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6 hours ago, JakeHolman said:
they did it to themselves
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5 hours ago, JakeHolman said:
AGREED! Nobody mentioned is was her 2nd victory? My own personal fav film she was in not per is still CINDERELLA MAN & CHICAGO
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4 hours ago, jakeem said:
No way! The biggest upset ever was "Moonlight" winning Best Picture over "La La Land" in 2017. The envelope screwup just made it that more dramatic.
Thanks Jakeem, I'm by no means alone in this opinion buddy Moonlight wasn't a Foreign-Film though & didn't also win Foreign-Film-both unequaled, another record, it's ratings!
I agree about La la Land as a close runner up though
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they gained almost 5,000 new voting members within the last decade as well Close to 9,000 to date now & a preferential ballot
Guess they figured it would go along with the monolithic & space looking new museum & library, which Hanks started to show but was cut off?
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Now last year when GREEN BOOK won were the highest n almost a decade
see people were furious when all the acting nominees were white, except for Cynthia Erivu in Harriet, so obviously they bent over backwards the make up for it In the middle & never mentioned was first time contender & Mexican Antonio Banderas though?
& liberals, including Tom 0'Neil who invented golddebery.com actually considers GREEN BOOK a white guy movie, when Mahershela Ali was the co-star & won his 2nd s. actor Oscar for it, after Moonlight?
They yelled on goldderby that finally the Academy is now WOKE! unquote
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Topic close to my Irish heart All data says he made 154
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A[[ararently most of the country & a lot of the world were turned off & turned off the Academy awards on Sunday night getting it's worse tv ratings ever!
A 23 share
Shoulda known we were in trouble when abc's red carpet pre show started with some guy dressed in a dress with a mustache interviewing people?
Middle America doesn't want to also witness the show & a lot of the winners that occurred either, obviously
Very first Oscars on tv were in 1953 at The Pantages also on Hollywood Blvd
Before that of course the radio
Wonder if they will rethink what they did?
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Just heard n the radio-(talk radio) it may be an all-time ratings low Jakeem would know
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Just looked at more footage once again of PARASITE & just don't get it?
Must admit never been a foreign-film fan, but greatly love '89's CINEMA, PARADISO (Italy) with yet another marvelous score by Ennio Morricone
This reminded me of another stunning pc BP upset, still not a stunning as this one though when La La Land-(won 6) lost to Moonlight
Still my favorite film of the entire decade GRAVITY has swept more at 7 then any other motion picture, but lost the biggie
A {ERFECT FILM AT ONLY ABOUT 90 MINUTES!
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Time will tell, yet THE IRISHMEN is called by many among the greatest films of all-time!
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19 hours ago, jakeem said:
Some notes on the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, which ran three hours and 35 minutes -- or about the length of the Best Picture nominee "The Irishman."
The "It Is What It Is" Award: To everyone involved with the expensive Netflix film "The Irishman." Martin Scorsese's three-hour plus mob drama --about the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa -- was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, but was shut out during the ceremony. Only "The Turning Point" (1977) and "The Color Purple" (1985) had more nominations -- 11 each -- without winning any awards. Scorsese's 2002 historical drama "Gangs of New York" also went 0-for-10 at the Academy Awards.
Lucky No. 13: Best Actress winner Renée Zellweger became the 13th person in history to receive Oscars for leading and supporting roles. She won Sunday night for her portrayal of the film icon Judy Garland (1922-1969) in "Judy." Zellweger won the 2003 Best Supporting Actress award for her performance in "Cold Mountain." Zellweger became only the second actress to receive an Academy Award for portraying another Oscar recipient (Garland was presented a juvenile award by The Academy in 1940). In 2005, Cate Blanchett won a Best Supporting Actress award for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator."
The streak continues: It's been 15 years since a recipient of the Best Actress award also appeared in the Best Picture winner. The last time it happened: February 27, 2005, when Hilary Swank won for "Million Dollar Baby."
Wait 'til Next Decade: The last time a female screenwriter won an Academy Award was in 2008, when Diablo Cody took home the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for "Juno." On Sunday, Greta Gerwig (pictured below at left) was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Little Women." Meanwhile, Scotland's Krysty Wilson-Cairns was a contender in the original screenplay category as a co-writer of "1917." Neither of them won, which means that the 2010s were disastrous for women competing for screenwriting Oscars. The last time that happened: the 1960s.
Best line of the night: Best Supporting Actor winner Brad Pitt didn't take long to get things buzzing with a political comment about impeachment. "I have only 45 seconds to say thank you," he said, "which is 45 seconds more than [former National Security director] John Bolton had this week."
He added: "I'm thinking maybe Quentin Tarantino does a movie about it and in the end, the adults do the right thing."
Second-best line of the night: The South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho on his plans after winning the Best Director award for "Parasite": "Thank you. I will drink until next morning."
Wait until a certain compulsive Tweeter finds out about this: The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature went to directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert and producer Jeff Reichert for "American Factory." The tale about a former Akron, Ohio auto plant resuscitated by Chinese investors as an auto glass manufacturing site was the first effort backed by Higher Ground Productions. The company was started by former U.S. president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, but they won't actually receive Oscar statuettes.
All in the family: Laura Dern's Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in "Marriage Story" was particularly meaningful to her. She won on her third nomination and became the first member of her distinguished acting family to win a gold statuette. Her father, actor Bruce Dern, has been nominated twice. Her mother, actress Diane Ladd, received three nominations. "Some say, never meet your heroes. But I say if you are really blessed, you get them as your parents," the brand-new Oscar winner said.
Best idea of the night: After some disastrous decisions a year ago, The Academy returned to its tradition of having the acting winners from the previous year serve as presenters of the acting Oscars.
The Catguts Award: Visual Effects award presenters James Corden and Rebel Wilson were brave enough to appear in feline costumes -- a saucy reference to their participation in the recent screen disaster "Cats." The screen musical, based on the long-running stage production by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, didn't receive a single Oscar nomination.
The Timing Award ( Part 1): Moments after Sir Elton John performed his Oscar-winning song "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from "Rocketman," ABC ran a house ad for "American Idol" featuring Ryan Seacrest and singing hopefuls on a bus. They re-created the scene from Cameron Crowe's 2000 film "Almost Famous," in which the fictional band Stillwater and its entourage do a group sing to John's "Tiny Dancer." Clever, right?
The Timing Award ( Part 2): Seventeen years after he won the Best Original Song Oscar for "Lose Yourself" (and failed to show up at the ceremony), the rapper Eminem finally showed up and performed it. One question: Why did it take so long?
The Same Time, Next Year Award: To the 18-year-old multi-Grammy Award winning singer Billie Eilish and her producer-brother Finneas. During the traditional In Memoriam segment, she sang the classic Beatles song "Yesterday" while he accompanied her on the piano. Don't bet against seeing them at the 2021 Academy Awards -- as nominees. The siblings have co-written the theme song for the upcoming James Bond thriller "No Time to Die." Themes from the last two 007 movies produced Oscar wins for singer-songwriters Adele and Sam Smith.
Mark your calendars: The 93rd annual Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 28, 2021. That should put things back to normal after the earliest Oscars date in history.
GOOD SHOTS!
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Crash was also considered by most over B. Mountain that year (05) as a big upset, but nowhere near like this
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21 hours ago, jameselliot said:
I enjoyed Battle. It was different and fun.
& yet Ed Asner's going on 91
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didn't even knw he went? Recall the l970's BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS SHOWS?
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think 2005 around then is just about when the pc crap started
as I said to Jakeem, can you imagine how JOHN WAYNE would feel
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7 hours ago, JakeHolman said:
I've seen lots of PARASITE online & the massive undertaking that Sam Mendes had to do is asinine in comparison???
Perhaps if Mendes hadn't already won 20yrs ago, plus the multiculturalism factor he woulda won again
Look at what Scorsese had to take on vs Parasite's direction as well
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7 hours ago, alleybj said:
Chariots of Fire was a much bigger upset. No one saw that one coming. Most prognosticators thought 1917 would win, but most of them also said that Parasite could be a spoiler. And it was.
sorry posted this wrong area don't agree chariots was a huge upset especially over reds and even on golden pond that year, but this was a foreign film and also won foreign film refuse to call it the new pc term international film
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53 minutes ago, Thenryb said:7 hours ago, alleybj said:
Chariots of Fire was a much bigger upset. No one saw that one coming. Most prognosticators thought 1917 would win, but most of them also said that Parasite could be a spoiler. And it was.
don't agree about chariots... it was a big/huge upset over reds but being a foreign film was a stunner Assuming said die-hard supporter can find some link to "share" and does not have to articulate his own views.
WHAT???
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18 hours ago, JakeHolman said:
very few folks, spence, have seen parasite, and i'll not view it either ... hollywood is not representing a great many of americans and that's why you're seeing others using other channels to make film other than hollywood which has turned into one big politically correct operation ...
I keep trying when the AMPAS turned so pc, maybe around 05?
JOHN WAYNE would be so proud, huh
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Just got done watching the 92nd Annual Academy awards & man, man, 0, man, what a jaw dropping experience altogether
Parasite won Best Picture Gold over l9l7 7 became to only Foreign-Film to win it in history *& much to my disgust
Not because like about 98% of my fellow pundits I got it wrong, but I've seen tons of footage of it & don't understand what all the fuss is about except political
They didn't stop there it also upset the mammoth work of Sam Mendes for l9l7 for Best Director with Parasite?
Even Best Make-Up was bizarre with Bombshell defeating both Joker & Judy?
It was cool to see Zellweger get her revenge upon those that laughed at her when she got a bad facelift
Now my own personal favorite film of the year is Joker, not l9l7, which is amazing moviemaking though
Your gonna see & hear about these Oscars everywhere
The worst one's I've covered since 1982 when I started
women truly seem to dislike Joker though
Did get actor, actress, s. actor, s. actress, both screenplays, foreign-film-(another pc thing nowadays is renaming it international film???), cinematography, song, score, costumes, sound & a couple more correct
My finest year was 2yrs hitting 21 for 24 on the money though
Scorsese & his Irishman releasing system ton Netflix really backfired It's not even made $1m. either?
& as I've written before Tinsel-Town had been drooling to vote him another BD Oscar-(his 9th nod.)
THANKS
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5 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
Wow, this thread is 10 years old and now suddenly has become active again. I guess, Michael Simmons, as a newbie poster, you're scrolling through all the existing threads here on these boards, many of them ancient but still extant, that catch your interest. I'm impressed that you're being so thorough !
I don't want to argue with you, on the contrary, I'd like for you, as a newbie poster, to feel welcome here. Also, since I am not a person of colour, I am careful / sensitive/ wary/ of expressing an opinion about something --ie, an actor's comments about another race -- that would not affect me.
However, I do believe that even as recently as the '80s, people still used the "n" word. Not that it was ever ok to do so, but there was less awareness of how profoundly offensive that word is back then than there is today. Also, Mitchum as a teen spent some time in Georgia, where I'm guessing he heard that word a lot. And possibly got used to hearing it - and yes, probably using it. This doesn't make it ok, but I think back in , say, 1931 Robert Mitchum would have been exposed to that kind of language a lot, and probably it was "normalized" for him. (And no, I'm not saying it's "normal" or ok to use that word.)
I also think that Mitch meant what he said in an admiring way. Your comparison of what if a black star today said "honkies are terrible dancers" is not an apt one, because that's a negative stereotype to make, whereas what Mitchum said about African Americans was said admiringly. I mean, it's a good thing to be able to run fast, but it's not really a good thing to be a poor dancer.
Anyway, I still respect what you're saying. The very fact that this thread I started is 10 years old and I'm still bothering to respond to you I hope is evidence of my respect.
Tony Curtis blurted this out to Robert 0sborne on a Pvt. Screenings once & why Mitchum turned down The Defiant 0nes-(yet another role Sinatra wanted)
^& though the casting seems bizarre, he also turned down Nolte's role in 48hrs
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OUTRIGHT STUNNING & DISGUSTING TO THINK O'TOOLE-(l932-2014) NEVER WON AN OSCAR???
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Harry Belafonte outright deserved s. actor for Altman's 1996 Kansas City-(won NYFCC) but wasn't even up for the Oscar & he's going on 93. Rita Moreno also like Duvall born in '31 but didn't cite her either She's in Spielberg's remake of WEST SIDE STORY
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And last yrs were the highest in almost a decade, it was a freak show from the red carpet on People don't turn it on for that, especially if they are sitting there with their families