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Post subject:  Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 9:21 pm |
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Post subject: Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 9:25 pm |
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Well... you haven't seen it, I haven't seen it---but maybe it's a great film (good enough to nominated for Best Picture) so... we'll see.
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Post subject: Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 9:31 pm |
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Post subject: Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 9:45 pm |
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Well, I think that's been overshadowed by the dumb writer's strike. So they're happy just to ---have--- the Oscars this year.
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Post subject: Posted: February 23rd, 2008, 10:37 pm |
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Post subject: Posted: February 24th, 2008, 9:36 pm |
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Jon Stewart is brilliant. xD
"No Country for Old Men? Sweeney Todd? There Will Be Blood?? All I have to say is: THANK GOD FOR TEEN PREGNANCY."
xD My thoughts exactly!
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Post subject: Posted: February 24th, 2008, 10:01 pm |
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I think Juno's like Little Miss Sunshine last year. It's an indie (I think) film that somehow got insanely popular, and really doesn't have a chance at winning, but it's nice to have a feel-good movie nominated for Best Picture.
That being said, I'm not bothering to watch them this year. I haven't seen any of the movies but those nominated for the soundtrack and effects awards, so there's not much point.
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Post subject: Posted: February 25th, 2008, 1:18 am |
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Results!
(winners are in all caps)
Actor in Leading Role
George Clooney in Michael Clayton
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS IN THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones in No Country For Old Men
Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises
Actor in Supporting Role
Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James
JAVIER BARDEM IN NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook in Into The Wild
Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton
Actress in Leading Role
Cate Blanchett in Queen Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie in Away From Her
MARION CORTILLARD IN LA VIE EN ROSE
Laura Linney in The Savages
Ellen Page in Juno
Actress in Supporting Role
Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan in Atonement
Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone
TILDA SWINTON IN MICHAEL CLAYTON
Animated Feature Film
Persepolis
RATATOUILLE
Surf's Up
Art Direction
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
SWEENEY TODD
There Will Be Blood
Cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country For Old Men
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Costume Design
Across the Universe
Atonement
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE
La Vie En Rose
Sweeney Todd
Directing
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Juno
Michael Clayton
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
There Will Be Blood
Documentary Feature
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
War/Dance
Documentary Short
FREEHELD
La Corona
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother
Film Editting
THE BOURNE: ULTIMATUM
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Foreign Language Film
Beaufort
THE COUNTERFEITERS
Katyn
Mongol
12
MakeUp
LA VIE EN ROSE
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Music (Score)
ATONEMENT
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Music (Song)
ONCE
Enchanted
August Rush
Best Picture
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
There Will Be Blood
Short Film (Animated)
I Met The Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Even Pigeons Go To Heaven
My Love
PETER AND THE WOLF
Short Film (Live Action)
At Night
The Substitute
THE MOZART OF PICKPOCKETS
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman
Sound Editing
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers
Sound Mixing
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers
Visual Effects
THE GOLDEN COMPASS
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers
Writing (Original Screenplay)
JUNO
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Atonement
Away From Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
There Will Be Blood
There you have it folks. Was a great night and Jon Stewart was fabulous with that Wii! 
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Post subject: Posted: February 25th, 2008, 1:21 am |
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That was one of the most boring Oscar's my eyeballs have ever witnessed.
For a start OMG it's the 80th year?! No, really? Wow, I'd never have guessed it, what with it all being so plain and boring.... were they so unprepared the organizers to think "oh, well seen as how they might not be going ahead we won't even bother doing anything special this year". The montages were so short you'd miss them (and they weren't that great either), there was no entertainment like other years, and the whole thing seemed to be like "let's get this over with as soon as possible".
From my point of view, I normally have minimal interest in what wins, but there's usually enough for me to be interested in speech and entertainment wise, for me to skim through the next day. Luckily, no-one could tape it for us this year, so I made do with watching some of it on the internet so I won't even have to skip through 3 hours to find 3 minutes worth watching.
Thank the lord Ratatioulle won Best Animated and thank the lord also that Julie Christie and Juno did not succeed. As for Daniel Day Lewis [hiss]. I am a patriot, I love my country and my countries film industry, but that "knighthood" thing made me cringe and the whole speech made me want to strangle someone. Poor Johnny and Viggo. I so wanted either of them to win. Alas, why go for someone new and different when you can have a method actor who has won before.
I am very disappointed with this years Oscar's not just because of who won, but how it was presented, even my brother agrees - and he has a taped copy of the Oscars that goes back to 2000 (yay for re-watching ROTK win!) - it just seemed a dud for the 80th year.
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Post subject: Posted: February 25th, 2008, 2:07 am |
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I was disappointed, too. The depressing, psychopathic dramas sweeped everything. I wasn't a fan of Juno, but in the end I was actually pulling for them just because I didn't want No Country For Old Men or There Will Be Blood to win again. Johnny Depp I was wishing for, but I knew by the time Best Actor came around that he hardly had a prayer by the way the awards were going. And they didn't give it to Viggo, or even Clooney! Cate didn't win either one of the best actresses, and Atonement didn't win anything at all. Even Jon Stewart seemed to stop hosting in the middle of it, and left it all to the pre-prepared clips. Really, the only thing satisfactory I gained from this year was Best Song. It was my favorite out of those performed and it's very nice that the two independent film makers won. And I liked how Jon Stewart topped it off... "Boy, is that guy ARROGANT?"  _________________ 
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I have to say, I was rather disappointed in this year's Oscars.
Nothing really happened.
Jon Stewart was funny, which is a given. But, bleh. The best original song performances were awesome though. Very Broadway-esque which made me happy.
As for the winners.
*HEADDESK* *HEADDESK* *HEADDESK* *HEADDESK* *HEADDESK* *HEADDESK* *HEADDESK* *HEADDESK* *HEADDESK* *HEADDESK*
All I can say is that I'm glad Javier won, and I'm glad No Country For Old Men won Best Picture.
I'm also glad in what awards Bourne Ultimatum and Sweeney Todd won.
Other than that, I feel rather ripped off. Like I did when Crash beat out Brokeback.
Johnny and/or Viggo deserved that Oscar SOOO much more than Daniel.
I was talking with Eru after the show, and I told her that any man that gets tortured naked, and puts out a lit cigarette with his tongue should be given the gold statute. I also told her that I felt they overlooked Johnny's absolute best performance of his LIFE, maybe because of his past work (which has been all brilliant). Makes no sense to me why they wouldn't honour Johnny Depp SINGING.
I am also extremely pissed off that Cate didn't win ANYTHING. My only consolation is that she is SOOO beyond Oscar-worthy, that she needs not the honour of the Oscar. XD
The only other thing I enjoyed was watching the clips of the winners from years past, and seeing ROTK and PJ on there just made me SOOOO absolutely giddy, it was ridiculous.  _________________ "So what? So plenty!"
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Post subject: Posted: February 25th, 2008, 11:59 am |
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt ripped off, I was thinking my ultimate depression that I was in before I went to bed (which was 6.30am) about Johnny not winning, was affecting me.
As my brother says, and I have to agree with him, the only time the Academy will give JD an Oscar is for a serious role - as much as we love Jack Sparrow, we still can't believe how he was nominated for that, it's so unlike the Academy. I reckon it was pressure as everyone under the sun loved Jack in the first film. We're still surprised he was nominated for Sweeney Todd - but then how many other actors this year have sung as well as acted in a film? Perhaps if there had been a few of them, it wouldn't have happened. But Johnny isn't the type to be a in a drama where he's lost his home to aliens and his wife's run off with his goldfish, and he decides to go on a road trip but his car catches fire, then he tries to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff but he lands on a ledge 5 feet down instead, then he meets a one armed woman who he wants to marry but she's dying and then he gets hit by a truck and forgets who he is, so he becomes a priest and then lightening hits his church and he dies. You know? He's different. Even Finding Neverland, which was one of his more "serious" roles, was different to all other biopic performances.
I have no doubt that JD willbe up again for an Oscar, but it depresses me he missed out for what I think is his finest role, and it angers me that the Academy are biased. I don't want him to win an Oscar for something less than worthy of him, in a year when all the other performances are crap, and the Academy give it to him just for the sake of it.
I'm glad I saw some of Viggo's performance, that really looks like my kind of film. My brother says he'll be up again sometime.... I hope so, he should have been up for Aragorn.
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Post subject: Posted: February 25th, 2008, 9:33 pm |
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I liked the Oscars just fine.
I just think that people are <i>rather angry</i> about things that would otherwise be insignificant in other circumstances. It's like watching a real life No Country For Old Men or There Will Be Blood.
Huh.
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Post subject: Posted: February 25th, 2008, 10:05 pm |
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I HATE Miley Cyrus. Why Was she there? No one likes her, she can't act, or sing, and when she smiles the looks like a constipated toad.
Angry about Best actor. Viggo or Johnny should have won.
Don't care about supporting actor.
Cate deserved best actress
Don't care about Supporting actress
or Animated
Art was no surpries
Don't care about cinematography
Thank god Across the Universe didn't win costume
Angry about directing
Don't care about doc
or doc short
or film editing
or foreign
La Vie en Rose should NOT HAVE WON
3:10 to Yuma should have won Score
Don't care about song
or best picture
I Met the Walrus or Madam Tutli-Putli should have won short, because their Canadian
dont care about short animation
Transformers should have won Sound Editing
" " come on, it was the guys that did LotR!
Golden Compass SHOULD NOT HAVE WON VISUAL EFFECTS. THE POLAR BEARS SUCKED.
Yay for original screenplay
don't care about adapted.
And it was boring. Except for every single time a LotR thing came up, i did a very loud squeeing noise...
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Post subject: Posted: February 25th, 2008, 10:24 pm |
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Lol. I'm a bit late on this, but I had it taped by a friend since we don't get the channel that it was on.
Anyway, Jon Stewart was one of the best host's I think the Oscars have ever had. His humour is something else. Otherwise, it wasn't a very spectacular night. I expected "There Will Be Blood" and "No Country for Old Men" to take most of the wins, however I was really surprised by the 3 steals made by "The Bourne Ultimatum". I was disappointed in the lack of awards fro "Atonement" and "Sweeney Todd", but I guess that was to be expected. *shrug*
The best part were the many montages played through the night. I thought it was a really nice touch to have Heath Ledger in there.
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Post subject: Posted: February 25th, 2008, 10:39 pm |
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No, I'm just disappointed at the overall thing that was the Oscars - compared to previous years the ceremony was just plain bland and boring. There have been worse years than this for films, yet the ceremony has been entertaining. "Orignal songs" are not entertainment - songs are performed every year.
I'm not sure how Golden Compass won special effects - should have been POTC - but the crew is British, so you know, I'm not too upset.
Bourne only won the technical awards, and for it to win all three technical awards, it must have been very good at what it did for all the technical Academy members to agree that it should win them all.
Best Orignal Score should have been Ratatouille - the best Pixar soundtrack.
The montages could have been way better - 6 seconds of the legends that are Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau? I could spend a happy three hours watching old presentations and speeches from years gone by. Even the In Memoriam seemed to be quite rushed.
I sure hope they have a better organizer next year. I'll play the spoons if they want entertainment.
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