Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

For those interested, Toute une vie is actually available on YouTube with english subtitles, divided in five parts. Here's the link. I'll watch it some day, since I don't quite disdain Lelouch peculiar and old-fashioned style, like in the much rewarded Un homme et une femme. It provides, at least, s...

I won't vote in neither category. I've yet to see some of them, but in Original Nashville should have been nominated and won hands down. Someone here could give a quick scenario of what could have happened back in 1976? I love Amarcord, but as a writing achievement I would have given my vote to Dog ...

Francis Ford Coppola has won today the prestigious Princess of Asturias Arts Award, so he joins some other great names as Luis García Berlanga, Fernando Fernán-Gómez, Vittorio Gassman, Pedro Almodóvar, Woody Allen or Michael Haneke, former winners of this award. This is a joy for my region and for t...

So, we have a three way tie here. Very interesting. If it isn't broken by someone by the time we make the best bunch overall it'll be even more difficult to make the final choice, but yes, 70s were tough.

The first years acting winners.

I haven't seen some of the nominees so obviously I won't cast a vote, but in terms of what you say, Marco, about having to give one's opinion at every moment may be a sign of a weak personality reminds me precisely of Paddy Chayefsky (a strong personality) the following year when he announced the sc...

This time it'll be a choice between 14 bunches, because I think it's fairer to group them since the first year there were four winners in order to make the first couples of winners' poll next week.

Share your thoughts of a pocketful of great names and performances here.

Priceless episode, full of wonderful scenes indeed. And only three left. Elisabeth Moss and Christina Hendricks at their best. After all the uncertainty, I forecast it'll be a subtle ending to remember. I'll miss the series, which is supposed to be revisited.

But I’ll go with Julia, one of the year’s better movies, even if one a bit old-fashioned for the time. As discussed in the best picture thread: I think the film starts a bit haphazardly; for a while, I wasn’t sure where the story’s present tense was. Yes, but I believe that's the way our memory ope...

OK, thank you, Big Magilla and Precious.

And we land in the Adapted slate, with two dreary films, though Equus is a masterpiece in comparison to I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. The former SHOWS many good things (forgive me you all), but those Burton monologues are so stupid than I just can't find out what Lumet and Shaffer are trying ...

Impossible not to vote for Annie Hall. I like The Goodbye Girl, but that obnoxious child impersonated by Quinn Cummings prevents me from really like it. Of course, not award material. I don't quite know nor remember whether Star Wars has a good script or not, but it's undeniable that it has standed ...

The end of century now. Which group was the best? It's difficult, between some undistinguished choices.

One can find the houseboy in La Cage Aux Folles annoying, ridiculous or whatever, but it's still a stereotype (a harmless one in that context) and, in an admittedly minor-far-from-masterpiece-movie territory, we do have the ability and the intelligence to skew those certain aspects of a film that co...

The olden 50s' turn, from Cyrano de Bergerac to Petronella Van Daan. I can't vote this time, but I think it's not easy.