Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I'm a major American Idol conspiracy-theorist, Zahveed. The media is talking about Carly's failed album a lot. Much more than the Idol powers that be are comfortable with, especially since they don't want it to be really wide knowledge that Carly was signed to MCA during Randy Jackson's tenure ther...

Whether or not Colton Berry has a shot at a successful recording career is irrelevant, and unknowable, to me since we barely saw him at all on the show. My point is that Simon took that last minute advice thing as an opportunity to take the knife and twist it around. His comments were out of line, ...

Scott Feinberg polled three voters himself to get these results. Actually I suspect he polled more than three and just used the most interesting results (three different votes in Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplays), but here it is: ACTRESS A legendary star of the st...

West Coast / anonymous's Time Zone spoiler: The guys eliminated were Garrett Haley and Colton Berry. Girls were Amy Davis and Joanne Borgella. I only saw Colton Berry's elimination, but I thought that Simon was particularly cruel to him. I think he still blames him for that nerd Kyle not making it ...

Hustler wrote:(IMO The Departed was not a lock)

"Not a lock" does not equal "surprise winner".

I could be eating these words come Sunday, but I'm stunned that anyone is still considering Atonement any kind of a possibility for Best Picture.

Luke Menard was pretty good, but subtlety is not rewarding on Idol . So of course he's in danger of going home. Jason Yeager is in a similar position--his performance was too low-key for Idol , although from the sound of it, I think he has potential to be a pretty good jazz singer. I loved how anyt...

This'll be my best year ever in the big categories. Before the ceremony, I'll have seen all five Best Picture ( Michael Clayton I'll watch tonight), Actor (Tommy Lee Jones I'll watch tomorrow), Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress nominees. (Although I haven't seen all of I'm Not There , I've se...

There Will Be Blood does a perfectly good job of recreating turn-of-the-century California, but, when you get right down to it, there really aren't that many sets beyond a few run-down shacks. Only Plainview's end-of-film mansion -- and especially the bowling alley -- dazzle the eye in any way. I t...

I'm not sure; I think he lives in his car still. Based on the posts of his I've read, he made it very clear that he lived that way by choice, because it gave him the freedom to go wherever he wanted and not be tied down to anything; not because he was forced onto the streets by angry parents or som...

Damn you, Zahveed! If it were anyone else, I'd say they were trying to force me to use my last pass, but since you haven't been around many months, you probably are not familiar with my Eastwood-love. I might still save my pass in a better lineup, but I don't like any of the other four nominees. Th...

So Damien and I seem to have less and less to agree on this year than before; He's strongly disliked two of my favorites of the year ( Bug and now this) and while I didn't strongly dislike them, I didn't much care for some of his favorites-- Redacted , Away From Her , and 2 Days in Paris . I think ...