And the Oscar goes to – who cares?
by Andrew LeighWith its stubborn refusal to nominate Dark Knight, the second-highest grossing movie of all time, for Best Picture, the Academy seems determined to fade into irrelevancy.
This year’s Oscars will be the lowest-rated ever. How do I know? For one thing, the average box office gross of the Best Picture nominees is the lowest since 1984. Considering that today’s ticket prices are more than double what they were then, that’s stunning.
Also, Hugh Jackman is hosting. Who? Exactly. But hey, he was great hosting the Tonys. And we know how popular those are.
Of course, the Academy shouldn’t nominate films based solely on box office. But there was a time when critical success and mass appeal weren’t mutually exclusive.
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Bluejade – Not to mention that 1939 was also the year of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Women, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.
I’ll tune in late to try and catch Best Supporting Actor. I think Ledger deserves it hands down. I used to actually watch these, but they’ve bored me into retirement. As long as the can congratulate themselves on their superior intellect to understand movies the rest of us just think are crap.
Hey! I like Hugh Jackman! At least he makes action heroes manly rather than sensitive.
I am in shock that Dark Knight wasn’t nominated. But then, seeing how so many conservatives claimed the movie as speaking for them, whether it meant to or not (which I doubt), I can’t say I’m surprised. But then, I haven’t actually watched the Oscars in years. I think the last time I turned it on I just wanted to see if LOTR:ROTK would win.
Hugh Jackman comes off as a man’s man, that’s why I like him. I mean, that singing voice… It’ll be interesting to see how he does.
We used to do Oscar pools every year, but it just became less and less fun as the nominees were more and more the movies we avoided seeing during the year.
While it’s true that big box office doesn’t mean quality, it appears the Academy holds the corollary view, that low box office just shows the unwashed masses didn’t appreciate the worthiness and nuance so valued by the elites. Or something.
Hugh Jackman knows how to host a show.
Sorry, didn’t see the Dark Night, but my kids did. The last Batman movie I saw, my husband and I both slept for a good deal of the time — perhaps too dark? Anyway, not really the point….
My husband and I go to maybe one or two movies a year. There’s just no reason to go anymore, though, because they are all either hopelessly depressing, or thinly veiled lefty commentary on the evils of America. I’m tired of the snide asides, the government conspiracy around every corner, the evil Republican destroying the neighborhood and the environment, it goes on and on.
Anyone with half a brain (which would count out most of Hollywood) would take notice of the movies that have done well this year — family style, positive message movies that actually do what they’re supposed to — entertain!
Actually, if you look at Worldwide box office gross, TDK is #4 before the figures are adjusted for inflation.
By the way, Slumdog Millionaire was marvelous and is a) deserving of its 10 nominations and b) well worth your movie dollar
The Oscars have officially become the Grammys: irrelevant gifts from one political back-slapper to another, wishing to boost their cause instead of rewarding based on artistic merit (if you doubt me, keep in mind that Hillary Clinton has a Grammy while Al Gore has an Oscar).
Enough about Jackman!
The point is “The Academy” is fixated on quirky, art house films that are shown in New Your and LA so they can make the “Oscar” list. Like last year’s “Atonement”. It was long, boring and utterly pointless! $10 bucks is too hard to come by to waste it on this crap. I’ll be giving all 5 nominated films a miss!
It’s quite a race for Best Picture this year, what cause will win?
Will it be gay rights (Milk)?
Will it be Republican bashing (Frost/Nixon)?
Will it be Third World adoration (Slumdog Millionaire)?
Or the ever popular remember the Holocaust but forget Israel with the bonus of pedophilia (The Reader)?
Or will they go with auteur quirk (Benjamin Button)?
(By the way, I do agree with Pete that Slumdog is a great film. But is the Academy was concerned with quality rather than issues, it would probably be the only film that would remain nominated.)
I agree. Looking at the nominations, it looks like a BORE.
Dark Knight was LOVED by critics, and loved even more by the viewers.
Again, we see that the most brilliant and talented writer/director gets snubbed by the “Academy.” Chris Nolan, we don’t care about the Oscars – your movie was the best of the year, hands down. The data shows it.
I think that it’s sort of foolish to nominate films using Box Office as the main metric. If you went solely on this, then your final five would have been TDK, Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Hancock, and Wall-E. I’m sorry, but that’s a field more suited for the MTV Movie Awards.
Who is Hugh Jackman?! Obviously, you never saw either of the two episodes of “Viva Laughlin” – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0878801/
Next thing I know, you won’t be watching the red carpet ceremonies to check out the gowns, or Joan Rivers’ latest face lift.
Go green!
Perfect Tommy, first of all compliments on the Buckaroo Banzai inspired moniker.
While the Reader probably is the weakest of the five nominees, I’m curious about your judgement that it “forgets Israel”. Based on the plot synopsis, what would Israel have to do with this movie?
I don’t think that Slumdog is “third world adoration”. If anything, it made the Third World look rather unappealing. As much as I loved Slumdog, and highly admire Danny Boyle’s herculean efforts to even get the film released in the theaters, it borrows stylistically quite heavily from the superior City of God. THAT film was the technical and artistic masterpiece of the decade, in my humble opinion, so Boyle owes a little of his current pedastol to Fernando Meiralles.
oscartoxtango-
have to disagree with you on Atonement. Not saying you’re dumb, or wrong, or anything like that- I just enjoyed the movie for various reasons, chief among them the exploration of themes like living with regret, how economic differences (i.e. “class”) can harm or help relationships, and so forth. But hey, that’s what opinions are for and well gosh everyone has them. I respect your opinion, just don’t share the same one.
That said- I refuse to believe there were 5 better films than the Dark Knight this year. I’m not angry or outraged, that’s just what I believe.
This belief is what is going to steer me well clear of this year’s Academy Awards. Well that, and my belief that the Academy forfeited any credibility it might have had by awarding two works of fiction (made by Jabba the Moore and that retard Al gore) a prize for documentary work.
I’m not angry about this, just bored and disappointed. I will vote with my t.v. clicker, and watch something better.
Sadly, and probably frighteningly for the vacuous pretty people in hollywood, I am far from alone in this vote if the recent ratings are any indication.
Actually, strictly speaking, Al Gore does not have an Oscar. “An Inconvenient Truth did” win Best Documentary, but as Gore was not one of the producers, he did not receive an Oscar himself. But, point taken.
I concur for the most part about this year’s Oscars. I have liked watching in the past, seeing whose career would get a boost, rooting for my favorites. But this year, I have no interest in seeing any of the Best Picture nominees. None of them look that interesting at all. I have only seen 4 of the movies that got any kind of a nomination. And that’s where it’s likely to remain.
I rarely go to movies anymore for the reason that they are not worth the money. Movies that are just unrelievedly dark and depressing don’t do much for me. I take care of kids with cancer and blood diseases all day. I just assumed care of an 8 year old with hemophilia who is already crippled for life. I don’t see the point of paying some one of you people to depress me for two hours.
I really want to meet the people who are living such cushy lives that they feel the need to pay $20 a couple for two hours of sadness. Can I sign up for a week of that kind of existence?
Jackman’s great but I’m not sure even he can persuade me to watch. I appreciate that Ledger got a posthumous nod, but “The Dark Knight” should have been nominated for best picture. The oversight is glaring and just proves that the awards are irrelevant.
won’t be watching but I’m one that dropped from the viewing audience a few years back I miss seeing ladies as actresses and gentlemen as actors. Seems as if to be nominated it’s best to die or make a liberal political statement. Will Hollywood ever return to acting?
Milk and Frost/Nixon will tie for best picture. Al Gore (the Grand Poobah of Global Warming) will fly down from the rafters in a black cape to present the award.
Too bad the only people watching this self-congratulatory home movie awards show will be from small pockets in Los Angeles and New York City.
You know, it’s knee-jerk posts like yours that gives this site a bad name. Tell me, have you ever seen Richard Jenkins or Melissa Leo (nominees for Best Actor and Actress) either a) in another movie or b) speaking publicly about anything?
Yet, you make this blanket statement that to be nominated one has to “make a liberal political statement” along with some belief that the nominees aren’t “ladies and gentlemen”. When you speak in hyperbole or generalizations, it can often be a lazy way of making a point.
Pete, my point was that many voters seem to vote based on the causes they imagine the film represents rather than the quality or actual content of a film.
The Reader is considered by the academy as a serious film because it is about the Holocaust. The consensus of critics was that The Dark Knight and Wall-E were better films but the Academy is afraid of genre films because they aren’t “serious”. Surely a comic book film and cartoon can’t be “serious” best picture nominees. (Though, ironically, both films dealt with important issues in the subtext.)
It doesn’t matter if The Reader refers to Israel, the important thing for many voters is that it is an opportunity to make a bold stand against Hitler, and frees them to make anti-semitic remarks about Israel in the future.
I agree that Slumdog does not cast India in the best of lights, but that is not what the vote of some will be about. It will be a vote to make an Academy member feel good about being multicultural.
And I don’t agree Boyle borrowed from City of God. I think he stold from Meirelles as well as Dickens. According to Picasso, that’s what great artists do.
All I’m saying is excellence doesn’t seem to be the prime criteria, but rather “dealing with important issues” for many Academy voters. And in seeking such importance, the Academy is becoming less relevant.
I’m just happy Robert Downey Jr. got a nomination for his role in Tropic Thunder. While the movie wasn’t great, his acting and his character was. Don’t get me wrong, the movie was funny too…but Downey went beyond the call of duty in his role. Besides, I love comedies and they never get academy respect.
I thought Button was a great movie as well, so no complaints from me about their nods. I feel Leger’s role was a good one, but would he even be considered had there not been his tragic passing? I think probably not.
Considering Clint Eastwood hasn’t had a movie gross over $102 million in over a decade and Benjamin Button has already topped 120 mil to GT’s 78, Clint’s not likely to pass that total at this point.
When a film gains multiple Oscar nods, it is able to secure a wider release and more screens. When it has NO nominations, then the number of screens it gets actually shrinks. BB, Slumdog, and Milk are going to expand their screens and see a B.O. bounce.
The only reason I’ve even bothered to half-watch the Oscars the last two years was for Dirty Harry’s running blog. So what’cha say, John? Now that you’re hiding in plain sight, gonna entertain us like only you and your cast of co-posting character can?
PerfectTommy,
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but how many Academy voters do you actually know? Unless you have asked them why they vote the way they do, I think that you really have nothing to base your assessments of them on. Do you really truly believe that Slumdog polled so well with the voters in the Academy out of third world guilt, or would you consider that maybe the technically dazzling presentation by Boyle and his crew swayed a lot of voters. The Dickens analogy is very apt (especially with the fantasy ending), however Boyle steals pretty blindly from City of God in several of the montage sequences.
It’s a shame Meirelles botched “Blindness” so badly, City of God and Constant Gardner were absolutely jaw dropping technical achievements.
I have three words to give you for why the Oscars and Hollywood are irrelevant to me and my family “Out of Africa”. This little gem was a 3 hour snoozefest that I dragged my unwitting hubby to several years ago. It got scads of awards and was horrible. My husband didn’t let me choose movies for at least three years after this debacle. I was younger and more gullable then and thought that if the critics loved it so would I. I got a dose of reality on that one. I was not at all surprised to see that Hollywood didn’t include The Dark Knight in their best pics. I mean after all it appealed to the “great unwashed” and we can’t have that can we? I mean nominate a movie that people actually saw as opposed to some art house indy movie that very few people saw? How bougeouis! Hollywood what a bunch of jokers (pun intended)
Out of Africa came out 24 years ago, time to let your anger go on that one.
The Oscar’s irrelevancy is exceeded only by the Nobel Peace prize.
Who is Hugh, are you kidding? Only one of the last triple-threat actors (singing, dancing, acting) we have left. Love the man; if I actually watch this year will be because of him. And yay for the Viva Laughlin shoutout; even if the rest of the world forgets about it, The Soup never will, hah.
And Bill, you say these lovely lies about Gore just to taunt me, don’t you? Learning he didn’t actually get a little Oscar man would make my whole day.
And I don’t think Clint should feel too bad; my theory is that if great artists like Hitchcock never got one, then no one else should feel bad for being overlooked; they are in great company.
Andrew Leigh, now you know how many people like Hugh Jackman! I agree the show has sucked recently, but I’ll always watch, irrelevant though they may be. I actually think the nominations are pretty fair (I’ve yet to see Button), since I was never as gushy about The Dark Knight as many others, and while I enjoyed Clint’s performance, I thought Gran Torino was badly acted and looked terribly cheap. I will be rooting for Mickey Rourke and Slumdog Millionaire. Interesting that the Director’s Guild nominated Nolan but the director wing of the Academy didn’t. I would have assumed they were roughly the same people. I believe best picture is voted on by the full Academy, which usually runs older/more conservative, but I guess they just couldn’t bring themselves to nominate a superhero.
You’re who?
To sammy – January 22nd, 2009 at 1:59 pm
You know, it’s knee-jerk posts like yours that gives this site a bad name. Tell me, have you ever seen Richard Jenkins or Melissa Leo (nominees for Best Actor and Actress) either a) in another movie or b) speaking publicly about anything?
Yet, you make this blanket statement that to be nominated one has to “make a liberal political statement” along with some belief that the nominees aren’t “ladies and gentlemen”. When you speak in hyperbole or generalizations, it can often be a lazy way of making a point.
ALL I see from Hollywood are actors and actresses who lack class. I’m hoping that this is the purpose of this site to show me and others some people who are decent in appearance and deeds. I don’t see them so I am open and welcoming to recommendations. Please have someone put these people in the spotlight.
As much as I despise the self-aggrandizing stoolies that control Hollywood and their innappropriate political bile, which will preclude me from tuning in for another year (Oscars? Zzzzzzzz…), I cannot, with any degree of intellectual honesty, blast them for not nominating Dark Knight for Best Picture. I just watched it again recently on DVD (one of the few perks of being another gasbag member of SAG – one who is voting NO on the strike), and this movie is pretty lame on a lot of levels. It is only Heath Ledger’s tragic and untimely death that drove the box office numbers to begin with. Let’s not lose sight of that. Sure, give him his posthumous award. Rah rah. But as for the movie itself, it isn’t worthy of “Best Picture” status. Not even close. Flame suit ON! Turbines to SPEED!
Maatkare (and other Jackman fans) – I actually like Hugh Jackman. And of course, he is the Wolverine. But he’s also a musical theatre guy. Somehow, I doubt his X-Men side is going to come out more while hosting the Oscars than his singing-and-dancing side. Call me crazy, but I don’t think that’s the cure for what’s ailing the Oscars — fewer jokes, more dance numbers!
I cannot, with any degree of intellectual honesty, blast them for not nominating Dark Knight for Best Picture. I just watched it again recently on DVD (one of the few perks of being another gasbag member of SAG – one who is voting NO on the strike), and this movie is pretty lame on a lot of levels. It is only Heath Ledger’s tragic and untimely death that drove the box office numbers to begin with. Let’s not lose sight of that. Sure, give him his posthumous award. Rah rah. But as for the movie itself, it isn’t worthy of “Best Picture” status. Not even close. Flame suit ON! Turbines to SPEED!
This is a deliberate bid for a reaction isn’t it? Has to be. No one could be that idiotic.
I should add that it would be really cool if Jackman hosted the entire show as the Wolverine. Unfortunately, he’s more likely to host it as Peter Allen.
Objectively, the last 20 minutes of TDK were incredibly sloppy and muddled. The payoff of the Joker storyline was as lame as the theatrical cut of Return of the King that forgot to include Sauramon’s death (a scene that could have been included if Jackson had removed one of the five false ending/fade to black moments at the end).
Seriously, dude…ever really look at the MAJORITY of films produced in the so-called “golden age”? For every one Searchers or Mister Roberts, you had about 35 mediocre formula hack jobs churned out by the old studio system. We have a tendency to idealize the older movies because we only see the best of the older movies on TV these days.
Think about a movie like Heat. When it came out, it was a box office failure with mixed reviews. Now, it’s considered Michael Mann’s masterpiece. Over time, not only does the cream rise to the top, but neglected or underappreciated gems get a second look and are revived.
Thought I’d share this with you, as it deals with the topic at hand and made me laugh out loud. From Chuck Lorre’s vanity plate card that aired at the end of the Big Bang Theory last week:
(Oh, yeah, and there are movie spoilers)
“It’s that time of the year when movie studios seeking Oscar nominations for their films start asking for my consideration. Every trade ad and mailing begins with the words, “For your consideration.” It’s kind of a Hollywood tradition. Anyway, this is what I’ve considered so far: Milk (a well-meaning gay guy is shot to death by a homophobe), Doubt (A really mean nun accuses a really terrific priest of being a pedophile), Revolutionary Road (a married couple fight a lot, cheat on each other, then the wife bleeds to death following a botched abortion), Slumdog Millionaire (incredibly poor kids subjected to unthinkable evil, but with a happy ending), Defiance (starving Jews fight Nazis in the woods), The Wrestler (a broken-down, over-the-hill wrestler on steroids has a tough life), Changeling (a woman’s son is abducted and the police put her in an insane asylum), Gran Torino (a dying widower commits suicide to help his neighbor), Benjamin Button (a guy grows old in reverse and then dies), Rachel Getting Married (a drug addict kills her baby brother and then pisses off her family during a wedding), and The Reader (Nazi atrocities, under-age sex and illiteracy prove to be a lethal combo). So, what am I considering? Well, for a moment or two I actually considered hanging myself. But then I thought, if I do that, the movies win.”
http://www.chucklorre.com/index.php?p=235
Who cares.
Personally, I refuse to watch award shows. There seems to be an endless list of these shows. They rank right down there with reality shows.
Hi Andrew! Yeah, but your original post sneered at Hugh Jackman as though he had no movie cred…and he does. And as an X-Men fan from the 80’s, I would LOVE to see him host in character! And Magneto could read the rules!
The Oscar nominations announcement was a huge load off my shoulders.
I feared that by once again skipping the entire vile and boorish spectacle’s telecast this year, I might actually miss some small shred of something worthwhile.
But upon hearing their predictably abysmal choices (and snubs) this morning, my relief was palpable.
Now all we need is for SAG to vote to authorize a strike, and the entire sordid affair can fade into unlamented oblivion.
ken bendor wrote:
“let’s end the myth that Al Gore WON an Oscar once and for all- that award went to its director, Davis Guggenheim, aka Mr. Elisabeth Shue…”
I apologize for misspeaking. Let me restate-
I believe the Academy lost any legitimacy it once had for awarding two works of fiction (one directed and written by Jabba the Moore, the other starring that dolt Al Gore) awards for documentary film.
Additionally- if memory serves, Al “offshore carbon credit company” Gore gave the acceptance speech for that award. Correct me if I’m wrong (which you will), but that certainly could leave a dummy like me with the impression he got the award.
balls flotard said:
“this movie (Dark Knight) is pretty lame on a lot of levels. It is only Heath Ledger’s tragic and untimely death that drove the box office numbers to begin with.”
Don’t agree- I enjoyed it immensely. I also will admit to walking into the movie predisposed to hating it AND Heath Ledger’s performance precisely because I didn’t want to be bullied into lauding his performance. Ended up being flabbergasted by how good both he and the movie were. Which levels did you find it lame on? Not trying to flame you, just interested in your reasoning.
There hasnt been a good movie made in 60 years.
JOHANN DOHMANN
USA
Maybe I’ll watch Conan the Barbarian, like I did during the last Oscars.
The last time I really rooted for a movie was Braveheart. I was shocked when it won Best Picture – and it was a box office success. I doubt Mel Gibson will ever win anymore awards in the future, no matter how good a film he makes or role he plays. Yet Roman Polanski is fine – do I detect a whiff of hypocrisy?
Every year the TV viewing audience gets smaller. I have an idea to reverse that: have chimpanzees hand out the awards; their IQs seem pretty much equivalent to the actors. Call it “The Chimpies.”
Here it is then… the culmination of two thousands years of advancement in arts and sciences… the moron mobs get to put their silicon and plastic chips and cutting edge insight and depth of knowledge to work as “critics.”
This is the latest fad brought about by technology. The Dawn of the Critic. All the world’s a critic. Every man or woman or child with a sphincter, a gal bladder and a modem gets to ejaculate rot across the Internet in the Name of the Critic. All the world’s a critic. What is it about poo-pooing everything we find disagreeable to our tiny and delicate and narrow sensibilities that is so wretchedly delightful? What “achievement” is accomplished by spewing your narrow little sliver of understanding? How GREAT do you feel after smearing some headline artist, whether or not they are actually deserving of disdain?
If you were to believe the critics, the arts are dead. Music, books, cinema, theater. It’s all dead. No one listens to music, NO ONE reads and no one watches movies. Because it’s all become dreck. And what exactly does THAT say of us? That we have lost our sense of _appreciation_ of media, or that the consensus must be right… that our entire society has reached such a state of disrepair that indeed, all our media is only capable of producing the purest cow dung. And what exactly does that say about us then? If the arts and media are a reflection of the changing attitudes and trends across all our culture, what exactly does it say about YOU that the finest and most talented amongst you can do no better than whatever you find worthy of your cheap disdain?
This is one reason why I actually DELIGHT in watching the first few episodes of American Idol every season. You see… I imagine EVERY bizarre subnormal non-functioning freak who gets to squeal like a weasel for 10 seconds every episode as the very embodiment of you pathetic anonymous Internet freaks waxing philosophically about how all of our culture has turned to manure and the alleged “good old days” of REAL culture (the 70s) has tragically passed… and then to watch these subhuman birth defects attempt to squeeze sound from their wind pipes… and the true rush of delight when their alleged “genius” is not instantly recognized by the judges… Critics.
What a pathetic nation of whining miserable unhappy people we are becoming. Just maybe the measure of our cultural decline isn’t the decrepitude of our arts… by the inability of critics to articulate with any degree of competence what it is exactly that offends them so much, and oh PREY DO produce something better, because most ASSUREDLY we are all waiting for YOU to save us from the onslaught of rot.
5kidsnadog: My husband and I go to maybe one or two movies a year. There’s just no reason to go anymore, though, because they are all either hopelessly depressing, or thinly veiled lefty commentary on the evils of America. I’m tired of the snide asides, the government conspiracy around every corner, the evil Republican destroying the neighborhood and the environment, it goes on and on.
So in other words, movies are a lot like Fox’s wretched “24″.
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I haven’t seen Dark Knight, but I’m just not interested. I like Hugh Jackman, but the Oscars are all about the self-important Hollywood idiots and their causes/politics. Spare me. I’d rather watch re-runs on History Channel for the 5th time than 3 minute speeches of millionaires that hate me and my country. But Oh what a great country we have now! Now that the Messiah has been coronated. Now it is a great country and the economy is going to get worse under Obama, but of course that will allbe Bush’ fault. It’s neater that way.
to Neyney – January 22nd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Out of Africa came out 24 years ago, time to let your anger go on that one
Who said I was angry? That’s your snide interpretation. Whether it was 24 years (Lord has it been that long?) or 2 I learned a valuable lesson about not listening to “critics” and making up my own mind about what I would like to see at the movies. The result is that I see maybe one or two movies a year at most because the rest is crap. I’ve not contributed much to the Hollywood coffers which makes me proud and my kids haven’t had their minds turned to mush by subjecting them to Hollywood’s version of life via the movies. I’m actually grateful for my “Out of Africa” experience because I learned a lesson that I still practice to this day. That being said I think that Redford and Streep owe us all an apology for this stinker of a movie.
The Oscar’s Night in Hollywood is as useless as a two string banjo.Each movie is filled to the brim with radical left wing/socialistic rhetoric that is as enjoyable as a Juarez root canal. Conservative bashing,Christian’s depiicted as raving lunatics, same sex rituals depicted as perfectly acceptable by ALL of society.That is total crap.Hollywood is indeed the original trailer park trash to the nth degree. Each one of these plastic characters and their directors needs a frontal lobotomy;that includes all of their adoring fans that fawn over every ridiculous statement they mutter from their ever present teleprompter.
I have a great opening show for the Oscars.Have the “Up The Back Alley Fair” from ‘Frisco perform disgusting sexual acts on each other…since birds of the feather flock together.
You people need to get a real job.
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Freedom of Speach is for Hollywood only.I’m sure Robert Reich will save your pathetic industry.Have you taken your Obama pledge yet? I noticed several Hollywoodians have done so.There is only one pledge I will take and that’s the “Pledge of Allegiance”. I’ve also pledged not to watch anymore hollywood movies.I’ve seen enough trash in my life time.
When is Hollywood going to recognize the greatness that is Gilbert Gottfried? GG for host of the 82nd Academy Awards!
Hugh Hoo?? Oscar…. as in Oscar Mayer Bologna??
@ATTMAY – January 22nd, 2009 at 10:55 pm
“I think I went to one movie in 2008, “Tropic Thunder”. Extremely enjoyable, funny, and insightful, it got bubkes from the Grouch Awards.”
I have to give props to AMPAS, though, for nominating Robert Downey Jr. (Best Supporting Actor, TROPIC THUNDER); I saw that movie three times this year and each time came out more convinced that Downey at least deserved a nomination for it. He’ll lose to Heath Ledger (who, IIRC, has won pretty much every BSA award this year, with his only loss coming to Josh Brolin in MILK), but at least the Academy remembered to throw a couple of token bones to great actors in “mainstream” movies.
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