Oscar Thread

I'm not a big pop-culture fan, as you are all aware. But I am always interested in the Oscars--I like good acting--I'm still pretty much in awe of Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood." So, chat it up, boo the winners and cheer the losers, or something like that, but play nice.

Sean Paul Kelley February 24, 2008 - 11:29pm

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Tilda Swinton over Amy Ryan for supporting actress-no way

Amy tore up the screen in "Gone Baby Gone". bummer-

Javier Bardem- best supporting actor,great work, no problem....

good that "The Bourne Ultimatum" isn't being ignored for being released before the fall.

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But Jon Stewart seems to be in a different universe from the audience, no surprise there..... oh that Barack Obama name joke:-(

I wonder how many of you watching the Oscars and online at the same time? Although I see zillions of movies, the Oscars show is always so slow, I have to do something else or I fall asleep....

_{1."George Washington did not cross the Delaware for Capitalism," -Shmuley Boteach.
2.The Dems haven't punished the GOP enough, so you're going to reward the Republicans?}

nymole February 25, 2008 - 12:10am

Amy Ryan

I'm with you on Amy Ryan. I love her work on The Wire and her performance (especially her accent and vocabulary) was fantastic in Gone Baby Gone. Gone Baby Gone was, overall, a much better film than I anticipated. I like Tilda Swinton but I was definitely pulling for Ryan.

Javier Bardem definitely deserved the best supporting for NCFOM, and it was a truly ridiculous haircut.

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music."
-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country

jumpinin February 25, 2008 - 12:08pm

yeah, me too

uh, Oscar? What does he play? QB, FB or what?

after lugging two pounds of glossy paper calling itself the "Oscar" edition of Vanity Fair up to the house and finding its 400 pages nearly devoid of anything but inconsequential movie trivia and Louis Vuiton ads I suspect the entire exercise is simply the worlds most elaborate commercial.

Yawn.

greensmile February 25, 2008 - 12:29am

Taxi to the Darkside has WON !!!

Chickadee February 25, 2008 - 1:30am

Picked up by HBO

Nox Taxi has been picked up by HBO after Discovery Channel ran chicken scared from the "controversy". I hope the crow is tasty this evening.

Chickadee February 25, 2008 - 6:04am

great short speech from maker of "Taxi to the Dark Side"

on the death of an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.

The maker dedicated it to the dead man and to his father, a Navy interrogator, who was furious over what America has come to mean.

_{1."George Washington did not cross the Delaware for Capitalism," -Shmuley Boteach.
2.The Dems haven't punished the GOP enough, so you're going to reward the Republicans?}

nymole February 25, 2008 - 1:37am

Well, SP- Daniel Day-Lewis got Best Actor

eom

_{1."George Washington did not cross the Delaware for Capitalism," -Shmuley Boteach.
2.The Dems haven't punished the GOP enough, so you're going to reward the Republicans?}

nymole February 25, 2008 - 1:46am

I don't like Pop Culture Either.

So I clipped together my own movie...

It illustrates how big of a hypocrite Hillary Clinton is.

I really liked There Will Be Blood though...

RantingRaver February 25, 2008 - 2:07am

You and Gary Busey

... absolute masters of self promotion.

ww February 25, 2008 - 8:34am

*snort*

- eom

"The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Escher Sketch February 25, 2008 - 2:32pm

No Country for Old Men

Picture of the year.

I did inhale.

Don February 25, 2008 - 2:14am

Problem

Anybody else have a problem with how it ended? Just when it looked there was a big showdown coming, the cowboy character got taken out by deus ex machina. It seriously hurt the movie to me.

Zman1527 February 25, 2008 - 12:35pm

So where are the vaunted American actors?

Not a single American won in Best Actress/Actor or Best Supporting Actress/Actor.

We might as well shut down our drama schools. They're not accomplishing much except to turn out bad comedians.

Petronius February 25, 2008 - 11:58am

I think it's a Good Thing.

Hollywood has let talented people in, regardless of their nationality - much as those other entertainment industries, the NBA and the NHL have - to their mutual benefit. My daughter was surprised and pleased that La Vie en Rose and Marion Cotillard were even nominated outside the "Best Foreign" categories, and Ms. Cotillard's win was delicious icing on the cake.

I am happy to see Hollywood broaden its gene pool. And I was delighted to see the Hollywood-outsider Coen brothers walk off with Best Picture, Best Direction, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It's as delicions as the rare occasions when Texas songwriters win a nod at the CMA awards.

P.S. - is it me, or did the "Best Song" category really suck fish this year?

_{Turn back to the Constitution - and READ it.}

Rick February 25, 2008 - 1:29pm

Well

I hardly look to the academy to give me the best actor and actress. It's a feel good popularity contest of course (though this year's crop does seem better than most). I don't think this means we need to "shut down our acting schools". Remember, Russell Crowe, Julia Roberts, Gladiator and Titanic all got Oscars too. It doesn't mean much.

Charles Harris February 25, 2008 - 1:34pm

Once

I thought Hansard and Irglova winning for best song was the best moment of the night, followed closely by Diablo Cody's win for script.

My hopes for Johnny Depp winning will have to wait another year (or two, or five...)

drslammy February 25, 2008 - 5:39pm

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