Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

No passes left means no Godfather , but it's one of my favourite films of all time and deserved this awards hands down. Of the remaining films, Sounder is easily my favourite. I quite like Deliverance , haven't seen The Emigrants , and I don't think very much of Cabaret . So Sounder gets it. Reza, ...

I'm more curious about Frost/Nixon , and particularly, how they place Sheen's Frost. There is no way you can argue he's supporting (in fact, I'd entertain an argument that Nixon was a supporting figure, based on the play. Granted, the argument would be wrong, but I'd entertain it), but in many resp...

Damien wrote:Every time I see this thread heading, I still immediately think it's referring to the author of Black Boy and Native Son, although he died in 1960.

ME TOO!!!

David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1997 tome "Infinite Jest," was found dead last night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46. Jackie Morales, a records clerk at the Claremont Police Department, said Wal...

Put me in the "Adapted Screenplay is a bridge too far" category on Dark Knight. It's true the writers' branch isn't genre-snobby, but the films MoveWes cites were considered more special as writing specimens than Dark Knight is. I'd say Tell No One is more up this branch's alley, if you'r...

This is actually a pretty great category. No passes - No Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer . Not that I would've went for it anyway. I never really understood as Monsieur Verdoux became the Chaplin film you liked if you didn't like Chaplin. It's fine, but compared to his silent masterpieces, it just doe...

He was also the original Katurian in The Pillowman (the Billy Crudup role on Broadway). Not that I've seen it, but it's one of my favourite plays ever and anyone involved automatically gets some points of affection from me. And I love the new Doctor Who , even if I'm so far behind. I saw it and he ...

I think it's patently clear that Josh Brolin has the best shot of all the many men in Milk for a BSA nod. The category favors antagonists, he had that phenomenal year last year (at least I remember MSM saying so, even if I can't remember what he was in aside from No Country ), and I imagine most Ac...

God, I love Shadow of a Doubt. It might be one of my favorite Hitch's, beyond the Holy Trinity of Vertigo, Rear Window, and Psycho. I've had The Merry Widow Waltz stuck in my head the past few days because of this game! I thought the holy trinity was Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho. Plus, th...

1. Preserve Casablanca in Best Picture. 2. Replace Holy Matrimony in Best Screenplay with Five Graves to Cairo - Preserve "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" in Best Song. 3. Replace The North Star with Casablanca in Best B/W Art Direction. Big Magilla, you have Mission to Moscow being repl...