Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Andrew Sean Greer - Less Runners-Up: Elif Batuman - The Idiot Hernan Diaz - In the Distance By coincidence, I am just in the middle of Batuman's excellent novel (it is on the shortlist of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), and I've just started on Greer's winning novel. So far, so good! And by anoth...

Prediction: when we look back on this day in history, learning that Michael Cohen was indeed in Prague in late summer 2016 will turn out to be way more significant than the strike on Syria -- despite the latter being the shiny object that's knocked everything else off cable news stations for the pa...

This has been the best birthday present ever! (I’m fucking 40 today - gah!!) Trump is apparently in complete meltdown mode right now inside the White House. I really couldn’t tell you what will happen by week’s end but, like Tee, I think this has clearly revealed that Mueller is heading into a new (...

The newest remake of A Star is Born starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper (and also directed by the latter) has been pushed to October 2018 from an original May release date in order to make a run for awards consideration. Sean Penn and Barbra Streisand have both openly gushed about the film. Could ...

I’m very interested to see what they do with the Laurie Holden character this season. She seems quite the wildcard.

Big Magilla wrote:No one else comes immediately to mind.

Have you seen A Quiet Passion? Cynthia Nixon gives an incredible performance, one of the best lead female performances of the year.

Yes!! I cannot wait. It’s amazing how almost newly relevant the show now is with all this Russia stuff going on. I am steeling myself for an incredible final season. I heard that this season begins with a three-year time jump to 1987.

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys are on Colbert tonight, by the way.

Big Magilla wrote:I really wish that Marjorie Prime had been a better film or that Lois Smith would have had one really great scene in it rather than a series of merely good ones, but since she doesn't, she just misses the mark

She was your fifth slot sight unseen!

Okri wrote:I'd like to congratulate Katy Tur on that. Holy fucking shit.

Did you see his insane interview on Ari Melber’s “The Beat” at 6pm? It was incredible.

I came up with my predictions about twenty minutes before the show started. I’m surprised that I tied for second place having made incorrect predictions for a lot of the big awards (Picture, Actor, Original Screenplay, Original Song).

That Icarus guess helped!

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Best Picture: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Director: Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name Best Actress: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside E...

Any thoughts on the order of awards. Which supporting performance was awarded first last year? Seems like it will most likely be the opposite tonight.

Greg wrote:Here is an article about the 90th Oscars Has anyone ever consumed anything with hibiscus in it?.

A local restaurant in my neighborhood offers a hibiscus margarita. It’s delicious.

2- Lesley Manville (The fact that Phantom Thread never clearly announces what it is about, and keeps you guessing its entire run-time--and beyond--is due in large part to the performances, especially and including Manville's) "Who is this delightful creature, making the house smell so nice?&qu...