Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

criddic, you might be interested to see that Dubya actually had this to say about bin Laden at one of his rare press conferences: Q Mr. President, in your speeches now you rarely talk or mention Osama bin Laden. Why is that? Also, can you tell the American people if you have any more information, i...

Here's part of a Wikipedia entry on Borat: Borat has been the cause of some controversy, mostly related to his frequent displays of anti-Semitism but also notably for his portrayal of Kazakh culture. Sacha Baron Cohen, who plays Borat, is himself Jewish. He explains his character's racist nature by...

Clinton beats Tasini by about a 5-1 in the primary; however, considering that he had next-to-no money and the media ignored him, his getting more than 15% in a primary against Hillary shows that she is indeed vulnerable against an anti-war progressive in the 2008 race for the presidential nominatio...

These Democrats are even bigger freaking idiots than I thought. They should have simply gone public with all their objections. Instead, they threaten Disney's broadcast license, make the miniseries a cause celebre and turn those responsible for this into martyrs. Also, if they seriously try to carr...

Sonic Youth wrote:"The actress from 'Caligula' giving an Oscar winning peformance? I don't think so!"

She was also in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, which got an X rating and was one of the films that led to the creation of the NC-17 rating.

OscarGuy wrote:. . . McDormand was excellent but the rest of the cast was only moderately good.

I found Macy and Buscemi to be excellent as well.

anonymous wrote:Speaking of Bill Maher, does anyone know if he's the person to have the most Emmy nominations without a single win? He seems to get nominated every year but never wins.

My off-the-hand guess is that honor would go to Angela Lansbury.

Bryan Cranston deserved to win at least one Emmy for Malcolm though. I've rarely watched Malcolm ; but, one episode where I thought Cranston did hilarious work comes to mind. It had to do with a picnic at a school for gifted students and Cranston's character has a "good God!" moment when ...

Booster, can you elaborate a little on the errors? I recall a few errors as well as typos, but what is soooooo many? Speaking of errors, I remember recently watching parts of both All The President's Men and Victor/Victoria on TV, on different stations. At the end, in both cases, someone claimed th...