Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Okri wrote:

MaxWilder wrote:J.Lo went 21 years between good movies. Will voters hold that against her? They should.

You could just as easily be describing Glenn Close.

Who didn't win.

J.Lo went 21 years between good movies. Will voters hold that against her? They should.

Look at all these hip, young new voters. Surely we'll never get another Green Book or Rami Malek.

I'm writing this comment so that in 8 months I can laugh at how naive I was.

danfrank wrote:Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody are the big winners. They didn’t need the producers to ruin the show; the Academy voters did that with their votes.

Bryan Singer directed the most-Oscar’ed film of 2018. Ick.

anonymous1980 wrote:The answers to the bonus questions were: Albert Finney...

I didn’t play, but I’d like to think I nudged people toward that answer by pointing out that 2019 decedents were ‘eligible,’ so to speak. Humor me?

What I like about Green Book winning is at least it won't be forgotten. The Shape of Water, Spotlight, The Artist, The King's Speech... these movies are gone, distant memories before the night is even over. Green Book will stick in craws for years. Good. 9/11 won’t be forgotten either. That’s a vir...

Oh, great! Consummate artiste Nick Vallelonga has an Oscar!

What I like about Green Book winning is at least it won't be forgotten. The Shape of Water, Spotlight, The Artist, The King's Speech... these movies are gone, distant memories before the night is even over. Green Book will stick in craws for years. Good. 9/11 won’t be forgotten either. That’s a vir...

Ah, but Glenn Close. She's not Lauren Bacall in a Barbra Streisand film. She's not Sylvester Stallone who can't play anything other than Rocky. She's not Richard Burton going through the motions in Equus . She's not Fred Astaire playing Fred Astaire without singing and dancing in The Towering Infer...

Think about the kind of people who will talk on the record about their ballots. They are probably washed-up has-beens who lament the state of film today because they cannot get work. I doubt they are truly representative of the Academy as a whole. At least one hopes not. But they’re not on the reco...

I've been snooping around. It turns out the cable channel that carried the Oscars here for the past few years, HBO Asia, did NOT renew the rights to broadcast it live here because it was too expensive. I'm looking and looking and it seems none of the other cable channels seemed have picked it up (i...

I only skimmed the article but I saw he’s not voting for Rami Malek. We’re at a point where that makes you the kind of thoughtful, independent-minded voter the Academy needs more of. Sad.

Donna Rice, Hart's squeeze for the weekend, comes off as a bimbo who, contrary to the evidence, wants to be taken seriously as a pretty girl with a brain. It was very strange how they presented her. She's deliberately hidden from us at first. We only see her from behind on the boat and again when s...

I have a feeling people are limiting their in memoriam choices to 2018. The montage doesn't have the same eligibility window.

I'm for anyone-but-Malek.