Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Best Picture - Wild Reeds Best Director - André Techine, Wild Reeds Best Actor - Sean Penn, Dead Man Walking Best Actress - Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise Best Supporting Actor - Elias Koteas, Exotica Best Supporting Actress - Elodie Bouchez, Wild Reeds Best Ensemble - Wild Reeds Best Original Screenp...

Shutter Island is a superior example of a fairly routine thriller appearing to have both more and less going on at every given moment. Unlike Shutter Island, Aronofsky knows how to end with a bang. Until the extended climactic ballet both on-stage and off, Black Swan is mostly of interest for how e...

(Sabin @ Oct. 01 2010,6:41) The closest parallel that [The Social Network] draws to facebook is in approximating the sensation of becoming a part of it. It starts off relentlessly addictive, and it continues onward although eventually one gets the impression that it's not really going anywhere. It ...

I second everything that Daniel said about Clarkson, Harden, and especially Zellweger. I will say that I was a very big fan of Harden's performance at the time but like everything in Mystic River (save Kevin Bacon's performance) it doesn't hold up. I've already voted for Holly Hunter twice. I'll ca...

In the past thirty years, four films have won four awards from the National Board of Review (unless I'm mistaken): Up in the Air, A Passage to India, Terms of Endearment, and now The Social Network. Does this mean anything? Not really. But what it helps to do is sustain and in some ways further leg...

(Mister Tee @ Dec. 02 2010,11:38) Last minute throw-in: their Special Achievement usually goes to someone who, wow, did more than one job on a film -- and the only one I can think of is actor/director Ben Affleck on The Town. I like that. Writer/actor/director/producer. If only he scored it too, he...

My predictions. I think Tee's got it. Best English-Language Film - The King's Speech * 127 Hours * Another Year * Black Swan * Get Low * The Ghost Writer * Hereafter * The Kids Are All Right * The Social Network * The Town * True Grit Best Actor – Colin Firth, The King’s Speech (r.u. – James Franco...

/Greenberg/ (Noah Baumbach) I can easily see how this film might leave several posters on this board pretty cold. It did so for me too initially. "Hurt people hurt people" is a mantra that better applies to interesting people. Ben Stiller's Roger Greenberg becomes somewhat tedious on his ...

(Bog @ Dec. 01 2010,12:06) Sabin, actually not a true actress, the mother of the main character Zaza in the film, the director's real life mother...but Ronit good as well. Ah. Yes. I had forgotten about her. She is quite good. As are Moni Moshonov, Lior Ashkenazi, and of course Ronit Elkabetz. Grea...

(flipp525 @ Nov. 30 2010,1:18) (Sabin @ Nov. 30 2010,1:09) I'm a little disappointed at Julianne Moore's exclusion as she might actually give the better performance. She definitely doesn't. I think Bening is the clear stand-out in the film and the awards circuit, starting here, will reflect that. H...

With seven nominations, Winter's Bone seems to be in that weird MOST NOMMED/CAN'T WIN subgroup of the Indie Spirits. All of its nominations are richly deserved. At the end of the ceremony, it might not win a thing. I'm deeply hoping that John Hawkes pulls off a surprise win over Ruffalo and Ortiz f...

I was incredibly surprised when my parents and my sister saw this movie a few months ago and said they didn't like it. They said it was like a sitcom. It really threw me for a loop because this is one of the few movies to be released this past year that I thought for sure they, if not everyone, wou...