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."
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Better go for the one you might actually win, the one from your fellow commies in Hollywood.
Oh Lord please...please...PLEASE let Hollywood be stupid and naive enough to nominate this piece of trash for Best Picture. When the real "heart and soul" of the country delivers Dubya's landslide on November 2nd, Hollywood can commit suicide with this kind of follow-up. I plan to be at Dubya's 2nd Inaugural on January 20, 2005, just as I was at his first on January 20, 2001. I say we pitch together some money, take tons of photos, and buy billboards around the Oscar venue to give Hollywood our regards.
Are you kidding? I wouldn't miss him and his wife walking the red carpet in their Valentino dresses with mustard stains on them from the big macs they ate on the way.
Michael Moore = oxygen thief
Methinks
the most fitting award for his ungrand girthedness
would be
a very tarnished bronzed
pile of donkey doo doo.
Or perhaps a bronzed forked tongue about the size of his gut.
Ewwwww....bad visual (hands over eyes) I'M NOT LOOKING.....la la la la la
I honestly can tell you, if I were to have to dine with this man, he would be wearing my food.
Michael Moore says he won't submit "Fahrenheit 9/11" for consideration as best documentary at this year's Academy Awards.
That is because it is INELLIGIBLE for documentary after his good friend Fidel Castro accidentally screwed him. Castro had Fahrenheit 9/11 shown on Cuban TV in July. Academy rules for documentaries declare that it cannot be shown on television for 6 months after release in theaters in order to be eligible for Best Documentary of the Year.
Castro screwed him!
How about mass producing propaganda to affect the outcome of an election during wartime? Quit trollin', you're starting to get on my nerves.
He claimed it was an illegally obtained, bootlegged copy that ran in Cuba and the Academy said, "Oh, okay. No problemo."
You know, I gotta agree with that. Let Hollywood show their true colors. (as if we haven't already seen them)
If they want to give the award. Go right ahead. Moore has himself admitted it's not a true documentary, not factual. His distorted lies. So if Hollywood goes that way......fine by me.
Hell, let 'em all move to France. Wouldn't bother me in the least.
The egos in Hollywood better wise up. They'll end up like Hanoi Jane. Having to marry a rich husband to survive. Hmmm....Kerry and Hanoi really are kindred spirits aren't they.
How magnanimous of him. I am sure that when the Best Documentary winner goes up and accepts the Academy Award, s/he will not hold a grudge against Moore for forever being known as "The One Who Won The Oscar Because Michael Moore Said He Didn't Want It." </industrial strength sarcasm>
It makes you want to fight for him and his beloved "Pack of lies" doesn't it. NOT
If there is a GOD he will let this one go a quiet death. We do not need to give him a forum at the Acadamy Adwards.
Good morning!
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nonfiction?
He just leaves me speechless. He is so, so, so .....Warning: not very nice (the link) .....
Marines Express THEIR opinion of Michael Moore!
thirty pieces of silver comes to my mind...
Thank You.
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