Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

She was active until at least 95 when she sang a parody of That's Life! (available on You Tube) in which she sings about texting, sexting, and tweeting among other things. I don't know if there is a name for the type of song such as Paige's parody of "That's Life!," where you take an alre...

Claudia Sheinbaum has just been elected President of Mexico in a landslide, becoming the first female and first Jewish Persident of that country. She has a PhD in energy engineering and is strongly opposed to neoliberal economic policies.

Trump has just been found guilty on all 34 felony counts in the New-York-hush-money-campaign-fraud trial.

Big Magilla wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 6:21 pm Anora has six **** juror ratings which suggests that it is in fact the one to beat thus far.

Although, last year Fallen Leaves had the highest jury grid rating; and, Anatomy Of A Fall won the Palme d'Or.

Sabin wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 10:38 am Going off of first reviews but I could definitely see the Gerwig jury going for Anora.

You've been coming up with a new Palme d'Or frontrunner every day for the last few days.

As it is in competition for both, they will likely give Emilia Perez the Queer Palm, rather than the Palme d'Or.

Here is the second trailer for Megalopolis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BpUfXzqoMQ

Wow.

"Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Sells To Major International Buyers Ahead Of Cannes Premiere:" https://deadline.com/2024/05/megalopolis-francis-ford-coppola-cannes-festival-sells-major-international-distributors-1235913090/ It now has distribution in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, It...

I remember Corman on an interview where he talked about distributing Cries And Whispers.

I don't know who here follows film critic Justin Chang; but, he just won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.

Francis Ford Coppola just released the first trailer for Megalopolis on what appears to be his new YouTube channel. He is dedicating it to his late wife Eleanor. I find it intriguing, to say the least. It has already generated over 400 comments on the day it is posted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

What do you make of DeSantis' meeting with Trump? After the Kristi Noem meltdown, I don't see a strong VP candidate for him. Everyone else comes with significant problems (besides the fact that they're all obviously insane) and he needs money. Trying to predict Trump's mind, including the VP choice...

And now, DeSantis just signed a law criminalizing food he doesn't like.

"DeSantis signs ban on lab-grown meat in Florida, says ‘elites’ are pushing it:"

https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/05/01/d ... ushing-it/

DeSantis signs law ensuring accurate teaching of communism’s ‘evil’ history in Florida schools: https://www.local10.com/news/local/2024/04/17/desantis-holds-press-conference-in-hialeah-gardens/ I wonder what will be considered communism. During the McCarthy era, there were searches for hidden commun...

Even though it is out of competition, Kevin Costner's 100-million-dollar-self-financed Horizon will make it to Cannes. This must be the first time Cannes, or any film festival, has two nine-figure-self-financed movies.