Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

The show is but 30 or so hours away, so, thoughts about who'll win -- based largely on "what I hear", since my own exposure is limited. Stereophonic appears to be sweeping the boards for best play -- an ambitious, lengthy piece that won the Drama Critics prize and has a boatload of nominat...

He was just a name to me -- couldn't picture him if I tried, but recall the name from as far back as reading the liner notes on the West Side Story cast album. Seems to have had a career, which I always applaud. But the story about him dealing with the Jet actors while dating Rivera is, honestly, sh...

I'm pleased to have seen both of his most praised stage performances, in Yanks 3 Detroit 0 Top of 7th and A View from the Bridge. He was actually thought a strong possibility to win the Tony for the latter, but affection for Torch Song Trilogy carried Harvey Fierstein over the line. He never did hav...

It's always astonishing when someone you remember from long-ago youth -- someone you've not thought of in many years -- turns up to have still been alive (though inactive). Two of her credits stand out for me: the seductive minx trying to steal David Niven away from Doris Day in Please Don't Eat the...

Merrily We Roll Along should have no problem winning Best Revival of a Musical and both Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe should easily win their categories. Lindsay Mendez might have a tougher time winning in hers as she is a recent winner for the excellent 2018 revival of Carousel. I saw the sh...

Well, from the sound of the reviews. Jeremy Strong might have contended for a supporting nomination had the movie broken through. But I think the chances that people -- so many of whom wish Trump would just get out of our friggin' faces -- would turn out in any significant numbers for this movie, ar...

I feel like the jury wanted to quote The Producers: "We find the defendant INCREDIBLY guilty"

There's definitely a much worse version of this movie -- one not made by such a gifted director, without talented actors, with more routine dialogue than the often imaginative/pungent exchanges that comprise this film. I'd have really disliked that film. The thing is, I can't really love the film th...

I've never been much an NBA fan -- I know the famous names, and mostly who ends up winning, but little beyond. So I'm not much familiar with Bill Walton as either a player or during his long career as announcer/analyst. But I knew who he was from his UCLA days, when he helped lead his team through t...

Reading the Times obit today, I find out he and his brother were also responsible for the top ten hit "You're Sixteen", which I always thought contained the line that epitomized 1950's America: "You came out of my dream, and into my car". As for "It's a Small World" and...

Most of his later nominations were ones that had us groaning in the late 60s and 70s. But I can do the Mary Poppins soundtrack from memory, and still love basically every bit of it.

Cannes predictions: Palme d'Or: Anora , Sean Baker Grand Prix: The Seed of the Sacred Fig , Mohammad Rasoulof Jury Prize: All We Imagine as Light , Payal Kapadia Best Director: Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis Best Actor: Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice Best Actress: Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pere...

I watched the presentations on YouTube, though in French, so I had to wait for the chiron to tell me who each winner was. And, even when someone accepted in English, the commentator spoke over them, translating. So all I can comment on are the choices. As Sabin noted the other day, the latter half o...

(So, Anora must win the Palme?)Answer: Yes Grand Prix to All We Imagine As Light. Jury prize to Emilia Perez. Best director is Gomes for Grand Tour. "Special award" to The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Best actress goes to the ensemble of actresses in Emilia Perez. Best actor Jesse Plemons in Ki...

By reports of who's been asked back, this ought to be the list of films contending for prizes: Emilia Perez (Audiard) Anora (Baker) Megalopolis (Coppola) The Substance (Fargeat) Grand Tour (Gomes) All We Imagine As Light (Kapadia) The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Rasoulof) Jia Zhangke posted (briefly; su...