Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

The nominees: Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer Ryan Gosling, Barbie Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things It's going to be Robert Downey Jr. He swept the precursors and has both momentum and narrative. It's not surprising but I wished ...

Picture: Oppenheimer Actor: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Actress: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon Supp. Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer Supp. Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Original Screenplay: Justine Triet & Arthur Harari, ...

The nominees: Bradley Coooper, Maestro Colman Domingo, Rustin Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction Is this race over? Bradley Cooper came into this season looking like the front-runner: He has a very baity role of a very famous person with showy m...

Here are the rules just in case you guys forgot them: 01. Predict the winners in all 23 categories. 02. You can predict one winner and one OPTIONAL runner-up. 03. A correct prediction with a runner-up gets 2 points, a correct runner-up gets 1 point and a correct prediction with no runner-up gets 3 p...

Yes, this was a shocker here. They still haven't released the cause of death. She wasn't even 60 yet. Yes, she's one of our major actresses who actually started out as a young, sexy ingénue in her younger years then quickly transitioned into one of our most versatile and reliable character actresses...

The nominees: The Boy and the Heron Elemental Nimona Robot Dreams Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Everyone who has seen Robot Dreams loves it and is utterly charmed by it (including yours truly) but I don't think there's enough of them that will vote for it. Nimona and Elemental have their respe...

SPACEMAN Cast: Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Isabella Rossellini, Kunal Nayyar, Lena Olin, voice of Paul Dano. Dir: Johan Renck A cosmonaut (I think, since the character is supposed to be Czech) is on a one-man mission to Jupiter and meets an talking alien spider. This is a film that's firing in all...

DUNE PART II Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Stellan Skarsgaard, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Lea Seydoux, Charlotte Rampling. Dir: Denis Villenueve. The continuation of the story of Paul Atreides and his rise to pow...

The nominees: Barbie Killers of the Flower Moon Napoleon Oppenheimer Poor Things I agree with people here that this is The Favourite v. Black Panther Part 2 when it comes to both design awards. Oppenheimer is firmly in third place. It could win if the Academy decides to give it everything. Killers a...

The nominees: Cord Jefferson, American Fiction Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Tony McNamara, Poor Things Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest This is another contentious which I think is a genuine three-way race. Let's eliminate the ones with minimal chances: ...

I can now finally share my Best Picture ballot. Strong year. Numbers 1-6 are in my Top 10.

1. Past Lives
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Oppenheimer
4. Anatomy of a Fall
5. The Holdovers
6. Poor Things
7. Barbie
8. The Zone of Interest
9. American Fiction
10. Maestro

The nominees: The Creator Godzilla Minus One Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One Napoleon Ever since Dune Part II decided to move to 2024 and Oppenheimer failed to make the bake-off list, this category has become one of the most contentious and confusing of a...

AMERICAN FICTION Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Issa Rae, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Tracee Ellis Ross, Adam Brody, Leslie Uggams. Dir: Cord Jefferson. An African-American writer is having getting his works published and decides to write a stereotypical "black" book then experi...

POOR THINGS Cast: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, Kathryn Hunter, Christopher Abbott, Hannah Schygulla, Suzy Bemba, Margaret Qualley. Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos A young woman who's been brought back to life by a deformed scientist through a brain transplant from h...

SUNCOAST Cast: Nico Parker, Laura Linney, Woody Harrelson, Matt Walsh. Dir: Laura Chinn. This is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama about a teenage girl befriending a right-to-life activist during the Terri Schiavo controversy and trying to have fun after helping to care for her terminally ...