Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

It is probably cheating to name Michelle Pfeiffer here, but her last nomination was a quarter century ago and no matter what people thought of mother!, they seemed to praise her return to form (I still haven't seen it). If she can get another juicy role in a film that holds any sort of awards tract...

Superb post, great reading indeed.

Mister Tee wrote:She joins Amy Adams as hottest prospect for an Oscar this coming decade.

Michelle Williams should be in this group as well. And a case can be made also for Jessica Chastain. Incidentally, both of them manage to be satellite options up to nominations morning.

Was Eva Marie Saint somehow disappointed Mark Bridges won? Maybe she was expecting one of the female nominees to take the award...

The Shape of Water is the 1st BP winner to win 4 awards including 2 below the line categories in more than 30 years (since Platoon).

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is only the 6th film ever to win both Actress and Supporting Actor awards, and the 1st to do so since Cabaret without winning BP.

I had the pleasure of meeting Dame Maggie Smith last month while I was dining at the Ivy in London attending a special celebrity server night. (Smith was a diner, not a server.) She was dining with four others, including Samantha Bond who played her daughter Rosamund on Downton Abbey . After dinner...

Agnes Varda is actually the oldest Oscar nominee in history now. She's older then James Ivory by 9 days. So that's a double age superlative related record in the same morning, right? Ivory's nod broke the record for oldest man ever to receive a nomination, while Varda is the oldest woman (and oldes...

Have seen:
Dunkirk
Call Me by Your Name
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Victoria & Abdul

Watching this week:
- The Shape of Water (tonight)
- Mudbound
- Coco
- Loving Vincent
- Beauty and the Beast
- Lady Bird (weekend)

First random thoughts: - I, like almost everyone else, was shocked by McDonagh's failure to achieve the BD nod. At first I thought TBBOE,M was automatically doomed and this had became an open road for TSOW to be declared at once BP, but this was my mind, so accostumed to the old days, playing tricks...

FilmFan720 wrote:Octavia Spencer becomes the first African-American to be nominated for acting Oscars in back to back years.

... and Washington??

Greg P. Russell's sound mixing nomination for '13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi' was rescinded, though the film itself remains in contention for Sunday's awards.

FilmFan720 wrote:August Wilson holds the longest period between his death and a posthumous Oscar nomination in history, getting a nomination more than 11 years after his death.

Doesn't Larry Russell hold (still) this record?

"Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off, but it's better if you do". Alice (Natalie Portman), Closer.

OscarGuy wrote:Lauren Bacall is probably the best analogy that I've heard so far. She was previously nominated and was a towering figure in film history.

Was she ever previously nominated?

Saoirse Ronan must be one of the youngest actress to get nominations in both acting categories. Is she the youngest to achieve this?