Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

flipp525 wrote:Precious is not "contemporary". It's set in 1987 Harlem (and the wardrobe choices reflected that).

1987 is contemporary, flipp.

Period is sixties and earlier.

jack wrote:I don't get why folks keep bring up inflation. If we use inflated boxoffice to gage things, we'll never be able to move on from Gone With The Wind, thus rendering these Box-Office Prediction posts pointless.

Oh, OscarGuy is just jealous of Avatar.

An Education (2009, Lone Scherfig) 5.75/10 It's a good movie. But absolutely and totally overrated. Does it deserve any award? No. Does Alfred Moline deserve an Oscar nomination? No. For what? Does Carey Mulligan deserves an Oscar nomination? NO, NO, NO and NO! She's good, but there are a thousand ...

Management (Stephen Belber, 2008) 3.5/10 Awfully boring and a total miscast. I really don't get what's the deal with ugly guys who Aniston falls in love with. A lack of chemistry is overwhelming. Sometimes it works, like in two excellent movies (The Break-Up and Marley&Me), but, in the other ca...

mashari wrote:Bullock's got this in the bag. Sorry, Meryl.

She hasn't got it yet at all.
Sure they love Bullock, but she won SAG award because Meryl won last year.
We'll see, it's going to be interesting.

Very nice predictons, Precious... Pretty much the same I'd pick..
I love the inclusion of Stanley Tucci in Julie&Julia instead of Lovely Bones, Haneke as best director and Emily Blunt..



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anonymous wrote:Abbie Cornish couldn't even get in here. Wow.

Looks like The Hangover might get in Original Screenplay.

I really hope it won't happen.

Big Magilla wrote:It's interesting to note that Kathyn Bigelow at 58 looks younger than both ex-husband Cameron at 55 and his current wife Suzy Amis, who is 48.

Yes, I also noticed that a several days ago.