Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

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 Perez...

MONKEY MAN Cast: Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, Vipin Sharma, Sikandar Kher, Sobhita Dulipala, Ashwini Kalsekar, Makarand Despande, Zakir Hussain. Dir: Dev Patel. After his mother is brutally murdered and his village burned down when he was a boy, a young man seeks to exact revenge on the vari...

KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Cast: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, William H. Macy. Dir: Wes Ball. Set "many generations" after the last film, a young chimpanzee from a peaceful tribe of eagle training apes must team up with a talking human to rescue his clan from...

THE IDEA OF YOU Cast: Anne Hathaway, Nicholas Galitzine, Ella Rubin, Reid Scott, Annie Mumolo. Dir: Michael Showalter. A 40 year old single mom takes her daughter to Coachella and there she meets the 24 year old lead singer of a boy band. They begin a love affair. This romantic-comedy could be descr...

UNFROSTED Cast: Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, Hugh Grant, Max Greenfield. Dir: Jerry Seinfeld. This is allegedly the true story of how Kellogg's Pop Tarts came to be. There has been recent spate of "product biopics" that have came out lately. When I first saw...

THE FALL GUY Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Winston Duke, Teresa Palmer, Stephanie Hsu. Dir: David Leitch. Loosely based on the TV series, this is about a Hollywood stunt man who just recovered from an injury. He returns to work on a movie directed by his e...

The nominees.

Any thoughts on these?

CHALLENGERS Cast: Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, Mike Faist. Dir: Luca Guadagnino. This film explores the love triangle both on and off the court, between three tennis players. One who had to give up a tennis career to being a coach and two best friends who are both in love with her. There are a lot of wor...

ABIGAIL Cast: Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, Giancarlo Esposito, Alisha Weir, Kevin Durand, Will Catlett, Angus Cloud, Matthew Goode. Dirs: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett. A group of would-be criminals are hired to kidnap the young daughter of certain nameless billionaire only t...

LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL Cast: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, Fayssal Bazzi, Ingrid Torelli, Rhys Auteri, Georgina Haig, Josh Quong Tart. Dirs: Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes. It’s Halloween 1977. A late night TV show who has always trailed in the ratings behind Johnny Carson decid...

Story.

Francis’s wife and director of quite possibly the best behind the scenes in the making documentary ever.

CIVIL WAR Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Mourer, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Nick Offerman, Sonoya Mizuno, Jesse Plemmons. Dir: Alex Garland. In a not-so-distant future/alternate reality, a group of four journalists drive across a war-torn United States in hopes of getting the scoop of t...

MUSICA Cast: Rudy Mancuso, Camila Mendes, J.B. Smoove, Francesca Reale, Maria Mancuso Dir: Rudy Mancuso. This is a semi-autobiographical film about a young man who's an aspiring musician/puppeteer and who also has synesthesia which causes him to perceive music and rhythm in his surroundings, as he g...

I agree that these honorees should be given more time at the main Oscar ceremony. They could create and show a short film demonstrating—with clips,etc.—why the awards are deserved. They used to do that in the first couple of years, I think. Then it devolved into just mentioning it on the telecast a...

GODZILLA x KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE Cast: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens, Kaylee Hottle, Alex Ferns, Fala Chen. Dir: Adam Wingard. King Kong discovers there's another threat to the world and is forced to team up with Godzilla to fight it. I have been spoiled by Godzilla Minus One , a film ...