Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Anyway, it's widely known that Tucci's wife died earlier this year after a long battle with cancer. He mentioned on the show that his wife had told him not to make the film but he did it anyway. Stupid Elisabeth asked if his wife had seen the film. Instead of explaining that he made the film after ...

BEST DIRECTOR I think one should always be dubious re: a Picture/Director split. Regardless, it looks like Bigelow and Cameron are sure things with Reitman and Tarantino alongside. These seem like Branch-approved nominees. That would leave Lee Daniels for Precious but I don't know. He makes a lot o...

Best Actor runners-up: Tobey Maguire, Viggo MOrtenesen, Ben Foster. Best Actress: Emily Blunt Not a single mention for Michael Stuhlbarg or Tilda Swinton... Y'know, this is pretty frustrating when you can ONLY talk about performers who essentially have front-runner status, and a lovable longshot ca...

Best Picture - Raising Victor Vargas Best Director - Peter Sollett, Raising Victor Vargas Best Actor - Victor Rasuk, Raising Victor Vargas Best Actress - Judy Marte, Raising Victor Vargas Best Supporting Actor - Eugene Levy, A Mighty Wind Best Supporting Actress - Hope Davis, The Secret Lives of De...

#2 The New World The Myth Maker Jeff Reichert on The New World At the heart of the film critical impulse lies the question, what is cinema for? This is central, even if not asked directly, even if the work at hand seems to hold no loftier ambitions than the avoidance of its own calamitous end. The ...

Antichrist - 3/10 Maybe a 2. Maybe a 1. My buddy saw it at Cannes and said it was all anybody could talk about for the festival. He also thinks it's the greatest film of our time. I think it's art house hell. But it's pretty art house hell, and it's full of enough question marks to keep me somewhat...

Antichrist (von Trier) I would love it if Julie & Julia would cross-cut to DaFoe & Gainsbrough for a triptych. Amy Adams is trying a poached egg for the first time while Charlotte Gainsbrough is beating the shit out of a buried Willem DaFoe screaming WHERE ARE YOU?!? Both films deal with tr...

Wrong Kaufman. It's high up on my list though. The best films of the decade By Roger Ebert on December 30, 2009 3:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (1) "Synecdoche, New York" is the best film of the decade. It intends no less than to evoke the strategies we use to live our lives. After beginni...

#11: Everyone Else (2009, Maren Ade). Devastating portrait of a singular couple. Seen only once, could climb into top 10 on second viewing. #12: Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2005, Michel Gondry). A celebration of celebration, & one of my most joyous moviegoing experiences ever. #13: Ghost Worl...

Lisa Schwarzbaum. 1. There Will Be Blood (2007), Paul Thomas Anderson. The entire decade, summed up in a singular American masterpiece. 2. Sideways (2004), Alexander Payne. The decade’s most adult film about men and women. 3. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Peter Jackson. The gran...