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Dang....right after my last post last night my ISP went down. No internet, no cable. I had to go to bed not knowing :mad: It wasn't until I got to work this AM that I found out about the RotK sweep.
I see I didn't do too bad on the DVDTalk, Oscar room. 18 correct and tied for 5th. Not too shabby. |
Originally posted by conscience Actually, Billy Crystal himself did this at the 2000 Academy Awards (1999 films). And it is <i>supposed</i> to be ad-libbed. Notables (Michael Clark Duncan: "I see white people", Michael Caine: "I loved Jaws 4", and Judi Dench: "Oh, this thong is killing me!", Jack Nicholson: "I'm still the coolest guy in the room." ----- Last year Steve Martin did the jokes about Hollywood being full of (something along those lines) --- straight people (Harrison Ford), gay people (Jack Nicholson), and who he has slept with (Nicole, Renee, Diane Lane, Ernest Borgnine, Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen etc.) |
Why wasn't Monster nominated for Best Makeup? I would think that it would be a given for that movie to be nominated for it (and a legit chance of beating rotk.)
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It really should have come to think of it. Perhaps the main reason was it was only for one character and the majority of the drastic change was on charlize part by gaining the weight. Make up added a few pounds and added the whole liver spoting and other facial features.
But it would have made sense to throw monster in. |
Penn has been long overdue to win, and I'm glad the Academy finally gave him his due regardless of how they feel about his politics...but I was pulling for Bill because I think this was his one shot in a lifetime to win, one of those perfect parts that just won't find him in contention ever again. Bill Murray vying for best actor? Who would have thunk??? I have to say that the noms this year were a fresh change in general.......Keaton, Murray, and Depp nominated as well as some wonderful accomplished actors like Kingsley and Penn that you would expect to be nominated due to the dramaatic parts they are renowned for. I've seen FAR worse noms in the past and even worse wins.
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Shouldn't Elijah Wood have been ask to present an Oscar or has that been done before?
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Overall I liked this years Oscars, Billy Crtystal was often hilarious, the opening being the funniest.
I was happy to see Robbins, Zellweger, Theron, and Penn receive their wins...though when they mentioned Penn's name I couldn't help but wish Bill Murray's name was read. I am for one happy to see LotR go for 11 out of 11... Sofia Coppola winning at least one for orginal screenplay was :thumbsup: Scarlett Johansson looked most stunningly beautiful as she usually does... Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman were the other hot standouts as well IMO. |
Did anyone else think that Ken Watanabe should have won his Oscar? I think that his performance was better than Tom Cruise's in The Last Samurai and was hoping that he would get more recognition for it.
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Yeah, Ken had a hell of a good role and performance. the only problem is he was up against tim robbins.
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Originally posted by Giles that's a really sad and simple minded response to a female director who had a flawed personality and history, but has made some of cinema's most important films of their time. |
What was up with Susan Sarandon bringing the boy who played her son in Stepmom to the Oscars? I knew the other boy with her and Tim Robbins was their son but when I saw the otehr boy I thought it might be him but I wasn't sure until on the pre-show someone called him by his name.
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Originally posted by baracine Shouldn't Elijah Wood have been ask to present an Oscar or has that been done before? |
Originally posted by Groucho When he was a kid, he had to "pinch hit" for Macaulay Culkin, who dropped out at the last minute one year. |
Originally posted by BJacks "Flawed personality and history?" Ha, that's a gentle way of putting it. Leni Riefenstahl was an adament Nazi (who used concentration camp inmates as extras), and her "important films" consisted of glorying Hitler's ideology. Just because they were artful in their proganda doesn't mean she should be saluted in memoriam during the Oscars. And the fact that the applause quickly died down shows that most people there agreed. |
Originally posted by Giles "Leni Riefenstahl was an adament Nazi (who used concentration camp inmates as extras)" - what's your source for that statement? Riefenstahl, born in 1902 and alive at this writing in fall 1999, presents an extremely problematic case — an artist of unparalleled gifts, a woman in an industry dominated by men, one of the great formalists of the cinema on a par with Eisenstein or Welles whose two major works were funded by, and intended to glorify, the Nazis. Triumph of the Will (1935), a deification of Hitler, and Olympia (1938), a paean to the "body beautiful" in the guise of a record of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, are studied in film schools as supreme examples of the documentary form. Riefenstahl’s status as a filmmaker is unquestioned, even when her motives are obscured. She says she was never a Nazi party member, and never anti-Semitic. At Nuremberg, she was labeled a sympathizer but not an activist. On the other hand, her denial of using gypsy concentration camp members as extras in her film Tiefland is undermined by a requisition list, shown in close-up in The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, that names these people and the purpose for their brief transfer from the camp to her sets. ... Like many Germans living in economic despair at the time, she found der Fuhrer charismatic and lauded his efforts to build "national socialism," by her own words unaware of his ultimate intentions. Granted the dream of every filmmaker — an unlimited budget — to photograph the annual Nazi Party rally of 1934, she created Triumph of the Will, an inestimable propaganda tool in building the myth of Hitler-as-savior. http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/26/riefenstahl.html |
Glad to see LOTR get the recognition it deservers, as well as the actors from Mystic River.
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Extremely happy to see Robbins, Zellweger, Theron, and Penn receive their Oscars. They were all my choices and they all won!! Also I was wondering why Susan Sarandon brought the boy who played her son in Stepmom. His name is Liam and I guess he really wanted to go to the Oscars. That is very nice of Susan Sarandon. Can you invite me next year?
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