# The 81st Annual Academy Awards **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977 "2009-02-22T21:12:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/241 "2009-02-23T04:23:25Z")
You mean for 28 Days Later yoj! I like him, I like how he says “uz”. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/242 "2009-02-23T04:24:56Z")
I was hoping for Arthur C. Clarke, but didn’t expect him to be mentioned. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/243 "2009-02-23T04:25:29Z")
Not for nothing, but I don’t know if I’m getting older or the Academy is getting cooler. I think the BP nominees are all great this year. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/244 "2009-02-23T04:25:48Z")
OH GOD. Here comes the Winslet most likely. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/245 "2009-02-23T04:26:38Z")
Omfg, I don’t think I knew how dire Marlee Matlin looked at her Oscar! Fits 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/246 "2009-02-23T04:27:05Z")
Sophie Loren looks UNBELIEVABLE. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/247 "2009-02-23T04:27:07Z")
They better give this one to my girl Kate. She’s turning into the Erika Kane of the Oscars. 😃 ---
**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 23, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/248 "2009-02-23T04:27:07Z")
Whoever came up with this stupid-ass idea to to a roundtable of past winners instead of showing acting clips should be sent to Guantanamo Bay. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/249 "2009-02-23T04:27:33Z")
Yay Shirley MacLaine for looking her age, and screw the ever gorgeous Sophia for looking better than I do at 38! ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/250 "2009-02-23T04:28:12Z")
I gotta say, I think I preferred the usual setup where the previous year’s Best Actor presented the Best Actress award, and vice versa. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/251 "2009-02-23T04:28:38Z")
And where was George Carlin and Don Lafontaine in the ‘in memoriam’? I mean…I know George was more of just a comedian, but he was in several movies, and Don Lafontaine was THE movie trailer “voice over” guy. No one will ever say “In a world where” like him. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/252 "2009-02-23T04:28:46Z")
I can’t imagine what it must be like to be faced with Shirley or Sophia saying nice things about you, especially at Anne’s age… wow. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/253 "2009-02-23T04:28:50Z")
I really like this personalised format. Especially where, like with McClaine, it sounded like it was actual cred/advice from an older actress. However miss Vie en Rose sounds like she doesn’t understand a word of what she is saying. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/254 "2009-02-23T04:29:03Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Whoever came up with this stupid-ass idea to to a roundtable of past winners instead of showing acting clips should be sent to Guantanamo Bay. Yeah. It the one thing that really doesn’t work. Way too wanky. ---
**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 23, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/255 "2009-02-23T04:29:08Z")
This needs go to Kate. She’s too awesome all the time in everything not to have a statue yet. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/256 "2009-02-23T04:31:02Z")
Sofia Loren looks and sounds drunk as a skunk. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/257 "2009-02-23T04:31:22Z")
Oooo… Sophia looked fabulous til she started talking. Cut back on the botox, sweetie. ---
**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 23, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/258 "2009-02-23T04:31:46Z")
Damn the Best Actress section is going on forever. ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/259 "2009-02-23T04:31:55Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > So who’s the one person miked up for the clapping? Seriously, it sounds like there’s three people in that auditorium. > [@USA Today](#): > > Applause-free “In Memoriam” tribute. Regular Oscar watchers often cringe when homage is paid to those in the movie business who died in the past year. That is because the audience can’t help but clap harder for better-known names, essentially turning the solemn segment into a popularity contest. > > Not this year. “We can’t control the applause,” Condon says, “but we can control what you hear on TV.” [http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/movieawards/oscars/2009-01-28-oscar-producers\_N.htm](http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/movieawards/oscars/2009-01-28-oscar-producers_N.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-81st-annual-academy-awards/486977/260 "2009-02-23T04:32:23Z")
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