Posted on 01/28/2005 11:55:25 AM PST by snowrip
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By Jesse Hiestand
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Two days after being snubbed when the Oscar nominations were announced, Michael Moore was left off the list Thursday when the Writers Guild of America unveiled nominees for its first documentary writing award for a feature film.
The six nominated pictures are "The Hunting of the President," which alleges a campaign against Bill Clinton from his early days in Arkansas through his impeachment; "Control Room," an inside view of the Arab television network Al Jazeera during the war in Iraq; "Bright Leaves," a reflection on Big Tobacco by the great-grandson of a tobacco baron; "Home of the Brave," a study of murdered civil-rights activist Viola Liuzzo; "In the Realm of the Unreal," which follows artist, novelist and janitor Henry Darger; and "Super Size Me," a first-person take on the perils of overeating fast food.
Of those films, only Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me" has been nominated for a best documentary Academy Award.
WGA officials said Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" was eligible but Moore elected not to submit it. Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" won the WGA Award for best original screenplay in 2003, the first time that a documentary had ever been nominated in that category.
"Fahrenheit 9/11" also failed to earn an Academy Award nomination this week. In that case, however, he had declined to submit "Fahrenheit" in the documentary category because he planned a TV airing before the Nov. 2 election -- and that disqualified the documentary under Academy rules. "Fahrenheit" was eligible in other categories, and Moore unsuccessfully campaigned for a best picture nomination.
The winner of the WGA Documentary Screenplay Award will be named at a reception for documentary filmmakers Feb. 15 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
How does 'In the realm of the Unreal' fit this description?
well cause libs tend to make these types of pics.....not many conervatives out there doing the same thing....
Crying some big tears here (NOT)
Dear Michael:
Boo Hoo Hoo.
Time to suck in your gut.
Poor Mikey!
I'm deeply saddened.
If Moore didn't submit it, then there wasn't a cut for him to miss. It was the motion picture academy award panel that snubbed him royally, and that after all his hard work making a fool of himself for the Democratic Party.
Michael probably has a hard time getting influential Democrats to return his phone calls these days. The lastest tsunami may have be accerbated by the DNC tossing 'Shamu' Moore overboard around the same time.
If Moore sucks in all his gut, the resulting air pressure vacuum could wreck havoc.
I am deeply saddened and shocked...
Moore isn't as depressed about not getting the award as he is about not getting to go to the awards banquet.
HAHAHAHAHA hahahahahalollollol
Ah Karma is a beautiful thing is it not?
Eaither that or the resultant Gasseous emmanation from his Butt.
Yack!
Lib's turning on lib's, its like Alien -vs- Predator all over again.
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