Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Our good friend Eric also posted his here. I'll just leave the link but it's worth reading. He makes some good points about John David Washington and Sam Elliott. https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/2019-oscar-nomination-predictions/ Right around the same time, it started becoming apparent that Blac...

What will be in the vfx highlight reel for First Man? The moon scenes are stunning but that’s a static environment. Is there enough there there? The last space film to win this award, Interstellar, had to build a spinning black hole, among other things.

Say three of the nominees get 45% of the vote: 20%, 15% and 10% (50, 37 and 25 votes), leaving 55% (138 votes) for the other two. There are 18 win/lose outcomes (87-51, 86-52, ..., 70-68) and one tie outcome (69-69); i.e., a 5.3% chance (1/19) of a tie. Shouldn't the win/lose outcomes be counted tw...

How many voters are there? Three ties in 11 years seems very improbable. Approximately 250. Now that I think about it, ties aren't terribly unlikely with 250 voters. Say three of the nominees get 45% of the vote: 20%, 15% and 10% (50, 37 and 25 votes), leaving 55% (138 votes) for the other two. The...

How many voters are there? Three ties in 11 years seems very improbable.

I know, but she might have referred to [Redford] in her speech. I think you're reading too much into this. When you're shocked to win an award, the walk to the podium is a weird experience. Were both Bridges and Douglas on a straight line from her seat to the stage? Moreover, she wasn't giving a li...

I think Max may have omitted that nomination because the film was met with such a lukewarm critical response and tepid box office. Though I felt Close (and McTeer) deserved their nominations but they had a sense of 'filler' to them. You got it, 100/100. I did say her 'last big Oscar-nominated role'...

Thanks for putting these together!

At least in Europe, many under 45 know and respect Glenn Close. In America it could be different, ok. But still how many in the Academy are under 45? It’s the same here: the <45 set certainly knows and respects Glenn Close. She’s just not an icon to them the way Meryl Streep is, despite their being...

All this handwringing over an innocuous movie when there are more serious concerns we should all have In that case we shouldn't be talking about the Oscars or movies at all. The film is set in 1962. It feels more attune to the time when Sidney Poitier was emerging as a megastar just a year away fro...

Still, what I feel is that - on this board especially - there is rather a sort-of (inexplicable) resistance to the idea of such a great actress finally getting an Oscar I was in that group. I discounted her chances because her performance is in a movie that is pretty much irrelevant. I'm sure it's ...

Could Linda Cardellini become this year's Jacki Weaver and just roll up on Green Book's coattails? That's...actually a great call. She was mentioned/thanked/praised a few times in those Green Book acceptance speeches, putting her name in voters' minds at just the right time. I can see this happening.

Precious Doll wrote:If Emily Blunt had just walked away half way during the film never to return I doubt many people would even noticed or cared.

I could be watching Lawrence of Arabia and it would bother me that Emily Blunt was not on screen. Imagine how I felt during Mary Poppins Returns.

Max, i don’t know how long you’ve tracked him but trust me, whatever has happened to Armond White is truly our loss. His review of A.I. Artificial Intelligence is one of the most important pieces of film writing of the 2000’s. He mattered. He challenged people, and wrote from a place of morality an...

Thankfully we were spared Bohemian Rhapsody in the top category It was nominated for Best British Film. :cry: I don't really know what to say about Margot Robbie continually showing up for nominations. I read she's been meeting-and-greeting. I'd like to scoff but if Margot Robbie even looked in my ...