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Sun Feb-22-09 11:16 PM
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*** Official 2009 Academy Awards Thread 3 *** |
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Please continue here, so those of us on dialup can contribute.....
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:18 PM
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:20 PM
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6. I'll go out on a limb on this one and say......Slumdog. Whatd'ya think? |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:20 PM
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NOoooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:21 PM
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17. Would've made it interesting if I had been wrong. |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:23 PM
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22. It's almost like there was some pay-to-play going on. hahaha. |
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197. That has NOTHING to do with the Oscars. |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:30 PM
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50. I dunno- this could be a helluva set up to give it to Milk. nt |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:19 PM
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2. Best Director coming up next ... |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:19 PM
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3. At this point, I'm rooting for ANYTHING but Slumdog Millionaire. |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:20 PM
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I haven't seen it yet but for all this hype it better blow my mind.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:24 PM
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24. I haven't seen it, either. |
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I'm of the impression it's like Lawrence of Arabia in India or something.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:28 PM
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39. No movie that is 3 hours long will ever seen anywhere but on my couch by me |
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I don't care how good it is. My bladder has its limits. Therefore I will wait until it's on DVD or cable.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:33 PM
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67. I've seen Lawrence of Arabia IN THE THEATRE 17 times. |
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3 hours, 44 minutes. David Lean, however, was kind enough to give us an intermission. :evilgrin:
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Mon Feb-23-09 12:49 AM
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204. I've seen it at least that many times on TCM. |
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Yeah, thanks for the intermission, since I don't have TIVO or DVR. ;)
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Mon Feb-23-09 01:02 AM
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206. The restored director's cut rocks. |
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If you haven't had the opportunity to see it, it's well worth checking out.
And Omar Sharif is HAWT, FWIW.
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209. Oh god, Omar Shariff!! |
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He can Doctor my Zhivago any day of the week!
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It's a good movie, but not even close to the hype it's getting. Nowhere near it.
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Admittedly, I haven't seen SDM. However, at this point, I don't know if I want to. I'm so tired of it winning everything! AND, what is going on with it winning all these awards, and not one nomination for any of the acting? How does that work? If its such a great movie, how is it that none of the actors were worthy? It doesn't make sense to me. :shrug:
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:56 PM
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you can't really nominate someone for supporting/lead actor.
That said, this movie had the biggest mass media campaign I can remember. Not having seen it versus the other films, I can't comment on how it compares. But their media campaign was enormous.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:19 PM
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4. Where's Christan Bale tonight anyway? |
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Screaming at someone about his Tux? :)
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:20 PM
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:22 PM
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18. Brooding about something, I'm sure. |
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Or looking for someone he can try variations of the word "fuck" on.....
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:22 PM
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:25 PM
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32. I wish he were there, because The Dark Knight should have been nominated IMO |
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Sometimes an action movie is just a GREAT movie.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:19 PM
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5. Love Reese Witherspoon but not digging her eye makeup. eom |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:21 PM
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15. Thank goodness it's not just me. |
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She looked like a zombie, and she's normally so lovely.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:21 PM
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16. her dress was beautiful though! Perfect color for her too. nt |
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28. Yes! Her gown was very flattering. nt |
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80. Did like the gown. And the hair. eom |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:26 PM
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34. Her makeup was terrible. |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:20 PM
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He may not deserve it for Slumdog, but he definitely deserves one.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:20 PM
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10. Best Directing: Danny Boyle/Slumdog Millionaire |
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Best Picture is usually the same as Best Director, FWIW
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:20 PM
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12. Of course, it's Boyle... |
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20. I can't disagree with Boyle |
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i thought he did an awsome job with 28 Days Later and should've been recognized for that movie.
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33. Trainspotting was fantastic. |
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A little too much for the AMPAS crowd, maybe.....
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:24 PM
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25. But it was sci-fi and therefore can never win anything besides |
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181. Except for Annie Hall |
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30. Best Actress must be coming up-- n/t |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:26 PM
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35. I like the way they've presented the acting awards this year |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:27 PM
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37. I like the format as well. Also like the presenters staying on for multiple awards. |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:28 PM
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41. Shirley Maclaine just said, "it's not your year, Anne." |
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Mon Feb-23-09 12:01 AM
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183. I liked it much better than the traditional way. |
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Normally the previous year's winner would present (opposite sex for the acting awards) but I think this was (a) much nicer, in the case of the actors and (b) much more fun, in the case of everyone else.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:27 PM
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36. those are some stunningly beautiful ladies! |
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I love the format they are using this year for presenting the Big Awards!
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:29 PM
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wearing a pants suit! Paddle your own canoe, girl!
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:30 PM
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46. What is the deal with Halle Berry's hair? |
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I thought it was a microphone.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:56 PM
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168. who was the woman who gave Kate Winslet's 'introduction'? |
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I did not recognize her but she has obviously won a Best Actress Oscar in the recent past
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Mon Feb-23-09 12:04 AM
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189. it was Marion Cotillard (sp?) |
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she won last year, I think, for playing Edith Piaf in 'La Vie En Rose'
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196. well that explains why I didn't know who she was then. Pretty though. |
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I think being individually tributed by prior winners would make all 5 of the nominees feel wonderful even if they don't win.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:28 PM
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40. Two categories where Slumdog can't win! |
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Or, can it?
I vote for Meryl or Kate.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:29 PM
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44. I'm sure it can somehow... "Best Actress....Slumdog Millionaire!!!!" |
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Unless... "...And by a write-in vote... Slumdog Millionaire!"
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51. Meryl wins eeeeverything...I'm hopin for Anne |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:29 PM
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42. This whole thing they are doing is weird. |
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49. I like it overall, though now that I think about it it's odd to not actually see any of the acting |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:31 PM
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57. Kate Winslet's got the royal treatment from her person. |
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Everybody else got screwed.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:35 PM
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75. Traditionally the Best (whatever) of the opposite gender |
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presents the award. This is a major break with tradition.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:29 PM
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43. Have I mentioned that I have a major girl crush on Kate Winslet? |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:59 PM
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178. I'm all about Kate Winslet. |
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Let's just say I won't tell you what I really think, because I'd get the Academy Awards thread locked for being a sex thread. :evilgrin:
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:30 PM
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47. GODDAMN YOU HALLE BARRY!! |
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You are just too. damn. beautiful.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:31 PM
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53. sophia looks pretty darn good too |
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Note to self: Going to gym in the morning.
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81. She's what, in her mid-to-late 70s? |
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We should all be so lucky.
She claims her figure is entirely attributable to pasta. I smell a secret personal trainer.... :rofl:
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That pose makes her look like a 1930s French Whore. :evilgrin:
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203. You think ew? Check out Pret a Porter (Ready to Wear), which is a Bob Altman film |
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You want to see an old grandma lady, who happens to be Sofia Loren, show you how to be old and hot? That's where to find it.
I won't spoil the punch line, either. :evilgrin:
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54. Sophia's looking worse for wear, isn't she? |
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58. A little too much time under the knife. |
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60. Nicole should have had her hair done. |
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77. It's all bloody downhill after 25, huh? |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:32 PM
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I hope I'm hanging together that well at that age.
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66. I hope I don't look like I'm wearing a death mask if I live that long. |
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61. Best actress: Kate Winslet |
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Shirley MacLaine was the perfect person to pay tribute to Anne Hathaway. Good for whoever chose her to do so.
And Kate Winslet is aging so normally, nicely, and naturally. I hope she keeps it up. We need more women actors who look like people (she's even hotter when she's a little heavier, IMO).
About time Melissa Leo showed up. She's a working actor who has more than paid her dues.
And I hope I look half as good as Sofia Loren when I'm her age, although she could probably eschew the spraytan machine for a bit and look even better (but OMG that BODY!).
Angelina Jolie? Not so much. That performance was embarassingly over the top.
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69. That's awesome! "Well it's not a shampoo bottle now." She's great!! |
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65. Finally some friggin' Oscar justice |
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:34 PM
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70. She was great in "The Reader" |
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I will have to check out "Frozen River" with Melissa Leo, looks like a good film. Meryl was astounding in Doubt as well.
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85. Melissa Leo was great in Frozen River |
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Mr. ld and I saw it last weekend from netflix, and were amazed by her performance.... Don't miss it!
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191. Melissa Leo has been a working actor for 30 years |
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meaning she has paid her bills with acting gigs for 30 years (this is not common, FWIW -- we have a 98% unemployment rate in our field).
About damn time she got the nod. She's got a couple of films in the can right now and this will massively increase her asking price.
I love seeing working actors get an Oscar nod. They go from "I can just barely pay the bills if I visit the food bank every so often" to "I can pay the bills." So few of us even get to the first part of the deal trying to make a career of acting.
Melissa Leo, you rock! :yourock:
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200. She was in HOMICIDE:LIFE IN THE STREET..one of the best series ever on tV. |
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207. Thank you, I will have to watch it. |
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She and Richard Jenkins were the uber-underdogs..lol. His performance was great in "The Visitor", and it is a nice film.
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Sun Feb-22-09 11:33 PM
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68. Well, Winslet finally got hers. |
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Congrats Kate- a truly great actress.
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73. Highlight of the night for me! |
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Sadly, I think it is downhill from here.
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76. First "worth it" award given out. |
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83. Nice speech she gave. Really touching. eom |
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74. nice moment with her father |
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78. I'm rooting for Langella or Rourke for this one |
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79. I'm rooting for Penn. |
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82. I have Penn for this one. |
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86. Rourke is going to win... Penn deserves it though... |
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88. what a collection of legends on stage now |
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89. This is to me the most interesting of the awards (Best Actor) |
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91. Do they always announce Best Actress before Best Actor or do they switch? |
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186. sometimes actress, actor, director then picture |
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99. nice to see Richard Jenkins get the recognition he deserves |
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but Penn was nearly as exceptional, and I have no problems with it, and I love Sean Penn. The two best acceptance speeches of the night were from the Milk winners.
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107. Best actor: Sean Penn!!!! HOORAY!!!!! (not that I'm biased) |
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Micheal Douglas has been even more fearless as a director than he has as an actor. Good choice to pay tribute to Langella, even though he's not fit to kiss Langella's dirty shoue.
DeNiro and Penn have worked together a bunch, so this was a beautiful choice. Loved the Spicoli reference. And the applause for playing Harvey Milk. And that Penn was purple with embarassment when the camera cut to him.
Adrien Brody -- one "obscure" to the general public actor praising another one. Good choice.
Hopkins and Pitt worked together early in Pitt's career (Legends of the Fall, anyone?). Again, nice choice.
Kingsley for Rourke. Finesse versus brute strength. I like it. The welcome back was genuine, too.
For the SDM haters, this category's pretty OK. ;)
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I am so glad Penn won, Milk was an excellent film, and i lived in SF during that time, remember it well
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199. He's a favorite of mine. Always has been. |
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It was a bright spot in a rather ho-hum night wasn't it?
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132. Sean, you are the FUCKING SHIZNIT! |
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134. I was very Torn on this award because I loved Rourke and Langella as well. |
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They all gave phenomenal performances. Penn has deserved a Best Actor (he got Best Supporting for Mystic River) for some time now (he was phenomenal in both The Falcon and the Snowman and Dead Man Walking), and to some degree this may have been a "career" award for him -- BTW, for serious Oscar fans, there was no Thalberg Award fore Lifetime Achievement tonight and WTF was up with that -- but WRT Penn this was an AMAZING role for him.
We've seen comedic stoner Penn; we've seen tough, hardcore Penn. As an actor I can't completely explain the reach he made, but he did things in the role of Harvey Milk that he'd never shown previously that he was capable of as an actor. This was one of those once-in-a-lifetime performances that every actor, regardless of gender, hopes for.
When was the last time you watched a movie where you wanted to hug and be best friends with Sean Penn's character? Oh, that's right: never. Penn showed things playing Harvey Milk that you knew he had in him as an actor, but whether he got them out was a whole nother issue. He completely inhabited the character -- THAT is why he won. He left himself aside and inhabited the character.
It's not easy (although more common) in live theatre, but it's not common at all in film. Penn had to sustain the role for as long as it took to shoot the film. Whether he agreed with the premise of the film or not (remember that most actors take gigs to put food on their table regardless of whether they agree with the premise of the project) -- and I know he did because of what he had to say about this particular project -- he still had to sustain the character over an enormous number of days.
Understand please, that actors can turn their characters off when they're noton set, so it's not a matter of what s/he took home -- that crap mostly gets left at the office. Regardless, it's still an enormous drain to make the kind of physical and vocal change it would take for a Penn to play Harvey Milk over the period of time it took for Van Sant to shoot the movie. He deserves every shred of credit he's gotten.
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138. Wonder what Best Picture will be? |
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139. Here comes the big surprise of the night! |
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142. Man. After that, the inevitable "Slumdog Millionaire" for Best Picture is gonna be |
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Hell, even "Love Guru".
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150. Milk would have had a better chance if Penn hadn't won. nt |
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Best picture: Slumdog Millionaire. |
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151. SHOCKED! I'M SHOCKED I TELL YOU!!! |
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Reminds me of the Crash win.
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156. great crowd onstage for Slumdog |
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159. I like the looks of it. |
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157. Annnnnd we end with a fizzle and a splooge. |
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160. Not enough money to make the movie, but enough to buy the Academy I guess. |
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161. ***Thanks for the creators and the participants on tonight's 3 Oscar threads*** |
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Don't forget to sleep, too, so you can retain all the stuff you learned from doing the homework! :hi:
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166. Slumdog deserved to win. Good. |
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167. Well, all in all, I thought the format was the best of any Academy Awards I've seen. |
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1/3 of the time that camera was angled so that you could NOT read the name.
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I really liked the new way they had of presenting the best acting awards, with actors/actresses of many different generations giving, what seemed to be genuine anyway, praise to the current nominees. It made it much more interesting. I also liked that they kept certain presenters on for more than one award. It kept the pace moving.
To me at least, it seemed that they put some thought into selecting the presenter with the type of award, in most cases. That Sarah Jessica Parker was chosen for Art and Costume made sense. There were a couple of others that were that way too, IMO.
edit to add: I also liked the stage design. I liked the circular sort of design; it made it seem more intimate with the audience.
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190. I agree on all points, and I didn't notice one speech they cut into with music |
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All in all, I'm surprised how much I enjoyed it.
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175. Looking at this montage, you can already tell who the nominees are going to be next year... |
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184. I'm looking forward to "Hitler in a cape." |
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177. Best picture was disappointing but not unexpected n/t |
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179. i like this preview for all the upcoming movies |
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185. It was nice that they brought everyone up from Slumdog. |
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Mon Feb-23-09 12:03 AM
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187. My Predictions...19 Correct, 5 Incorrect |
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Not too bad this year. The two sound categories were hard for me this year and I think WALL-E really should have pulled at least one of those out. I also don't agree with the Animated Short, Presto was a much stronger candidate.
Correct(19): Best Picture- Slumdog Millionaire Directing- Slumdog Millionaire Actor- Sean Penn Actress- Kate Winslet Supporting Actor- Heath Ledger Supporting Actress- Penelope Cruz Adapted Screenplay- Slumdog Millionaire Original Screenplay- Milk Animated Feature- WALL-E Live Action Short- Toyland Documentary Feature- Man on Wire Music Score- Slumdog Millionaire Music Song- Jai Ho Art Direction- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Cinematography- Slumdog Millionaire Costume Design- The Duchess Film Editing- Slumdog Millionaire Makeup- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Visual Effects- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Incorrect(5): Animated Short Film- Presto Foreign Language- Waltz with Bashir Documentary Short- The Witness Sound Editing- WALL-E Sound Mixing- The Dark Knight
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Mon Feb-23-09 12:07 AM
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that's a pretty good batting average!! You scoped it out VERY well, I'd say! Congratulations! I agree with you about Wall-E, it should have won something, IMO.
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Mon Feb-23-09 12:07 AM
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192. I caught the tail end of the Oscars |
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And I think I might be sorry I missed all that came before. I turned it on as Kate Winslet was giving her acceptance speech - which was lovely. Then they brought out five previous Best Actor winners to personally introduce each male nominee for this year. That's a really refreshing bit. Then, Mr. Penn's wonderful, rousing speech. After, I see movie clips, movie clips, movie clips and that gorgeous bit of editing they did to give recognition to all the year's Best Picture nominees... I'm thinking I missed an especially show-biz loving night. I dig those.
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Mon Feb-23-09 12:20 AM
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198. The new format really was refreshing... |
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It started with the set, bringing the orchestra on stage. The format that you saw with 5 previous winners announcing the nominees was the same for all 4 of the acting categories.
We'll have to see how the ratings are for this one, I think they will be much higher than last years.
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Mon Feb-23-09 12:59 AM
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205. There were three threads on this crap? |
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Mon Feb-23-09 01:19 AM
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I recommended that we move parts 2 & 3 to new threads for the folks on dial-up.
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