Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

My point was that Away From Her may be more popular than La Vie en Rose. Many prediction lists included The Savages as a potential screenplay nominee, but Away From Her was something of a surprise; it wasn't nominated by the WGA and it eventually secured an Oscar nomination in the arguably more com...

Away From Her was popular enough with the Academy's writing branch to snag a deserving but surprising Adapted Screenplay nomination, even though none of the major precursors had awarded anything from the film other than its lead actress. And since I can't see a majority of the acting branch (the la...

That's my thinking as well Oscar Guy. I only named Michael Clayton and Juno because Harry Goldfarb was predicting what would happen if voters didn't go for the two unconventional films. There Will Be Blood is certainly the film most poised to upset No Country, but if voters reject them both, then t...

Big Magilla wrote:When it comes to younger, still active stars, where is Dustin Hoffman? His contemporaries, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino have all been inducted, so why not Hoffman?

Beeecause he sucks?

the more I hear people talking about how unconventional this two-horse race is (when talking about NCFOM and TWBB), considering the dark tone of these main contenders, the more I can see an upset from Atonement. Despite no Directing nomination? You'd have to go back to 1989 to find a corresponding ...

Akash wrote:With all the polls all over this board, I'm surprised there hasn't been one yet for "Best Pixar Film" and "Worst Pixar Film." Not to mention "Best Traditonal Disney Animated Film Since The Little Mermaid Revival."

What have I ever done to you???

Flipp, I don't think anyone is suggesting that Hillary won't be far preferrable to George Bush (my god, she's guaranteed to at least be more competent than that dry drunk!), some of us are just suggesting that her own record is hideous and makes her a less appealing candidate than someone like Obam...

Oh, as for my "latest" "excuse", I posted Obama's Pakistan statements on this very board last August, when he said them. And I've brought them up on occassion since then. Some "latest". You're right, thanks for correcting me. I shouldn't have said "latest." I...

OG, why should they favor the only woman in the race when her OWN positions haven't been kind to their causes? Replacing the face of the existing power structure with a female face who isn't going to challenge said power structure at all, is not in the progressive interests of women (which N.O.W. c...

But there's no age discrepency among Latinos. Obama loses all age groups. Asian-Americans have also massed around Hillary. Why this is is anyone's guess, but I doubt it's because they're allured by the white hegemony. Wow. As if people of color can't be awful to other people of color as well? You'r...