Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Barry Diller Says Studios Should Split From Netflix and Amazon by Cutting Their Own Deals With Guilds:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busin ... 235578907/

Fani Willis, the Atlanta DA prosecuting Trump and 18 co-defendants, just filed a motion to change the trial date for all 19 from March 2024, her original request date, to October 23, 2023. Wanting to speed things up so fast strikes me that she thinks she has a very strong case and wants to get thing...

Sabin, I hope everything is OK with you regarding Tropical Storm Hilary.

Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting system breach:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics ... index.html

. . . the music branch at that point was strictly ballad-land (maybe it still is). . . "Naatu Naatu" is hardly a ballad. Regarding 1977, the big surprise for me was that, even though it was not really a ballad, "New York, New York" was not even nominated for Best Original Song. ...

Does Oppenheimer get into a great irony in Oppenheimer's life, that his affair with Jean Tatlock was with someone who was a psychiatrist whose clinical depression caused her to commit suicide?

SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher gave an on-fire speech at the press conference announcing the actors' strike:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mphpgRI00js

SAG-AFTRA is now on strike against the AMPTP, making the first time Hollywood has two simultaneous strikes since 1960.

Ron DeSantis has an ad where he attacks Trump for being too pro-LGBTQ. It has video of DeSantis intercut with video of shirtless-oiled body builders. Okay. . .

Reading about Angela Bassett made me think of what happens when an Honorary Oscar is given to someone still active. For example, both Henry Fonda and Paul Newman won their Best Actor award the year after they received an Honorary Oscar.

I checked to see if "The Girl From Ipanema" from Astrud Gilberto won the Grammy for Record Of The Year. It won over "Downtown" from Petula Clark, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" from The Beatles, "People" from Barbra Streisand, and "Hello Dolly!" from Lou...

SAG/AFTRA members just voted overwhelmingly for strike authorization while the DGA just renewed its contract with the AMPTP.

Here's a video of one of Turner's greatest performances, her duo with Mick Jagger at the 1985 Live Aid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wyuwJP-u9Q

The jury just ordered Donald Trump to pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million in her rape/defamation civil case.