The One & Only Academy Awards Thread

[Guest El Satanico]

Anyone here feel that Saving Private Ryan was robbed by Shakespeare in Love? I ask the question because I just thought of it, and I remember being irritated about it

No...Saving Private Ryan wasn't that great. It was like Gladiator, good but not great and it didn't deserve an Oscar.

I loved Gladiator.

Oh don't get me wrong, I also liked Gladiator, but it really didn't deserve to win Best Picture.

[Guest EternallyLazy]

What with the Jones replay played IMMEDIATLY after??

[Guest El Satanico]

Recap of 3 minutes ago?

 

Oscar Is Raw

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

I could see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon beating Gladiator, even though I preferred the latter. But Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and Chocolat were all horrible.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Is the instant replay neccessary?

 

I loved it when they had Peter Coyote dressed up like a 25th Century black jack dealer doing the bumpers backstage.

[Guest EternallyLazy]

Anyone here feel that Saving Private Ryan was robbed by Shakespeare in Love? I ask the question because I just thought of it, and I remember being irritated about it

I didn't like any of the nominees that year. William Goldman wrote a brilliant essay on how bad Saving Private Ryan is from a screenplay and film construction point of view.

I don't know about that guy, but if you look at www.rottentomatoes.com and type in saving private ryan, you'll see that 99.9% of the critics gave it glowing reviews with words like masterpiece, brilliant, and "instant classic" thrown in in almost every review

[Guest Flyboy]

Recap of 3 minutes ago?

 

Oscar Is Raw

[Guest El Satanico]

Oh yeah, that's right Gladiator won it in a very weak year. I was thinking there was some other movie that had a chance of winning(CTHD had little chance) which deserved to win.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

So the Two Towers gets a ten second scene, but they play the trailer for Gangs of New York? Wonder what that says?

[Guest EternallyLazy]

So the Two Towers gets a ten second scene, but they play the trailer for Gangs of New York? Wonder what that says?

That Gangs of New york is a better film??

[Guest Flyboy]

I can see Kate Hudson's nipples.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Science and tech awards. Time for nachos!

[Guest Downhome]

Best Original Score --- Frida

 

5/8

 

Is it just me, or did that guy look cocky as the beast when he got up on stage?

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

I noticed it too.

[Guest EternallyLazy]

standing ovation! cool

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Keeping pace with downhome at 5/8

 

I thought Renee looked a little shocked when she read Frida for the win.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Notice no clip of Rob Lowe dancing with Snow White.

 

God bless Dean Martin and Isaac Hayes though.

[Guest EternallyLazy]

I hate Ethel Merman

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

6/9

Always go with Jews in Africa.

[Guest Downhome]

Best Foregin Language Film --- Nowhere In Africa, Germany

 

5/8

[Guest Downhome]

Achievement in Sound --- Chicago

 

5/9

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

7/10

 

They are cutting people off way too fucking early. I hope Jack wins just to put the bastards in their place.

[Guest Downhome]

Achievement in Sound Editing --- The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers

 

6/10

[Guest Downhome]

Is this guy just so tall, or is the other one just so short?

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

8/11

 

I got my token Twin Towers awards right.

 

Over an hour and a half in and no war speechs. Steve Martin is regulating.

[Guest EternallyLazy]

8/11

 

I got my token Twin Towers awards right.

 

Over an hour and a half in and no war speechs. Steve Martin is regulating.

I'm pleasently surprised... even if I were anti-war which I'm not, I still wouldn't want to hear them

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Ok, so I spoke too soon. GO KICK HIS ASS STEVE!

[Guest Downhome]

This show is not the place to preach anti-war damnit, fuck anyone who does so at this time. That is all.

[Guest the pinjockey]

Who was it that went anti-war? I just flipped back to it.

[Guest Downhome]

Wait, does this mean that f'n Eminem will be performing, on the ACADEMY AWARDS!? I never thought I'd see the day.