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Posted on 09/06/2004 4:10:34 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Moore says he won't submit "Fahrenheit 9/11" for consideration as best documentary at this year's Academy Awards. Instead, he's going for the bigger prize of best picture.
Moore's critically acclaimed film slams President Bush's war on terror as ill-advised and corrupt. The movie has cheered Democrats but enraged the president's supporters, who booed Moore when he visited the Republican National Convention last week.
"For me the real Oscar would be Bush's defeat on Nov. 2," Moore told The Associated Press during a phone interview Monday from New York.
The $6 million film has become a sensation that collected $117.3 million in the United States this summer, despite an early roadblock when the Walt Disney Co. banned its Miramax Films division from distributing the political hot-potato.
In the midst of the presidential campaign, Moore's announcement is a strategic move for his Oscar campaign. Documentaries and animated films have their own categories, but the conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that those niche awards can limit a film's appeal in the overall best picture class.
Moore said he and his producing partner, Harvey Weinstein, agreed "Fahrenheit 9/11" would stand a better chance if they focused solely on the top Oscar.
He also said he wanted to be "supportive of my teammates in nonfiction film."
So many documentaries - such as the gonzo fast-food satire "Super Size Me" and the sober look at Arab television news in "Control Room" - have made the rounds in theaters recently that Moore, who won the best documentary Oscar for "Bowling for Columbine," said he wanted to give others a chance.
Moore also hinted in a recent interview in Rolling Stone he would like the movie to play on television before the presidential election. According to the rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, playing on TV would invalidate its contention in the documentary category, but not for best picture. With the movie coming out on DVD Oct. 5, it's not clear whether the TV deal would happen.
Regardless of who wins the election, Moore said the movie's presence at the Academy Awards in February will provide another forum for Americans to think about its message.
"The issues in the film - terrorism, the war on terrorism, the Iraq war - will be with us five months from now, sadly," Moore said. "The issues that the film raises will be no less relevant, in the new year."
TM & ©2004 WJLA/NewsChannel 8, a division of Allbritton Communications Company
Typical AP reporting. No where does it mention that the movie contains absolute falsehoods. Falsehoods that they even know to be untrue.
Lardass would break the rope.
They should choose a documentary as 'best documentary'.
They can create a new category for his fiction if they want to honor butter brain.
"Best anti-western" maybe.
Well, it's not a documentary. He was right not to pursue that category.
"The Passion of the Christ" is the picture that deserves to win the Oscar.
F/9-11 is the Religion of Hollywood.
Which do we think will win?
Oh well. Better luck next time, Moore.
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Chances are Hollywood wouldn't be able to see the difference.
If Bush wins Nov 2, Moore could be given an award for having turned many voters away from the dims and to Bush.
dont fly to close to the sun fatboy!
Good. That'll keep him off the stage and his mouth shut when it doesn't win Best Picture (and it doesn't have a chance in hell of doing so). If Moore was looking for an additional national stage on which to shovel his bilge, he just screwed up big time.
Passion is so many times more successfull than that crockumentary that puke put out.
Only way he can get one of those meaningless awards for best picture is to be the biggest American hating scumbag out there.
Wait, he is.
This is a huge gamble. Moore is banking that the hard core lefties will carry the day and vote against the Passion of the Christ.
He needed a category that would accept fictional works. He doesn't want to get his award revoked later.
I saw it as well.
Does it raise questions? yes
does it tap emotion? yes
Is it a GREAT film? hell no!
Perhaps he is going for best picture because he knows he will be called out on the lies if he submuits for best DOCUMENTARY
Thought all along that M&Mboys ego would take him there. Remember how Ghandi beat out E.T for the best movie? Given the preferences of the Hollywierds I expect the same. And can't you just imagine the garbage that would spew forth from the podium? I would watch just to see if M&Mboy turns purple and bursts scattering bits of himself all over the leftist audience. Excuse me. I have given myself the jeebies and have to go soak for several hours in antiseptic.
I thought 9-11 was disqualified from Oscar contention because it was shown on Cuban TV and distributed with the authors permission on the Internet.
Michael Moore should be brought up on charges of sedition. The country is at War...
The Academy would give the Best Picture award to Dodgeball before they gave it to TPC.
I vote to move the Oscars to late October. F/9-11 beats "TPOTC" and Moore gives his acceptance speech. hehe. Imagine the backlash on the eve of the election!
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