King Kong, Narnia honoured with four Academy Awards (George Clowney wins an Oscar too!)

Radio New Zealand ^ | 6 Mar 2006 | Radio New Zealand

[I got the rope]

Is he a sodomite?

[Blue Scourge]

FYI, In Clonney speech, Hattie McDaniel, "Mammy" from gone with the wind did win an Oscar, but she was not allowed to attend because she was black...guess George should have looked that up...lol

[Blue Scourge]

Correction...she attended the awards, but was forced to sit in the back at a table just for her and her escort.

[PeskyOne]

I didn't watch the Academy Awards, but I did switch over from time to time, and I saw Reese Witherspoon announced and listened to her acceptance speech. I thought she gave a nice speech, and she looked beautiful...she wasn't falling out of her dress, nor was the skirt split to her waist. She seems to be a very nice person and doesn't belong to the "smoke'em dope'em" crowd. Her entire family was there, and when she acknowledged her grandmother and the advice she had given her, the camera showed her grandmother crying. I haven't seen or read anything about her espousing her political views, but then I don't follow the movie industry too much....just what I read here and on Drudge.

[freepatriot32]

i didn't watch the oscars so I didn't see his acceptance speech and I know he is a huge lib but I think he deserved the oscar I mean he had an injury on the set that was so severe he had spinal fluid leaking out of his nose! Any one that can come back from that and finish the movie with the ability to act at all should get an acting oscar regardless of the politics of the film

[napscoordinator]

I don't know anything about Reece's political views either, but at least she seems family friendly. Both Reece and her husband made a pack that only one would work on a movie at a time and the other would watch the children. I was so happy to see her win. Her win is the only one that I agreed with. I am so disappointed that Joaquin did not win. I thought he did a great job with Johnny Cash. Why couldn't they give George Clooney another award instead of supporting actor. Of all the movies he has done I only like Ocean 11 and I didn't even bother watching the second one. I can't say that I won't ever see another movie that George Clooney does but coincidentally I haven't been interested in anything he has done since he started on his hate America tirade.

[ThirstyMan]

The message is that he was a foolish left-winged loonie idealist, who ultimately paid the price for his absurd beliefs and reckless endeavors.

Sounds right to me. Hard to come to any other conclusion isn't it?

Too bad about the "girlfriend". She must've been a little bit sick, like those women who date and marry death row inmates.

[Cementjungle]

I haven't seen "March of the Penguins." Is it any good? Might rent it if it is.

My wife and I liked it. It's not a thriller, but interesting if you like that sort of stuff.

[SunnyUsa]

hahaha.....

[Caipirabob]

Thanks for the post and the link:

Oscars winners

ACTOR - LEADING: Philip Syemour Hoffman (Capote)

ACTRESS - LEADING: Reese Witherspoon (Walk The Line)

ACTOR - SUPPORTING: George Clooney (Syriana)

ACTRESS - SUPPORTING: Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Memoirs of a Geisha

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Tsotsi

ANIMATED FEATURE: Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

COSTUME DESIGN: Memoirs of a Geisha

FILM EDITING: CRASH

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: March of the Penguins

ORIGINAL SCORE: Brokeback Mountain

BEST GAY PORN INVOLVING FARM ANIMALS: Brokeback Mountain (ok, ok, maybe it didn't happen, but they probably thought about this award.)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT: A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

ART DIRECTION: Memoirs of a Geisha

MAKEUP: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

VISUAL EFFECTS: King Kong

SOUND MIXING: King Kong

SOUND EDITING: King Kong

SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION: Six Shooter

SHORT FILM - ANIMATED: The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

ORIGINAL SONG: It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp, by Hustle and Flow.

[Tanniker Smith]

It also won for Adapted Screenplay.

[Tanniker Smith]

ACTOR - LEADING: Philip Syemour Hoffman (Capote)
Predicted this.

ACTRESS - LEADING: Reese Witherspoon (Walk The Line)
Didn't think she had a chance. Glad to see Walk the Line won something.

ACTOR - SUPPORTING: George Clooney (Syriana)
Expected. This would be his consolation prize for the night. Paul Giamatti shut out 2 years in a row.

ACTRESS - SUPPORTING: Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)
A happy surprise. She deserved it, and she's beautiful, even 7 months pregnant. I had surmised that this would be Brokeback's only acting award.

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Memoirs of a Geisha
I didn't see it, but from the scenes I saw, I was pretty certain it would take several techie awards. Oddly enough, when it came out, it was considered an early Oscar contender, or frontrunner. And then was shut out of the major categories.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Tsotsi
This was my 2nd choice, only

ANIMATED FEATURE: Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
I couldn't complain with any of the nominees. Thankfully, Chicken Little was not nominated.

COSTUME DESIGN: Memoirs of a Geisha
FILM EDITING: CRASH No other comments on techie stuff.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: March of the Penguins
Nice! I didn't think it had a chance.

ORIGINAL SCORE: Brokeback Mountain It's music, so I didn't really care. Musicians are more likely to vote craft, not politics.

BEST GAY PORN INVOLVING FARM ANIMALS: Brokeback Mountain (ok, ok, maybe it didn't happen, but they probably thought about this award.)
(grin)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT: A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
ART DIRECTION: Memoirs of a Geisha
MAKEUP: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Nice that Narnia got one award, and the makeup was good.

VISUAL EFFECTS: King Kong
SOUND MIXING: King Kong
SOUND EDITING: King Kong
SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION: Six Shooter
SHORT FILM - ANIMATED: The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

ORIGINAL SONG: It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp, by Hustle and Flow.
Outrage came first, but then I really didn't care. It was obviously a light year with only 3 songs in the running, and at least it was a song by the most basic definition of the word. Now I think I have a shot at winning an Oscar: I'm forming a rap group called D.J. Burlap and the Wicked P. Look for us in 2007.

Overall, it did seem like a little bit of a retreat. They went with racial politics over any other. They could've done better had they at least nominated a worthier Best Picture nominee as even a token, say "Walk the Line" or even "Narnia" or "Memoirs". We'll see next year.

They're saying that the big budget film is over, but I don't think so. Not just yet. I liked the big push they gave to go to the movies to see movies.

TS

[Nonstatist]

it was very, extremely, too silly that they all had stuffed penguins with them

You forget. They're French.

[brwnsuga]

What a lovely acceptance speech she gave.

[freedumb2003]

We should all remember that when ANY of his movies came out, and say "we are PROUD to be OUT of touch with him

From IMDB:

Business Data for Syriana (2005)

Budget
$50,000,000 (estimated)
Gross
$49,118,764 (USA) (19 February 2006)

Keep stayong out of touch, Clooney, and your career will follow JLo's.

[N. Theknow]

So "King Kong" won an Oscar?

Brokeback couldn't spank the monkey?

[brwnsuga]

I just saw a clip of Ms. McDaniel accepting her award. So she was allowed to accept the award but not attend the cermemony? Guess I better google this.

[william clark]

Nobody seems to be reporting much about the acceptance speeches and any political content in them, or by Jon Stewart. Did they actually display manners and judgment, or does the MSM just not want to confirm what we anticipated?

[fatima]

It was brwnsuga.She seems like a really nice person.

[Kleon]

Nobody seems to be reporting much about the acceptance speeches and any political content in them, or by Jon Stewart. Did they actually display manners and judgment, or does the MSM just not want to confirm what we anticipated?

Jon Stewart spent the night making fun of Hollywood and the movie industry. .