Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Okay, given the involvement of Luca Guadagnino, I should have had my eye on this a bit more. But it's a tennis movie, and I never anticipated reviews this good. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/challengers-review-zendaya-josh-oconnor-mike-faist-luca-guadagnino-1235870986/ https...

mlrg wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:26 pm Just finished The Mark for the first time.

I think Rod Steiger was pretty good in it. Aside from Reza’s mention as a 6th spot no one else mentions him. I think he was very deserving of a nomination.

Steiger is so natural (all right: un-hammy) he's hardly recognizable as the same actor.

Genuine question: when you compare the length of time a host like Bob Hope takes vs Jimmy Kimmel, is it genuinely that much different? Probably not, but the whole production number that goes along with the host's opening monologue before the first award is handed out takes more time than it did in ...

SCTV is a big blind spot for me. The sense I got is that it was the most respected and creative late night comedy show in contrast to the more boisterous SNL of the late 70's and the downfall early 80's. On the possibility you're interested, an "it's a bit more complicated than that" shor...

Some are you aren't old enough to have watched SCTV in its heyday, and only know the cast members (Martin Short, John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy etc.) who went on to more prominent careers. But the show itself was must-see late-night for those of us of a certain age. Joe Flaherty -- the sl...

I happened to be in my early awareness of movies during the brief period Barbara Rush was considered a star -- she'd co-starred in The Young Philadelphians, and was worthy of being Frank Sinatra's love interest in Come Blow Your Horn (which I saw at Radio City Music Hall). Her time in the limelight ...

I’m not keen on honoring either Ford or Cruise. They’re both been enormously successful (which is perhaps reward enough), but they’re both fairly limited as actors. Ford is good at playing grumpy and Cruise is sometimes good at playing earnest, when he’s not overdoing it pouring on the smiley charm...

I don't have time for extensive comment, but I thank dws for this fully-researched, greatly informative post.

I know I'm several days late on this, but in case Sabin still wants an answer to his question re: Gore choosing a different VP... Richard Nixon had polling that showed he ran stronger solo than with any possible running mate, since any choice would antagonize someone. The trick became to choose the ...

I've seen him a bit more than some of you -- in addition to the obvious Raisin in the Sun/Officer and a Gentleman/Roots, I saw him in The Landlord, Skin Game (a quite funny pairing with James Garner), Travels with My Aunt, The Laughing Policeman...and, much later in life, Diggstown. But the majority...

The definitional working actor. Straight Time was the first time I really registered his presence. i'd probably seen him a dozen or more times prior, without quite registering him. But once I zoned in on him, I saw he always made his films better. IMDB shows he kept working steadily, right up to the...

I would put Yuh-jung Youn alongside Robert DeNiro or Benicio Del Toro, in that it is a foreign language performance in an American film. Except they're both foreign-language performances/elements within an otherwise English-speaking film. Unless my memory of Minari is warped -- and, with age/pandem...

- Second consecutive year that the Best International Film wins sound. Too soon to talk about any trend but it is striking. I think you're confusing this with BAFTA. The sound Oscar last year went to Top Gun: Maverick (shudder memory), not All Quiet. This is, in fact, the first year the Sound Oscar...

So…a very good year, climaxing in an Oscar show whose winners it’s hard to argue were undeserving (even if not “my favorites”). What to do, after the big event (to which the entire year builds) has passed? Well, after putting away dishes, and indulging in a few late sleep-ins, the obvious answer is,...

As Sabin notes in another thread, Alex Garland's newest has premiered at SXSW, and is getting strong reactions (not all good, but it's clearly something): https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/civil-war-review-1235942401/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/civil-war-review-kirste...