I think Obama’s “Jackass” comment sums up Kanye’s behavior (though I also agree with the “Really?” skit on “Kanye West, not known for impulse control, is drinking Hennessee straight and sitting in the front row… nah, no set-up there” assessment). But, that said, if you were a walking id like Kanye what award shows would you have interrupted to give the award recognition to the right recipient?
A few for me:
Last night: Jim Parsons over Alec Baldwin, and in a big way. (Don’t get me wrong, I like Baldwin on 30 ROCK, but Parsons is, imo, a comedy genius.)
Last year (as I just mentioned in another thread): Toby Jones was overlooked for his imo brilliant performance as Truman Capote in Infamous, a decision that I think was largely due to Philip Seymour Hoffman’s win for playing CAPOTE in a movie with essentially the same storyline though he couldn’t hold a candle to Jones’ performance.
Two years ago: CRASH winning the Oscar over Brokeback Mountain, Good Night and Good Luck and Munich, all imo better movies.
Fifteen years ago: Forrest Gump won the Oscar over Pulp Fiction. I liked FG well enough at the time but even then knew it was high budget fluff while PF is going to have a following as long as there are movie buffs.
Who would your inner Kanye have yanked the award from?
But long before that: The 1977 Academy Awards where I give the Oscar for Best Picture to Star Wars over Annie Hall (that still turns my stomach 32 years later), after lopping off the judges’ heads with a light saber.
Easy. I’d be at the 1989 Grammy’s when they gave the inaugural (and only, after what happened) Hard Rock/Metal Performance to…Jethro Tull! They got the award over Metallica, who were already waiting expectantly in the wings (they had just performed) when the ridiculous happened. I guess a flute is made of metal, but…
I saw Metallica a few weeks after this silliness, and they walked onstage playing the opening chords of “Aqualung”.
me? I think I’d go back and smack the Academy Awards around for makign the whole bloody process so political and not givnig themselves time to really look at things. Having the flicks be a same-year event is a huge problem, as it doesn’t let the films age to see which are fine wines and and which are just alchoholic grapejuice. They shoudl wait at least a year. Best part is that if they did so, it would probably make the event more special and less media-houndy. People would wahnt to take another look at the winners, the studios would feel no rpessure to “save” their Oscar Bait for December, and the Awards would have less bumping.
(Bumping is where they ignore the real category winners in favor of handing out a trophy to somerthing they should have acknowledged years ago. Some actors are screwed by the Academy politics and whatnot into not getting their due. Then years later they put out Oscar Bait and get the damn award they should have picked up before.)
Hoo boy, I’m not sure Gump is a classic by any means, but Pulp Fiction isn’t exactly great art, either. I dunno that either is worth a Best Picture.
Minor one, but I’d grab the mic from Sally Field before she got to the infamous line in her “you like me!” acceptance speech. Just because it and the parodies annoy me.
This, except that I’d allow them to give the Oscar to The Shawshank Redemption. It’s a toss-up as to which film I’d count as better, depending on my mood.
It was amazing to me that both of those all-time classic greats came out in the same year, and that BOTH of them lost out to Gump… Which while not exactly bad, was a once-view piece of “alternate baby-boomer history” fluff.
Kevin Costner: Thank you fo…
Me <rushes to stage>: I’m real happy for you and I’m gonna let you finish but Scorsese made one of the best films of all time! Of all time people!
Costner: uhh…
Cue a shot of Scorsese looking smug.
