At the very moment the academy awards broadcast (lower case letters a deliberate choice) was starting last night, Whoopi Goldberg came on with some kind of public announcement/commercial dealing with the bladder leakage problem that women supposedly have. I didn’t need to know that and can only ask why, are they working too hard, do they have poor health, or more probably are they suffering from poor health coverage?
It is hard to understand this announcement of “1 in 3 like me“, particularly at the beginning of the oscars (again, lower case use is deliberate) ceremonies to promote movies for the large cable/movie companies. It can only be some kind of parody and insult against the politics of hollywood.
The following oscar winners were:
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Best Animated Feature Film: Up (Directed by Pete Docter)
Best Original Song: “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)
*Best Original Screenplay: The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
Best Animated Short Film: Logorama (Directed by Nicolas Schmerkin)
Best Documentary Short: Music by Prudence (Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett)
Best Live Action Short Film: The New Tenants (Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson)
Best Makeup: Star Trek (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
(Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo’Nique (Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire)
**Best Art Direction: Avatar (Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg – Art Direction; Kim Sinclair – Set Decoration)
Best Costume Design: The Young Victoria (Sandy Powell)
* Best Sound Editing: The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson)
*Best Sound Mixing: The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett)
**Best Cinematography: Avatar (Mauro Fiore)
Best Original Score: Up (Michael Giacchino)
**Best Visual Effects: Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones)
Best Documentary Feature: The Cove (Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens)
*Best Film Editing: The Hurt Locker (Bob Murawski and Chris Innis)
Best Foreign Language Film: The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) Argentina (Directed by Juan José Campanella)
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
*Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
*Best Film: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
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To get Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, Best Director, and most insulting, Best Film, is an obsene gesture to every person that understands the artistry of storytelling using the camera as the tool. Each of these awards should have their capitalizations ripped away and demoted to that for which more accurately displays the proper respect.
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The movie, “hurt locker” was just a war movie. It plodded through it’s storyline like a Army soldier on a 30 mile forced march. It was nothing special, even with it’s pretentious afterthought concern of our soldiers “over there”.
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It is clear the politics of hollywood decided that since “hurt locker” was directed by a woman, a breakthrough that had to be recognized by the academy now in 2010, that the girls and the girlie boys got together for a wee wet pants moment to wet down the merits of all of these awards.
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One can only wonder if a man had directed “the hurt locker” and a woman had directed ”Avatar” with its multilayered ironies carried along in it’s far better storyline, that ”the hurt locker” would have gotten the awards for Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, Best Director and most insulting, Best Film as well as Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects that were awarded to “Avatar”.
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Jakesully as AVATAR with Neytiri
I really doubt it. A man would not have won any awards for “hurt locker”.
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And I really doubt the girls and the girlie boys won’t have to “wee” on themselves in the future and give us more low grade movies and pass it off as top level movie entertainment when everyone really knows it is really just a load of crap.
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Comment from Dan
Time March 9, 2010 at 9:40 am
Well, I know I may never order Scotch with a “SPRITZ” of water again after seeing that add… And now I am having erotic nightmares of Hollywood sex goddesses prancing about in Depends… The sacred is become the profane and the inane is become more inane. I will have a Scotch neat while I can still afford it…