# The Unofficial Academy Awards Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206 "2005-02-28T00:18:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**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 28, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/161 "2005-02-28T04:17:29Z")
I’m choked up from Foxx’s speech as well. Whaa…? No soup for Marty AGAIN. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/162 "2005-02-28T04:17:31Z")
And you can really tell Julia Roberts had children recently - those things are just begging to be set free. Susan ---
**Author:** ![partlycloudy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/partlycloudy/32/3114_2.png) [@partlycloudy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partlycloudy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/163 "2005-02-28T04:17:40Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > His connection to the industry might have been tenuous but more importantly, he died in 2005, not 2004. This is more along the lines of I was thinking. ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/164 "2005-02-28T04:17:53Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > Annette Bening has got to be hating Hilary Swank about now. Warren looked rather angry. ---
**Author:** ![Torgo\_ate\_my\_hamster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Torgo\_ate\_my\_hamster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo_ate_my_hamster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/165 "2005-02-28T04:18:51Z")
It’s Clint Eastwood. Yay. And he brought his mom with. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/166 "2005-02-28T04:19:53Z")
Did they do a tribute to Bob Hope, or did I miss it? ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/167 "2005-02-28T04:19:57Z")
Wow - talk about voice differences between life & acting - I had no idea Clint Eastwood really sounded like that. Jamie Foxx talking about his grandmother was so sweet. Susan ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/168 "2005-02-28T04:20:25Z")
Is Clint Eastwood eerily starting to look somewhat like Christopher Reeve post-accident? Bad taste, but I’ve been getting this vibe for a while. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/169 "2005-02-28T04:20:30Z")
Poor Marty – the Susan Lucci of American movie directors. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/170 "2005-02-28T04:20:44Z")
My goodness, Jamie Foxx is easy on the eyes! And he cried while talking about his dead grandmother. I’m going to remember that and bring it up in the next whining “Why don’t girls like to date nice guys?” thread. I’m fairly sure that Jamie Fox doesn’t whine about being a nice guy, yet he’s still up there crying about his grandmother. That’s hot. Did Clint Eastwood just say that woman was his mother? Clint Eastwood’s mother is ALIVE? Give her the award! ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/171 "2005-02-28T04:20:51Z")
Add Dustin Hofman to the toasted category. ---
**Author:** ![partlycloudy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/partlycloudy/32/3114_2.png) [@partlycloudy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partlycloudy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/172 "2005-02-28T04:21:37Z")
> [@Lamar Mundane](#): > > Is Clint Eastwood eerily starting to look somewhat like Christopher Reeve post-accident? Bad taste, but I’ve been getting this vibe for a while. I think he needs to do something about his hair or something. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/173 "2005-02-28T04:22:30Z")
Babs, you’re such a freakin’ primadonna! That was hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/174 "2005-02-28T04:23:49Z")
> [@Dewey Finn](#): > > Did they do a tribute to Bob Hope, or did I miss it? Last year. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/175 "2005-02-28T04:24:10Z")
> [@Dewey Finn](#): > > Did they do a tribute to Bob Hope, or did I miss it? Bob Hope died in 2003. They did a very nice tribute to him last year. ---
**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 28, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/176 "2005-02-28T04:24:11Z")
Wow…just wow. I expected this to finally go to Scorcese but I have to say that, while I initially thought the MDB was cliched and sentimental it hung around in my mind for a long tim…I kept thinking about…it haunted me, and I think it had more to say than I initially gave it credit for. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/177 "2005-02-28T04:24:39Z")
So, ah, that was that. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/178 "2005-02-28T04:25:08Z")
Whoo Brooklyn!!! Um, I’m _in_\* Brooklyn and that looked stupid. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/179 "2005-02-28T04:28:47Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > I expected this to finally go to Scorcese but I have to say that, while I initially thought the MDB was cliched and sentimental it hung around in my mind for a long tim…I kept thinking about…it haunted me, and I think it had more to say than I initially gave it credit for. I think it was cliched, but what really made it for me was the acting. But for writing - c’mon - (for those who’ve seen it) They took her leg! Talk about melodramatic. You would’ve thought after all the care that went into finding her a good hospital, they might have had better staff. Ssan ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206/180 "2005-02-28T04:30:43Z")
Probably a stupid question - what is the MDB??? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-unofficial-academy-awards-thread/292206.md?page=10)