The 79th Annual Academy Awards

[IronMan_2005]

I don't know if this has been posted but,

Guillermo del Toro GOT SCREWED!!

 

[Shifty]

If Eddie lost the Oscar because he stars in movies like Norbit or that he tends to be arrogant on set or his personal situation with Scary Spice - Who the **** cares??!! It's his performance in Dreamgirls that counts and i think most people agree that he was great in that. *sigh*

How many people win a Golden Globe and the SAG Award but loose at the Oscars? I can't think of any.

You would have to look at the lists. There is always a first for something. Jim Carrey won 2 Golden Globes and has a SAG nomination, yet 0 Oscar Nominations after three deserving performances.

So Mel Gibson's film should've been up for Best Foreign Film if off set antics don't matter?

Every year the nominations/winners change but there are always people whining and upset about the results. Who cares. You enjoyed the performances, you enjoyed the movie, you enjoyed the experience - who cares what a group of people think.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

anyone got a video of marty winning? i wasnt able to catch the show.

Same here, I really want to see it.

 

[ghost_x]

It was due time for Scorcese to win the oscar, but I must be honest, this shouldn't of been the film to do it

 

[Matt]

Glad Marty finally got his due. Hopefully Leo will soon as well

 

[Prognosticator]

Leo will get his later unless he does the kind of slam-bang performance that kicks in the door, a-la Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest

 

[Shifty]

Leo will get his later unless he does the kind of slam-bang performance that kicks in the door, a-la Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest

Leo and Marty's next project:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480046/

 

[The Chairman]

Leo and Marty's next project:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480046/

Cool, this makes it look like Leo could get it.

 

[Movies205]

Outside of the crappy intro vid and all the montages... Ellen was an awesome host I must say, that bit with the myspace and having spielburg take a picture of her and clint was aweosme. Or when she handed Marty a screen-play. She was really a great host and I like it because she didn't make fun of the academy, it was just good ol'clean fun...

 

[The Chairman]

Outside of the crappy intro vid and all the montages... Ellen was an awesome host I must say, that bit with the myspace and having spielburg take a picture of her and clint was aweosme. Or when she handed Marty a screen-play. She was really a great host and I like it because she didn't make fun of the academy, it was just good ol'clean fun...

I give her credit for not throwing in a bunch of cliched Iraq war jokes.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Leo should've gotten nominated for The Departed. That's some of the best acting I've seen in a while.

 

[The Chairman]

Leo probably would've won if he had gotten nominated for The Departed. One of the best perfromances I've ever seen. I put up there with Travis Bickle, Don Corleone and Atticus Finch.

 

[Prognosticator]

Leo and Marty's next project:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480046/

Yes! This might be just the ticket!

 

[KenK]

The thing that gets me, though, is that for every joke they'd make about the Oscars being notorious for running too long, they do three things that contribute to it being too freakin' long!

*The best original/adapted screenplay presentations did NOT need 30 clips from EVERY DAMN FILM, so they could actually read snippets from the screenplays! They've never done it before, way the hell would they start now!

*The Sound Effects Choir, as cool as it is, it brings up the whole dispute with stuntmen petitioning for Oscar recognition, and not getting it. Even if it's part of the technical ceremony, give them something! These guys put their asses on the line for the film industry, and the Academy doesn't even see fit to acknowledge them.

*Chris Connelly's painful backstage interviews before commercial breaks: NOBODY CARES!!

*In fact, you'd think a single company would step up and sponsor the show so it runs with limited commercial breaks! It's only once a year, and they can always get another company to do it next year!

 

[JackBauer]

Outside of the crappy intro vid and all the montages... Ellen was an awesome host I must say, that bit with the myspace and having spielburg take a picture of her and clint was aweosme. Or when she handed Marty a screen-play. She was really a great host and I like it because she didn't make fun of the academy, it was just good ol'clean fun...

meh, 90% of her jokes fell flat to me, and she just went on and on and on and on... she dragged most of her jokes into the ground.

 

[JackBauer]

Same here, I really want to see it.

man, you should've seen Marty's face when Departed won best picture. he was just chilling backstage with Spielberg, finally holding his Oscar, and Spielberg said something to him and you could see him say something like "I won?" or "it won?", all surprised.

priceless.

 

[JackBauer]

The thing that gets me, though, is that for every joke they'd make about the Oscars being notorious for running too long, they do three things that contribute to it being too freakin' long!

exactly!! what's worse is that they'll keep those bulls#!t montages like the one from Michael Mann about america but they'll unceremoniously cut people's speeches short, leaving a lot of people not getting the chance to do their thing and thank their people.

I know some speeches can be pretty damn boring, but it's a matter of respect.

 

[04nbod]

I like the shadow dancers.

so did i, that's some talent.

I knew as soon as i saw his contemporaries come on stage scorcese was going to win-classic moment in oscar history.

biggest downer was eddie being snubbed, shows the prejudice's of the academy (not in race but in comedians- as ferrels and blacks song rightly pointed out)

i didn't think ellen was too bad, her monologue made me smile but the dance ruined it.

One day Will Smith will win, Third time lucky

 

[Gonking]

Leo probably would've won if he had gotten nominated for The Departed. One of the best perfromances I've ever seen. I put up there with Travis Bickle, Don Corleone and Atticus Finch.

I think some of you are exaggerating, Leo has became a really good actor but NOT THAT MUCH.
He still has to do a lot of great performances to make me forget of Titanic and The Beach. He was quite bad there.

 

[JackBauer]

I think some of you are exaggerating, Leo has became a really good actor but NOT THAT MUCH.
He still has to do a lot of great performances to make me forget of Titanic and The Beach. He was quite bad there.

he's not quite there yet, but he's on the right track.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Was i the only one board out of my mind. I miss Billy Crystal as the host. Ellen seems boring to me. Sorry just my opinion. I think Babel should have won. But it was due time for Alan Arkin to get one but i don't think there were as good movies selected this year. I liked the Departed but i liked Blood Diamond better. Also i think Casino Royale was the best Movie. Best entertaining film was Pirates 2 yes but best movie was Casino Royale.

 

[The Chairman]

Was i the only one board out of my mind. I miss Billy Crystal as the host. Ellen seems boring to me. Sorry just my opinion. I think Babel should have won. But it was due time for Alan Arkin to get one but i don't think there were as good movies selected this year. I liked the Departed but i liked Blood Diamond better. Also i think Casino Royale was the best Movie. Best entertaining film was Pirates 2 yes but best movie was Casino Royale.

Casino Royale was not the best movie of the year. Not even close. For a Bond film, it had more depth and development than most, but it was still a tytpical action film at heart.

I haven't seen Babel but regardless, I don't think it should have won. Public opinion on it has been too polarized to truly justify it being awarded. Plus, in many ways it seemed to me like it was a repeat of Crash, which if you recall was not a popular choice for Best Picture last year.

 

[The Chairman]

I think some of you are exaggerating, Leo has became a really good actor but NOT THAT MUCH.
He still has to do a lot of great performances to make me forget of Titanic and The Beach. He was quite bad there.

Are you kidding, he has grown. He always showed potential in his early work (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, This Boy's Life), and now it has been fulfilled. The man has now become the actor of choice for quite possibly the world's most respected living director, and he has held own against legends like Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Tom Hanks and Martin Sheen.

You're wrong.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Babel was a great movie, but I felt it to be the third best movie of the 5 nominees (I saw all 5). My favorite of the bunch lost (Letters From Iwo Jima), but I did think The Departed was almost as good, and am not in the least disappointed it won. It deserved it also. Little Miss Sunshine and The Queen were also really good, but the other three films overshadowed them in my mind (though I do think LMS was a more original movie than Babel, so it deserved the original screenplay award).

For the most part, I agreed with most of the academy's decisions this year, except for Pan's Labyrinth losing Best Foreign Film....that was highway robbery.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Are you kidding, he has grown. He always showed potential in his early work (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, This Boy's Life), and now it has been fulfilled. The man has now become the actor of choice for quite possibly the world's most respected living director, and he has held own against legends like Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Tom Hanks and Martin Sheen.

You're wrong.

Leo is definately one of the greatest actors out there now, so I have to agree. I didn't used to think much of him, but now I have a lot of respect for him. He should have been nominated for The Departed, also. I think he got jipped there, but I can't say Whitaker didn't deserve the award, since I didn't see The Last King of Scotland.