Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Damien wrote:Ryan Philippe's ultimate behavior is even more out-of-character and ludicrous than Howard's.

You're right! I had all but blocked that absolutely ridiculous turn of events from my memory.

BEST PICTURE *The Best of Youth Brokeback Mountain Good Night, and Good Luck Junebug The New World BEST DIRECTOR George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck David Cronenberg - A History of Violence Marco Tullio Giordana - The Best of Youth Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain *Terrence Malick - The New Worl...

1. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana) 2. The New World (Terrence Malick) 3. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee) 4. Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney) 5. Junebug (Phil Morrison) 6. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg) 7. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog) 8. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki) 9. Mur...

The professor and guest lecturer were astonished. so, does this mean that they both haven't seen it or have they? Oh no, THEY had seen it. But they were surprised at the fact that the overwhelming majority of the twentysomethings in their class, half of them men, very few of them film students, had...

Crash, easily. Brokeback Mountain, Good Night, and Good Luck, A History of Violence, Grizzly Man, and The Squid and the Whale will all likely make my top ten list. Munich, The Constant Gardener, and King Kong were not perfect, but were nonetheless three very interesting and entertaining films. I wa...

Factor in polling on public perceptions about homosexuality, and the gap is even wider. Thumbing one’s nose at a majority of the country doesn’t seem like a wise business model. What an obnoxious warping of facts. The majority of the country SUPPORTS some type of recognition for same-sex couples, a...

BEST PICTURE *Almost Famous Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Requiem for a Dream Traffic Yi Yi BEST DIRECTOR Darren Aronofsky - Requiem for a Dream Cameron Crowe - Almost Famous Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon *Steven Soderbergh - Traffic Edward Yang - Yi Yi BEST ACTOR Javier Bardem - Before...

I did not much care for The Family Stone either. I must agree wholeheartedly with Roger Ebert that its unfortunate similarity to this year's Junebug is really its fatal flaw. In Junebug, I loved Embeth Davidtz's character and I loved the Johnsten family, so their clash felt infinitely more heartbre...

BEST PICTURE *Ghost World Gosford Park The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Memento Mulholland Drive BEST DIRECTOR Robert Altman - Gosford Park Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring *David Lynch - Mulholland Drive Christopher Nolan - Memento Wong Kar-Wai - I...

The shows in LA were sold out all day (up to midnight showings) by before 4. The theater I could not see it at even added additional screenings after that. Most astonishing were the sheer numbers of people who drove hours to see this film and were devastated that the entire day had been sold out ho...

Nominated for seven Oscars and winning three, including picture, "Midnight Cowboy" stands as an example of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' openness to gay material. Revisionist historian. The Academy's lack of openness toward gay material is so obvious, I'm surprised he...

Re: North Country. ***? Maybe that's too generous. It IS solid entertainment, well done, if very predictable. It's aided by a strong cast, especially Charlize Theron, who I liked very much in Monster, but who certainly does something very different here. She's very moving in the film, particularly ...

Latest update. **** The Best of Youth Brokeback Mountain Good Night, and Good Luck Junebug ***1/2 The Constant Gardener Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Grizzly Man A History of Violence Howl's Moving Castle King Kong Munich Murderball The Squid and the Whale Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of ...