Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I HAVE done the due diligence -- sat through all of Dial of Destiny, even ate the $5.99 cost (curse you, Netflix disc, for disappearing in my hour of need). And I can confirm your sonic-only impression: occasionally I'd find myself thinking, Oh: there's some new music...and then, a few minutes later...

Mister Tee wrote For best actor and supporting actor, it's 2002. In 2003, Bill Murray won the BAFTA but Jonny Depp won the SAG. And Sean Penn won the Golden Globe (and the Critics Choice). Which means Penn pulled in Giamatti’s tally (also the previous nominations guy) while Depp and Murray were… we...

Well, they tried hard to take all the fizz out of the Oscars, but faltered at the last minute, saints be praised. At least one category is genuinely alive. (And thank god the WGA's are late this year, so they can't ruin the screenplay competition.) That guy doing the "interviews" during wh...

I had a few thoughts about tonight's show, so I thought I'd share them, and set up this thread as a spot to post the winners. Last year, SAG upended the apple cart, picking four acting winners different from the BAFTA choices -- I'm not even sure when that had last happened. Because all the SAG winn...

The nominees: El Conde (Edward Lachman) Killers of the Flower Moon (Rodrigo Prieto) Maestro (Matthew Libatique) Oppenheimer (Hoyte van Hoytema) Poor Things (Robbie Ryan) My initial tendency was to wait for ASC, but that's not till March 3rd. ACE, CAS, and the USC Scripter are also that weekend, so, ...

So, the same day BAFTA comes down on my side of this debate, the Make-up and Hairstylists Guild strikes a blow for Sabin's position. A real contest. Film Best Contemporary Make-up: Saltburn (Siân Miller, Laura Allen) Best Period and/or Character Make-up: Maestro (Siann Grigg, Jackie Risotto, Elisa T...

Apart from the American Fiction screenplay prize, nothing here startled me. I think the SAG outcomes will be much more impactful in my coming to final decisions. Some thoughts for now, partially responding to Sabin's take: Oppenheimer had a big day -- feels like it must be the most BAFTAs any film's...

Even though I checked off my last of the ten contenders two weeks ago, I've held off formulating the 1-10 ranking because it wasn't very clear in my head. Much like the past few years, the very top of the list (1-2 or -3) was easy to settle on, but it became murky thereafter. The big difference: the...

Believe it or not, these things are STILL being given out. Vancouver Film Critics: Best Picture: Anatomy of a Fall Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Best Actor: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers Best Actress: Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheim...

I think this is a four-way race. Whether I’m right or wrong, it’s rather fun to think in those terms. I'm not in flat disagreement with this assessment, but I'm going to be a weenie and wait till BAFTA/SAG have weighed in before taking on the race directly. About this, however... I also don’t see h...

No one commented because it was such a non-event. I barely remembered to check the result before I went to bed. if Oppenheimer goes onto sweep the Oscars, Nolan will be the first director since Birdman to do so not on his first proper Best Picture go of it at it with Oscar voters, with Inarritu havi...

Well, all those 13-year old girls who only started learning football this season certainly got the best introduction to the game they could have imagined. Don't get spoiled: your team won't win every season. And, of course, MAGA heads exploded all over the country, making it just as pleasurable for ...

I think this is the strongest slate among the three shorts categories. I like all five nominees to one degree or other. Our Uniform is, for me, the least of them, but that may be mostly due to its brevity: it barely seems to have time to get going, and suddenly it's wrapping up (feeling abrupt in th...

The nominees: The ABCs of Book Banning The Barber of Little Rock Island in Between The Last Repair Shop Nai Nai e Wai Po Island in Between has a fascination built into its very premise -- an early shot, illustrating just how close the Chinese mainland has always been, struck me as not unlike Zone of...

The nominees: Golda Maestro Oppenheimer Poor Things Society of the Snow They added "and Hairstyling" to this award sometime in the past decade, but there's no particular sign they truly meant it. If they had, it seems like Barbie would have been a solid contender (the Broadcasters expected...