Awards Aftermath - Part 2

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Oh, I thought you had a flea in your ear!

[garyd]

Oh, I thought you had a flea in your ear!

No,no, not at all.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

I was referencing your Feydeau remarks on the TDS Response thread!

[garyd]

I was referencing your Feydeau remarks on the TDS Response thread!

LOL, yeah, I know, and thanks for catching the reference.

However, to be honest, my more "base" side came to fore when I saw your post regarding the tag line.  The first thing that came to mind was a screen cap of FNIT. 

[morrobay]

On SFGate.com front page..

Yesterday we looked at performances that shouldn’t have won best actor.  Today we look at actor performances that should have won an Academy Award — or THAT WERE AT LEAST AS DESERVING AS WHAT ACTUALLY DID WIN THE ACADEMY AWARD THAT YEAR.  



Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain."

[kathy]

I can't get the pic of  Heath.

kathy   

[graylockV]

From The Atlantic Wire:


Finally Proof the Oscars Mean Nothing

by Richard Lawson

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/02/finally-proof-oscars-mean-nothing/48930/

Referencing a recent L.A. Times article re: the demographics of the AMPAS: "In a fascinating new piece looking into the makeup of the 5,765-member Academy, The Los Angeles Times presents some telling statistics, the chief takeaway being that, yes indeed, as long suspected Academy voters are predominantly older white men — oftentimes, depending on the branch, almost exclusively so."

"As independent cinema has grown sturdier and more mainstream over the past twenty years, the Academy's often frustrating (if you care about such things, anyway) blindspot for non-glossy prestige fare has become more glaring. It always existed in some capacity, but in recent years we've seen stark examples like Brokeback Mountain defeated by the Angeleno-pleasing, race-pandering Crash, sharp Sideways losing to treacly Million Dollar Baby, Sandra Bullock winning for schmaltzy pluck over the quieter smarts of Carey Mulligan in An Education, and the undeniably heart-swelling but squarely straightforward The King's Speech besting films a little more narratively daring like Black Swan and The Social Network. The list of Oscar upsets or groaners or whatever we want to call them is miles long, and the only way that we've soldiered on in following all this Oscar business without throwing our hands up in the air is that we could always rely on the vague but firmly held truism that this is just the out-of-touch Academy voting their own demographic: old, white, and traditional. (Oftentimes the rare "nontraditional" win is actually quite traditional in its own way, as in the Crash affair.) We've always taken this as a given but now, finally, we have some easily digested concrete proof."

[kathy]

Wonderful, terrific column; I love that title!

kathy

[kathy]

On SFGate.com front page..

Yesterday we looked at performances that shouldn’t have won best actor.  Today we look at actor performances that should have won an Academy Award — or THAT WERE AT LEAST AS DESERVING AS WHAT ACTUALLY DID WIN THE ACADEMY AWARD THAT YEAR.  



Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain."

Congrats to SF.Gate!  I'm so very glad they did this.  Heath definitely should have won. 
Damned oscars  anyway.
 
kathy     

[brokebacktom]

Congrats to SF.Gate!  I'm so very glad they did this.  Heath definitely should have won. 
Damned oscars  anyway.
 
kathy     

I agree I would have liked seeing Heath getting the Oscar for Brokeback instead of Dark Knight. I will be watching this year to see Michelle and Billy Crystal as MC. Other than that I really do not care.

[kathy]

Well, Heath (and Jake too IMO) definitely deserved to win Best Actor for BBM. And we all know about the inside job that went on within 'ampas'    to deliberately deny Brokeback Mountain the Best Picture award.  They went ahead and just gave it away to Trash.  What a travesty of justice; everyone knows it now and they knew it then.  

Heath deserved to win for TDK too.  IMO however, the Joker is not a 'supporting' role; on the contrary, it is the most important role in the entire film and generates all the mayhem.  Heath also has as much screen time as C. Bale.  His take on the Joker is a super performance and should have been in the Best Actor category.   But as asinine as the 'academy' was concerning BBM, they placed Heath in the supporting category this time.  What a bunch of morons they were and are.

kathy  
p.s.  I am so glad the info from the Atlantic Wire and SF.Gate was posted.  They certainly hit the nail on the head.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

From the recent Oscar Edition of Entertainment Weekly
on how to predict the best picture winner:

"The Academy loves critical darlings (films scoring better than 80 at the review aggregator
Metacritic).  But if you don't have great reviews, at least be a box office smash like Gladiator.
In the past 15 years, only one movie won best picture without being either:"

(GEE, I WONDER WHICH ONE?)

Year/Title/Metacritic Score/Box Office in Millions

1996: THE ENGLISH PATIENT - 87/$64
1997: TITANIC - 74/$496
1998: SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE - 87/$73
1999: AMERICAN BEAUTY - 86/$108
2000: GLADIATOR - 64/$187
2001: A BEAUTIFUL MIND - 72/$155
2002: CHICAGO - 82/$134
2003: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING - 94/$364
2004: MILLION DOLLAR BABY - 86/$65
2005: CRASH - 69/$53
2006: THE DEPARTED - 86/$132
2007: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - 91/$64
2008: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE - 86/$98
2009: THE HURT LOCKER - 94/$15
2010: THE KING'S SPEECH - 88/$114
2011: THE ARTIST - 89/$20 (current)

[Lyle (Mooska)]

FYI: 

Brokeback Mountain 87/$83

[Ennis Del Mark]

Still pisses me off, six years later...

[kathy]

Same here.

kathy