Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Picture and far more likely director will probably become clearer nearer the awards. I wish it were that unclear. Roma feels like a certainty to me. (The Oscars have turned against me this decade, so I've learned to trust this sinking feeling.) It's auteur-driven, starring unknowns (to us, at least...

Christian Bale winning a second Oscar over an actor who has never won before but whom they clearly love and who has been nominated four times, who plays a tragic role in a movie which made them cry and which they will give many nominations to, and which - most importantly - he also directed? And co...

Relax.

I didn’t think your Broadbent/Vikander examples were good. Suddenly it’s “my rule” that commercially underwhelming movies can’t and shouldn’t win Oscars?

Sure, Plummer was a living legend, but Broadbent was as well known in Hollywood at that point as Grant is now. Similarly, Alicia Vikander (a nobody at the time) won in Supporting Actress for a film which earned $11 million. Grant may not win, but I highly doubt the film's box-office performance wil...

Speaking of McCarthy: Max, have you seen Can You Ever Forgive Me?, or is your annoyance with McCarthy personal? Because I think she's sensational in her film -- right up there with Colman as my choice. She should not be forgiven (har-har) so quickly for The Happytime Murders. Not to mention the oth...

What a mainstream group of nominations Especially the Bohemian Rhapsody ensemble nomination. Whenever people say good things about that movie, they couch it in anti-critic, snobs-vs.-slobs screed. It's this year's The Greatest Showman. I really wonder if the BR fans in SAG could name more than thre...

Bohemian Rhapsody?? (Insert queasy emoji.) This has to be one of the more obscure casts nominated. It's Rami Malek, incognito Mike Myers and some British character actors. This has to be a case of SAG voters treating best ensemble as best picture. Was anyone talking about that cast? Supporting actre...

Mister Tee wrote:etc.

Great insights, as usual. You spoil us!

Yet they gave 5 Globes to the Streisand version of Star including 3 in the musical / comedy category. And both Mason and Garland won Globes for the '54 version also in the musical / comedy category. Enough drama in those versions too I recall. Yet this new version is deemed a drama in complete cont...

(fun fact: every major movie about the space program -- The Right Stuff, Apollo 13, Gravity -- has WON both the sound mixing and editing categories). What about Interstellar and The Martian? Both are about NASA missions (not unnamed future space agencies). They're fictional, but so is Gravity. This...

No Ethan Hawke? Bold.

Are you sure Ryan Eggold (BlacKkKlansman) is ineligible for the ensemble award? That would be fairly ridiculous.

I'm guessing Tom Cruise wouldn't be nominated if M:I-F gets a stunt ensemble nod. Can't they make an exception? Jeez.

At this point I’m just hoping for some kind of scandal to stop Roma.

Some of us on this site had never heard of him or were only vaguely aware of him. So really the Academy should be doing background checks on people they are considering to host their awards show. But people with their calendars set to 2018 are very aware of Kevin Hart. He's already hosted and prese...

Tiffany Haddish has often told a story about Kevin Hart helping her out when she was struggling. Maybe she wouldn’t take the gig. Jeffrey Wells also disagrees that it’s inappropriate to email famous directors for cut naked scenes of actresses he likes, so I’ll be taking that opinion with a big old g...

Mister Tee wrote:Oh, and, as someone who once filed alphabetically for a living -- the blank space between "Black" and "Panther" puts it ahead of "BlackkKlansman" in the system I learned.

Microsoft Excel agrees.