Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Billionaire Charles Koch is backing Nikki Haley.

U.S., Israel and Hamas reach tentative deal to pause conflict and free dozens of hostages- WaPo:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea ... 023-11-19/

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter enters hospice care at home, family says:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fo ... rcna125770

Sabin wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:37 pm

danfrank wrote
Yep, and The Godfather, Part 2 received five a couple of years before Network.

Greg wrote
Network got five acting nominations.

You guys are nerds.

Who here isn't?

Sabin wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 2:26 pm . . .
-overly enthusiastic; first film in almost sixty years to get five acting nominations (since Bonnie and Clyde). . .

Network got five acting nominations.

Ironic that he had been President of the Academy while having never been nominated for an Oscar.

STRIKE OVER: Actors Make a Deal With Studios After 118 Days:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busin ... 235607563/

Well, the House does have a Speaker now, obscure Louisiana representative Mike Johnson who supported Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Big Magilla wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:32 pm
. . . Poor Things, is a satire, a comedy genre that has never won.

Birdman?

There's a brief video of her appearance buried in this piece about her hitherto unrevealed six-year separation from her husband, mostly focused on her changing hairstyles over the years. When I first read this, I said to myself, "I would've thought Meryl Streep and her husband were sensible en...

At least one poll has RFK Jr. taking more votes away from Trump than from Biden.

"Biden beats Trump, RFK Jr. in three-way race: poll:"

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4 ... race-poll/

. . . and Jim Jordan fails to win the Speakership on the first ballot. More balloting is postponed until tomorrow. Like I said, the Republicans say they don't believe in government; and, by golly, they're keeping their word.

Scalise just dropped his bid for Speaker, leading the Republicans back to square whatever.

Fair Play (Chloe Domont, 2023) 8/10 This riveting film has a very strong whiff of all those psychosexual thrillers of the 1980s - "Fatal Attraction", Disclosure" - but instead it treads through a different path manoeuvring its way through corporate corridors. Oozing sex are a couple ...

"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 to Claudia Goldin,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 'for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.'”