Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

as i remember both "gladiator" and "braveheart" were very bloody films. yes, it was a more action violence which is celebrated while more adult oriented violence is frowned upon. still, "braveheart" had one of the most intense torture scenes in a mainstream film (until...

as fun as this whole lead vs supporting debate has been, i would like to get back to the focus of this thread by pointing out that "the departed" is getting the best reviews of the year (and that will probably still be true by the end of the year). more importantly, scorsese is getting th...

yeah, i have to say i have more optimism that not only would females be pretty well represented, but you would also have two years where a supporting actor would take the award. granted, both those supporting actors were arguably leading (but we still have not established what constitutes leading -...

sorry, i could not resist. just to further make my point. see who was lead and who was supporting, then see who i nominated with no distinctions in gender or screen time. each performance is listed in order of quality. 2001 oscar nominations ACTOR (Leading) Tom Wilkinson -- In the Bedroom Russel Cr...

"rolo, are you suggesting there is no difference between the task at hand for a leading performer vs supporting performer? Do you also think they should get rid of the distinction between adapted and original screenplay?" yes, to both your questions. have we not just established there is ...

because at the end of the night, four actors making overlong speeches, crying, or otherwise stealing the show from the other artists there is what the oscars is all about. can you imagine if we had best female editor and best male editor, or best direcotr of photography and best second-director of ...

"return" is the english translation of "volver", is it not? on the whole lead-or-supporting debate, i still think they should get rid of the distinction. also, get rid of the whole gender difference. just nominate the ten best performances (so a person with two great performance...

BEST PICTURE (Fall) The Departed Dreamgirls Flags Of Our Fathers The Good German Little Children DIRECTOR Babel The Departed Flags Of Our Fathers The Good German Little Children ADAPTED Dreamgirls The Departed The Good German The History Boys Little Children ORIGINAL Babel The Good Shepherd Little ...

A moment of silence is in order for Sven Nykvist, famed cinematographer and collaborator of Ingmar Bergman. He was recognized by the Academy for three films Cries And Whispers (1973), Fanny And Alexander (1983), and The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (1988). He won the Oscar for the first two, and s...

boy oh boy, was i off with my predix. the only one i got right was "pirates of the caribbean 2" which i predicted way back would be in the $400 million neighborhood. everything else i was off by $50-100 million. so many of those sure things (how could "the da vinci code" gone so...

well, i guess i can kiss those dreams of working for boxofficemojo.com and being a professional predictor of a movie's potential box office grosses goodbye. i did not do well at all at foreseeing how the top ten would shape up. this was my most recent predictions: 1 Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 -- $3...

i cannot believe anyone here is actually thinking "the departed" is not going to make it into the top five for best picture. in my mind it is a frontrunner to win, with its only competition being "flags of our fathers." a scorsese/eastwood showdown again seems impossible, but ju...

how many performers from a comic book adaptation have been nominated? I can only think of one right off the bat: Al Pacino in Dick Tracy . If you count graphic novels as comic books then I guess you can include Paul Newman in Road to Perdition . and william hurt from "a history of violence.&qu...