Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Valli WAS Italy. Not the easily exportable Italy - not a Loren, not a Lollobrigida, not even a Magnani of course (another great actress, but a completely different one). She was the other, less popular side of Italy - reserved, a bit sad, mysterious, an Italy where the sun doesn't always shine. May...

Yes, Uri... Criddic at least is honest. This is why I like him so much. When I read his posts, it's weird: I smile in disbelief, but at the same time in recognition. Because he's like most Americans I've met in my life, maybe a bit more explicit, but let's face it - this is how most Americans, deep...

Thank God Criddic exists. I mean it. My English is too bad to express properly what I mean, but then Criddic gives me the help I needed (he's my lawyer in the same way that Flipp is Big Magilla's lawyer): one post from him is enough to show in the best possible way what's wrong with America and why...

My God. Don't remind me of that terrible scene in "Summer Wishes"... The airplane scene, I mean. And the gay-son-with-dancer-boyfriend scene. Such a bad movie needed a less committed - maybe even a less intense - actress to be at least unintentionally funny. It's a dreadful performance - ...

I love Big Magilla too. And I have a great admiration for his knowledge about movies. Once or twice I have even agreed with his choices - and I have always respected them. But what I used to see as an endearing representation of solid, healthy though a bit conservative American values and tastes, n...

It's The Insider. But again, let's call these lists "Best Performances IN AMERICAN MOVIES" and they are even good lists... subjective, like all lists (Gloria Stuart? Joanna Woodward in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams?) but good. Still, "foreign" movies are much better acted than it...

Yes, "Atlantic City" was probably the best among the five nominees, but nobody at the time thought it had even the slighest chance to win. "Reds" - boring or not (and I don't think it is) - was really the big favorite. "Chariots of Fire" was that year's "Crash&quo...

It's interesting that, with the exception of Dennis Bee, nobody seems to remember one of the truly worst Best Pictures in the last decades: "Chariots of Fire". I still remember how shocking this was back then: "Reds", though controversial, was considered to be a sure winner, at ...

Great choices Uri (though, great as Stockard Channing is, I'm quite sure that Holly Hunter really gave the best performance of 1993, and one of the best of that decade). But how can Audrey Hepburn be the best actress of 1959 in any language if she loses to Simone Signoret in your English-speaking l...