Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Here's my predictions for the main categories (I may add more categories later). The awards themselves have gotten more and more predictable each year, but the nominations usually have at least some surprises, and this year's competition seems to offer a lot of opportunities for those, as some of th...

Technically, the Academy doesn't consider foreign language nominations as nominations for the director, but conventionally they are viewed that way. Everyone, including the Academy and the organizations on whose "behalf they accept", treat the directors as if they were the nominee. There a...

You're missing the obvious big one - if Alfonso Cuarón gets nominated for Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing and Foreign Language Film, he would tie Walt Disney's record for most nominations in a single year, with six nominations. At least in theory, he could break Disne...

Drama: A Star Is Born Comedy: Green Book Director: Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman Actor Drama: Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody Actress Drama: Glenn Close, The Wife Actor Comedy: Viggo Mortensen, Green Book Actress Comedy: Emily Blunt, Mary Poppins Returns Supp. Actor: Mahershala Ali, Green Book Supp. Actre...

I'm not sure if I've ever even heard of him before. Does he have a TV show or something?

This Sunday Brasil votes for a new president. Heavy favorite to win is Jair Bolsonaro, a far right candidate with a speech 10x worse than Trump. Interesting times... And so it has come to pass: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/28/jair-bolsonaro-wins-brazil-presidential-election Jair Bolso...

Will Vinton, the clay animator, who received five Oscar nominations and won once - Best Animated Short Film for 1974, Closed Mondays - died on October 4th, at the age of 70.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Vinton

The Physics Prize is historical for a couple of reasons. Donna Strickland becomes only the third woman ever to win the Physics Prize - physics being a male-dominated field, to the point of notoriety (Ironically, the first woman ever to win any Nobel Prize did so for physics). Secondly, at the age of...

Brett Kavanaugh's nomination process is probably the worst nadir for the Supreme Court since the Dred Scott ruling. And the chances are, it's only going to get worse in the coming years. The current system for appointing judges is not appropriate when the court has become so politicized as it is cur...

I hope your trip is going well, Precious Doll

Many times I have heard people mistake Harakiri for a film directed by Akira Kurosawa, but only now do I realize that the film shared a screenwriter with several of his films.

Greg wrote:Trump's recent SCOTUS pick has written that a sitting President should never be indicted. How convenient.

Don't worry, I'm sure Kavanaugh will reverse his opinion on that issue eventually - that is, as soon as a Democratic president is elected.

Well, that was a curious tournament, with a lot of oddities in the form of own goals, penalties and goalkeeper howlers (in the final match even) and England making it so far with a team that looks so unimpressive on paper. The many entertaining matches (only one goalless draw) made it memorable also...

It's been an entertaining World Cup so far. Unfortunately there's no way we'll ever get to a part of this tournament, at least not in my lifetime. I usually end up sympathizing France since we often spent our holidays there when I was a kid, so I have fond memories of the country for that reason. I ...

The way in which the judges of the Supreme Court are appointed is not functioning properly in this political environment. No one predicted how partisan and politicized the court would become. Appointed-for-life offices don't belong to this century either. After the Electoral College, that's the seco...