Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

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The embargo on reviews will be lifted at 9:30 pm Paris time tomorrow (5/16).

Unfortunately, Lindsay Graham is not the worst of the worst.

He huffs and he puffs but he doesn't blow the house down like Tommy Tuberville or stand a chance of becoming Trump's VP candidate like J.D. Vance.

Are his films with Vincent Price - the Edgar Allan Poe lot, and many others - considered to be schlock? Maybe back then but today they are considered to be classics. Also many of the earlier horror schlock have been re-assessed. Take a look at the IMDb. ratings of his films. Those with a rating of ...

While most of the films Corman was associated with were pure schlock, he did have a classy side. His New World Pictures was the U.S. distributor of Amarcord which won the 1974 Oscar for Best Foreign Film, so he had a right to crow about that as well as his association with many of the year's other w...

He hadn't directed a film since 1990, but he continued as a producer up to his death with two films in pre-production.

KTLA entertainment reporter dead at 64 - you know him from the Critics Choice Awards if nothing else.

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/sam-ru ... 235998979/

Good to know.

I did know about Shaw and some of the others, but not Goldman.

I was looking for on-screen connections, not real-life ones between the characters that the mentioned actors were playing. I knew that Piaf and Garland met in real life and could have guessed that Churchill and the Iron Lady had met, but I probably would never have connected Hepburn and Goldman. Tha...

The real Fanny Brice, played by Streisand in Funny Girl, was featured in The Great Ziegfeld for which Rainer won her first Oscar.

They all won Oscars for playing real-life people. Rainer and Streisand were Ziegfeld girls. DeNiro and Spacek won in the same year playing people who were still living and attended the Oscars with them. Blanchett and Stapleton played legends in bios of other legends. Cotillard and Zellweger played i...

He was 79.

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