82nd Annual Academy Awards

[Boom]

Happy for Waltz and Bridges .

 

[Gilpesh]

Heh. Wow. You really got all of that out of her speech, huh?

Let's just see:

I would like to thank the Academy for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics.

Yeaup. Right there. Immediately demeaning every other nominees in the category. And if she meant something else, she should have worked on the wording before going up there.

 

[RockSP]

Don't see how she was demeaning anyone when she was talking about herself, and the criticism she had recieved for not campaigning for the oscar and/or the film.

There was definitely nothing in there about the other nominess being white or buying their nominations.

 

[Gilpesh]

You don't see?

Saying that automatically implies that she was the best and that if anyone else had won it was them buying their nomination (politics). And after that, also bringing up someone that broke down race barriers... doesn't help.

And again. If she meant something else, she should have worked on the wording better.

 

[dude stannis]

You don't see?

Saying that automatically implies that she was the best and that if anyone else had won it was them buying their nomination (politics). And after that, also bringing up someone that broke down race barriers... doesn't help.

And again. If she meant something else, she should have worked on the wording better.

I'm with you man.

"Sometimes you have to forgo what's popular in order to do what is right"

Basically she said f*** you to Vera Farmiga, Maggie Gyllenhaal, etc.

 

[RockSP]

Saying that automatically implies that she was the best and that if anyone else had won it was them buying their nomination (politics).

Actually it just implies that she's glad she won despite not politicking. Not really "implies", since that's exactly what she said.

I'm with you man.

"Sometimes you have to forgo what's popular in order to do what is right"

Basically she said f*** you to Vera Farmiga, Maggie Gyllenhaal, etc.

C'mon. "To my husband Sidney for showing me that sometimes you..."

How does that have anything to do with Farmiga, Gyllenhaal and the rest?

 

[Crook]

See, I think there's just too much filling-in-the-blank method going on there. The statements she made were associated to her own career path. Inferring an opposite scenario to her fellow nominees is more than a bit presumptuous.

She was heavily criticized for not playing the game. Her win, did prove that it wasn't necessary. It had nothing to do with anyone else, for the simple fact that the issue focused solely on Mo'Nique disassociating herself from the conventional Oscar ploys.

 

[Gilpesh]

Yet Monique did play politics. The whole stance of "I'm not going to play politics" and declaring it loudly... is politics. And it is even setting her up so that if another lady had won... she can cry about it being unfair.

 

[Crook]

I didn't really follow it too much, all I know is one writer wrote a pretty hefty article attacking Mo'Nique about it. Was she actually parading around town on her non-campaign, or was it more of saying the same response to every reporter asking her about it? Those are two very different things.

 

[Doctor Jones]

You don't see?

Saying that automatically implies that she was the best and that if anyone else had won it was them buying their nomination (politics). And after that, also bringing up someone that broke down race barriers... doesn't help.

And again. If she meant something else, she should have worked on the wording better.

I gotta agree with this actually. But maybe she simply meant the politics in terms of her choice of character and how that character was. And forgoing something that was popular was more of a meaning of in her case, accepting a role like that instead of doing something more mainstream and doing what feels right. Maybe? Or what?

edit: okay, reading the comments on the page before makes my comment above pretty inaccurate. But I still gotta go with Gilpesh on this one.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I didn't read into the speech what someother people did. It seems like some are just trying to find a reason to hate her speech. I think that she was in no way trying to diss any of the nominees.

Typical that her speech gets flack and Clooney's embarrassing speech from when he won the Oscar doesn't. Yes Mr. Clooney was she be jumping for joy at how awesome and welcoming Hollywood is because 1000 years ago and old black woman won for playing a sterotypical maid.

Thats not a diss on her winning but it would have been better if the first black person who won an oscar didn't win it for playing a dumb black maid.

 

[Retroman]

What was up with George Clooney? He looked ticked off the entire ceremony.

Mo'Nique seemed sincere in her choice of words.Whatever politics or lack there of played a part in getting her the Oscar (and a host of other awards) shouldn't take anything away from her amazing performance in Precious.

If anyone had said 2 years that Mo'Nique would be winning awards for a drama they would be laughed at.

I haven't seen either performance but i was happy to see Bridges win but Bullock was a definite surprise for me even if it's really hard not to like her.

Amazingly though Warner Bros has decided NOT to give The Blind Side get a theatrical release over here (and a few other European countries for that matter). Despite all success it's had at the US box office and the prestigious awards it's garnered. Maybe it's because American football movies don't tend to do well on this side of the Atlantic? Even with Sandra Bullock...i mean...Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah, I kind of assumed Clooney's face was apart of Balwin's and Martin's act. But I'm not quite sure.

 

[Majik1387]

Clooney was ticked halfway through the red carpet before the show. I'm pretty sure some reporter ticked him off or something.

 

[Prison Mike]

It was an inside joke. Clooney even admitted it after the Oscars because people were "concerned".

 

[Dr. Evil]

Yeah, I kind of assumed Clooney's face was apart of Balwin's and Martin's act. But I'm not quite sure.

It's been reported that Clooney told Baldwin before the show that he was going to react like that.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Ah. It seemed kind of acted anyway.

 

[That-Guy]

Hey have you guys seen this video yet? It's hilarious. And totally spot-on.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1971567,00.html

 

[Doctor Jones]

Your avvy is awesome.

And that video was brilliant.

 

[That-Guy]

Haha, thanks. Yeah, as soon as I saw that picture of her, I had to use it as an avatar, lol.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I still couldn't believe that happened. Even worse, he was interupted again on Larry King trying to say the speach that was stolen from him. Jesus, King what a prick.

 

[:eek:]

Cameron must be seething with rage that his Ferngully remake only won two technical awards and was beaten by a relative newcomer AND his ex who made a moving war movie

OSCAR BURN!

Some old news from before the Oscar ceremony I just happen to find:

Hollywood filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow almost passed up the chance to direct award-winning war film The Hurt Locker - until her ex-husband James Cameron convinced her to take on the project.

Bigelow is already generating Oscar buzz with the hit movie, but Cameron confesses his ex wanted to make a film adaptation of Erik Larson's book, The Devil in the White City, when the project came along.

The Avatar director, who says the pair are still friendly after their 1991 split, admits he advised his ex to drop the other film during a chat.

Cameron tells USA Today, "I encouraged her to do The Hurt Locker, because she had gotten that script and let me read it just for comment. I said, 'Jump out of White City and do this film!

So I doubt Cameron felt jealous or something when he lost to Bigelow

 

[Dr. Evil]

When Bigelow won, you could easily see Cameron behind her saying "all right."

 

[Dr. Evil]

When Bigelow won, you could easily see Cameron behind her saying "all right."

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Some old news from before the Oscar ceremony I just happen to find:



So I doubt Cameron felt jealous or something when he lost to Bigelow

It is truly refreshing to see passionate posters who would defend their favorite directors by responding to a 8 month old post.