Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Film: Argo Director: Ange Lee, Life of Pi (RU: Steven Spielberg, Lincoln) Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln Actress: Emanuelle Riva, Amour (RU: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook ) Supporting Actor: Robert DeNiro, Silver Linings Playbook Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables Orig...

Picture : The King's Speech Director : Tom Hooper Actor : Colin Firth Actress : Natalie Portman Sup. Actor : Geoffrey Rush Sup. Actress : Helena Bonham Carter Original Screenplay : The King's Speech Adapted Screenplay : The Social Network Cinematography : True Grit Editing : The Social Network Art ...

Best Picture Black Swan The Fighter Inception The King's Speech The Social Network The Kids Are All Right True Grit 127 Hours The Town Winter's Bone Best Directing Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan David O. Russell, The Fighter Christopher Nolan, Inception Tom Hooper, The King's Speech David Fincher, Th...

One last Golden Globe observation, before filing this year to the archive: In the last 6 years there was only one winner from the Golden Globes to win the Best Picture Oscar (Slumdog Millionnaire). In an age where every critivcs group and industry award celebrates the same film(s), this is a big re...

Mine... Best Picture Avatar District 9 An Education The Hurt Locker Inglorious Bastards Invictus Julie & Julia Precious Star Trek Up in the Air Best Director James Cameron, Avatar Neill Blomkamp, District 9 Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Lee Daniels, Precious Jason Reitman, Up in the Air Best...

dreaMaker wrote:Scherfig's nomination would be one of the most undeserving nominations in the history of Oscars...

I haven't seen the film yet... But since when came quality into play

I'm surprised no one mentionned Lone Scherfig yet as the possible fifth director nominee. In recent years, there were a lot of surprise nominees for British films: 2008: The Reader (picture + director noms) 2007: Atonement (picture nom) 2006: United 93 (direcor nom - the film is not entirely Britis...

Big Magilla wrote:Good luck with those calculations!

Thanks, Magilla. So far, the calculations are not very exciting...

Too bad there were no 'for your considerations' at the screenplay categories. Last year, they mentionned Fozen River...

I must say I'm with rain bard on Ponyo. Although I'm not a big fan of Miyazaki, I LOVED this film a lot. It might be far less ambitious and pretentious than Howl's Moving Castle, but I enjoyed the innocence and the childlike imagination of the film. It’s really a film for kids, and watching it I di...

The cut off date doesn't matter. Studios would shift their end-of-year qualifiers to the new cut off date, precursors would shift their dates accordingly and we'd be in the same boat as before, except that we'd have even more months of rampant discussion. You're right of course. Therefor I suggest ...

Award Season starts next week. And I'm really looking forward to it. I've been thinking about why, actually. What is it that I love so much about it? Why do I care who wins the LAFCA Best Screenplay award? I haven't figured it out yet... What I DID find, were 5 things that bother me every year. 1. ...

I have assembled this calendar, based on the official sites and/or the award's calendar from theenvelope.com and variety. Feel free to share other dates you know! I wish you all a Merry and Happy Award Season :-) Nov 30 Satellite Award Nominations Dec 3 National Board of Review Awards Dec 12 Europe...