Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Streep. Doesn't take much thought. Zeta-Jones was miscast. Queen Latifah is better but her part is pretty slight. Julianne Moore is at her most wan and expressionless in The Hours. Bates is my closest runner up, and prior to precursor season I thought she might honestly win. But Meryl Streep is won...

Right now, my choices are as follows: Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right Hye-ja Kim, Mother Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right Birgit Minichmayr, Everyone Else ...Kim and Minichmayr don't have a chance, but I'm becoming increasingly confident that Bening, La...

Connelly's performance is one of the worst of the decade. It is truly a non-performance in a worse-than-non-movie. I don't recall Kate Winslet doing anything special in Iris, which I hate to say I have to now consider a stronger nom than her Oscar-winning performance in The Reader. When critics thr...

Megamind (Tom McGrath) Quick caveat: I read comic books. Or at least, I'm reasonably well-read in comic books to the degree that I can differentiate the different feels between a Marvel, a DC, an Image, etc. Outside of Batman, I can't for the life of me warm up to DC. Their heroes present a power r...

Big Magilla @ Nov. 23 2010,10:16 Chcolat wasn't a very good movie, but there were some very good things in it including the work of one of our prolific posters from 1998-2000, a 1999 Oscar nominee who promised to give us a shout-out if he won (he didn't), but who sadly stopped posting here after th...

Late to respond. No choice but Sevigny, although Keener did such a great job as Maxine that it unpleasantly typecast her for a bit. She seems to be aware that her presence immediately announces her character as a bitch and is appropriately back-peddling. 1. Chloe Sevigny, Boys Don't Cry 2. Nicole K...

Walters and Dench pretty much phone it in. They're fine. I'm something of an Almost Famous groupie myself, but Kate Hudson fails to inspire the infatuation required by her role. I think this is the role Zooey Deschanel was born for. There is a soulmate link missing from the film and it's there. I c...

My choices: 1. Lisa Kudrow, The Opposite of Sex 2. Kimberly Elise, Beloved 3. Olivia Williams, Rushmore 4. Patricia Clarkson, High Art 5. Joan Allen, Pleasantville I vote for the lead. Rachel Griffiths. This was a great year for strong supporting female performances, none of whom were nominated. I ...

The winner is the foregone conclusion of this year's race. Whatever fatigue might set in at the notion of Pixar winning yet again, Woody and Buzz have never won. It's between Despicable Me, How to Train Your Dragon, Megamind, Shrek Forever After, and Toy Story 3 as the animated titans of the year. ...