Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Oh NIKKI . Dude, I totally get your frustration with American politics -- and especially with the Democrats -- but let's keep some perspective please. Of course there's no fundamental difference between the two parties and of course they're both going to protect capitalism, white privilege and patr...

From The NY Times: You’re Welcome to See Her Live, Not to Ask About Her Life By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON Mary-Louise Parker tried to get out of this interview. She said so halfway through. Not in a confrontational way, just matter-of-factly, as if she were saying she hadn’t ordered those fries but had st...

I actually wanted Hillary to get the nomination because I think McCain would have an easier time beating her. I'm not saying this because I like McCain at all (I'm a pinko commie bastard after all) but because I really don't see a fundamental difference between the Republicans and Democrats like Cl...

This comment belongs at Gold Derby. You guys might wanna be careful. I think a few people here still visit/post at Gold Derby (or used to) and I've seen Big Ted lurking around here as well (oh wait, he's at Backstage now right? These damn message board politics!) I know Sonic Youth used to post at ...

Did the HFPA vote the same day they announced the nominations?? It seems as if they were completely frozen in time, back to a month or two ago when Atonement was the presumptive front runner, Sweeney Todd seemed like a decent prospect, and before Juno started building momentum and the far superior ...

I really don't get the love for The Queen at all. Mirren is wonderful in it and deserved her Oscar, but how did this boringly competent film land nominations for Picture, Director and Screenplay? And yet the left out the actor who played Tony Blair who is actually great in it. The whole thing with ...

Hey everyone! I've been gone for a long time (for those of you who remember me) and I probably can't stay much longer this time, but I just wanted to pop in and wish a Happy New Year to my old UAADB family. Oscar Guy, I think it's wonderful that you've kept this place alive and well for so long. A ...

Sonic Youth wrote:Happy new year to all of you returning posters, Nik and Zach. I love you all, and who the hell invited your asses back?

Happy New Year to you too Sonic, lol.

My biggest problem is the egotism on Anderson's part in how he chooses to submerge the Whitman Brothers into Indian culture. British Invasion amidst traditional Indian funeral process? Horseshit. LOL. I love Wes Anderson (well, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums anyway) but his treatment of non-whit...

Oh I've definitely met a lot of kids who made choices in college based on the expectation of a lucrative or at least well paying job later on. Sonic Youth, most kids are on financial aid and graduate with at least some substantial loan amount and this does indeed affect the choices they make. The m...

Sabin wrote:Mike D'Angelo gave 'The Departed'...
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...a 79! Where do we stand with this one?

Nice!

Isn't that a relatively high grade from D'Angelo?

How principled. You do realise that whatever you think of the quality of some literature means absolute ####-all to the bigger issue at hand, which is the hysterical, illogical, draconian rules that you can't bring a book to read onto a BA flight... because of our SAFETY, our SAFETY! I know...I was...

Hey, as long as all this procreating keeps her away from the studio, then I say K Fed deserves a freaking medal. To hell with those criticizing her parent skills and her choice of husbands. K Fed is doing the music world a FAVOR. Let's hope these two tit mice keep on f--king. Ah, the one time child...