Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Well, all those 13-year old girls who only started learning football this season certainly got the best introduction to the game they could have imagined. Don't get spoiled: your team won't win every season. And, of course, MAGA heads exploded all over the country, making it just as pleasurable for ...

I think this is the strongest slate among the three shorts categories. I like all five nominees to one degree or other. Our Uniform is, for me, the least of them, but that may be mostly due to its brevity: it barely seems to have time to get going, and suddenly it's wrapping up (feeling abrupt in th...

The nominees: The ABCs of Book Banning The Barber of Little Rock Island in Between The Last Repair Shop Nai Nai e Wai Po Island in Between has a fascination built into its very premise -- an early shot, illustrating just how close the Chinese mainland has always been, struck me as not unlike Zone of...

The nominees: Golda Maestro Oppenheimer Poor Things Society of the Snow They added "and Hairstyling" to this award sometime in the past decade, but there's no particular sign they truly meant it. If they had, it seems like Barbie would have been a solid contender (the Broadcasters expected...

I think maybe the most apt analogy for this sudden Bening push would be Art Carney 1974 -- a well-liked veteran whose film wasn't as big a deal as those of his competitors (three to-then un-Oscared superstars in best picture nominees). But, even there, Carney had been spoken of far more strongly as ...

https://people.com/toby-keith-dead-62-following-stomach-cancer-diagnosis-8559372 Surprised nobody posted anything about this. I haven't thought about this guy in 15-20 years but as I look back on his discography I'm realizing how fucking unavoidable he was for at least five years. I'll say if anyon...

Might as well get bigger categories underway with the one requiring least brain-exertion. The nominees: Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer) Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple) American Ferrera (Barbie) Jodie Foster (Nyad) Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) I anticipate future retrospective posts on this cate...

If one of you would tell me how you watched Invincible, I could chime in here, as I've seen all the others, but can't locate Invincible. And this is the easiest shorts category to complete. I'm only 3-for-5 in doc short (missing ABCs and Nai Nai), and John & Yoko was the only animated I could tr...

Yeah, Franz Ferdinand, I don't know what your awareness is of American politics, but Taylor Swift right now is at the zenith of her popularity with people whose acquaintance with her music is glancing or non-existent, for the simple fact that the Republican right has decided she must be demonized fo...

This has become my favorite critics group. And, for contrast, here's a group that did it in their sleep: collecting the blogger consensus and putting a rubber stamp on it. Minnesota Film Critics winners Best Picture: Oppenheimer Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Best Actor: Cillian Murp...

Weighing in late on this, but: 1) Murray's performance in Bus Stop is a lead by anything but fraudulent definition, whatever studios decided; and 2) he's almost unbearable in the role -- if I were Monroe, I'd have jumped on the first bus to anywhere to get this clown out of my life. Fortunately, the...

London Film Critics Circle FILM OF THE YEAR: The Zone of Interest DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR: Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR: Justine Triet & Arthur Harari – Anatomy of a Fall ACTRESS OF THE YEAR: Emma Stone – Poor Things ACTOR OF THE YEAR: Andrew Scott – All of Us Str...

Legend is indeed the only word that fits. To achieve such levels, and to stick around so long -- an inspiration.

Luck enough to see her in Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and the Nine revival. A pro's pro.

The Zone of Interest is pretty immaculate as a piece of craft. Images are crisp and vivid, yet also suggestive: we catch things out of the corners of our eyes, like barbed wire, or smoke in the distance. The same is true aurally: we not only hear the sound of distant gunshots, we also catch snatches...

Kansas City Film Critics Circle (58th) Best Film: OPPENHEIMER Runner up: KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Best Director: CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Runner up: GRETA GERWIG Best Actor(tie): PAUL GIAMATTI & CILLIAN MURPHY Best Actress: LILY GLADSTONE Runner up: SANDRA HULLER Best Supporting Actor: ROBERT DOWNEY ...