Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

The Boys in the Band (1970; William Friedkin) 8/10 I last saw this film about 20 years ago, when I first came out. It horrified me. Today, I was in a funky mood--I had planned to watch the second film in the Sissi trilogy (which I have from Netflix), but a (presumably) frothy Austrian romance wasn'...

And, in defense of ABBA: Elvis Costello took lines from Dancing Queen for one of his own songs and told Rolling Stone he kept ABBA Gold in his car and studied their technique. U2 were strongly influenced by ABBA and had Bjorn and Benny performing onstage. The Sex Pistols reached out to ABBA and wer...

Sissi (1955; Ernst Marischka) 7/10 Young Princess Elisabeth (Romy Schneider) of Bavaria falls in love with Emperor Franz Josef (Karlheinz Böhm) of Austria, though he was supposed to marry her sister. The art direction, costumes and, especially, Schneider's charm carry the film. First in a trilogy a...

I'm embarrassed to admit that I've not seen Isadora or Rachel, Rachel (tho the latter is in my Netflix queue). As already stated, Streisand is just being Streisand. My memory of The Subject of Roses is that the real leads in the film are Martin Sheen and Jack Albertson; Neal has some good moments, ...

rain Bard wrote:Best Actor – Terry Kiser, Weekend at Bernie's

Ha! I almost put Kiser in the Supporting category, though I suppose he's as much a lead in the film as Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman.

Reza wrote:

Penelope wrote:Best Sound:
The Bear

A 1988 release in France.

Thanks, Reza; edited to replace with Dead Calm.

Best Picture: The Abyss Best Director: Bruce Beresford - Driving Miss Daisy Best Actor: Ed Harris - The Abyss Best Actress: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - The Abyss Best Supporting Actor: Alan Alda - Crimes and Misdemeanors Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest - Parenthood Best Ensemble: Driving Mi...

Part 47 and Part 48 : Rex proposes to Gigi; Stacy has second thoughts about having Fish’s baby; Kyle treats Jared at the hospital (Jared was attacked by a stranger at Buchanan Enterprises); Fish, called by John to the hospital to help investigate Jared’s attack, tells Kyle that he came out to his p...

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974; Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 8/10 Loosely inspired by Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955), Fassbinder's film--about an older woman (a wonderful Brigitte Mira) who falls for a much younger Moroccan man (El Hedi ben Salem), and their relationship causes much angst...