Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

If I'm not mistaken, it's my turn to post my 2nd round selections: Picture: It Happened Here Director: Kevin Brownlow & Andrew Mollo, It Happened Here Actor: Tatsuya Nakadai, the Face of Another Actress: Chantal Goya, Masculin-Feminin Supporting Actor: Toshiro Mifune, Sword of Doom Supporting A...

There's an airport in Siem Riep. So it's possible to fly in. There's also a ferry route over the Tonle Sap lake, that takes less time than the land transportation and less money than planes. Your trip to Vietnam sounds fascinating and fun, Irvin! I'll have to take your suggestions under considerati...

Glad to hear the prices to enter Angkor Wat haven't increased in the ten years since I visited! It really is a magical place isn't it? The Angkor National Museum (which is acutally owned by a Thai outfit) wasn't open yet when I visited in 2000 (the same year In The Mood For Love came out, quite coi...

I'm gonna just assume it's okay to post my selections. Picture: Come Drink With Me Director: King Hu, Come Drink With Me Actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Trans-Europ-Express Actress: Cheng Pei-Pei, Come Drink With Me Supporting Actor: Jean Martin, the Battle of Algiers Supporting Actress: Vanessa Red...

Silence of the Lambs was an oversight/memory slip on my part (I knew that- just forgot). Serves me right for never having seen Manhunter . Oops. Titanic is admittedly a huge stretch, though the fact that it shares its title and a great deal else with a 1953 film, even if plot and characters are dif...

More Best Picture-winning remakes, using admittedly rather generous definitions of the term in some cases: Return of the King, Chicago, Titanic, the Silence of the Lambs, A Man For All Seasons, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Tom Jones, Gigi, Around the World in 80 Days, Marty, Hamlet, Mutiny on ...

The rules did change about five years ago or so, which is why Canada was able to get a nomination for the Hindi-language Water . The film is indeed set around Rome, and with an Italian-speaking cast. One of the co-directors is Austrian, however, and the film is some kind of co-production. It's a pr...

I agree with you about To Die Like A Man , Precious Doll. Terrific film that never felt overlong to me, but way too out there for the Academy. I also loved the other "no-hoper" on my list, a Useful Life . But I can't see the Academy going for a 65-minute black-and-white film about the dem...

I've seen a record number for me as well: 7. of those, here are my predictions how they might do with the Academy: slam-dunk nominees/likely winners: none decent-chance nominees/outside-chance winners: Argentina, China dark horse nominees/no-way winners: Austria, Greece, Thailand impossible nominee...

Sonic Youth wrote:There are already 197 comments under his Rotten Tomatoes submission. Guy's a phenom.

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I like Bonnie & Clyde more than most of the canonized classics from Hollywood's decade of floundering, and I also like Mickey One quite a bit. I have problems with the Miracle Worker, The Chase and Night Moves (perhaps said problems would be sorted out by a revisitation, perhaps not). And I don...