[swilhelm73]

Talk about getting your just desserts. Let a third world despot air your anti-american film and no oscar for our most famous anti-american propagandist. HA!

[My2Cents]

What do you want to bet the Academy will quietly ignore this little obstacle?

[Keith in Iowa]

First, the Academy has to look again at the definition of "Documentary" - Moore's film does not fit the definition.

[AgThorn]

1. it's not a documentary in the first place,
2. but rather is just simply anti-Bush propaganda, and
3. since the "academy" didn't let a little thing like that get in the way with his last propaganda piece ("Bowling for Columbine"),

I hardly think the "academy" will start to enforce some less obvious rule such as 9 months - no TV when they don't even honor their own "category" rules in the first place, i.e. "definition of documentary"

[P-Marlowe]

I hope it wins best picture of the year. That will be the ultimate indictment of the entire industry.

[spodefly]

Moore's propaganda is perfect made-for-TV fare in communist dictatorships.

Hollywood would never penalize him for that.

[Nataku X]

or on the Internet

Didn't the Lion's Gate website have F911 available for download for a day or two? I'm pretty sure it did, I was on that thread and other Freepers confirmed it.

[fat city]

Why is Farenheit 911 being awarded an Oscar surprising or undesirable? They've got to give it something now that they no longer give out the Order of Lenin award.

[beef]

Who cares if it gets an oscar or not? Why are people so obsessed with people in the movie industry giving each other awards? The arts crowd is sooooo full of themselves.

I remember a few years ago they were having a "Day Without Art". They were covering up art works to make a point about all of the gay artists who croaked from aids. My reaction: Thank God they weren't plumbers.

[weegee]

This is the first article I've seen to assert that the televising of this film was unauthorized. Seems they would have made a bigger stink about it before the "Oscar" question came up.

Why isn't the MPAA railing against this piracy, isn't that one of their big pet issues these days?

Didn't Michael Moore give tacit approval to those who bootlegged this film because he wanted it to be seen? It seems that the topic came up in one of his interviews.

[aimhigh]

I fully expect PBS to air this film on TV the night before the election.

[weegee]

Axis Mikey has already decided to forgo the "Best Documentary" nomination and to instead compete in the other categories this year.

Lord Fat Ass (heir apparent to Nazi Germany American broadcaster Lord Haw Haw) is still trying to swing an election eve broadcast in the United States for his film.

I've tried to raise the point several times that I certainly didn't hear any shouts from Michael Moore, his investors/distributors, or the MPAA over Cuba's violating of Michael Moore's film rights. I still suspect that it was an authorized showing.