Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Technically, The Player has the most Academy Award Winners, but many just play themselves at a party or restaurant scene. Murder on the Orient Express is a good one OG. All 6 names are real characters. Don't remember how much screen time they have but in How the West was Won , you have A.A. winners...

I just watched it myself, and also agree with much of what has been said. Eastwood seems to be filming it as a noir/horror film. I thought I was watching Invasion of the Body Snatchers for a while "Uncle Ira isn't Uncle Ira" As an former cop, I just couldn't fathom what was going on, but ...

For what it's worth (which in the end doesn't really shed any new light), I found this comment posted on the Rope of Silicon Oscar site: "As I sit here with my Oscar ballot - yes, you read that right (I am a Sound Branch member who’s been nominated once himself) - I am faced with a conundrum: ...

At the time, I thought The Godfather II was the better picture, but today I'm not so sure. There haven't been too many other films that have grown in appreciation with multiple viewings for me, than Chinatown. I have a question. Since there has never been a tie for Best Picture, what would be your ...

Slumdog was my clear favorite among the nominees, with Button, Milk and Frost/Nixon just a notch below. I didn't care for The Reader. I just didn't buy into it. And just as I preferred James Stewart in The Shop Around the Corner over his make-up Award for The Philadelphia Story, I wish Winslet was ...

Spoiler: re: The Reader . . . . . . . While Kate Winslet's single nomination effectively knocks out any Supporting Actress comparison to 1982, she is now the favorite for a Best Actress win that in 1982 went to Meryl Streep, also at age 33, playing someone haunted by the Holocaust who years later c...

I have Room at the Top on DVD and checked Hermione Baddeley's screen time: 1 min:27 sec - Strong scene with her telling Laurence Harvey that he must treat roommate Simone Signoret nice. 0:20 - Ordinary scene 0:40 - Her big scene screaming at Harvey after Signoret's death 0:05 - Reaction shot of her...

Saw this the other day, and though there have been dedicated threads to this topic in the past, thought I'd post it here for reference: Shortest nominated performances: * 02:32 Hermione Baddeley (”Room at the Top,” 1959) for best supporting actress * 05:40 Beatrice Straight (”Network,” 1976) for be...

Versatile actor James Whitmore dies Feb 6 06:57 PM US/Eastern By BOB THOMAS Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - The son of James Whitmore says the versatile actor has died of lung cancer. Steve Whitmore says his father died Friday in his Malibu home. Whitmore was a many-faceted character act...