Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I get the impression that there is a quiet discomfort among many in the AMPAS membership over the way CBI is handling this.

Why do I feel like QE (Quantitative Easing) has come to the Oscars.

Do as Ben Bernanke – when you don't get the result you want, just print more money.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs regrets the results and will open the floodgates to 8 acting nominations per category and a max 10 in Best Picture again.

Now Mark Ruffalo is blaming white privilege for the whiteout instead of having the guts to say that Idris Elba should've been nominated instead of himself. Crazy! Of course, he tweeted that he will attend the show in support of journalists and sexual abuse survivors in the church.

Some thoughts: 1) Spike Lee’s resentment in 1989-90 was not so much with Dead Poet’s Society but with Best Picture winner Driving Miss Daisy. Lee hates DMD with a passion and not just on artistic grounds but for the fact that its victory was interpreted as a kind of stamp of approval from the Academ...

1) In both of Saoirse Ronan's two nominations she's been up against Cate Blanchett (2015 - Carol; 2007 - I'm Not There)

2) This year will be the 80th presentation of the Supporting Actor/Actress awards.

Are there any chinless actresses out there who could play DK in a movie?

I'm not up on my knowledge of film producers so I can't really say who is overdue among them for recognition.

Are there any that are "Thalberg-worthy" that have been overlooked?

Seeing Spike Lee get an honorary Oscar will be interesting given that last year he said the Academy can go "fuck themselves" for ignoring Selma in most major categories. He's also still bitter that Do the Right Thing was ignored by the Academy in the same year that Driving Miss Daisy won B...

At the time, how much of a surprise was it when he lost the Oscar to Ed Begley?

Joy , another David O. Russell-Jennifer Lawrence-Bradley Cooper project about the inventor of the Miracle-Mop, will probably bring nominations for all three of them in addition to the film. That would make Cooper a four-time-in-a-row nominee which would provide a strong narrative for a win. Jennife...

Oprah Winfrey has two more Oscar nominations than Buster Keaton, Myrna Loy or Edward G. Robinson.

Who in the media can I call to vomit about this injustice?

In the Best Actor category, Eddie Redmayne is nominated for playing a character (Stephen Hawking) who was also portrayed by co-nominee Benedict Cumberbatch in a 2004 BBC TV movie called Hawking . Has this ever happened before, where within the same category, two nominees have a connection to the sam...

Wasn't there discussion a couple of years back of ABC broadcasting the nominations announcement in a prime time special?

What makes a screenplay ineligible for a WGA nomination?