Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I've never been much an NBA fan -- I know the famous names, and mostly who ends up winning, but little beyond. So I'm not much familiar with Bill Walton as either a player or during his long career as announcer/analyst. But I knew who he was from his UCLA days, when he helped lead his team through t...

Reading the Times obit today, I find out he and his brother were also responsible for the top ten hit "You're Sixteen", which I always thought contained the line that epitomized 1950's America: "You came out of my dream, and into my car". As for "It's a Small World" and...

Most of his later nominations were ones that had us groaning in the late 60s and 70s. But I can do the Mary Poppins soundtrack from memory, and still love basically every bit of it.

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 Pere...

I watched the presentations on YouTube, though in French, so I had to wait for the chiron to tell me who each winner was. And, even when someone accepted in English, the commentator spoke over them, translating. So all I can comment on are the choices. As Sabin noted the other day, the latter half o...

(So, Anora must win the Palme?)Answer: Yes Grand Prix to All We Imagine As Light. Jury prize to Emilia Perez. Best director is Gomes for Grand Tour. "Special award" to The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Best actress goes to the ensemble of actresses in Emilia Perez. Best actor Jesse Plemons in Ki...

By reports of who's been asked back, this ought to be the list of films contending for prizes: Emilia Perez (Audiard) Anora (Baker) Megalopolis (Coppola) The Substance (Fargeat) Grand Tour (Gomes) All We Imagine As Light (Kapadia) The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Rasoulof) Jia Zhangke posted (briefly; su...

Greg wrote You've been coming up with a new Palme d'Or frontrunner every day for the last few days. Greg... don't deny me one of the few pleasures in life my boss can't take away from me. It's the kind of Cannes it is: nothing storming to the front, so anything that gets excited reaction from anyon...

And now, the new Paolo Sorrentino film, getting at least some very good reviews: https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/parthenope-review-paolo-sorrentino-1236011840/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/parthenope-review-paolo-sorrentino-1235903750/ https://deadline.com/2024/05/par...

It's a refined horror movie. Did you not get the references to Dorian Gray, The Shining, and The Fly? 1) "Audacious, and Insanely Gross Body Horror Masterpiece" -- that's the headline of the IndieWire review "Grisly Body Horror Caper" -- Guardian headline How do you get "re...

The thing working in Demi's favor here would be that her film/role's subtext is to some extent exactly what Sabin is talking about here: the discarding of babe actresses when they age out of what-gets-male-execs-and-audiences-hot. Beyond that...Magilla, are you on uppers or something? Did you not ge...

Mister Tee wrote The buzziest title so far appears to be Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez: Looks like a love it/hate it film. David Ehrlich has it at a C+ but describes it as "not unmemorable." Still plenty to go but if enough people love it but unless something else knocks their socks off ...

The buzziest title so far appears to be Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235903402/

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/e ... 236008567/

Very few people in the history of the movie industry have had a better eye for talent than Roger Corman did. On the night of the Oscars for 1974, when Jack Nicholson unexpectedly lost best actor to Art Carney, Corman jokingly said to him, You son of a bitch, you kept me from a clean sweep -- noting...

I've been busy this week, and regret the whole thing was resolved before I had a chance to put my mind to it.

Thanks for posting it, Uri. By the way, it's looks like you never opened a private message I sent you a few months back. It's still sitting there, FYI.