Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

b) I have to admit I viewed the three big European festivals very distinctly before. Berlin was for English language films before their international release. Cannes was for the titans. Venice was like Cannes on easy mode. The decline of Berlin is directly related to the fact that big American film...

Quentin Dupieux's The Second Act is the opening film for Cannes. A lot of people didn't know this film even existed until this announcement, because it was shot in January. This may or may not be in competition; the opening film can go either way. Dupieux has never been in competition before, for wh...

I just watched The Big Country essentially for the first time recently. I think I've seen it before, either partially or fully, but forgot most of it. I thought it was great and that Burl Ives, in particular, was great in it. I actually prefer him in this to him in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof although he ...

Cannes 2024 (this is long) Preview ...this is long (hopefully not too full of typos)... I sometimes think, what if Damien Chazelle had premiered Babylon at Cannes? 15-20 years ago, he might have done just that. Babylon may not have been 100% finished in time, but it was conducting test screenings in...

I've said before that I think Harrison Ford would be a no-brainer for an honorary. Multiple franchises covering several decades, multiple non-franchise hits over several decades, in the public consciousness for about fifty years now, has been in eight Best Picture nominees but never had the personal...

I would put Yuh-jung Youn alongside Robert DeNiro or Benicio Del Toro, in that it is a foreign language performance in an American film.

Mister Tee wrote Not a revolution, but I'd say progress. What's closer to a revolution is the number of women nominated for Best Director. This decade alone (if we start in 2020), we've seen almost as many nominated (4) than in all of Academy history combined (5). Not to mention twice as many winne...

If there is no actual prize involved, why does it matter?

HarryGoldfarb wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:34 am - Oppenheimer is the first Best Picture to win both actor and supporting actor since Ben-Hur (1959).

Fun fact all 7 of Oppenheimer's Oscars were in categories that Ben-Hur won.

Anderson starts production on his next film today. Not sure where it is filming, but I believe he's shot overseas on everything post-Tenenbaums.

Making a couple of no guts, no glory picks just to separate myself a little from the pack. Picture: Oppenheimer Leading Actor: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Leading Actress: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Rand...

I think Poor Things and Barbie will probably get a combined two-thirds of the votes in this category, and Production Design. But I think they are also going to split that vote share pretty evenly. Whether you predict Poor Things for both, a split between the two, or Barbie for both, I don't think yo...

I have spoken disparagingly about Oscar podcasts once this morning, but the Next Best Picture predictions episode raised a good point in this category: We have good reason to believe that American Fiction could prevail in a general vote over Oppenheimer , Poor Things , and The Zone of Interest , bec...

I mentioned in the visual effects thread that this branch seems to have gotten their act together, but then it hit me: In not even shortlisting Barbie , did they box out a potential winner? A movie that makes looks and beauty and perceptions of what is an isn't "beautiful" central to its p...

Tee used to talk about the makeup branch, and specifically how they used to leave out potential winners, which is how we end up with discordant-sounding phrases like "Oscar-winning film The Wolfman ". (Given that the winner probably would have been Alice in Wonderland if it had not been bo...