Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

"the omen" is going to put up very little resistance (maybe $35 million from tuesday to sunday). Would you maybe want to revise that, given The Omen's $12 million Tuesday? Granted, like all horror films, it'll likely collapse quickly -- esp. once you've weeded out the sheep who actually r...

When I read this original post yesterday, I thought "wait a minute" -- I'd been pretty sure it was on the single of Get Back in 1969 that Preston became the first artist credited alongside the Beatles. Today's Times obituary confirmed this (while mentioning he did perform on Let It Be as ...

I'd also like to ask this question: Mister Tee, is there any chance we'll ever get YOUR Oscar Shouldabeens? As you might guess, I've more or less been compiling such lists over the years (generally a year or so after the Oscar fact, as it takes me that long to catch up with all conceivable contende...

Sadly, BJ, the Academy seems filled with people who groove on Diane Warren-ish stuff (even if they've never quite given her their actual prize). When voters, finally offered respectable alternatives to Alan Menken in 1995 (Springsteen, or even Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?) reflexively gave h...

Most after-the-fact explanations of the Loach win, like Sonic's, offer the not-unreasonable premise that Loach, around for 30 years and a reliable Cannes presence, might have seemed far more due than anyone else. There's also the apparent fact that the jury -- especially the actors -- found his fil...

Yep, as usual, an unexpected choice for the Palme. I guess I can see Ken Loach's low-key quality appealing to a jury headed by Wong Kar-Wai. As everyone must know by now, the ceremony wasn't televised, so there's no way of telling how popular these choices were with the crowd, or how the recipients...

dws1982 wrote:Is IFC not showing the final ceremony this year? I went ahead to Sunday on my cable schedule, and couldn't find anything.

It's hard to believe they'd drop it after all these years.

Is it possible it's on Monday, instead? I think there have been years when it was.

Didn't LA Confidental play out of competition? I don't think so, Okri. My memory can obviously fail me, but I recall watching the presentations and thinking Confidential was in contention, so, at least at the time, I was under the impression it was eligible. Does anyone know when the presentation i...

Okay, I looked at the Mike D'Angelo link Eric provided, and see these two reaction-summaries: Screen Daily averages (out of four; Competition only) 3.40 Volver 2.90 Babel 2.80 Climates 2.70 Lights in the Dusk 2.50 Red Road 2.40 The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2.30 The Caiman 2.10 Flanders 2.00 Summ...

Hollywood Reporter. Hmmm..."a smart and empathetic take" that "can expect mixed to hostile reactions from critics". Department of Schizophrenia? Marie-Antoinette By Kirk Honeycutt Bottom line: A smart and empathetic take on an often reviled historical personality. In the revisio...

From Variety. Apparently not the disaster some of us thought possible from the trailer...but nothing particularly good, either. Marie Antoinette A Sony Pictures Entertainment (in U.S.), Pathe (in France) release of a Columbia Pictures presentation in association with Pricel and Tohokushinsha of an ...

Yes, Okri, I was going to post about it. The Drama Desk award certainly elevates him to front-runner status -- though both Drama Desk and NY Drama Critics picking Drowsy Chaperone makes it a near-prohibitive favorite for best musical. By picking Ebersole for Grey Gardens -- next year's Tony winner ...