# 78th Oscars Thread (unboxed spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198 "2006-03-06T00:07:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/341 "2006-03-06T06:56:07Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > When did they start electing nobodies? Past “who?” [presidents](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Motion_Picture_Arts_and_Sciences#Presidents_of_the_Academy) of the Academy include Robert Rehme (1992-1993, 1997-2001) and Richard Kahn (1988-1989). ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/342 "2006-03-06T06:59:00Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > I wonder what it must be like for **Crash** fans, happy at its win, to know that they’re celebrating right along with homophobes, bigots and $cientologists? I knew that someone was going to come along and say something like this because _Brokeback Mountain_ didn’t win. Thank you for not letting me down. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sunny\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_1)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/343 "2006-03-06T07:00:19Z")
> [@Terminus Est](#): > > The music while the acceptance speeches are going on has got to stop. It makes me think that the winners’ time is up, even before they’ve begun speaking. Ahhhhhhhh! Exactly! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/344 "2006-03-06T07:02:01Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > I knew that someone was going to come along and say something like this because _Brokeback Mountain_ didn’t win. Thank you for not letting me down. I’d assumed it was a whoosh. How could a bigot be happy that the prize went to a movie solely about to the harms caused by bigotry? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/345 "2006-03-06T07:08:41Z")
> [@Idle Thoughts](#): > > Also, seems people like Don Knotts and Dennis Weaver were too late in their deaths to be inlcuded. Their film careers were minor. They were primarily television actors, and will no doubt be remembered at the next Emmy Awards. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/346 "2006-03-06T07:11:05Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I’d assumed it was a whoosh. How could a bigot be happy that the prize went to a movie solely about to the harms caused by bigotry? Why do I see that being said by [this guy](http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~lthomas/vizzini1.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/347 "2006-03-06T07:15:02Z")
> [@Dignan](#): > > I still maintain that perhaps the funniest moment in the history of the Calvacade of the Dead was when Leni Riefenstahl was shown. Everyone is just kind of politely clapping, and then you can tell people start to realize … Oh, yeah, that’s the Nazi … and the clapping trails off. She wasn’t a Nazi. She was hired to make a film about a Nazi rally. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/348 "2006-03-06T07:18:31Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Why do I see that being said by [this guy](http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~lthomas/vizzini1.jpg)? Because it was brilliant? I’m not sure; I just know I cannot choose the reply button in front of \*me[/]. Anyway, I’m just flattered. That a comparison to Vizzini could be anything but a compliment is inconceivable. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/349 "2006-03-06T07:21:02Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > _Geisha_ and _Kong_- kings of the technical categories! The [Scientific and Technical Awards](http://www.oscars.org/78academyawards/scitech/winners.html) are given out in a separate, earlier ceremony, and are not given out to individual films. _Geisa_ and _Kong_ won artistic awards. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/350 "2006-03-06T07:23:49Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > And now they’re divorced. Nope. Separated and in marriage counseling. Swank was still wearing her wedding ring. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/351 "2006-03-06T07:31:31Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > **Eve** can make the costumes, **Otto** can do the lighting and we can put on the movie right here in this old barn! I call for Unit Publicist. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/352 "2006-03-06T07:41:36Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Their film careers were minor. They were primarily television actors, and will no doubt be remembered at the next Emmy Awards. Actually it was probably because they died in 2006, not 2005. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/353 "2006-03-06T07:49:46Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Actually it was probably because they died in 2006, not 2005. That was my first thought as well, but then I realized Chris Penn died in 2006, and he was included. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/354 "2006-03-06T08:02:00Z")
Shelley Winters died January 14, Anthony Franciosa died January 19, Chris Penn died January 24, Moira Shearer died January 31, and they were all in the tribute. The Academy usually includes anyone who died up to two weeks before the Awards ceremony. (They have to allow time to obtain rights clearances for the film clips used in the memorial montage, and then to edit the thing.) ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/355 "2006-03-06T08:14:00Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I’m just so p.o.d that they didn’t give the award to _GN&GL_ or _Brokeback_… Bet you a quarter that’s exactly how Crash won - a split vote between GNGL and BBM. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/356 "2006-03-06T09:44:38Z")
> [@](#): > > **Equipoise** : wonder what it must be like for Crash fans, happy at its win, to know that they’re celebrating right along with homophobes, bigots and $cientologists? It’s a lot like the way you feel on the Fourth of July and New Year’s Eve when you’re celebrating with your family and friends and beyond that hundreds of millions of other people. I’ve never been troubled by the happiness of others. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/357 "2006-03-06T13:04:07Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > I wonder what it must be like for **Crash** fans, happy at its win, to know that they’re celebrating right along with homophobes, bigots and $cientologists? Why would a bigot be happy with _Crash_ winning? The film is an indictment of bigotry. Think about it. Would a bigot would be happy with _any_ of the five nominees winning? ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/358 "2006-03-06T14:36:25Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > I_BM_ was just another cloying, manipulative love story. Were it not about 2 men it’d have been quickly forgotten. Then how do you explain _The English Patient_? :rolleyes: If it weren’t about two men, then it wouldn’t be _Brokeback Mountain_. The entire point of the story is two men are in love in a time and place where they could never be happy together. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/359 "2006-03-06T14:39:22Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I think it was “River’s dead isn’t he? Boo. I wonder if there’s a dachshund in my fridge. I’m cuckoo for coacoa puffs… Hoo hoo! Hoo hoo! Woo woo hoo woo hoo hoo! When are we leaving for the Oscars?” > > I’m not sure of that though. Heh. It was “I love you \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_” but I couldn’t make out the rest. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198/360 "2006-03-06T15:33:22Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > Why can’t they just say they will end at 11:30? If they know that they will fall behind schedule every freaking time then stop kidding yourselves and say you will end in three and a half hours instead of just three. If they scheduled it to end at 11:30, it would end at 12:15. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/78th-oscars-thread-unboxed-spoilers/347198.md?page=19)