Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Big Magilla wrote That's the concern I have about most of the races this year. The good news is that mail-in voting remains a thing. Also, right-wing lunacy is in full swing like I've never seen before. Every time I think we've lost, the right-wing does crazy shit like going after IVF. Wildly outsi...

danfrank wrote Yes, and let’s hope that Ruben Gallego runs a strong campaign because Kari Lake would be far worse than Sinema. I think Gallego is going to win. I'm hearing a lot about how "progressive" he is but he's not nearly as far to the left as Lake is to the right. She is the worst ...

Krysten Sinema has bowed out of the Senate race in Arizona. Good riddance.

The closest example I can think of The Zone of Interest winning would be Sound of Metal. A ground-scale indie where sound design plays an extra character in the film. The biggest difference I can think of is that Sound of Metal wasn't up against Oppenheimer. Its competition was Greyhound, Mank, News...

ASC Theatrical: Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
ASC Spotlight Award: Warwick Thornton The New Boy
ASC Doc: Curen Sheldon, King Cole

Best Drama Editing: Oppenheimer
Best Comedy Editing: The Holdovers
Best Animated Editing: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Documentary Feature: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Winners
Best Theatrical Feature: Oppenheimer
Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Documentary Feature: 32 Sounds

Just watched The Creator at home, which is the dumbest way I could've seen it. Really frustrated at myself for not seeing it on the big screen. It's a gorgeous film. These effects (how did they do this for $80m?) are incredible and the visual world-building is incredible. It really deserved more con...

dws1982 wrote This should be Killers of the Flower Moon. Wild how other, less impressive Scorsese films made runs through the tech awards and this one won't win anything below the line. Between Barbie and Poor Things, I think it'll be Poor Things. The Barbie stuff is great but some voters may feel ...

When he was diagnosed with Parkinson's last year, I was surprised. I thought he had been diagnosed years prior. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/richard-lewis-dead-comic-curb-your-enthusiasm-actor-1235838668/#recipient_hashed=1b8821351fe0d7a932f5d2f4bc16fd77a98753d8a1e875e03e0fc0a5564ecf...

flipp525 wrote I also don’t like it when they do montages of the actor’s nominated performance which, I believe, they did last year again. Pick one clip and show it. That’s how they’ve been doing it for decades and it’s worked out just fine. They always mess with non-problems areas of the show rath...

Mister Tee wrote I'm even ambivalent on whether I WANT him to win for this -- I feel like, should Anderson finally win an Oscar, it ought to be for, at very least, screenplay; not something so minor-league as this. I'm ambivalent, leaning no. I don't want this category to become some sort of off-ra...

Goddammit, are they doing that stupid clipless tribunal bullshit again?

I think this is the tightest race of the year. I wouldn't discount any of them, including The Zone of Interest or especially Poor Things which would be my choice in this category. Poor Things is full of memorable dialogue. If it does run fourth in this category, I can only imagine it's because peopl...

Really glad you mention the score from A Thousand and One. It's fantastic. I think my choice would be Pemberton for Across the Spider-Verse. That thing works overtime, but unlike Oppenheimer it does so in a way that I found consistently inventive and enjoyable. I need to rewatch Oppenheimer but I re...