Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Best Picture: 1. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick) 2. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami) 3. Beloved (Jonathan Demme) 4. Regeneration (Gillies McKinnon) 5. Little Dieter Needs To Fly (Werner Herzog) 6. Men With Guns (John Sayles) 7. A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (James Ivory) 8. Bulworth (Warre...

Vonzell shat one of the worst performances in the history of sound, and she got to stay. Worst vocalist ever to make the top four on this show is what she is. Not that I'd ever buy Anthony's album, but he got screwed this week; And the way he's been treated by show (you know they'd never pull that ...

1. Anthony, "I'm Already There" (This was his best night easily. It'd be a shame to see him voted off after doing so well tonight; especially with the trainwrecks from Vonzell and Carrie.) 2. Bo, "For Love of Money" (Not his best like Paula thought, but really good.) 3. Anthony,...

"Whipping Post" is a reason to like Bo. Three more: He's not a singing zombie (unlike Carrie), he doesn't sing the cheesiest songs in music history (unlike Anthony), and he can stay on key during an entire song (unlike Vonzell). Glad Scott was gone tonight. Poor guy should've learned from...

1. Bo - "Stand By Me" (This is near the level of his "Whipping Post" performance to me.) 2. Carrie - "Trouble" (Her best performance so far, I think. Fun and almost sexy in a way that she's never been before.) 3. Bo - "Heaven" (I thought it was better than th...

From EW: "Bice's past is unlikely to affect his status as one of the five remaining Idol finalists, as Fox says he let producers know about his history early on. In a statement released Wednesday , the network said, ''The information disclosed on various salacious gossip websites regarding Bo ...

The Smoking Gun just released today that Bo has an arrest record from 2001, when he was arrested in Huntsville for felony cocaine posession. He completed a diversion program or something, and the charge was vacated, but this could make Carrie Underwhelm the sure favorite to win. Or maybe this'll gi...

Boring week. Sorry for my number one choice Eric. But watching the performances again, without someone yapping through them all, it was basically a tie for first, and a tie for last. 1. Bo (Other than the clothes--Granny Madge needs to quit making commercials reminding us to vote for him, and get b...

Maybe "familiar" wasn't the right word, but I knew of him before he was on TV. Bo and his band have played at some of the biggest music festivals in the area (Twice at Big Spring Jam, when they were called Purge; Three times at WC Handy festival), and while I never saw him live, his band ...

I didn't think Anwar was that bad last night myself Eric. Although, watching the tape back, it became clear that he (and Vonzell) got a ton of mileage out of the backup singer, just like Carrie did on her (overrated) performance of "Alone". But to me, even when he's good, he's still medio...

I think "MacArthur Park" is one of the worst songs ever too, whether Donna Summer, or Waylon Jennings, or Richard Harris, or its writer Jimmy Webb, or Carrie The Singing Corpse, is singing it. (Jimmy Webb did write some terrific songs though--"Galveston" and "Wichita Linema...

:angry: at tonight's results. Probably the best Idol contestant of this season just got sacrificed in favor of that creepy fat guy. Who's voting for him? Eric, Bo may be repetitive, but unlike Anwar, he isn't consistently cringe-worthy. When Anwar proves that he can do something besides hit meaning...

Ranked: 1. Constantine: By far actually. Last season, I remember how Simon suddenly turned a corner with Diana and started praising her even though her performance (on Barry Manilow night when this happened) wasn't any better or worse than some of the stuff she'd done before. (She actually got off ...