Oscars

[Hector]

I usually try to just watch the "In Memoriam" segment and missed it this year (forgot it was on) but I just caught it on youtube.
They shafted Farrah!! Didn't even include her on the list! I'm pretty sure she made more movies than Michael Jackson (who was included).

I'll have to agree with you here.

Although she never became a "movie star" per say (she was a TV star)...she did appear in a lot more movies than Michael Jackson.

Same applies to Bea Arthur...who was also dissed.

And how about Jennifer Jones??? She was not mentioned either!

She was a five-time Academy Award nominee...and won Best Actress for The Song of Bernadette (1943).

Mayor disses there.

[Hector]

Also...although I love Horror movies...what was the point of that long arse Horror movie segment?

Totally irrelevant.

[Brazoo]

This was the first one I've watched in years - a bunch of friends had an Oscar night party so I figured I'd check it out. It's usually a pretty dull show, and this was no exception.

The winners were fairly predictable - if I was a betting man I would have lost money on picking "Avatar" for Best Sound Editing & Mixing - I figured it was going to sweep all the technical awards. I was also guessing "Coco Before Chanel" would win Costume Design based on the fact that it was about a designer. "Young Victoria" won, and even the winning designer ungraciously mentioned the inane bias towards victorian era costume design in that category.

Hector - I have NO CLUE what the horror segment was there for. I also have NO IDEA why they thought it would be tasteful to give special attention to John Hughes as oppose to just including him the regular memorial part of the ceremony. Also, I noticed the classless wankers at the show still clap for the popular stars during the memorial montage instead of tastefully waiting until the end - disgusting.

Because the Oscars are peer given awards I'm always slightly interested in what they select. It's more interesting for me to see what movies the people who actually make movies appreciate. Anyway, I do think the award for most popular movie already exists, it's called money.

[kingdom warrior]

I was Happy to see the Hurt locker win and See a really good movie beat out a very Over rated movie in Avatar.

Glad Jeff bridges Finally win an Oscar.
Nice to see Sandra Bullock come back from her DOA career and win an Oscar.

[palitoy]

Also...although I love Horror movies...what was the point of that long arse Horror movie segment?

Totally irrelevant.

And terrible. "Young Frankenstein" is a horror movie? "Edward Scissorhands"?

Those two Twilight people might as well yawned during their intro, that girl was so uninterested in her delivery it was awful.

[ctc]

>that girl was so uninterested in her delivery it was awful

She was in character for her next film.

ACTING!!!!

Don C.

[Brazoo]

My brain is still rattling from that horror thing. Didn't that chick say 'it's been since 1973's The Exorcist that the Academy has given an award to a horror movie' or something to that effect? So I figured that depended on what they classified as a horror film - Then they kept showing clips of "Silence of the Lambs" from 1991. It just made no sense at all.

[cdhall]

There are!

I think there should be the Best Box Office Awards...

There are! It's called
$$$$ Money $$$$

And it pays for the Oscars!

[cdhall]

cjefferys:

Congrats, Hector...right on the money...

Dude, you nailed it, nice one!

I too wish that "Basterds" won some more, but am happy that Christoph won for Supporting Actor, he truly deserved it.


Agreed!

I had to post congrats Hector, well done. This was, oddly, the first year I was totally unconcerned with the Oscars. Usually I have some interest.

I checked this thread to see how they'd be connected to Megos. But good call. We need to go to Vegas.

[cjefferys]

I'll have to agree with you here.

Although she never became a "movie star" per say (she was a TV star)...she did appear in a lot more movies than Michael Jackson.

Same applies to Bea Arthur...who was also dissed.

And how about Jennifer Jones??? She was not mentioned either!

She was a five-time Academy Award nominee...and won Best Actress for The Song of Bernadette (1943).

Mayor disses there.

Jennifer Jones was indeed mentioned, it certainly would have been a glaring omission if she hadn't been. But I agree that Farrah and Bea really should have been included.

[cdhall]

film vs tv?

Jennifer Jones was indeed mentioned, it certainly would have been a glaring omission if she hadn't been. But I agree that Farrah and Bea really should have been included.

Sorry to be clueless. Is the memorial focused on people who were in "films" or on Entertainers?

I know Farrah was in Saturn 3, and many TV movies.

According to IMDB Bea was uncredited in History of the World Part I.

If they were not in much more "films" than this, that may explain their absence.

[Mego Milk]

Hector!

I think you have a time machine...

or maybe one of those "Oscar Almanacs" like Marty Mcfly's "Sports Almanac".

nice job dude.

[Sideshow Spock]

I also have NO IDEA why they thought it would be tasteful to give special attention to John Hughes as oppose to just including him the regular memorial part of the ceremony.

For me this was the highlight of the ceremony, which isn't saying much. Other than some good zingers from Martin and Baldwin, what a snorefest. I agree the horror movie tribute was inexplicable.

[palitoy]

It's the 100th year anniversary of the Horror movie but I don't think the mannequin kids mentioned that.

[Sideshow Spock]

I forgot Ben Stiller's Avatar bit.. teh funny