Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I've never seen, and am wondering about, Jose Ferrer - the actual Oscar winner. What was it that enabled him to beat out both Tracy and Stewart, both in such perfect roles. I acknowledge that Tracy already had two statues by that point and that Stewart had won a decade earlier. Ferrer probably won ...

Sonic, as for Zelary I have to admit that I'm a sucker for movies about the Resistance, and will cut slack to things like Lucie Aubrac and Charlotte Gray that I wouldn't for other genres. What can I say, Zelary got to me even when I was recognizing that it wasn't all that good. Eric, Twentynine Pal...

Here's my list at the 50 movie point: 4 Stars: 1. Kinsey (Bill Condon) 2. The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci) 3. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater) 4. Home Of The Brave (Paolo di Florio) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 3½ Stars: 5. In Good Company (Paul Weitz) 6. Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael...

The year 1950 had many great performances by leading actresses of which the 5 who made it to the list seem to have been cast in stone. I, for one, have never liked the performance of Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday) and have finally been able to get her off my list and replacing her in that slot with...

Notorious and It's A Wonderful Life are adapted screenplays, the former based on John T. Foote's "The Song Of The Dragon" and the latter on Phillip Van Doren Stern's "The Greatest Gift." Thanks for the corrections, MCAR. Curiously, though, Ben Hecht was nominated for Best Origin...

Another very great year . . . 1. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks) 2. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock) 3. It’s A Wonderful Life (Frank Capra) 4. Duel In The Sun (King Vidor) 5. My Darling Clementine (John Ford) 6. The Man I Love (Raoul Walsh) 7. The Locket (John Brahm) 8. No Regrets For Our Youth (Akira Kur...

I think that it may well be 1945 -- not 1939, nor any year from the over-rated 70s -- that is the best year ever for films. So many great movies, so many memorable performances, so many achievements that may have been number 1 in another year that I had to leave off here (Gene Tierney in Leave Her ...

God, how does one choose among American Beauty, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind, each atrocious in its own way. Well, American Beauty at least had the performances of Thora Birch, Wes Bentley and what's her name the blonde one. I suppose A Beautful Mind was not without its amusing moments because of...

Wretched decade, but not without its glories . . . 1. Skin Deep (Blake) 2. Victor/Victoria (Blake) 3. L'Argent (Robert Bresson) 4. S.O.B. (Blake) 5. Crimes And Misdemeanors (Woody Allen) 6. The Dead (John Huston) 7. Manhunter (Michael Mann) 8. Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer) 9. Melvin and H...

1. L'Invitation (Claude Goretta) 2. Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000 (Alain Tanner) 3. Ali-Fear Eats The Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 4. Lipstick (Lamont Johnson) 5. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog) 6. Wild Rovers (Blake) 7. Cuba (Richard Lester) 8. Julia (Fred Zinnemann) 9. Solaris...

1. A Taste Of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami) 2. Gods And Monsters (Bill Condon) 3. Rushmore (Wes Anderson) 4. The Thin Red Line (Terence Malick) 5. L'Humanité (Bruno Dumont) 6. The Wind WIll Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami) 7. Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas) 8. Eyes Wide Shut (Stan Kubrick) 9....

1. Breakfast AT Tiffany's (Blake) 2. Playtime (Jacques Tati) 3. Two Rode Together (John Ford) 4. The Disorderly Orderly (Frank Tashlin) 5. Two For The Road (Stanley Donen) 6. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard) 7. Cleo From 5 To 7 (Agnes Varda) 8. Psycho (Alfred Hitchdick) 9. The Glass-Bottom Boat (Frank Tas...

1. The Bells Of St. Maty's (Leo McCarey) 2. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson/Val Lewton) 3. Portrait Of Jennie (William Dieterle) 4. The Shop Around The Corner (Ernst Lubitsch) 5. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (John Ford) 6. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) 7. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles) 8. The Bi...

1. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey) 2. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey) 3. Rules Of The Game (Jean Renoir) 4. Ruggles Of Red Gap (Leo McCarey) 5. The Crime Of M. Lange (Jean Renoir) 6. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch) 7. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford) 8. When Tomorrow Comes (John M. Stahl) 9. Block-heads ...

The best deacde of them all . . . 1. Imitation Of Life (Douglas SIrk) 2. Lola Montes (Max Ophuls) 3. There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk) 4. The Band Wagon (Vinny Minnelli) 5. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) 6. Day Of The Outlaw (Andre de Toth) 7. Voyage In Italy (Roberto Rossellini) 8. Early Summ...