Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Damien wrote:The majority of straight guys in the era of Milk wore leisure suits -- no one in the movie does. Score one for accuracy.

As a straight guy, I resent this accusation!

It's highly debatable (of course, what isn't when this topic comes around), but how about Travolta, Jackson and Willis in Pulp Fiction? This is one that, all racial implications aside, I think the Academy basically got right. Travolta has a prominent role in two of the three "stories," wh...

Okay, to try and do my bit, I'll tackle the one category where I've seen all five nominees: Best achievement in sound editing The Dark Knight Iron Man Slumdog Millionaire Wall E Wanted Over on the sound mixing thread, I see some are talking about fine distinctions between "mixing" and &qu...

Like others, I'm stymied from creating these posts by the movies I haven't seen -- specifically, Benjamin Button, which alone locks me out of damn near everything, this category included. I will say that, though my reaction to The Duchess when I saw it a few weeks ago matches everyone else's ("...

Piven is dead meat in much of the acting community for his Prima Donna antics in Broadway's Speed-the-Plow revival culminating in his allegedly leaving the show due to mercury poisoning. I've heard a lot of people jump on Piven for this, and, for all I know, he's a total shithead who deserves the a...

If there was strong support for her winning a third Oscar this year methinks Kate would have been relegated to support in The Reader to make the way clear for her. Yes, I'm sure that this issue was dealt with at the Acting Branch's Annual Pre-Nomination Meeting to Discuss Fairness. Just saying. I h...

I once heard the definition of a great game was, one filled with suspense and reversals that is won by the team you favor. In that sense, for me last year's Super Bowl was a more classic great game: this year I was essentially neutral, so there wasn't the extra kick of having my rooting interest co...

Obama last night at a gathering: "I am seriously glad to be here tonight at the annual Alfalfa dinner. I know that many you are aware that this dinner began almost one hundred years ago as a way to celebrate the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. If he were here with us tonight, the General wo...

Also saw, for the millionth time (actually only the third or fourth, but once was too much), the trailer for that Julia Roberts and Clive Owen thing, Duplicity . It's one of those trailers I hate--it seems so sure of how charming and intelligent and funny it is, and how explosive the chemistry betw...

Another stop on the Oscar Completeness Tour: Wanted. A largely ridiculous movie that, oddly, would be better -- or at least more enjoyable -- if it were more ridiculous. The "Did they seriously DO that?" scenes (the guy hurtling himself from one building to another, the train crash that w...

Eric wrote:The Stewardesses: *½

Is this the legendary skinflick -- seen by most of us almost forty years ago as The Stewardesses in 3-D?

Where was that thread with the discussion on The Visitor? I just saw it and I'd love to catch up with everyone else's thoughts. I believe further down in this thread -- sometime around Thanksgiving or just after -- and also Sonic reviewed it sometime earlier, under Last Seen Movie. Edited By Big Ma...

My take on '98 supporting actress was that Dench was favored but far from a lock -- Bates and Redgrave, based on the SAG and Globe, were certainly in the race. And I'd agree wholeheartedly that Blethyn's inclusion was an outrage that left Kudrow and Allen cheated. I want to thank BJ for starting up...

While we are on the subject of age, once again this year the curse of the 50s for Best Actress will be tested. To reiterate, only one Actress in her 50s has won a Best Actress Award: Shirley Booth, age 54, Come Back Little Sheba. That's out of 81 winners - a statistical aberration to say the least....

Okay, someone has to be the negative outlier, and I volunteer. I found the movie pretty dreary. I decided long ago, after too many bad play-readings, that nothing bored me more than stories about losers losing -- especially losers-who-once-had-more-in-life. Add to that that wrestling, cheap strip b...