Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Congratulations to Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield for being the first two Best Leading Actors nominated in a Supporting Role. LaKeith Stanfield's nomination is a big surprise. I doubt anyone will project LaKeith Stanfield will siphon votes from Daniel Kaluuya -- the way perhaps Joan Cusack di...

And supporting actress is giving us an old-fashioned free-for-all. I assume the supporting actress five will be selected from a limited field (Bakalova, Burstyn, Close, Colman, Foster, Seyfried, Youn -- any others?), Or with the notion it's a crazy-ass year in so many ways, no one really cares, and...

The Jared Leto winning a la Aaron Taylor-Johnson scenario did not play out.

Best Motion Picture: Drama: Trial of the Chicago 7 Best Motion Picture: Comedy or Musical: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Best International Film: Minari Best Animated Film: Soul Best Actor: Drama: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Best Actor: Comedy or Musical: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat Subsequ...

I loooooovvveed Rebecca Luker &, goodness, this is so, xo soon after her ALS diagnosis.

Anything Goes: Rebecca Luker Sings Cole Porter is a terrific CD. I especially enjoyed Ridin' High.

(Gregory Jbara also played Squash Bernstein in Broadway's Victor/Victoria.)

RIP.

Nope, I don't want to set up a Tony Awards contest.

I'd feel weird entering a contest I was running.

We've got so much time on my hands, I'm beginning to think we should do a Tony Awards contest here. Danny Burstein will no doubt win Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for Moulin Rouge! The Musical. First, he has the overdue factor going for him. (This is his fifth nominati...

Man, Joe Morgan! The Big Red Machine of the 1970s was the greatest baseball empire I’ve seen in my lifetime, and Joe Morgan was in the elite circle. I’ve always had an affinity for second basemen, and Joe was among the finest to ever play the game. Yes, my late brother was a huge baseball fan &...

Poor JeffERy Epstein.... Some media can't even spell his first name. Jeffery is common enough to be an accepted variation but not common enough to be the one you should choose. Nonetheless, this spelling has charted since the early-twentieth century, much like its brother name: Jeffrey (as in Jeffre...

I just marked my absentee ballot.

It's not nearly as fun (or exciting or suspenseful) as Oscar pool voting.

Coming from Kentucky, I do have a significant race: Mitch McConnell vs. Amy McGrath. I think it's time to...

Ditch Mitch.

In 1978, All in the Family won Best Comedy Series, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Writing, and Directing, but missed out on Sally Struthers for Supporting Actress. Is that the closest? Oddly enough, I recall All in the Family's sweep except for Sally Struthers. SO GLAD to see Schitt's Creek rece...

(Advanced apologies for interrupting the postings eulogizing Diana Rigg. Yet I thought I'd interject.) When I was enrolled in Modern Drama as a University of Kentucky undergraduate, Lily Tomlin workshopped The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe to a university audience. It was grea...

Sad news.

Schitt's Creek...YES!!!

Ennio Morricone, the award-winning Italian composer who created atmospheric scores for “The Mission” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” has died at 91. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/obituaries/ennio-morricone-dead.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR3ZhBx6Vcd7wJLlHcViFN3U4MtX6f...