A couple execs explain:
I caught only a part of this and had to turn away because it was getting long, but what was the deal with one of the award speeches? There was a black guy onstage accepting some award, then this woman comes out of nowhere, does a Kanye West on his microphone and goes off into this long-winded spiel about something all the while the black guy looking as uncomfortable as if he took a dump in his pants.
That’s explained in Post #2. 
What happened to poking fun at themselves? There was no poking this year. I miss the poking.
I agree there should be less dancing and more film clips. The horror montage was superfluous. If they want to honor Roger Corman, show clips from Corman movies.
The intro to the animated nominees was well done.
That doesn’t really explain why Jackson was in and Fawcett was out. Why was he in at all?
I actually turned and said that to my wife. You’d think her publicist (handler?) would say something to her.
My favorite line of the evening: “That isn’t food.”
That just cracked me up.
That link is blocked for me, can you explain? Well, no time for that: can you sum up?
Basically just that there are way more people that die each year than can be put into the montage. They have to whittle a list of over 100 names down to 30, and unfortunately have to make tough decisions about who to put in, even sometimes people that the public knows.
I remember that two years ago they left out Brad Renfroand there was some minor complaints about it.
My WAG w/ Farrah and Bea is that since they’re mostly known for their TV work that they left their rememberences to the Emmys to handle.
Wow, that was just… :eek:!!
I wish they had the camera on them when they were racing up the aisle to get the award (and on the alleged 87 year old mother blocking the path with a cane)
They should have dropped Michael Jackson – both of those women have more movie credits than he did. They didn’t even know what to list for his profession.
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What did they list?
Just ‘Michael Jackson’.
I didn’t notice did they cut away to Jack Nicohlson this year or has George Clooney become the new go to guy?
He hasn’t been there the last two years, now. I think he’s just finished with it.
I was looking for that and didn’t see it once.
Holy shit, Corman got an Oscar?! Well… I’m not complaining - much - but I didn’t expect that.
Was it the lighting making everyone’s updo look frizzy and unkempt or did they hire the local beauty school to do hair?
Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Lopez, Miley Cyrus, Suzy Amis, all with this amateur, unkempt hair! It’s the biggest movie event of the year! You can’t use some silicone or something? I guess they were going for an updo a bit “undone”. They should have hired Anna Hendrick’s hair dresser then.
I noticed that and it seemed very strange to me too. He has said recently that they are good friends and that he has produced two of her movies, and that she saw Avatar several times during the production process and that she gave him valuable advice that helped him make it a better movie. She herself has said that she sent him the script for Hurt Locker to see what he thought and that he encouraged her to drop whatever she was working on to develop it. And he has gone on record as saying that he already has his directing Oscar and that he wanted Bigelow to win that one. Yet she never looked at him and said not a word of acknowledgement to Cameron or Avatar in either of her speeches.
Maybe at some point recently he must have said something he oughtn’t.
James Cameron? Perish the thought!
I thought the Oscars were horrible this year. From snubbing Bea Arthur to getting rid of movie montages (I fuckin’ love movie montages) to including the brats from Twilight. I also thought it was hugely annoying that they honored John Hughes even though he was never, ever worthy of a nomination while he was alive (not that he doesn’t deserve to be honored. He totally deserved it), and refusing to give the lifetime achievement awards on stage to Roger Corman and Lauren Bacall. I thought Steve and Alec did an awful job. I’ve seen plenty of people praising the Oscars this year, and I just don’t get it.