Posted on 02/28/2011 6:27:24 AM PST by Chunga85
As of this evening, Charles Ferguson is no longer just a documentary filmmaker, he is now a Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker for his film Inside Job. The film focused on the connections between the government and financial institutions that led to insane levels of profit-taking which endangered the global economy. Mr. Ferguson will also be known for creating perhaps the most entertaining and contentious moment during a thus far lackluster Academy Awards when he pointedly noted that no one has gone to jail for the financial misconduct.
It was the first quasi-political moment In a broadcast that has been remarkably devoid of any controversial comments (and pure entertainment value) and one that will surely be noted in the days of recap coverage that will come in the following days.
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I didn’t watch the Oscars (never have) but I did watch “Inside Job” ping.
Where is Barney?
Where is Barney?
They won’t send Barney to prison because he’d enjoy it too much....................
Wanna bet if these guys could pin the meltdown on conservative repulicans they would have been charged by now!!
A friend was telling me yesterday that I needed to watch “Inside Job”.
Has anybody here watched it?
Was this a conservative documentary? If so, can’t believe it won.
Freddie’sFanny should be in jail dipstick!
He’s mad because his documentary didn’t have an effect on anything.
I did and what I came away with it was both parties worked together like a Swiss watch. I have the film on order but I already watched it Here
“Hollyweird is just a pile of steaming hypocrites.”
Hollyweird is just a steaming pile of hypocrites.
Fixed!
They didn’t even nominate “Waiting for Superman”
MUCH BETTER, THANKS!
Unfortunately, just like the Nobel Prize, the Oscars no longer have any value because of previous recipients like Gay Al Gore and Fat Boy Michael Moore.
Let me put it this way, it will either make you very angry or make you very very angry. A really good documentary, and one that doesn't try and make it a Republican problem or a Democrat problem (because fact of the matter is that both parties were utterly and totally complicit).
Another interesting thing ...had you sat down 5 years ago and written down everything that happened (and that is revealed to those who were not on the inside in the documentary), you would have been laughed out of the county (heck, the country) for written totally implausible (and tacitly impossible) fiction! You would have been laughed at for writing something that is soooooo improbable (and a plot so crazy) that it should be called 'humor' rather than fiction. However, it is true what they say about truth being stranger than fiction. A very good documentary, with good interviews, and that portrays a picture of what happened that is one of the most accurate (and non-partisan) that there is.
If the best review something can get is Five Stars, this is a Six Star documentary!
the guy who did An Inconvenient Truth couldn’t even get a nomination for Waiting for Superman
Also, there was Barney Frank and all the crooked Democrats at Fannie Mae. But if any of them were mentioned in the film it would not have won an award.
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