# Academy Awards 2002

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academy-awards-2002/99968>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 25, 2002, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academy-awards-2002/99968 "2002-03-25T05:48:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academy-awards-2002/99968/81 "2002-03-26T20:36:12Z")

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> \*Originally posted by MickNickMaggies \*  
> \*\*Sir Ian deserved to win a couple years back for “God and Monsters.” \*\*

Another victim of cold medicine- “Gods and Monsters”

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/academy-awards-2002/99968/82 "2002-03-26T21:46:35Z")

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Oh, and as far as openly gay people showing up on camera, Debra Chasnoff thanked her partner when she won for documentary short subject back in 1991 and Howard Ashman’s surviving partner accepted his award for best song the same year, mentioning that they shared “a love and a life.” Then there was that thoroughlt confusing Jodie Foster acceptance speech for Silence of the Lambs where she thanks “the circle” and “the trusted ones.” I still don’t know what that was all about.

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