will they accept in tuxes and helmets?
My guess is that they wouldn’t show up and/or would send someone else.
I don’t think they’ll be nominated though.
If that did happen, I’m not sure how they would accept, but I’m sure they’d do something that would have everybody talking about it the next day.
The bigger question for me is what happens if Banksy wins for Best Documentary.
I don’t suppose you’d like to tell us the film…
Tron Legacy, wasn’t it?
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but the music in the trailer sounds great.
Even if he’s just nominated for Exit Through The Gift Shop, and oh, I hope he is, he’s gotta show up. Well, he doesn’t have to, but he probably would just to mess with people’s heads. I picture him wearing a designer hoodie and wearing a diamond-encrusted outlaw bandana over his mouth and nose. For those not familiar with him or the film, Exit is a fantastic mind-fuck documentary about street art, and Banksy, the director, is one of the most famous street artists ever, but few people outside his closest friends and family know his real-life identity, and he wouldn’t reveal himself just because he got nominated. There’s no rule that says you have to be nominated under your real name. After all, Eminem was nominated and won as Eminem.
I’m also hoping that Trent Reznor is nominated for his soundtrack to The Social Network. This could be one of the coolest Oscar nominee lists in its history.
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Well the folks at IMDB must be close personal friends of Robert Banks, born 1974 in Redland, Bristol, England, UK, then (cite), because they know his real identity. Heck, I even found a picture of him.
Mystery solved. Next!
I didn’t realize. Still, it’s not like he’s gone out of his way to publicize his name and face. They’re not well-known, like Shepard Fairey. That picture looks like a paparazzi picture, not a posed picture. He doesn’t look very happy about it.
Nah, Banksy is cool, but I guess his cover got blown a couple years back, and he seems to mostly be taking it in stride. He certainly doesn’t go out of his way to get his face or name in the press. I think for him it was mostly a matter of not wanting to get arrested back in the day, and then it was a part of who he was as an artist, to have a secret identity. But I don’t think he had the same level of commitment as, say, Jandek or The Residents in wanting to keep his real name secret.