Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

As long as they're happy and healthy, more power to 'em. But she's at the age where it's going to be harder to carry the child to term and the possibility of complications gets greater every year, so she'd be smart to call it a day with number eighteen. My dad has a good friend whose wife is expect...

TMZ (which has a source for Idol info that has been very accurate all season) is reporting that Daddy Archuleta has been banned from everything at Idol except the live shows. What were you saying about him not being that bad, anonymous? TMZ has learned David Archuleta's dad, Jeff, has been official...

My beloved bought a Blu-Ray, but several of the Blu-Ray DVDs we bought won't play on our TV (which is HD). The menu appears on the screen, but that's it. Has anyone else had this problem? I've had major problems with Fox Blu-Rays. Sunshine I actually sent back to Netflix, thinking it was a bad disc...

I made the switch to Blu-Ray a few months ago (via a Playstation 3, so I can also play some of their games) and I couldn't be happier. I don't have a surround sound system (yet), but the picture quality is amazing, and the difference between a HD image and an upscaled SD image is clear. In terms of...

Dozens of articles have been written about how horribly his father has behaved behind the scenes, publicly reducing his son to tears over performance mistakes, etc. I don't have it in for the boy. He seems nice (I really liked that he didn't just stand by silently Tuesday when the judges trashed Ja...

Since we're putting Solaris in, I'll put Andrei Tarkovsky in Best Director in place of Alan J. Pakula, whose work on All The President's Men isn't bad, and would've been my choice out of the actual nominees that I've seen. But this is Tarkovsky. Bigger fish to fry, etc. And in group two, I'll rescu...

I have received reliable word that even though his family are devout Mormons, they're actually Democrats. Who cares if they're Democrats? David Archuleta is still a performer-bot controlled by his overbearing stage father. He seems like a nice kid, and talented but he needs to break free of the dad...

I expected to like The Crying Game , after having loved The End of the Affair and really respecting The Butcher Boy . Turns out that those two were apparently flukes, as they are two of only three interesting movies he's made. ( Breakfast on Pluto being the third.) It's too bad you didn't like Unfo...

Gene Hackman is one of the ten best winners in this category. As I am out of passes, I debated dropping out of the game, because I didn't want to be the one to take his award away and give it to someone else. Especially since Unforgiven , one of the two or three greatest movies ever to win the Osca...

The Fog of War had at least an LA release in late December of 2003. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been eligible for the Documentary Feature award, which requires a one week run for Documentary Feature contenders.



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I like Warren Beatty’s performance in Heaven Can Wait, but I’ll replace with Brad Davis for Midnight Express. Good choice. The way things were going, I was half-expecting that block of wood Christopher Reeve to end up with the final spot. (After all, Gene Hackman took the place of John Hurt; the Sc...

Saw The Counterfeiters today, and it's good. The lead is played by an actor (a good actor) who would've been cast as one of the Nazis by almost any other director. August Diehl, in a supporting/second-lead role is excellent--he has the charisma (and probably the looks, although it's hard to tell he...

Sorry...I have to work ten hour days sometimes. I will preserve the Best Picture nomination for Bound For Glory , the best and least-heralded film in what I find to be a fairly overhyped lineup. In Cinematography I'll nominate Bruce Surtees. But for which of his deserving films? The Shootist or The...

So, Syesha no, unless she finishes in the Final Two, will now hold the record of most bottom-three/two finishes in Idol history. Well, they didn't officially announce that Syesha was in the bottom two last night. They just made us assume it by bringing her and Brooke out and saying, "One of th...