Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

sijmen wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 2:31 pm
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Barbie
2. Oppenheimer

Could Barbie being ahead of Oppenheimer be the result of a glitch that Barbie had most of its precursor successes in the Original Screenplay category which, this year, has been less competitive than the Adapted Screenplay category?

Mister Tee wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:54 pm If this turns out to be the AMPAS 10, can you remember a better slate?

It would probably rank with the most-celebrated slates of 1939 and 1972. Although, 1972 was a five-nominations-only slate.

Barbie appears headed to double-digit nominations. When was the last time a director for a double-digit-nominated film was left off, Spielberg for The Color Purple?

Eenusch wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:24 pm Are they presenting a DeMille or Burnett award this year?

No.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Someone at another message board wrote that a lot of Academy members are on restrictive diets and wouldn't even want to watch a documentary about amazing food.

Mister Tee wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 3:05 pm Wiseman can't win enough awards from critics, but there's nothing he can do to crash the Oscar doc list.

You'd think with all the wealthy members of the Academy, a lot of them would be foodies.

dws1982 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 16, 2023 9:31 am The extensive use of music has made this off-limits for streaming, but the entire series is available on DVD at a reasonable price.

What is the issue with music and streaming?

The menu for this year's Noble Prize Banquet is: "Yellow beetroot baked with seaweed and salt and a cream made from seaweed from Sweden’s west coast. Served with buttermilk and dill-seed plus sturgeon caviar from Strömsnäsbruk. Cod loin stuffed with king crab, served with a kohlrabi roll and a ...

As she is still in prison, Narges Mohammadi was not able to accept her Nobel Peace Prize in person. The ceremony had an empty chair representing her as well as her picture. Her acceptance speech was smuggled out of prison and read by her 17-year-old-twin daughter and son Kiana and Ali Rahmani, in, I...

Mister Tee wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:13 pm . . . pretty much everyone in sight outclassed him in What's Up, Doc?. . .

I thought his laconic demeanor suited the character quite well.

I saw excerpts from the most recent Republican Presidential debate on YouTube. These debates don't need moderators; they need kindergarten teachers.

"Norman Lear Was Still Making TV a Week Before His Death:"

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv ... 235714999/

Supposedly, when CBS had All In The Family, Mash, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, and The Carol Burnett Show all on one after the other on Saturday night, it became the biggest night in television history.

The multi-talented stage, screen, and TV actress who originated the roles in On Golden Pond and Driving Miss Daisy that later won Oscars for Katharine Hepburn and Jessica Tandy was 93. Didn't that mean she played Ethel Thayer when she was in her forties and Daisy Werthan when she was in her fifties?