Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Okay...let me get some more nominations for my favorite movie of 1995. In Best Actor I'm going to nominated Clint Eastwood for The Bridges of Madison County in place of Richard Dreyfuss. Nothing against Dreyfuss, who is actually pretty good in Mr. Holland , but I think Eastwood's performance is jus...

And the marvelously effective makeup in Dolores Claiborne replaces whatever is in Roommates (does anybody even remember that film?). I remember it. The movie was stupid, but the makeup nomination was deserving--better than the blue face paint in Braveheart . (Never saw Mi Familia , although I think...

Mychael Danna's score may be fantastic. I wouldn't know, as I haven't watched the film, although other than Regeneration , I'm not generally a big fan of his scores. But Nixon 's score sure as hell deserved its nomination more than Sense and Sensibility (why is it still there, and why was Il Postin...

For Best Dramatic Score, I'll replace John Williams ('Nixon') with Mychael Danna ('Exotica'). Dammit... Nixon is an excellent score. Maybe not as good as Williams's nominated score the following year (for Sleepers ), but it definitely deserves a re-listen. If I remember, I'll stage a rescue when my...

Damien wrote:It was like watching a mentally-challenged person acting up in public.

HA!

I mean, Taylor Hicks much? Daughtry and that "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" chick (her name completely escapes me at the moment) are far more popular. Chris Daughtry and Elliott Yamin were the real winners that season, and probably the two most successful contestants who didn't reach the fi...

I considered picking Heat or Nixon for the BP slot instead of Bridges ; glad to see that I picked Bridges , since it's generated a lot of discussion. Cinemanolis: However i was disapointed that it replaced 'Sense and Sensibility' and not any other of that year's nominees. Sense and Sensibility and ...

The Bridges of Madison County is a lovely film, taking a so-so book and really finding a depth and beauty to it. From the excerpts I've read, so-so is a generous description. The movie is beautiful, though--probably second only to Unforgiven as far as my favorite Eastwood films are concerned, so mu...

In Best Picture, I'll replace Sense and Sensibility with The Bridges of Madison County , the chick-flick--which is very much an Eastwood film--that probably would've gotten several more nominations had it been released late in the year, rather than in summer. In Best Film Editing, I'm going to repl...

He was probably my first favorite actor, the first whose films I would watch because he was in them. (This was when I was seven or eight.) This meant seeing some bad movies, like The Far Horizons --with Donna Reed(!) as Sacajawea--some interesting failures like The Buccaneer (Anthony Quinn's sole d...

The big bang theory does not disprove the existence of God. It can be interpreted as the way He did it. Agree. Tracy: "You believe that Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel and that Cain slew Abel and went out into the world and begat the rest of the human race from which all of us are des...