Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

but condon deserves to be booed if he takes the oscar from scorsese. i am not saying no one is competition for scorsese, i am just saying it is not (or should not be) bill condon for "dreamgirls." First of all, that is just stupid. No one who beats Scorsese deserves to be booed, because h...

"dreamgirls" may take best picture, but bill condon will be booed off stage if the award goes to him. I think not, silly boy. The people in the audience are the same people who vote, so they're not going to boo their own choice. And Thelma is going to lose to Ginny Katz. 1) yeah, actually...

if, for some reason, scorsese does lose to condon, i think scorsese needs to use his italian roots to hire people to find out who voted against him and have them taken care of. Nice ethnic stereotyping. um, i am three-quarters italian. i have an aunt living in sicily who told me (when i visited her...

hey, if there is anyone out there that has not yet seen "the departed," here is your chance. the entire movie has been uploaded on to youtube. it is broken up into ten minute intervals. just follow the links from video to video. this probably will not last long, so watch it if you have no...

the list of films being shown at the maui film festival has been put up. what is the maui film festival, you ask. well, it is this great idea that this guy came up with to show all the films that have any chance of getting nominated for an oscar and showing it at one several week long festival. it ...

can we forward sabin's post to the heads of warner bros? seriously. i seriously think everyone on this board could run a better oscar campaign (and a studio) than most people in hollywood currently being paid millions to fcuk things up. the shear logic of your argument sabin, on every point, is so ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/movies/12kehr.html?_r=1 a very interesting article about "the good german." i think this is going to be the surprise critical darling of the year. may not make it all the way to the oscars in the major categories, but will definitely show up for cinematog...

those are my top ten predix. are there any i am leaving out or should have left off the list? rolo, you mentioned only 9 actresses. I think you can add Zellweger to the mix. 9 actresses but ten parts because blanchett is...well, a goddess. as far as i know there is still no official word (as in f.y...

hey, i just saw the preview for "factory girl." it looks good. not "the departed" or "babel" good, but interesting at least. i have only ever seen sienna miller in the dreadful "casanova" so i was kind of surprised when people mentioned her early on as a poss...

you all are right. both BOBBY and LITTLE CHILDREN seem more like films that could be nominated for best picture on the strength of their actors and script, and then have their directors ignored. the same with LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. i am still not convinced with THE QUEEN. VERA DRAKE was nominated fo...

i love predicting who will be the odd-man-out director more than almost any other category. i know last year we had a five-for-five line-up, with the directors matching the best picture noms perfectly; but that only happens every two decades or so. i think we will be back to our usual one director ...

"superman returns" finally passed $200 million. i never thought it would happen. it took 117 days (the 8th longest time for a movie) but it was able to creep past the bicentennial mark. i see it more as a symbolic milestone than anything else. kind of like "king kong" i think th...

i love how the tables have turned. before "the departed" was released everyone (not just people on this board) were quick to dismiss the film, saying it had no hope of being nominated. everyone seemed sure that the battle was going to be between "flags of our fathers" and "...

this is how i see the nominations shaping up. check the trailers and tell me what you think. CINEMATOGRAPHY Apacalypto http://www.apple.com/trailer....ge.html Dreamgirls http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?name=news&id=1543469&vid=114347 Flags Of Our Fathers http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamwor...