Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Truly exhilarating competition, in both categories. Please someome explain how Pillow Talk could have won at the time, and why. It's a very tough choice between Bergman, Truffaut and Hitchcock, but I voted for Lehman. It's not exactly deep writing (as the other two are), but it's so iconic and fondl...

I can't, unfortunately, vote in Original. Poor Ernest Lehman. He was responsible of a bunch of iconic films that didn't turn to earn him individual recognition, so I'm really looking forward to know what's going to happen in the Original 1959 poll, between that amazing competition with his probably ...

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