Oscars

by Conscious* » Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:29 pm

So after watching the whole Oscars show, I wanted to see what everyone thought...

I loved John Stewart hosting it, he added a lot of comedy and really picked it up after the dull collection of clips they repeaditly showed.

Brokeback Mountain...I didn't see it or hear much of it until the Oscar talk, I know its about two gay cowboys, but is there anything significant that made it win as many awards as it did?

Crash- Definetly surprised me when it won Best Picture.

Reese Witherspoon, the best acceptance speech.

Dolly Parton, performed great.

Anyone have any comments?

by **Siren** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:50 pm

I didn't see much of the show.... but I watched some of the red carpet. I thought Keira Knightly and Sandra Bullock looked the best.

I dont know about Brokeback, not really interested in seeing it, but I did really like "Crash".

by **cavalierlwt** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:53 pm

I can never sit through the Oscars. I watched the repeats of 'Deadwood' instead. Hope John Stewart did ok though.

by **Buliwyf** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:27 am

from imdb.com

Academy Awards, USA: 2006
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner: Crash (2004) - Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote (2005)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Winner: Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner: George Clooney for Syriana (2005)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner: Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener (2005)
Best Achievement in Directing
Winner: Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Winner: Crash (2004) - Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Winner: Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - Dion Beebe
Best Achievement in Editing
Winner: Crash (2004) - Hughes Winborne
Best Achievement in Art Direction
Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - John Myhre, Gretchen Rau
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - Colleen Atwood
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Winner: Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Gustavo Santaolalla
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Winner: Hustle & Flow (2005) - Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, Paul Beauregard("It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp")
Best Achievement in Makeup
Winner: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - Howard Berger, Tami Lane
Best Achievement in Sound
Winner: King Kong (2005) - Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Winner: King Kong (2005) - Mike Hopkins, Ethan Van der Ryn
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Winner: King Kong (2005) - Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, Richard Taylor
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Winner: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) - Steve Box, Nick Park
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Winner: Tsotsi (2005) - Gavin Hood(South Africa)
Best Documentary, Features
Winner: Marche de l'empereur, La (2005) - Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Winner: A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2005) - Corinne Marrinan, Eric Simonson
Best Short Film, Animated
Winner: The Moon and the Son (2005) - John Canemaker, Peggy Stern
Best Short Film, Live Action
Winner: Six Shooter (2005) - Martin McDonagh

by **Alofwar** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:14 am

The only films have seen out of those films that won anything are king kong and wallace & gromit. It because the rest are boring emotional crap, films that would appeal alot more to a female (and gay) audience. Of course "pride and predjudice" should have won "best film in a foriegn lanuage" Thats right, im British and i still can't understand it.

by Conscious* » Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:46 am

Munich deserved a few awards, as did Syriana I believe. The only award they got was George Clooney for Supporting Actor in Syriana.

by B » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:56 am

I don't understand how King Kong won anything. It was horrible!! People being shot and scratched and stabbed in the jungle but no blood or cuts on them. WTF? I wanted to go to sleep. What a waste of $8.50. If you haven't seen it, wait for it to come out on dvd. The original was so much better. Geez...whatta disappointment.

by **CodeRed68** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:10 am

I am glad Crash won best picture. That is a great movie. If anyone hasn't seen it yet, this should be your motivation.

by **Raycaster** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:47 am

Originally posted by B
I don't understand how King Kong won anything. It was horrible!! People being shot and scratched and stabbed in the jungle but no blood or cuts on them. WTF? I wanted to go to sleep. What a waste of $8.50. If you haven't seen it, wait for it to come out on dvd. The original was so much better. Geez...whatta disappointment.

My wife really enjoyed it (Except for the bug attack). I enjoyed it from an entertainment perspective, but this was also a film that just put me into film editor mode. I have a substantial minor in electronic arts (18 CR over reqs, 12 of which were independent study. Focused on computer animation and video). All films need good editing, at three hours it becomes critical. Peter Jackson seems to have real difficulty parting with any shot he's taken. The most egregious was the slo-mo, soft filter montage between the point where Kong was knocking everyone off the log and the bug attack. Doesn't move the story along. Doesn't have any real emotional impact as you saw them plummet and not manage to grab anything so you already knew they were dead. It was just an interruption to the flow of the movie. A good editor could probably have that movie down to 150 minutes and it would have been much better for it.

PJ did a decent job with LOTR, but he seems to be getting a free pass now because of it.

by **Rotoman** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:07 am

The Oscars are a joke, IMO.

Revenge of the Sith while an average movie had incredible special effects and wasn't even nominated for that Oscar.

Three 6 Mafia has an Oscar and Martin Scorcese doesn't.

Walk the Line gets a best actor and actress nomination but isn't good enough for a best picture nomination?

Then there's whole political thing. To me the Oscars should be a celebration of movies, not a chance to pound your political drivel down everyones throats.

by **cavalierlwt** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:33 am

Originally posted by Raycaster

PJ did a decent job with LOTR, but he seems to be getting a free pass now because of it.

I have no credential or expertise, but I thought kinda the same thing with Kong, and also that you can put heroes into too many 'there's no way they can get out of this' type situation, after awhile I stop feeling apprehensive, get kind of numb to it.

And while I'm picking on Jackson, LOTR, Two Towers had one throwaway scene that should have never been filmed, IMHO: When Aragorn gets tangled up with the Warg, goes off the cliff and everyone thinks he's dead. Lay's around, has the stupid scene with the horse, horse rescues him, brings him back to his friends. Then the whole movie just kind of goes forward from there. They could have just skipped that whole sequence and not taken anything away from the story.

by **Buliwyf** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:53 pm

yep, I am goign to rent crash

by **cavalierlwt** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:56 pm

I've seen a few clips of the Oscars. I love John Stewart, but he seems like he was (appropriately) mild for the ceremony--maybe to the point of blandness. Will Ferrel and Steve Carell were OK. The funniest clip I've seen was Ben Stiller wearing a green spandex suit and pretending that he was using 'green-screen' special effects. Other than that it looked like a very boring uneventful show.

by **S.S. N** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:06 pm

Tom Hanks getting hit by the blow dart was brilliant.

tuned in right before that and i lost interest soon after.

by **PraiseA||ah** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:02 pm

I just watched Crash. Wow. Awesome movie. It's nice to see a really good movie get recognized. That doesn't always happen. The movie runs the emotional gamut. Hell of a good flick.

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