Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I wonder if Don has at least exposed himself to AA. Perhaps attended a meeting and then got the hell away from there. He obviously has no sponsor but some of the terms he used in his journal (and the fact that he is keeping a journal, something I would never imagine the Don from previous seasons do...

Oh. I thought he was talking about the audio or sound system. Does anyone else get the feeling this is going to be this year's Lovely Bones? A competent but somewhat distorted film version of a beloved novel in which the actor playing the villain (Keira Knightley) is the film's primary Oscar hope? ...

I find Duck's return to the show disturbing. I thought his drunken rant at the award show was to just give an update to those of us who were wondering if he is still a threat to break up SCDP. But he drunkenly begs Peggy to start seeing him again and join him in a business venture that is doomed to...

I loved the book, but I think it's a work of great delicacy that will need wonderful skill and luck besides to translate well to the screen. I thought Ishiguro's technique of letting us slowly comprehend the set-up -- in the words of one character in the book, we are "told but not told" -...

Roger's flashbacks remind us how sharp and charming Don has been up until this season. If he does not get his act together soon he will destroy SCDP. I am reminded of Peggy angrily reminding Don earlier this season that "You're the reason we all came here." But I have not seen him make a ...

Don Draper's behavior this season should cause me to no longer root for him but I cannot help it. I think he is headed for either a major fall or a glorious comeback in his personal and professional life. I hope it is the latter for that will be a lot more fun to watch. His drinking is causing him ...

I loved Anne Bancroft in The Graduate , one of my all-time favorite films. But I have been intrigued ever since I first read a long time ago that Pat (is that what her friends called her?) had been offered Anne's role but turned it down because she was unsure if she had recovered enough from her st...

It's not a mosque and it is not going to be located at Ground Zero. There are two Muslim prayer centers already located even closer that the planned community center, one of which has been operating there continuously since the early 1970's. In February, Laura Ingraham herself interviewed the wife ...

Good episode last night. I have time for one quick point: I know Peggy and Pete have a soft spot for each other but I cannot believe Peggy really thinks she would have been better off married to Pete and the mother of his acknowledged child. Would Pete have allowed her to work? Peggy is proud and f...

Winter's Bone --Debra Granik A disappointment after reading the ecstatic reviews. A very good job creating an alien world in the heartland of America. It was sometimes downright scary when Jennifer Lawrence's character Ree would approach certain houses while on her search. But I was not very impres...

I have to say I'm a little surprised that Tatum isn't doing better than 3 votes. I expected she and Sylvia Sidney would be neck and neck, not Sidney and Madeline Kahn. I thought Tatum was very good in Paper Moon and, of that group of actresses, she was a deserving winner based on the quality of her...

Mad Men does not seem to be generating the same interest on the board as in past seasons. I was out of town the last couple of weeks and am catching up on the last two episodes. One quick observation about episode 2: the return of Glenn, the weird kid from Season 1 who was obsessed with Betty gave ...

How about Kristen Stewart? She's got 'tude. I have no doubt she is on the top of the producers' list. Good choice. And would help the box office big time. I am glad they are doing this. Some say this takes away from the Swedish original but I understand both films have done very good business in th...