Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I watched The Front Runner. Worst sound mixing of the year. Apparently Jason Reitman interprets 'Altman-esque' as 'make your dialogue near-impossible to understand.'

For all that, I’m still no closer to understanding how Malek is in the poll position. Is it just Freddie Mercury powering him? This must be a lot of it, plus some thanks-for-making-us-all-that-money. I think this all goes back to the Globes. Cooper and his film lose; overnight a loser narrative dev...

I guess Jessica Lange (in Sweet Dreams) gets brownie points because Karel Reisz, the director of her film, was not a sexual abuser. Rather a tedious bore having to constantly read folks relating someone's sexual kinks impacting another person's "performance". There is no co-relation whats...

Maybe they meant "and" instead of "as."

I truly can't believe where we are. For months I scoffed at people who thought Rami Malek would beat then-frontrunner Bradley Cooper. One lip-synchs* in a badly reviewed movie made by a sexual abuser. The other acts, sings, composes, writes, directs, maybe even caters, and his film is a critical and...

Yeah, that's false. How is having extra things in your mouth supposed to enhance your singing?

Uri wrote:Really?

Same. Where are we? Is it now?

Vom.

These changes are all so wrong and dumb. If you descend into the comment sections on sites like Deadline, Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, you'll find countless comments from people who think movie critics are out-of-touch snobs and that award shows mean nothing to 'real,' 'hard-working Americans...

Tessa Thompson is co-starring the next Men in Black movie. That's how they'll introduce her.

Please explain to me how the Academy becomes "low-brow" if they choose Malek? It's a bad, dumb movie. There used to be a show on American cable called Behind the Music, which chronicled the rise, fall and rise again of rock bands. Bohemian Rhapsody is a big budget, feature length Behind t...

Reza wrote:Best Actor in doubt? You still think Bale or Cooper could win this? I think Malek is clearly the frontrunner at this stage and will easily sail to victory.

Call it foolish optimism but I don't think the Academy is low-brow enough. I'm going with Bale.

Precious Doll wrote:I probably should watch Sharp Objects, if only because I enjoyed Jean-Marc Vallée's adaptation of Big Little Lies so much but having just finished watching Cary Joji Fukunaga's mess Maniac does give me pause to any more TV for the time beginning.

I loathed Maniac. Sharp Objects is not like Maniac.

5. Amy Adams – D. I recently watched Sharp Objects. The best thing about it was the casting – I was very pleased they managed to find actresses to play her sisters and her character as a young girl who resemble her a lot. And then I realized – the majority of American actresses resemble her a lot. ...

Mister Tee wrote:Any chance it penetrates the skulls of the powers that be?

It did!

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