# 86th Academy Awards viewing thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/86th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/682697 "2014-03-02T20:47:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/86th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/682697/302 "2014-03-03T23:41:23Z")
A nice graphic of the Best Actress Oscar winners’ dresses since 1929: [AOL Style News, Trends and Advice - AOL.com](http://www.stylelist.com/read/infographic-every-oscar-dress-worn-by-best-actress-winners-sin/) ---
**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:** [March 4, 2014, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/86th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/682697/303 "2014-03-04T07:20:39Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > According to the Daily Mail, the pizza guy never got the tips Ellen collected in the hat. > > I know, Daily Mail, but they seem to have interviewed people at the pizzeria. [Not true.](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-pizza-delivery-guy-gets-685657) Ellen herself gave him $600, and with the extra tips she collected he got $1000. If anyone wants to watch the Animated Short winner, [Mr. Hublot, here it is.](http://io9.com/watch-mr-hublot-the-animated-short-that-just-won-an-o-1535390849?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/86th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/682697/304 "2014-03-04T08:11:13Z")
There are now a fair number of movie theaters in the U.S. that show all the Oscar-nominated shorts for several weeks before the Oscars. By a fair number I mean several dozen of them. I believe that they all show the shorts as four features - one for the animated shorts, one for the live-action shorts, and two for the documentary shorts. So if you want to see all of them, you’ll have to buy four tickets. If you don’t live within driving distance of a big city, you won’t be about to see them, of course, but then you probably won’t be able to see a lot of other non-blockbuster films either. ---
**Author:** ![alexandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@alexandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alexandra)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/86th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/682697/305 "2014-03-04T14:14:11Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Just wow.:eek: Reminded me so much of the film _Brazil._ > > And was Ford high or sick?😕 > > Yeah, I met the 'real" Steve McQueen, I can’t figure out why the director doesn’t differ his name in some way. Weird, kinda creepy. Creepy? Really? It’s his name. Also, he’s very artsy and alternative. He started out doing short art films like the one that’s apparently ten minutes of homoerotic wrestling (or something like that). He probably didn’t anticipate working in the same industry as the actor. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/86th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/682697/306 "2014-03-04T15:06:28Z")
> [@alexandra](#): > > He started out doing short art films like the one that’s apparently ten minutes of homoerotic wrestling (or something like that). He told me there was no film in that camera! What an asshole ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/86th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/682697/307 "2014-03-04T17:09:49Z")
got around to watching Matthew McConaghuey’s speech after the fact. Hated it. He seemed like he’d gotten very in love with himself over the course of the awards season. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/86th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/682697/308 "2014-03-04T17:57:15Z")
> [@alexandra](#): > > Creepy? Really? It’s his name. Also, he’s very artsy and alternative. He started out doing short art films like the one that’s apparently ten minutes of homoerotic wrestling (or something like that). He probably didn’t anticipate working in the same industry as the actor. But still he did. I mean, why not Stephen? Or add a middle initial? I am not asking the dude to change his name, you know. Just a slight change to him moniker. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/86th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/682697/309 "2014-03-04T18:07:02Z")
Directors aren’t bound to any rules about having the same name as an actor, like the SAG rules do (though even then I think it’s only an issue if the person is alive.) Can’t you just use context to determine which guy is being referenced? Like if it’s about the movie _Bullitt_, it’s probably about the dead actor and if the topic is films about slavery, it’s probably the director. ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/86th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/682697/310 "2014-03-04T20:43:33Z")
The might both be in the same entertainment business but they’re not even in the same profession. If they were the same nationality … maybe. But these two have absolutely nothing in common. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/86th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/682697/311 "2014-03-05T16:38:40Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > got around to watching Matthew McConaghuey’s speech after the fact. Hated it. Same here, but I didn’t see what was wrong with it. I guess it’s getting harder and harder to make an acceptance speech that won’t piss someone off for some reason. I’m also baffled by the outcry over Ellen’s “transphobic” joke to Liza Minnelli. I can see Liza misinterpreting it because she’s, well, Liza, but are there really that many fuckin’ feebs out there who don’t get the joke? It wasn’t that she looked like a man, for chrissake! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/86th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/682697/312 "2014-03-05T17:04:48Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’m also baffled by the outcry over Ellen’s “transphobic” joke to Liza Minnelli. I can see Liza misinterpreting it because she’s, well, Liza, but are there really that many fuckin’ feebs out there who don’t get the joke? It wasn’t that she looked like a man, for chrissake! I’ve been saying this on Facebook since Sunday night. The joke wasn’t that Liza looked like a drag queen. The joke was that an awful lot of drag queens impersonate Liza. I don’t think she was seriously offended by it, TMZ’s sensationalizing notwithstanding. And her sister all but peed herself laughing when Ellen said it. ETA: Besides which, drag queens are NOT transsexual or transgender, so calling the joke transphobic is stupid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/86th-academy-awards-viewing-thread/682697.md?page=15)