe aspect to them. And p...

one of the most iconic singers of 20th Century music. One of the most iconic singers of 20th Century AMERICAN music. Unlike many other American singers, from Bessie Smith to Beyonce, from Al Johnson to Eminem, who , indeed, became international icons, her appeal never really transcended the US and ...

This was a tough year to find five nominees. Why? The Favourite alone offered you three equally - quality as well as quantity wise - valid candidates for best lead actress of the year. I don't have a newly found perspective I didn't have a month ago, when I evaluated the nominees - Colman and espec...