78th Oscar Thoughts
Published March 07, 2006
The 78th Academy Awards were boring. Jon Stewart looked apprehensive and was a disappointment as a funny man. I expected more edge from him. Next year, maybe they can try Bill Maher. Or Robin Williams. And the Oscars had the second smallest audience in almost two decades. The smallest audience in twenty years was in 2003 when Chicago won best picture.
The montage of "gay" moments from westerns was hilarious.
I missed Jon Stewart's joke about Scientologists.
How, exactly, do they decide that Heath Ledger rates a nomination for Best actor while Jake Gyllenhaal, who was equally prominent in Brokeback Mountain, only gets the Supporting Actor nomination?
Did anyone notice that in Syriana, George Clooney was the main character, yet he was nominated for and won, Best Supporting Actor? Was his character not prominent enough to be a Best Actor nominee?
Crash, winner of the Best Picture, didn't have anyone as Best Actor or Actress, since it had no central character.
Lauren Bacall is 82 and shouldn't be asked to read from the teleprompter again. She was painfull to watch, which is not the way such an elegant and legendary star should be remembered. She will be remembered that way, however, by the younger folks who haven't seen her films.
What was up with Ang Lee trying to make a joke by repeating the much mocked line "I wish I knew how to quit you"? It went over like a sack of wet noodles.
Ben Stiller made me laugh with his "floating head" routine, dressed in a green unitard.
Coolest cat of the evening, was, of course, the liberal George Clooney, he of shifting glances and eyes rolling whenever references were made to him. Jon Stewart fawned on him a bit too much, though.
Robert Altman's tribute was deserved and perhaps a bit overdue. He spoke well for an 81 year-old and is debuting his new film, A Prairie Home Companion this summer, a film about the long-running radio serial on US public radio, starring the inimitable Garrison Keillor, who wrote the screen play and stars.
Almost weekly, Triniman catches new movies, and adds one or two CDs to his collection. Due to time constraints, he blogs about only 5% of the CDs, books and DVDs that he purchases. Holed up in the geographic centre of North America, the cultural mecca of Canada, and the sunniest city north of the 49th, Winnipeg, Triniman blogs a bit when he's not swatting mosquitoes, shovelling snow or golfing.
- 78th Oscar Thoughts
- Published: March 07, 2006
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- Writer: Triniman
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"How, exactly, do they decide that Heath Ledger rates a nomination for Best actor while Jake Gyllenhaal, who was equally prominent in Brokeback Mountain, only gets the Supporting Actor nomination?"
The producers don't want leads competing against each other and splitting the votes.
Why is the pimp song a surprise? the song was the main focus of the film. Admittedly it sucked live, but it had to be better in the film
Another Jon Stewart was funny right here.
I thought it was because Gyllenhaal was on bottom.
(Runs away. Last BBM joke ever, I swear.)
"The one thing I have to disagree with is that I thought Jon Stewart was a great host. Marvelous, even."
Horseshit.
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The one thing I have to disagree with is that I thought Jon Stewart was a great host. Marvelous, even. But then again, I also think Billy Crystal is usually a lousy host, so I may not be much of a judge.