# 79th Annual Acadamy Awards watch along/drink along thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661 "2007-02-26T00:46:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/301 "2007-02-26T04:51:33Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I was sort of hoping **Untited 93** would get this one. I think it was robbed in the Best Pic nominations. [/QUOTE] Agreed. It was a superb movie. Incredibly powerful while not shoving it down your throat. An incredible balancing act. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/302 "2007-02-26T04:52:31Z")
Updated prediction based on the awards so far: **Little Miss Sunshine** to win Best Picture. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/303 "2007-02-26T04:53:06Z")
[QUOTE=Idle Thoughts] No Aaron Spelling? No James Brown? No Anna Nicole Smith? Or was Spelling not counted for being TVish stuff, Brown not counted for being Musicalish stuff, and Smith not counted for being, uh, ish stuff? [/QUOTE] Well Brown has some film credits, why Anna? What did she have to do with movies? I checked Spelling was only TV. This is the Oscars. [http://imdb.com/name/nm0005455/filmotype](http://imdb.com/name/nm0005455/filmotype) ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/304 "2007-02-26T04:53:37Z")
Jeez, I hope Philip Seymour Hoffman’s hair is for a role. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/305 "2007-02-26T04:54:29Z")
It’s always fun to see who gets enthusiastic applause and who just gets polite applause, like when Elia Kazan died. (He was disliked by many for naming names to the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s.) ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/306 "2007-02-26T04:54:43Z")
Philip Seymour Hoffman presenting Best Actress Winner: Helen Mirren, of course! I had to take my headphones off for the Roll Call of the Dead. I hate the clap a lot for some, hardly at all for others thing. That’s rude and I feel sorry for the people’s family. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/307 "2007-02-26T04:55:01Z")
[QUOTE=Idle Thoughts] No Aaron Spelling? No James Brown? No Anna Nicole Smith? Or was Spelling not counted for being TVish stuff, Brown not counted for being Musicalish stuff, and Smith not counted for being, uh, ish stuff? [/QUOTE] Anna Nicole died in 2007, but damn she got shafted for the Oscar in “Naked Gun 33 1/3” ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/308 "2007-02-26T04:55:08Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Well Brown has some film credits, why Anna? What did she have to do with movies? [/QUOTE] Whattya mean? Doesn’t _The Naked Gun 33 and a Third_ count for anything? :eek: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/309 "2007-02-26T04:55:21Z")
\o/ Dame Helen FTW! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/310 "2007-02-26T04:55:31Z")
Helen Mirren, yay! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/311 "2007-02-26T04:56:42Z")
> [@Helen Mirren](#): > > Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…the Queen! Holy crap, Oscar’s a tranny! The conservative Christians are gonna hate these awards. (How can a naked guy be a transvestite, anyway?) ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/312 "2007-02-26T04:57:29Z")
I was just waiting for them to play Helen Mirren offstage. Dancers with a Gun, backstage bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/313 "2007-02-26T04:58:55Z")
[QUOTE=Idle Thoughts] Whattya mean? Doesn’t _The Naked Gun 33 and a Third_ count for anything? :eek: ☹ [/QUOTE] Maybe the grief was still to close. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/314 "2007-02-26T04:59:37Z")
The iPhone commercials are the best of the night. Holy Crap! As I type this - Was that the Pogues on a commercial for freaking Cadillac??? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/315 "2007-02-26T05:00:35Z")
Yeah! I never thought I’d hear The Pogues during an Oscars telecast. I like the iPhone commercial too. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/316 "2007-02-26T05:00:46Z")
The only filmy thing I saw James Brown in was one of those _The Driver_ BMW shorts (in which he was fucking awesome, BTW)Don’t remember,was he in the _Blues Brothers?_ ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/317 "2007-02-26T05:01:07Z")
Here we go folks. The big ones are coming. Come on Marti! ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/318 "2007-02-26T05:01:45Z")
Very late . . . getting tired . . . . Reese is lookin’ good! Take that, Ryan! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/319 "2007-02-26T05:02:26Z")
Idi Amin “the ultimate bad guy?” Aren’t we forgetting Adolf Hitler? And Darth Vader? ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661/320 "2007-02-26T05:02:28Z")
[QUOTE=Annie] The only filmy thing I saw James Brown in was one of those _The Driver_ BMW shorts (in which he was fucking awesome, BTW)Don’t remember,was he in the _Blues Brothers?_ [/QUOTE] He was. The singing preacher. He also did a turn(just singing) in Rocky 4 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/79th-annual-acadamy-awards-watch-along-drink-along-thread/393661.md?page=17)