# It's the 80th Annual Academy Awards® Thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026 "2008-02-25T01:25:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/221 "2008-02-25T04:49:18Z")
Did we actually witness an Academy Award Show finish on time? Good night everyone it was fun watching with you all. 🙂 Jim ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/222 "2008-02-25T04:51:21Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] I wish I liked their work more. It’s too violent for me. Someday I’ll watch Fargo, I guess. [/QUOTE] Try The Hudsucker Proxy. It’s a great Coen Brothers movie, funny, and not violent at all. A lot of people love The Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona as well, and neither are disconcerting or scary. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/223 "2008-02-25T04:51:25Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Did we actually witness an Academy Award Show finish on time? Good night everyone it was fun watching with you all. 🙂 Jim [/QUOTE] 18 minutes over. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/224 "2008-02-25T04:51:40Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam] Wonder why Brad Renfro was left out of the farewell reel? [/QUOTE] Died 2008. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/225 "2008-02-25T04:52:32Z")
The Coens are my heroes. It’s been a good night for me. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/226 "2008-02-25T04:53:17Z")
[QUOTE=TWDuke] Died 2008. [/QUOTE] So did Heath Ledger and he was included. I always assumed it showed people who died since the last Oscars ceremony. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/227 "2008-02-25T04:53:20Z")
Yep, once again, it was another fun year of Oscars on the SDMB. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/228 "2008-02-25T04:53:30Z")
[QUOTE=TWDuke] Died 2008. [/QUOTE] So did Heath Ledger. The intro to the montage said that the deaths were between February 1, 2007 and January 31, 2008. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/229 "2008-02-25T04:56:26Z")
Oh, yeah. I can’t imagine why then. Maybe someone goofed. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/230 "2008-02-25T05:14:58Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] Try The Hudsucker Proxy. It’s a great Coen Brothers movie, funny, and not violent at all. A lot of people love The Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona as well, and neither are disconcerting or scary. [/QUOTE] I think _Hudsucker_ is a little overmannered and not their best work. I would suggest either _The Big Lebowski_ (which has grown on me over the years to become one of my all time favorite movies), which has some minor, comic violence but nothing really graphic or serious or _Oh Brother, Where Art Thou_ which is also quite funny, non-violent, has great bluegrass music and an under-appreciated performance from George Clooney (“We’re in a tight spot!”) ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/231 "2008-02-25T05:24:35Z")
I thought this was an enjoyable telecast… everything seemed generally less phony than it usually seems, for some reason. Maybe because so many of the winners didn’t seem like Established Hollywood Stars? Plus the generally informal tone set by Jon Stewart? ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/232 "2008-02-25T05:26:48Z")
I actually think _The Big Lebowski_ is kinda over-rated (but I’ve only seen it once, and my friends keep telling me I need to see it multiple times to appreciate it) but I really did like _O Brother, Where Art Thou?_. It does have some great music. Can’t wait for the red carpet snark from the gofugyourself girls tomorrow. Heh. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2008, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/233 "2008-02-25T05:31:01Z")
Liked Jon Stewart a lot but show didn’t have any energy. Liked Diablo Cody’s comments. Her family loves her just the way she is. I esp like seeing Johnny Depp all cleaned up and beautiful in that suit. sigh ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/234 "2008-02-25T05:35:27Z")
[QUOTE=TWDuke] That’s so cool that she got to come back for a thank-you. I’ve never seen that happen. I think the song won in part as a way of rewarding the movie as a whole. [/QUOTE] Yeah, “Once” was my favorite movie last year and since it was too small to compete against the biggies, I was thrilled to see it recognized through “Falling Slowly”. And it’s hard to imagine that anyone listening to all the nominated songs would conclude that any of them were better than “FS”. Incidentally, that was an abbreviated version of the song. It builds and soars in it’s complete version. How cool of Jon Stewart to bring Marketa back out. It sounded like the crowd was really behind her and Glen and were as delighted by the win as I was. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/235 "2008-02-25T05:49:33Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] I actually think _The Big Lebowski_ is kinda over-rated (but I’ve only seen it once, and my friends keep telling me I need to see it multiple times to appreciate it) [/quote] This is absolutely true. I thought it was just ok the first time I saw it. I didn’t really start appreciating it until about the third time I watched it. I think the secret to appreciating this movie is to completely ignore the plot. Upon first viewing the plot seems muddled and confusing and aimless and has no real payoff. Trying to follow it results in irritation and a sense that it’s all pointless. Once you understand that the plot is _supposed_ to be muddled and pointless and go nowhere, you’ll start to love the movie. It’s not about the plot whatsoever. It’s about the individual scenes. the dialogue and the way all this stuff gets filtered through the Dude’s fuzzy hardware. It’s a half-understood, highly weird, confusing episode in the life of the Dude and his buddies. Obce you stop caring where the story is going (it’s going nowhere) you really start getting what’s great about it. Speaking of Oscars, John Goodman should have gotten one for this movie. The endless wittiniess and quoteability of the screenplay blows me away too. As does Jeff Bridges’ performance. The more I think about it, the more stuff I think of that’s great about _Lebowski_. I now _adore_ this movie but it took a few viewings. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/236 "2008-02-25T05:54:51Z")
[QUOTE=interface2x] So did Heath Ledger and he was included. I always assumed it showed people who died since the last Oscars ceremony. [/QUOTE] Does it only include nominees and winners? Heath was nominated, Brad Renfro was not. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/237 "2008-02-25T05:56:28Z")
OK, confused. What is the difference between sound editing and sound mixing? 2 different awards, both went to that Bourne movie. Must be good to beat out the eerily silent (but noises of utter importance) NC4OM. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/238 "2008-02-25T06:01:26Z")
[QUOTE=beckwall] OK, confused. What is the difference between sound editing and sound mixing? 2 different awards, both went to that Bourne movie. Must be good to beat out the eerily silent (but noises of utter importance) NC4OM. [/QUOTE] Sound Editing: Is laying effects, etc. You’re basically making the sound recorded on set better. It is the stage before sound mixing. When I did sound, it was what I did. Sound mixing: is putting all the aspects of the soundtrack together (dialogue, music, sound effects, foley). A few friends of mine are reasonably successful at this. One, I suspect, will be up on stage at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/239 "2008-02-25T06:11:28Z")
[QUOTE=SmackFu] Does it only include nominees and winners? [/QUOTE] No. ---
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