# 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:** 6
**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, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/101 "2008-02-25T03:24:38Z")
That’s Glen Hansard, vocalist for the band The Frames. He also is the lead in the movie in which that song appears, [Once](http://imdb.com/title/tt0907657/). Fantastic movie. That performance was mixed really badly, though. Marketa is the _backing_ vocalist. ---
**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, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/102 "2008-02-25T03:25:04Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Isn’t this the love theme from _Transformers_? [/QUOTE] -faints- It’s from _Once_. I’m not sure if it was originally written for the movie though. Glen Hansard is the lead singer of an Irish band called The Frames - I heard it on one of their albums initially. ETA: I totally agree, **interface**. Her voice should have been in the background. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/103 "2008-02-25T03:27:59Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] I’m not sure if it was originally written for the movie though. [/QUOTE] If it wasn’t, wouldn’t it be ineligible? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/104 "2008-02-25T03:28:11Z")
I swear if I hear one more “Movies \_\_\_\_\_ us.” speech in my life I’m going to go on an academy award writers shooting spree. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/105 "2008-02-25T03:28:26Z")
How many of those movies still have people watching them? I think I’ve seen about 20 or 25 and have no interest in watching about half of the rest. And seriously, the only reason I know anything about Annie Hall is that I still can’t figure out how the hell it beat Star Wars. ---
**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, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/106 "2008-02-25T03:33:13Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] How many of those movies still have people watching them? I think I’ve seen about 20 or 25 and have no interest in watching about half of the rest. And seriously, the only reason I know anything about Annie Hall is that I still can’t figure out how the hell it beat Star Wars. [/QUOTE] I don’t know, I figure I have seen over 50 of the 79 winners. Doesn’t mean I like them all, but I would like the see the rest. As to how Annie Hall won over Star Wars, I hope you are joking? The bigger question is how movies like “Shakespeare in Love” or the “Greatest Show on Earth” won. ---
**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, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/107 "2008-02-25T03:34:46Z")
[QUOTE=Just Some Guy] I swear if I hear one more “Movies \_\_\_\_\_ us.” speech in my life I’m going to go on an academy award writers shooting spree. [/QUOTE] You realize that you’ll be taking out Bruce “I wrote the Star Wars Holiday Special” Vlanch, don’t you? You’ll need a hazardous waste permit. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/108 "2008-02-25T03:35:08Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] I don’t know, I figure I have seen over 50 of the 79 winners. Doesn’t mean I like them all, but I would like the see the rest. As to how Annie Hall won over Star Wars, I hope you are joking? The bigger question is how movies like “Shakespeare in Love” or the “Greatest Show on Earth” won. [/QUOTE] Shakespeare in Love is easy to know why it won: it’s a movie that if you know your Shakespeare it’s brilliant and it was handed out by a bunch of people who have worked in the theater. The one I wonder about is Gentlemen’s Agreement. ---
**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, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/109 "2008-02-25T03:36:41Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] If it wasn’t, wouldn’t it be ineligible? [/QUOTE] :smack: Yeah, I guess you’re right. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/110 "2008-02-25T03:37:03Z")
I wonder how many kids are watching this guy talk about “Hitch” and think he’s talking about the Will Smith character? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/111 "2008-02-25T03:37:07Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Wow, I was just thinking how horribly slow, maudlin and unentertaining this song is and I refresh the thread and see nothing but love for it. To each their own. Jim [/QUOTE] You prefer that schmaltz about singing while scrubbing toilets? :eek: \ 🙂 This guy is cool-he’s 98 and still working at what he loves. Thank God they haven’t done the music crap. Very gracious. Can’t stand Nicole Kidman, though. I was surprised at how many of the Best Pics I’ve seen as well. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/112 "2008-02-25T03:38:38Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] I don’t know, I figure I have seen over 50 of the 79 winners. Doesn’t mean I like them all, but I would like the see the rest. As to how Annie Hall won over Star Wars, I hope you are joking? The bigger question is how movies like “Shakespeare in Love” or the “Greatest Show on Earth” won. [/QUOTE] Hmm…I don’t really like romantic comedies and I don’t like Woody Allen movies. So that’s a good enough reason for me. ---
**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, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/113 "2008-02-25T03:41:27Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] You prefer that schmaltz about singing while scrubbing toilets? :eek: \ 🙂 This guy is cool-he’s 98 and still working at what he loves. Thank God they haven’t done the music crap. Very gracious. Can’t stand Nicole Kidman, though. I was surprised at how many of the Best Pics I’ve seen as well. [/QUOTE] That was Nicole Kidman? I thought it was Skeletor. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/114 "2008-02-25T03:43:15Z")
Um… Is Penelope Cruz now the owner of a saloon in the old west or what? yeah-NK gets scarier every year. So does Tom Cruise–maybe they should have stayed together. ---
**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, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/115 "2008-02-25T03:43:37Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] If it wasn’t, wouldn’t it be ineligible? [/QUOTE] Actually, here’s what wiki says: > [@](#): > > Different versions of a few songs were previously released on The Frames’ album The Cost and on Hansard and Irglová’s The Swell Season (both released in 2006). As a result, questions were raised about “Falling Slowly”‘s eligibility for the best original song Oscar.[23] The AMPAS music committee determined that, in the course of the film’s protracted production, the composers had “played the song in some venues that were deemed inconsequential enough to not change the song’s eligibility”.[24] An early version of the last track, “Say It to Me Now,” originally appeared on The Frames’ 1995 album Fitzcarraldo. “All the Way Down” first appeared on the self-titled album from musician collective The Cake Sale, with Gemma Hayes providing vocals. The song “Gold” was written by Irish singer songwriter Fergus O’Farrell and performed by Interference.[1] ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/116 "2008-02-25T03:46:23Z")
Hurray! No more terrible “best song” nominees to listen to after this is over! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/117 "2008-02-25T03:46:39Z")
The versatile and handsome? Gosh-the standards are slipping these days, no? Notice they don’t say talented… (don’t know anything about him) God-this tripe will win–it’s got Hollywood Oscar song written all over it. Blech. what’s with the dancers? They seemed to have mixed up their historical periods here–but what the hell, it’s Hollywood. I bet this one wins. Ugh. ---
**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, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/118 "2008-02-25T03:48:01Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] They seemed to have mixed up their historical periods here–but what the hell, it’s Hollywood. I bet this one wins. Ugh. [/QUOTE] Over “Falling Slowly”? I will cry. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/119 "2008-02-25T03:49:03Z")
Waitadamnminnit!!! When Jon Stewart did the whole “pregnant women in the audience” schtick, Nicole Kidman was the only person who wasn’t shown actually in the audience. Then, later, she comes out to present an Oscar. And it was a good two commercial breaks before her appearance! What the heck! Was he joking about her being preggers? If so, is she too good to go along with the joke? I’m so not one one of her fans after she failed to stage an intervention to save Cruise from the Scientologists! Razorette and I are kicking back with our Metamucil mimosas and imagining ourselves somehow part of the whole Oscar experience because … well … we are, after all, Netflix subscribers! Oooooh, Travoltahhhh! Gotta go! ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026/120 "2008-02-25T03:50:31Z")
I didn’t realize three songs came from the same movie. Doesn’t say much about the music in 2007, does it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-80th-annual-academy-awards-thread/439026.md?page=7)