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Sigourney Weaver attacks Oscar voters (Avatar didn't win Oscar because "Jim didn't have breasts")
New York Post | April 13, 2010 | N.Y. Post

Posted on 04/13/2010 3:27:22 AM PDT by SmokingJoe

Sigourney Weaver has launched a blistering attack on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, saying James Cameron didn't win the Oscar for Best Director because he "didn't have breasts."

Outspoken "Avatar" star Weaver said she believed Cameron -- who lost out to his ex-wife, "The Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow -- didn't win because the academy wanted to make history by naming its first ever female Best Director.

"Jim didn't have breasts, and I think that was the reason," Weaver told Brazilian news site Folha Online over the weekend. "He should have taken home that Oscar

In a stunning rebuke hinting at frustration in the "Avatar" camp -- who applauded gracefully when "The Hurt Locker" also took the Best Picture Oscar -- Weaver added, "In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: avatar; boobs; jamescameron; missinglink; oscars; sigourneyweaver; thehurtlocker
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To: Castigar
It never occurred to her that it wasn’t the best movie?

You are using too much common sense here.
Much better to blame it all on lack of breasts. Chortle!

21 posted on 04/13/2010 3:51:20 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe
Just saw AVATAR last week: An over-produced cartoon with a screenplay written by a fourteen-year-old.
22 posted on 04/13/2010 3:56:23 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: SmokingJoe

I enjoyed the Oscar best movies this year.I just saw An
Education which maybe the best movie of the year.


23 posted on 04/13/2010 3:56:26 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: SmokingJoe

24 posted on 04/13/2010 3:59:59 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: SmokingJoe

She should be happy. I am woman, hear me roar...


25 posted on 04/13/2010 4:00:51 AM PDT by tips up
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To: SmokingJoe
From the link:

Weaver made her comments as she and Cameron promoted "Avatar" in Brazil and protested against the proposed Belo Monte dam in the Amazon -- the world's third-largest hydroelectric project -- which they claim will destroy the jungle and displace indigenous tribes. Cameron also wrote a letter to Brazilian President Lula da Silva, who's insisting the project will go forward and has refused to meet with him.

God forbid some Brazilians get electricity.

26 posted on 04/13/2010 4:00:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: rlmorel

That’s unbelievably funny. And true.


27 posted on 04/13/2010 4:01:05 AM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: JoeProBono

Colonel Kurtz?


28 posted on 04/13/2010 4:01:54 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: rlmorel

LOL!


29 posted on 04/13/2010 4:03:35 AM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: SmokingJoe

The real story here is that “ain’t life a beach when it’s you who is on the losing stick of PC-ness-gone-wild.”


30 posted on 04/13/2010 4:04:41 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Sic semper tyrannis! Stop spending. Starve the beast.)
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To: SmokingJoe

I’ll also go with the fact that Hurt Locker was a really good movie with well-developed characters. Very contra-factual, but still it left me intrigued and thinking.

The remarkable thing about Avatar is that everyone who likes it seems to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to tell you that it’s not like some other movie.


31 posted on 04/13/2010 4:05:04 AM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: BallyBill

Good one!


32 posted on 04/13/2010 4:05:30 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Sic semper tyrannis! Stop spending. Starve the beast.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Best picture of the year is the one that makes the most money!

The moviegoers cast their vote for best picture with their dollars.

Screw the academy.


33 posted on 04/13/2010 4:08:15 AM PDT by Bobalu (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Well Sigourney, you don’t have boobs either but you took home an Oscar once.


34 posted on 04/13/2010 4:08:21 AM PDT by rintense (Only dead fish go with the flow, which explains why Congress stinks.)
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To: Wolfie

I Dunno Ange, whatta you wanna do?


35 posted on 04/13/2010 4:08:25 AM PDT by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: driftdiver
She’s too busy fighting against the ocean being turned to acid by global warming.

To be fair, she's worried that it'll eat through the hull.

36 posted on 04/13/2010 4:08:36 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: SmokingJoe

No amount of CGI, special effects and dazzle can ever make up for the lack of a good script and good acting. A film with good writing and acting will always trump dazzle without substance.


37 posted on 04/13/2010 4:11:33 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (The beatings will increase until morale and the economy improves.)
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To: rlmorel
"it was Pocahontas with blue people".

LOL!

38 posted on 04/13/2010 4:14:22 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
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To: SmokingJoe

Sigourney is also somewhat lacking when it comes to breasts. She is not bad looking though IMHO but haven’t seen her recently. I am probably still imaging her from the Alien era.


39 posted on 04/13/2010 4:15:03 AM PDT by xp38
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To: rintense

LOL...GMTA


40 posted on 04/13/2010 4:15:37 AM PDT by xp38
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