Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

INSIDE OUT 2 Cast: Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Tony Hale, Liza Lapira, Kensington Tallman, Ayo Edebiri, Adele Exarchopolous, Paul Walter Hauser, Diane Lane, Kyle McLachlan, June Squibb (voices). Dir: Kelsey Mann. The different emotions up on Riley's head: Joy, Anger, Sadness...

They’ve announced this year’s recipients of the Governors Awards.

Quincy Jones
Juliet Taylor
Richard Curtis (Hersholt)
Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli (Thalberg)

HIT MAN Cast: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta, Sanjay Rao. Dir: Richard Linklater. Based on a true story, a mild-mannered college professor works part-time for the police as an undercover hitman-for-hire. Things get a bit complicated when he falls for one of his "clients". ...

THELMA THE UNICORN Cast: Brittany Howard, Will Forte, Jemaine Clement, Edi Patterson, Ally Dixon, Fred Armisen, Maliaka Mitchell, Shondrella Avery, Jon Heder (voices). Dirs: Jared Hess, Lynn Wang. A plain, brown pony from a farm has ambitions to become a singer. After getting accidentally covered wi...

My first Emmy predictions: OUTSTANDING LIMITED SERIES Baby Reindeer (Netflix) Fargo (FX) Ripley (Netflix) The Sympathizer (HBO) True Detective: Night Country (HBO) OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (Paramount+) Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie (Peacock) Quiz Lady (Hulu) Red, Whit...

FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Alyla Browne. Dir: George Miller. This is the prequel to the film Mad Max: Fury Road which reveals the back story of Furiosa, from her childhood kidnapping from the Green Place to her rise as Imperator of the warlord Immortan...

Cannes predictions: Palme d'Or: Anora , Sean Baker Grand Prix: The Seed of the Sacred Fig , Mohammad Rasoulof Jury Prize: All We Imagine as Light , Payal Kapadia Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis Best Actor: Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice Best Actress: Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Perez...

MONKEY MAN Cast: Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, Vipin Sharma, Sikandar Kher, Sobhita Dulipala, Ashwini Kalsekar, Makarand Despande, Zakir Hussain. Dir: Dev Patel. After his mother is brutally murdered and his village burned down when he was a boy, a young man seeks to exact revenge on the vari...

KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Cast: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, William H. Macy. Dir: Wes Ball. Set "many generations" after the last film, a young chimpanzee from a peaceful tribe of eagle training apes must team up with a talking human to rescue his clan from...

THE IDEA OF YOU Cast: Anne Hathaway, Nicholas Galitzine, Ella Rubin, Reid Scott, Annie Mumolo. Dir: Michael Showalter. A 40 year old single mom takes her daughter to Coachella and there she meets the 24 year old lead singer of a boy band. They begin a love affair. This romantic-comedy could be descr...

UNFROSTED Cast: Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, Hugh Grant, Max Greenfield. Dir: Jerry Seinfeld. This is allegedly the true story of how Kellogg's Pop Tarts came to be. There has been recent spate of "product biopics" that have came out lately. When I first saw...

THE FALL GUY Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Winston Duke, Teresa Palmer, Stephanie Hsu. Dir: David Leitch. Loosely based on the TV series, this is about a Hollywood stunt man who just recovered from an injury. He returns to work on a movie directed by his e...

The nominees.

Any thoughts on these?

CHALLENGERS Cast: Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, Mike Faist. Dir: Luca Guadagnino. This film explores the love triangle both on and off the court, between three tennis players. One who had to give up a tennis career to being a coach and two best friends who are both in love with her. There are a lot of wor...

ABIGAIL Cast: Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, Giancarlo Esposito, Alisha Weir, Kevin Durand, Will Catlett, Angus Cloud, Matthew Goode. Dirs: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett. A group of would-be criminals are hired to kidnap the young daughter of certain nameless billionaire only t...