Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Joan of Arc (Victor Fleming, 1948) 4/10 A teenage girl claims to be divinely told to lead God's army against Orleans despite the huge backlash this causes. Victor Fleming is such a bad director, one wonder how he was able to make whatever percentage of "Gone with the Wind" he made succeed...

REWATCH: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) 10/10 Two down-on-their-luck men team up with a grizzled, veteran prospector to search for gold in a bandit-riddled Mexico. I haven't seen this movie in about six years, and I'm glad to see it is as great as I first remember it being. I ...

Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966) 10/10 The brutal life and affections of a Russian iconographer are examined. This is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. The magic of "Andrei Rublev" lies in its micro approach to the life of the artist. Tarkovsky was always a master o...

Assunta Spina (Gustavo Serena, Francesca Bertini, 1915) 8/10 A young laundress is engaged to a violent butcher, but a much kinder man approaches with similar intentions. We see this plot - a woman unable to decide between which of two men to marry - too often in cinema, and even more in the silent ...

REWATCH: Body and Soul (Robert Rossen, 1947) 9/10 An up-and-coming boxer must face increasingly difficult decisions when the mob tries to step in on his fights despite his desire to be the world champion. This movie is still as great as I remember. It's one of those firecrackers of a film that igni...

Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu, 1947) 7/10 A cantankerous, aging woman takes in a young boy who gets lost among the tenements after his errant father loses track of him. This is probably the funniest I've seen Ozu. It's not laugh-out-loud, bust-a-gut hilarious, but it's definitely got...

I could talk about many things, but, honestly, I'm mostly just excited that Mean Girls made the list. Such an excellent film.

This idea that we need a proper "story line", the plea for something more "old fashioned"... I think that's the wrong way to look at it - or to look at movies in general. Maybe now that you've said it, it will finally register in Reza's mind. I've been telling him this for years...

Mister Tee wrote:Given how (mostly) Cueto has pitched lately, deGrom has to be the clear favorite tonight

And tonight's proven anything but.

Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch, 1946) 6/10 A young woman with a penchant for plumbing is sent off by her uncle to work in the country as a maid. Lubitsch's famous touch isn't present here, and, as I could have told you before beginning the film, it's because of Jennifer Jones. I'm still dumbfounded as...

It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) 10/10 A man who is seemingly forever stuck in a sleepy town is shown by an angel what life would be like if he were never born while he contemplates suicide. I'm going to go ahead and call this my first viewing of the film because I'd seen it when my age wa...

Let's just all root for the Royals because that's what good people do.

Why Anne Hathaway has SO many votes in this poll? We had a user named mojoe92 (he's posted below) who created about 20 different accounts to skew these polls in his own favor. They only show up in places he's passionate about such as with Jacki Weaver, Ronee Blakley, Quinn Cummings, and more. That ...

CalWilliam wrote:Why Anne Hathaway has SO many votes in this poll?

We had a user named mojoe92 (he's posted below) who created about 20 different accounts to skew these polls in his own favor. They only show up in places he's passionate about such as with Jacki Weaver, Ronee Blakley, Quinn Cummings, and more.

Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh, 1945) 8/10 A squad of men aim to destroy an important Japanese radio and radar station and have to make their way back through the jungle after the Japanese troops ambush them at the air strip they need to rendezvous at. This is actually a really solid war film with ...