Posted on 02/24/2008 2:25:07 PM PST by lainie
It's an Oscar Party!
Warning: might contain snark and/or discussions about fashion.
Best Picture:
"Atonement"
"Juno"
"Michael Clayton"
"No Country for Old Men"
"There Will Be Blood"
Best Actor:
George Clooney, "Michael Clayton"
Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"
Johnny Depp, "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
Tommy Lee Jones, "In the Valley of Elah"
Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises"
Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Julie Christie, "Away From Her"
Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose"
Laura Linney, "The Savages"
Ellen Page, "Juno"
Best Supporting Actor:
Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"
Hal Holbrook, "Into the Wild"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"
Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton"
Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"
Ruby Dee, "American Gangster"
Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"
Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"
Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton"
Best Director:
Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Jason Reitman, "Juno"
Tony Gilroy, "Michael Clayton"
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"
Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood"
Best Animated Feature:
"Persepolis"
"Ratatouille"
"Surf's Up"
Best Documentary Feature:
"No End in Sight"
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience"
"Sicko"
"Taxi to the Dark Side"
"War/Dance"
True gentlemen are rare, these days, it seems.
When I worked at a resort ten+ years ago, Donald Sutherland came in with a ‘lady’ (hippie was more like it - sandals and dark socks, unkempt hair, long skirt, and he dressed no better.)
I have never, ever seen anyone as rude as he was. He was there for two hours, for lunch and a bottle of very expensive wine, and never once looked at management or his server. He treated everyone as if they were non-existant. He refused to speak to anyone, only to mutter what he wanted, (without making eye contact.) And, if I remember correctly, he left no tip!
Now, Barry Goldwater came in and he was a complete gentleman!
Yeah, ol’ Donald seems like a klutz.
I can say, though, that when I met George Lucas (twice) in non-public-glare circumstances, he was also a complete gentleman and very humble. Well, it was during the Howard the Duck shoot. :-) But seriously, he was a very nice person to be around. So, good for him!
I too thought it would be the great Obama lovefest...only JS referenced democratic candidates...(loved the Hillary joke). Bt then again all the acting winners were foreigners..LOL..so maybe thats the reaason :)
(Snicker...) meat pie. I love Johnny Depp he is the most versatile actor working. He takes alot of chances with his roles...hope he wins someday.
...no wonder Kiefer’s so screwed up
(I know I said I wasn't going to watch the Oscars, but I was bored silly, so I peeked and saw Nicole Kidman giving an award to a 98-year-old man. Hollywood couldn't give him the award before this year?)
I saw Ruby Dee being interviewed on some show. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her in anything. But she’s 83 years old, and she was cracking jokes right and left. I guess some people are just naturally funny, even at 83!
Well, there were alot more young people who remember Brad Renfro’s performance with Arnie than remember some old gizzer 90-year-old agent that no one else had ever heard of.
Besides, she gives y'all something to be the subject of sotto voce conversations. Every family needs someone to talk about, LOL.
Leni
He's also on a rant about all the anti-Americanism in the nominated Best Documentary films....and he pointed out the lies and spin in them.
He said this happens every year because so many of these documentaries are made by foreigners and they start off hating the U.S. before they ever even start filming.
And of course, we have our home-growns docu-mental-cases like Michael Moore.
I'm glad I didn't watch....haven't watched for years since the uniquely charismatic STARS disappeared from the screen and our lives.....but I still kept up on things on this thread during the evening (no commercials, hah!).
I thank Lainie for devoting her time and expertise in posting this thread for all of us to enjoy.
Leni
Renfro Not Feel-Good Enough for Oscar?
So why did the Academy snub Brad Renfro by not including him in the memoriam? The Academy is pretty much tight as a drum.
A flack tells us a small group of people make extremely difficult choices but refused to say what criteria are used to make those decisions. She added we shouldn't waste our time cause no one would discuss it further.
Could it have something to do with the circumstances surrounding Renfro's death? It's uncomfortable to applaud when an actor dies from an overdose. Of course, exceptions must be made for huge stars who OD. Heath Ledger made the cut.
The red carpet wasn't the only thing that was sanitized last night.
(if it was something as simple as 'he's not an academy member,' I'm sure that would have been the answer given. It's not that.)
Oscars a ratings flop Sunday
This season continues to be no country for network award shows.
Following the lowest-rated Emmys since 1990, the strike-hindered ratings performance of a severely truncated version of the Golden Globes and a nonstruck airing of the Grammys that nonetheless disappointed, Sunday night’s presentation of the 80th Annual Academy Awards on ABC hit an all-time ratings low.
According to overnight fast national ratings, the awards averaged a 10.7 rating among adults 18 to 49 and was seen by 32 million viewers. In the demo, that’s down a sharp 24% from last year and the lowest on record. Among viewers, that’s a 20% drop. The previous all-time low was in 2003.
from Variety
No that was Hollywood Reporter. This is Variety:
All those predictions of ratings gloom and doom for the 80th annual Academy Awards came true Monday when preliminary Nielsen estimates show this year’s kudocast coming in 20% below last year’s.
Demographic data and total-viewer estimates won’t be issued by Nielsen until this afternoon, but Sunday’s telecast on ABC settled for a 21.9 household rating/33 share in the 56 metered-markets monitored by Nielsen — down sharply from last year’s 27.7/42, which translated into more than 40 million viewers.
The 21.9 rating is also considerably below the 25.5 rating earned by the 2003 Academy Awards telecast, which set the low-water mark for viewership when it averaged just over 33 million viewers. It would seem to be a long shot for this year’s show to come in above the 2003 figure, even with population increases.
After starting sluggishly with a 20.1 rating in the opening half-hour, the Oscars peaked with a 22.7 rating in the 10 o’clock half-hour on Sunday.
The top five highest-rated markets were New York (30.6 rating/44 share), Chicago (29.1/43), San Francisco (27.2/47), West Palm (26.1/39) and Los Angeles (25.6/41). A year ago, New York generated a 35.3 rating, and Los Angeles a 32.0.
A batch of movies with grim themes, combined with an awards season that lacked momentum thanks to the writers strike, were among the factors leading to this year’s ratings tumble.
The 1978 remake of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” is a good scary movie, and he was good in it IMHO. Up to today, how many Hollywood movies have such a creepy ending?
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