Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Best Motion Picture [/u] 01. The Wrestler 02. WALL·E 03. The Edge of Heaven 04. Rachel Getting Married 05. Gomorrah Best Director [/u] 01. Jonathan Demme — Rachel Getting Married 02. Darren Aronofsky — The Wrestler 03. Fatih Akin — The Edge of Heaven 04. Matteo Garrone — Gomorrah 05. Courtney Hunt ...

Best Motion Picture of the Year [/u] 01. No Country for Old Men 02. There Will Be Blood 03. Into the Wild 04. Ratatouille 05. Away from Her Best Director [/u] 01. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men 02. Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood 03. Sean Penn, Into the Wild 04. Sarah Po...

Best Picture [/u] • Citizen Kane – pr. Orson Welles • How Green Was My Valley – pr. Darryl F. Zanuck • The Lady Eve – pr. Paul Jones, Buddy G. DeSylva • The Maltese Falcon – pr. Hal B. Wallis, Henry Blanke • Pépé le Moko – pr. Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim Best Director [/u] • Julien Duvivier – Pépé ...

Best Picture [/u] • Cat People – pr. Val Lewton • The Magnificent Ambersons – pr. Orson Welles • The Palm Beach Story – pr. Paul Jones • Sullivan's Travels – pr. Preston Sturges • To Be or Not to Be – pr. Ernst Lubitsch, Alexander Korda Best Director [/u] • George Stevens – The Talk of the Town • P...

Best Picture [/u] 01. The 400 Blows (pr. François Truffaut) 02. Rio Bravo (pr. Howard Hawks) 03. Floating Weeds (pr. Masaichi Nagata) 04. Some Like it Hot (pr. Billy Wilder) 05. Anatomy of a Murder (pr. Otto Preminger) Best Director [/u] 01. François Truffaut – The 400 Blows 02. Howard Hawks – Rio ...

My list: 1927 Janet Gaynor — Sunrise 1928 Lillian Gish — The Wind 1929 Maria Falconetti — The Passion of Joan of Arc 1930 Greta Garbo — Anna Christie 1931 Helen Hayes — The Sin of Madelon Claudet 1932 Marlene Dietrich — Shanghai Express 1933 Greta Garbo — Queen Christina 1934 Claudette Colbert — It...

Is anyone else a little disappointed that Nathan and Sylar are still alive? While they were two of my three favorite characters of season 1 (Hiro being the other), I thought their stories were told in full and came to thoroughly satisfying conclusions in the season finale. While I fully expected Pe...

Best Picture Fanny and Alexander [Ingmar Bergman] The King of Comedy [Martin Scorsese] The Right Stuff [Philip Kaufman] Tender Mercies [Bruce Beresford] Videodrome [David Cronenberg] Best Actor in a Lead Role Tom Courtenay [ The Dresser ] Robert De Niro [ The King of Comedy ] Robert Duvall [ Tender...

Love the show; have from day one. Never felt particularly inclined to comment on it here, but I wasn't aware that reaction to the finale was overwhelmingly negative. Most people I've talked to enjoyed it immensely (even if they echo the sentiment of nervousness at what the feudal-Japan cliffhanger ...

For what it's worth, I cannot see Babel and Jackie Earle Haley as Oscar nominees, no matter how much precursor love they get. That said, this is still a hugely conventional list. Best Picture The Departed Dreamgirls Letters from Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen Best Lead Actor Leonardo DiCap...

I don't "like" Moulin Rouge! in any traditional sense of the term, but I find myself forced to admire the hell out of the sheer ballsiness of the thing. Fellowship of the Ring is my #1 film of the year, and thus gets my vote of this crowd, but had it been an option I'd have given the Osca...