Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Are you one of the regulars from Tom O'Neill's board? I find it absolutely shocking that you would not know Paul Scofield's name! You need to brush up on your Oscar history before coming here. I was just drinking, and my computer got soaking wet with the water spilling out of the hole in my cheek, ...

can you imagine if we had best female editor and best male editor, or best direcotr of photography and best second-director of photography? only the actors get to have four chances in the spotlight for doing the same thing: acting. But, in theory, there is no distinction based on sex in hiring edit...

The official Israeli entry, as decided by a special vote among academy voters following the Best Picture tie at the Ophirs (the Israeli Oscars), is Sweet Mud. This may be seen as a surprise, since the other best picture winner, Aviva My Love, is a big hit here, liked by critics and the public, but ...

I was once almost kicked out of a moving car in the middle of the highway from Milan to Bergamo for hating that travesty Life is Beautiful, and yes, Benigni did rob his Oscar, but it was Nick Nolte who was the wronged party. I only know Condon from the movies he made, and he strikes me as a decent,...

Why only the Middle East? Why not the world? Oh, yes, it's the Jews who rule the world, and since you're not anti-Semite, you do make the distinction. Mel Gibson is anti-Semite. Israel is a bully, one among quite a few here in our tortured part of the world. The Middle East is ruled by cynical, glo...

Unfortunately, I find all these rules, bar # 10, to be reasonably accurate. Those fluently English speaking Israelis you mentioned are usually American born or, like Netanyahu, were educated there. As a rule, the English of people here, of my generation or older, tends to be worse than that of well...

Hello Reza. The denying of the Holocaust is an ultimate crime in my book. The fact that I'm a Jew and that the vast majority of my extended family was perished in Poland and the west-south of Russia has a lot to do with this conviction. Most of those who did survive were those who, for Zionist reas...

Hope Emerson was nominated five years earlier than Mineo, but if my memory is correct, Clifton Webb's character in Laura ('44), for which he was nominated as supporting actor, was quite obviously, though off course not explicitly, gay. And one can always have a case with Charles Laughton in Mutiny ...

Regarding the Blanchett/Dench debate – is it really totally impossible anymore for two actors of the same gender to be nominated as leads? It hasn't happened for the past 15 years, the Sarandon/Davis showing for Thelma and Louise being the last one, and you all seem to accept it as a given. I don't...

When C.R.A.Z.Y. opened here, Jean Mark Vallee, its director, was interviewed in an Israeli paper, and he emphasized the importance of the particular music he choose for the score and how painfully difficult it was to get permission to use it. It was made possible because it was contractually stated...

Et tu, Damien? I've been at it so many times before, so to quote myself of about five years ago: "Isn’t it great we’re not committed to the Hollywood politics? So why not practice it here. Thelma Ritter was the lead in The Mating Season. She was the protagonist, she had the most screen time – ...

Marco, don’t you find Criddic so charmingly sincere? He is the naked, exposed id to the ego and super ego sometime expressed in other, more refined and subtle views expressed here from tine to time. Actually, I think the moderators should find out how you managed to post under his name. He did serv...

I’m sorry, I was wrong. Magilla, Flipp, you should thank your lucky stars for having Criddic to make me see the light. And I think Banderas should thank God for his good fortune too. Now that he made all these Spy Kids movies, he will be forgiven for the shame of being in Women on the Verge and Low...

This calls for an intervention. We all love you, Magilla (really – I’m extremely fond of this virtual yet genuinely companionate, generous, knowledgeable, movie loving entity I know as Big Magilla), but you must face this simple and obvious phenomenon regarding the way you evaluate cinema in genera...