Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

- 2 actors nominated for the same role in different films? All I can remember is Marlon Brando and Robert DeNiro for playing Vito Corleone (and they won actually...) If by “the same role” you mean the same character as written by the same writer, than yes, Brando and De Nero are the only duo to qua...

But I don't remember an actor getting two nods for the same role in different films (Barry Fitzgerald grabbed two nods for the same role BUT in the same film)... Both Bing Crosby and Al Pacino did it. ...and Peter O'Toole and Paul Newman (though the status of The Lion in Winter and The Color of Mon...

You can debate and doubt Katharine Hepburn's acting, her manners, her attitudes, her sexuality – but she was, maybe more than any other major star, the definition of the phrase “one of a kind”. And for me, on this visual medium, she was the most physically striking person ever to be captured on fil...

I’ve never really met any, but I’ve seen some in person, all of them were guests at the Jerusalem film festival – Oliver Stone, Peter Weir, Terrence Malick, Elia Kazan – it was a few years before he died, and he looked quite funny, this ultimate old American tourist, walking down a Jerusalem street...

The fact that this has turn into a debate about gun control just proves Marco’s point. Violence in the US is not the result of the fact that means of destruction are wide spread there. The need, the desire to be the owner of weapons is the outcome of the fact that American society, culture, mytholo...

Laws do have their practical, day to day, purposes, but first and foremost legislation is about defining the moral and ethical boundaries in which a society functions. So, a legal restriction on the merchandizing and ownership of guns is not (only) about the actual, physical presence and availabili...

I think we may have a winner, (and I didn’t count shorts). I guess it has to do with most of his movies being mainly about his comic persona. Fernandel (25): Le Bon roi Dagobert, Dynamite Jack, Sénéchal le magnifique, Honoré de Marseille, Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs, Le Petit monde de Don Cami...

As you can see, the further back you go, the easier it is to find these titles, maybe an indication of a more straightforward approach to the notion of a star vehicle. And the fact that European stars’ careers tend to be more prolific than those of Hollywood ones, is reflected too – it’s pure mathe...

Still trying to figure out why Greer Garson, who had two character names in Random Harvest, neither of whom were named Random or Harvest, is listed as the title character for that film. :O A Freudian mistake. In the movies, aren’t women in general, and Garson here in particular, just that, random h...

Some More: Gary Cooper (10): Good Sam, Along Came Jones, Casanova Brown, The Story of Dr. Wassell, Sergeant York, Meet John Doe, Beau Geste, The Adventures of Marco Polo, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Peter Ibbetson Ronald Clman (6): The Late George Apley, Clive of India, Arrowsmith, Raffles, Bulldog Dru...

- It must be the character's first or last name or both in the film title, NOT nicknames (e.g. LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE), pronouns (e.g., ME, MYSELF AND I), occupations (e.g., THE HORSE WHISPERER), superhero names (e.g, SUPERMAN), or any other types of descriptions (e.g., THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE BEAU...

Uri, I'll never forget the reaction of an English friend of mine, visiting Tampa. We were driving to Orlando to see Mulholland Dr., listening to the classic rock station--the one that plays 70s era Chicago, Fleetwood Mac, Boston, Eagles, Rod Stewart, etc.--and Cliff's "Devil Woman" comes ...

Uri, I'll never forget the reaction of an English friend of mine, visiting Tampa. We were driving to Orlando to see Mulholland Dr., listening to the classic rock station--the one that plays 70s era Chicago, Fleetwood Mac, Boston, Eagles, Rod Stewart, etc.--and Cliff's "Devil Woman" comes ...

What a fun and addictive game for us the compulsive. Mary Picjford (20): Kiki, Little Annie Rooney, Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall, Rosita, Tess of the Storm Country (1922), Little Lord Fauntleroy, Pollyanna, Johanna Enlists, How Could You Jean?, M'Liss, Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley, Stella Maris,...