Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Up In The Air is a good film, but it does lose its way toward the end. It was quite edgy and different for the first half, til it decided to turn into a story of a man on a journey to find himself. It was always the story of a man on a journey to find himself. It's just so adept at it, that it does...

As of now, I'm predicting four for Avatar and The Hurt Locker, two for Crazy Heart and Up. Best Picture - The Hurt Locker Best Director - Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Best Actor - Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart Best Actress - Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Best Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz, In...

I think much of the entertainment media is rallying behind this "let's make the Oscars more for popular films" crusade out of self-preservation. Thank you. It's a year-by-year thing, but mostly they've always been commercially minded! How have they not been? It's just sometimes they're mo...

At the close of the decade, we add one more nomination to Peter Jackson's Decade Tally of now 36 Nominations. 14 for The Fellowship of the Ring, 6 for The Two Towers, 11 for The Return of the King, 4 for King Kong, and 1 for The Lovely Bones. Congratulations to Peter Jackson! Clint Eastwood adds tw...

The only thing worse than middle-of-the-road Oscar nominees is the blatant snobbery in comparing "art" to "commerce." I don't agree. I think if anything, this is the PERFECT time to discuss this. Last year, two "commercial" films (The Dark Knight, WALL-E) lost to an &q...

Huh. Well, I was a LITTLE wrong. Not always a bad thing. I'm going out on a limb: for a group that includes The Blind Side, these aren't that bad. There are a few things that make no sense to me (Precious better edited than Up in the Air?), but it could be worse. Lots of give and take. Still not go...

Were this a five movie slate, I would say the 5th Slot for Best Picture would be Precious with nominations for Sidibe, Mo'Nique, and screenplay. For Best Director, that would be Lone Scherfig for An Education. Unfortunately, I've already wavered once and opted for Neill Blomkamp instead and I don't...

Aside from the dubious selection of Nine in Best Cinematic Moment, I don't find anything to be embarrassed about in this year's selections, as has not always been the case. It's not about embarrassment. It's about bland conformity. This isn't a terrible lineup by any means. The only year this decad...

Saw thirty minutes. The Lady Gaga opening was incredibly stupid. Green Day's performance was awesome. That song is so mediocre but unfortunately whenever I hear Green Day, I'm back in high school, Clinton's the president, and my problems are angsty and "real". That performance made the so...

Yeah, I don't get it. Christian Bale was such a tiresome presence in Terminator: Salvation and Public Enemies this year, but instead they nominate The Jonas Brothers and Eddie Murphy yet again. Malin Ackerman is a good actress who was so obnoxious in Watchmen and (the ten minutes I saw, before walk...

Nine got a nomination for Most Cinematic Moment? How is that possible? Everyone on this Board hated that movie! Did anybody like this movie? I like the noms for Capaldi, McKay, In the Loop for Ensemble and Adapted Screenplay (Precious is REALLY a better script than Fantastic Mr. Fox?), Revanche, Su...