Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Verdict (André Cayatte, 1974) 6/10 A young man is charged with rape and murder of his lover and is brought to trial. His anguished mother (Sophia Loren) kidnaps the wife of a judge (Jean Gabin) and blackmails him so he can acquit her son. Rather hoary plot brings together for the first time two huge...

Granted I don't follow Broadway but once upon a time one was familiar with every actor nominated in plays and musicals. In the last decade or so 80% of the actors nominated are names I've never heard.

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese, 1974) 8/10 In search of a better life a widow (Ellen Burstyn) and her precocious son (Alfred Lutter) hope to drive from Texas to California. Along the way she stops in Arizona where she works as a lounge singer, has a brief affair with a violent mar...

Sabin your review makes it sound very interesting.

Am glad Josh O'Connor is going places. He has been consistently good over the years - brilliant in God's Own Country, Hope Gap, on tv in The Durrells and especially his Emmy-winning Prince Charles in The Crown.

Gunfighters (George Waggner, 1947) 4/10 A gunslinger (Randolph Scott) lays down his guns in order to settle down. When he is framed for the murder of his friend he goes after a rich rancher, his foreman (Bruce Cabot), a corrupt deputy (Grant Withers), and a hired hand (Forrest Tucker). He is aided b...

His film Heading South (2005) has a memorable Charlotte Rampling. And The Class (2008) - nominated for an Oscar - is a lovely little film.

Died too young. May he RIP.

Le fil / The String (Mehdi Ben Attia, 2009) 4/10 Utopia - a picture perfect setting of a white pavilion styled house in Tunisia which appears to be right out of a tropical paradise with palm trees at the front and the rushing waves of the Mediterranean sea at the back - gets slightly shattered when ...

Big Magilla wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:10 pm And the winners are...

Original: The Holdovers
Adapted: American Fiction
Documentary: The Pigeon Tunnel

Wonder what was the rational for coming up with their winners so late in life.

Bandini (1963) - 8/10 - Kalyani is a quiet resident of a women's prison in 1930s India. She volunteers to take care of a TB patient, a dangerous thing to do at the time. She gains the eye and the ear of one of the prison doctors and the story of how she came to be a prisoner is revealed in flashbac...

The First Omen (Arkasha Stevenson, 2024) 7/10 It's amazing how one can often find a dichotomy within the same place - the beauty and tranquility of a church and the menace and evil within it as well.....the latter of which one mainly gets to see only at the movies. This creepy prequel to Richard Don...

The man lived quite a "full & eventful" life. Never a dull moment.

Was Clift a serious contender this year? The Chakiris win is such a headscratcher.

I think Maurice Chevalier would have easily won if he had been nominated for Gigi. And wonder how Hermione Gingold also missed out for a nod for the same film.

Do You Love Me (Gregory Ratoff, 1946) 4/10 Mousy music school dean (Maureen O'Hara) is insulted for her looks and dress sense by band leader (Harry James who blows his famous trumpet) so she decides to remove her glasses - with help from close friend and composer colleague (Reginald Gardiner) - and ...

Devdas (2002) - 5/10 - This one was a real chore to get through. Devdas (Shah Rukh Khan) has been living in the UK for many years when he finally comes home, apparently as a lawyer. He reunites with his childhood friend, Paro, and the two expect to marry, but Devdas's mother (egged on by her schemi...