Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

What a disappointing year for the Best Actress category. Emmanuelle Rive, Marion Cotillard and Jessica Chastain are the obvious contenders for a place in my top 5. However for the remaining 2 places there are a lot of good but not great performances. Mary Elizabeth Winstead was good in a bad film, M...

Emily Blunt in talks to join "Into the Woods" as the Baker's Wife http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/emily-blunt-in-talks-to-join-disneys-into-the-woods-exclusive-1200482682/ and Christine Baranski as Cinderella's stepmother http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/good-wife-star-christine-...

OscarGuy wrote:Never heard Jake sing, but those parts are tough vocally, so Pine had better be up to the challenge.

Jake Gyllenhaal singing "And I Am Telling You" from Dreamgirls for Saturday Night Live
http://www.redbalcony.com/?vid=19705
lol

Many "stars" and big names were left out. No Al Pacino, Scarlett Johansson, Alec Baldwin, Jessica Chastain, Bette Midler, Sigourney Weaver (practically all her costars were nominated), Paul Rudd, Michael Shannon, Alan Cumming, Ellen Burstyn, Chita Rivera and to a lesser extend Fiona Shaw, ...

BEST PICTURE Breakfast at Tiffany’s La Dolce Vita Ballad of a Soldier Rocco and His Brothers West Side Story BEST DIRECTOR Rene Clement - Purple Noon Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita Jean Luc Godard - Breathless Robert Wise / Jerome Robbins – West Side Story Luchino Visconti - Rocco and His Brothers

BEST PICTURE
Lawrence of Arabia
Sweet Bird of Youth
The Miracle Worker
Sundays and Cybele
To Kill a Mockingbird

BEST DIRECTOR
David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
Arthur Penn - The Miracle Worker
Tony Richardson – A Taste of Honey
Alain Resnais – Last Year at Marienbad
Stanley Kubrick - Lolita

BEST PICTURE
8 ½
America, America
The Birds
The Fire Within
The Leopard

BEST DIRECTOR
Federico Fellini – 8 ½
Alfred Hitchcock – The Birds
Elia Kazan - America, America
Tony Richardson – Tom Jones
Luchino Visconti – The Leopard
Louis Malle – the Fire Within

Ellen Burstyn has 2.

And what about Angelica Huston, Julianne Moore, Helen Mirren. Why they have 2? Is it combined with the supporting races or something?

Great article Tee. About the bonus round: Totally agree with OscarGuy about Eddie Redmayne. I've seen him twice on stage and he was excellent. I also expect sometime in the future Wes Anderson to get that lone Best Director spot, although a screenplay win is more likely than a director nomination. E...

Congratulations Sonic! I am very happy for you!

1. Lincoln
2. Amour
3. Zero Dark Thirty
4. Les Miserables
5. Django Unchained
6. Argo
7. Life of Pi
8. Silver Linings Playbook
9. Beasts of the Southern Wild

"Orphans" was supposed to premiere on Broadway with Alec Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf. However yesterday the director and the producers fired LaBeouf due to "creative differences". Then LaBeouf starting twitting photos of emails between him, Baldwin, the director and other collaborat...

1. Moonrise Kingdom
2. Amour
3. Lincoln
4. The Perk of Being a Wallflower
5. Zero Dark Thirty
6. Anna Karenina
7. Holy Motors
8. Les Miserables
9. The Kid with a Bike
10. On the Road

My deepest condolences for your loss Mr Tee. May she rest in peace and i hope that you'll soon feel better.

Wow Mister Tee i didn't know your connection to the very talented Kathi Moss.

I send to both of you my warmest wishes for a quick recovery.