Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

The "small pool" argument against the category is a good one, but as an animation fan I've always been more concerned about ghettoization. If the artform is going to advance in ways other than purely technological, there needs to be an incentive to make animated films that are seen as mor...

The Black Book seems to be a lock. ????? How? in terms of good reviews In other words, you disagree with my post when I say that the Foreign Language Oscar nominating committee is not terribly influenced by buzz. Critics loved City of God but enough of the nominators found it too violent, so they s...

Because it's shot in digital video and is being self-distributed by Lynch, I'd feel very safe leaving it off prediction lists in every Oscar category. Not to say it won't be good. But what you, I and a bunch of Lynch fanatics in New York have to say isn't terribly relevant to the amalgamated procli...

Oscarguy, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see you get 5 out of 5 for the foreign film category. I would be. Those five are basically the five highest-profile, most-buzzed-about films by the biggest-name autuers ( the Lives of Others being an exception to the latter but not the former) in the bunc...

I'm envious that you got to see Syndromes and a Century , Sabin. At the Chicago Film Festival, I presume? Is that your first Apichatpong film? I don't have time to put together a list right this minute (hopefully later), but I just wanted to say that I generally agree with your ratings of most of t...

thanks for keeping us updated, inky. The golden age when San Francisco was officially a stop on the Chinese-language film circuit is pretty much over thanks to DVD importing (which I almost never participate in, being a celluloid addict; and on the rare occassions when I make it into a Chinatown vi...

I bought it the first week of its release, and being unemployed at the time, I greedily devoured it in a day. I would assume that every member of this board did something similar, but I guess those numbers aren't enough to rock the publishing world. I know some of the amazon reviewers complained ab...

The 1919 version of J'Accuse! , directed by Abel Gance (who later made Napoleon ) is the earliest that comes to mind, but I'm sure there are other earlier ones, especially if you don't restrict the choice to feature films. Whether it's any good or not, I can't say for myself, having only seen brief...

That article: http://www.slate.com/id/2127757/ It doesn't mention Infernal Affairs , but it does mention that the year it was released, 2004, was not a strong year for Miramax, which is probably why it got released at all (btw it did play for a week or two in San Francisco as well, Sonic.) Since th...