[wagglebee]

His audience is his award. The movie-going public was his audience and that's who he targeted, he wasn't targeting the academy, so don't feel bad for Mel Gibson and don't even get mad wasting any energy over the academy.

And the movie's success proved what the audiences really wanted.

[Ron in Acreage]

I liked the fact that he pointed out how Hillary Swank gets euthanized in Million Dollar Baby and it's glorified by those with no respect for human life.

[Tax-chick]

I don't get the emphasis on awards for "The Passion." It was a huge popular and financial success, and it will be meaningful for people for many years to come. WHO CARES what a bunch of leftist noodles think?

[Happygal]

Absolutely.

Not only that, but Gibson got his message to an audience that Michael Moore could only ever dream of reaching.

And, there wasn't a word of English in the whole thing!

[isthisnickcool]

The Passion is an example of all the good things about the art of moviemaking. The photography, editing, acting, music, etc. How the movie made people think about so many things and the emotions it brought out in people.

The fact that James Caviezel was not selected for best actor shows how much this whole "Academy" process and the people involved in it are a joke.

[mel]

Oh Oscars are bunch of crap and movies are terrible. I have enjoyed 24 series more than 95% movies I have seen in last year anyway.

[Dick Vomer]

I quit watching the Academy Awards...... gee I never watched all of the Academy Awards... I'd flip in here and there.. but it's all just kinda pathetic now isn't it?

I saw the episode when Brando let some Indian.... Native American squaw yap on about something but I was so busy laughing that I never heard what she said.

I saw Rocky win for Best Picture or Actor or Song... and that's about all I remember.

Didn't Howard Stern float in on wires once and do "Fartman"... or "Buttman"?...

Just ignore them.... they're pathetic. Don't buy their crap and just look at them when they spew political and social commentary and say.... "...Oh yeah...I'm going to listen to high school graduate, who reads lines, confuses roles they play with reality and in past times would be a juggler, prose reader or eater of chicken heads at the fair.???"

[Ticonderoga34]

Twenty years from now, people will still be watching and talking about "The Passion of The Christ" as opposed to the silly movies that were nominated for "Best Picture".

[aft_lizard]

I personally am glad they didnt pick the Passion under these circumstances. We dont need nor does that movie need to be validated by that group, besidexs if they had picked it it would be a tainted choice having everybody say it was only thre because we strong armed it.

[Cedar]

I'm so glad Mel Gibson didn't sink low to try to "buy" Oscar votes, as the other movie stars do.

The "Passion of the Christ" is so far above all other movies it would be absurd to put it in a cheap race for a Hollywood gold statue.

The Passion's value is much greater than that, and it's far more than just money.

[leprechaun9]

This is one more example of why I don't attend movies. I think the last picture I saw in a theatre was GOING MY WAY

I am sure that my absence was not noticed by Hollywood, but I haven't missed those who act being someone else and then believe that their perfromances make them authorities on Defining Public Policy!

[Liz]

It's not just the snub of The Passion of The Christ that rankles audiences who love the movie.

In an indictment of Follywood and an exhibition of its rank hatred for Christians and Christian-related films, one Hollyweirdo claims The Passion was the only film to be heartily booed when screened for Academy voters.

Hollyweirdos embarked on a juggernaut to undermine American values. They firmly believe that Christians are evil, women are to be valued only for their cleavage and that the traditional family is archaic, constricting, with no redeeming value. They also insist that 24/7 of sexually salacious and violent TV, movies and music They produce are not harming kids and the culture.

OTOH, they also believe----with the religious fervor of Tammy Faye Baker---- that a single 15-sec commercial will compel tens of millions of Americans into thousands of stores to buy billions of dollars worth of soap, soup, breakfast cereal and cars.

They can't have it both ways.

Hollywaste, here is what you are up against:

Conservative pro-life Christian voters made monumental contributions to GWB's 2004 vote totals. Pres Bush won with 63 Million Votes (13 million more than 2000).

The map, though impressive, conveys the misleading impression that blue state Catholics voted for Kerry.

According to EWTN "The World Over Live" analysts, with the exception of VA, where Catholics spit 70/30 in favor of Bush, the majority of Catholic voters split 55/45 for Bush.....a whopping number of votes since Catholics number about 52 million Americans.

According to CNN exit polls, Bush voters included 38% of union members, 40% of those with union members in their households, 42% of those earning $15,000-$30,000, 44% of those who earn under $50,000 and 44% of Latinos, 45% of youth (aged 18-29), 13% of liberals—even 11% of Democrats voted for Bush.

If you look closely, the map appears to place the insignificant "Other Voters" in the ocean.....that's accurate, because "Other Voters--RINO Republicans" were on cruise ships.

(MAP UPDATE Bush won Michigan, Ohio, Iowa and New Mexico later.)

[Rightly Biased]

BTTT

[Muzzle_em]

It has been my observation that MANY movies which have won Academy Awards have just completely SUCKED!
That movie "The Piano" comes to mind.

I never saw "The Passion."
Guess I should rent it.

[Aquinasfan]

He doesn't need no stinking Oscar.

Says it all.