# Official 83rd Academy Awards thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857 "2011-02-27T23:30:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/261 "2011-02-28T04:02:34Z")
Wow, an introduction to the introduction of the presenter. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/262 "2011-02-28T04:02:55Z")
Wait…Jill Clayburgh died? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/263 "2011-02-28T04:03:20Z")
Wow, Hooper wins. I guess King’s Speech has it. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/264 "2011-02-28T04:03:23Z")
Best Director: Tom Hooper - The King’s Speech Shit. ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/265 "2011-02-28T04:03:25Z")
Bah. Least deserving of the five, if you ask me. And that likely seals Social Network’s fate. ---
**Author:** ![bramma23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bramma23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bramma23)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/266 "2011-02-28T04:03:31Z")
Best Director before the acting categories? It’s not normally in that order I don’t think. Whoaaaaaaaaaaa and I was wrong about Fincher winning. Well that’s a surprise although he did win the DGA award. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/267 "2011-02-28T04:03:58Z")
Director: dang. Was hoping the Coens might slide in there. ---
**Author:** ![BottledBlondJeanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/268 "2011-02-28T04:04:06Z")
Swank’s body is amazing. And she looks pretty, not manly this time. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/269 "2011-02-28T04:04:37Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > This isn’t the thread to go into details as to why a movie is getting accolades and awards. Your point is well taken. > [@Equipoise](#): > > Other people besides the people you know think it’s a groundbreaking movie of quality. But I still don’t get the snarky tone. Moving on. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/270 "2011-02-28T04:05:01Z")
Man, if they refused to give it to Nolan, I would have liked to see David Fincher get it. The first big non-animated disappointment of the night. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/271 "2011-02-28T04:05:17Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Wow. I couldn’t disagree more. I think they murdered the segment and robbed it of everything that makes it entertaining. Honoring colleagues who have passed away is not supposed to be “entertaining.” What the fuck is wrong with you? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/272 "2011-02-28T04:05:43Z")
> [@bramma23](#): > > Best Director before the acting categories? It’s not normally in that order I don’t think. Yeah, I thought it was before Best Picture. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/273 "2011-02-28T04:05:44Z")
King’s Speech was a great movie. Couldn’t go wrong with any of the nominated films this year. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/274 "2011-02-28T04:08:23Z")
Hunh, the Governer’s award ceremony sounds like it would be the more interesting to attend. Yay Eli Wallach! ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/275 "2011-02-28T04:08:26Z")
Who are the kids & woman in the box seat that they keep showing? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/276 "2011-02-28T04:09:28Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Hunh, the Governer’s award ceremony sounds like it would be the more interesting to attend. No kidding. Eli Wallach alone should have been given the chance to make a speech at the Oscar ceremony. The man is a legend. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/277 "2011-02-28T04:09:42Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > I HATE HATE HATE the applause-o-meter. It takes away the dignity of the necrology package, because why it may be drawing attention to certain corpses, it also writes off the others as being insignificant and not missed. My biggest fear in life is that I achieve enough that I’d make the montage, but then I would get silence when my clip appears. Yes, that’s why it bugged me too, thanks. It was downright cringeworthy to me when there was suddenly a huge groundswell of applause for some actor that got quickly cut off when somebody who worked just as hard and long in their career but behind the cameras flashed onscreen after that. It just smacked of shallow Hollywood power-rated air-kissing snobiness for all these people for one last time. Edit: Looks like to be fashionable I have to buy a navy sparkly dress. Hey, the Dude arrives! ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/278 "2011-02-28T04:10:33Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > What the fuck is wrong with you? A bit harsh, don’t you think? The Governor’s Awards looked amusing. I’m glad they showed that instead of a long drawn out segment for one person like they usually do. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/279 "2011-02-28T04:10:44Z")
Man, I’m bummed. I look forward to the Oscars every year, but it seems they just keep getting worse and worse. More and more painful to watch. Sigh. I shoulda’ gone to the Drive By Truckers show instead. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857/280 "2011-02-28T04:11:32Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Honoring colleagues who have passed away is not supposed to be “entertaining.” What the fuck is wrong with you? This is just people BSing while the show is on. Dial it back a little, please. Thanks, **twickster** , Cafe Society moderator [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-83rd-academy-awards-thread/572857.md?page=15)