I’ll have to look it up. I’m not a Family Guy watcher, so I wasn’t quite aware of that either.
I think that Affleck’s Best Director snub caused a backlash that eventually turned the tide towards Argo. Also, the Academy hates to give awards to Spielberg movies. He’s now directed three or four Oscar favorites that all lost (at least Lincoln, The Color Purple, and Saving Private Ryan).
What a jerk she is. If you don’t want to be there, don’t, but don’t get up there and look like an asshole. Ugh.
That’s just how she is all the time.
Argo won because it is partially about Hollywood, and Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood. Add in the Ben Affleck getting snubbed factor and that’s your formula. Now I have not gotten around to see may of the other movies, so I cannot say what should have won, but Argo was a highly competent, by-the-numbers, entertaining film that does not seem that special to me.
It was also a very good movie, my favorite of all those nominated. I have no problem at all with it winning.
Yes, the Oscars are one of the very few “live” shows, aside from sports events, that are not tape-delayed for the West Coast, and they have been live for many years.
People say that Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood, and I’m sure that’s true, but as far as I can tell very few Best Pictures are actually about the movies. Maybe “The Artist” from last year. But before that the previous Best Picture winner that was about the movies was “All About Eve”, back in 1950, from what I can tell.
I guess it’s the producers’ fault for even inviting her, especially to present with Daniel Radcliffe who was actually good-natured about it all.
I’ve never seen the Harry Potter movies or anything, but it looked to me like Daniel Radcliffe was just enjoying the ever lovin’ shit out of the whole thing. I think he was having the most fun of anybody last night.
20 hours later I’m still thinking about how hard I want to slap Kristen Stewart for making a bitchface every time she was on camera. I hope her 15 minutes are about up.
Sorry to double-post on K-Stew, but I just learned that on Saturday she won the Razzie Award for Worst Actress. Maybe she has no sense of humor.
Look beyond the winners to the nominees. Look how many are either set in LA, or have plots or subplots involving the performance arts.
Also, there are movies like Shakespeare in Love which, though not ostensibly about Hollywood, is peppered with inside jokes for those in The Industry.
Huh, maybe I’m thinking of other award shows then, like the Grammy’s or something. I recall a lot of time being irritated that a show being recorded in my zip code and broadcast elsewhere wasn’t going to get to me for another two hours. Doesn’t explain why my friend on Facebook didn’t know what was going on, though. Maybe she’s just stupid.
Yes, every other awards show, Emmys, Grammys, Golden Globes, etc. is tape delayed on the West Coast, but the Oscars is still a holdout. I have watched all but one Oscar ceremony since 1972, almost all of them in California, in part because I can watch without having to stay up too late. (I realized last night that I was watching my 40th Oscar telecast! ) :eek:
I’ve already mentioned my bafflement over the rave reviews for Shirley Bassey’s IMO very off-key performance, but it did change my thinking about something else.
I have long thought that the fact that To Sir, With Love wasn’t even nominated for a “Best Original Song” Oscar was the worst mistake in my admittedly very limited knowledge of the history of Best Song Oscars, but not nominating Goldfinger might have matched it. The songs that were nominated in the same year included What’s New, Pussycat? and The Ballad of Cat Ballou.
I almost forgot!
WTH was wrong with Jack Nicholson? He’s supposed to be this super-suave bad boy of the geriatric set, but that suit looked about four sizes too big for him and then his presentation of the First Lady was almost incomprehensible.
I know I’m way late to the party here (just watched the show last night as I was traveling Sunday night), but I was surprised to see Renee Zellweger with such an ample chest. I recall from Chicago she had essentially nothing up top, but she filled that dress rather unnaturally. I don’t think it was simple padding; it looked surgical. Has she had augmentation?
With as much botox that she has shot into her face, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that she’s had other work done. Here’s a pic from the Oscars, and I agree she seems a bit enhanced.
ETA: Here’s an article w/ before & after shots and it says that it’s “no secret” that she had the work done in 2010. She went from a 34B to a D cup.
I guess I’m further out of the celebrity news loop than I thought.