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Mark Gulbrandsen
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posted 02-27-2005 11:29 PM

I don't think anyone there will ever out class Clint Eastwood! Other than him the High Definition signal was great!

Mark

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Joe Redifer
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posted 02-28-2005 04:43 AM

Are you saying Clint looks bad in High Defintion?

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John Pytlak
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posted 02-28-2005 05:48 AM

Joe Redifer said: "Renee is incredibly ugly and smells. Does anyone have a picture of how awful she looked tonight? I missed it. But I want to join in the ridicule."

Renee looked great when she presented my Academy Technical Achievement Award (and she smelled nice too). [Smile]

It was really nice to see Tak Miyagishima of Panavision win the Gordon E. Sawyer award -- he's a good friend:

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Takuo Miyagishima, one of the most notable design engineers in the motion picture industry, has worked at Panavision for nearly fifty years, Miyagishima has been influential in developing and designing new technologies that are unique and innovative advancements in the field of cinematography.

"Tak has been and continues to be a leading design engineer," said Richard Edlund, chair of the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee. "His work with Panavision, in particular the technologies he has created, revolutionized the industry."

Miyagishima began his award-winning career with Panavision in 1955. Under his guidance, Panavision received two Oscars®, first in 1978 for the Panaflex Motion Picture Camera System and again in 1993 for the Auto Panatar anamorphic photographic lens. In 1991, Miyagishima was honored with the Fuji Gold Medal, an award recognizing his design of the single autofocusing anamorphic camera lens. He received both a Technical Achievement Award and a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy in 1998 (with Albert Saiki) for the design and development of the Eyepiece Leveler and the mechanical design of the Primo Lens Series, respectively. He also won an Emmy Award for the Lens Series in 2001. In 1999, Miyagishima received the Academy's John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, awarded for Òoutstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy.Ó That same year the American Society of Cinematographers gave him (and Albert Mayer) its President's Award honoring his contributions to the industry.

A longtime member of both the Academy and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), Miyagishima has served on numerous film technology committees for both organizations including the Academy's new Science and Technology Council.

* Scientific and Engineering Award (Plaque) 1990: For the optical design, mechanical design and concept and development of the Primo Series of spherical prime lenses for 35mm photography. (w. Iain Neil & Panavision, Inc.)
* Scientific and Engineering Award (Plaque) 1998: For the optical design (Iain Neil), the mechanical design (Miyagishima) and the concept and development (Panavision) of the Primo Series of spherical prime lenses for 35mm cinematography.
* Technical Achievement Award (Certificate) 1998: For the design and development of the Eyepiece Leveler. (w. Albert K. Saiki, both of Panavision, Inc.)
* Honorary and Other Awards 1999: John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation
* Honorary and Other Awards 2004: Gordon E. Sawyer Award

3 Scientific/Technical Awards, 2 Honorary Awards

Also good to see Ed DiGiulio of Cinema Products remembered by the Academy in the 2004 Memorial, along with many others who spent their lives working "behind the scenes". [Cool]

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Phil Hill
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posted 02-28-2005 06:42 AM

Tak is a great guy. But the true credit for Panavision's incredible optics goes to the genius of George Cramer...the guy who invented the f 0.9 hi-rez lens and no-distortion/no-dipping zoom lenses and countless other impossible optical designs.

The Mechanical design goes to Al Mayer...especially for the Panaflex and countless other 35 and 65mm camera designs... not to mention (I forgot his name) the guy who was a genius in camera movement design.

And to make it all work and run reliably with all the bells & whistles in environments from subzero to the high deserts, the electronic designs go to Oliver Conway, Neil McCurdy...and myself... for ALL the stuff.

All these people are now retired, moved on to other things, or dead.

Actually, old man Gottschalk is the one that REALLY deserves all the credit for his drive and being a true visionary!

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Eric Hooper
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posted 02-28-2005 10:50 AM

I liked Chris Rock.

Annette Bening should have won for Best Actress. The only reason Swank won is because 'she's so hot right now.'

I didn't think Million Dollar Baby was all that good of a movie...

Beyonce was HOT!

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Robert E. Allen
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posted 02-28-2005 12:25 PM

I'm glad "Sideways" got nothing. I think it's one of the biggest pieces of garbage to come out of Hollywood in decades. It should be sent over to the porno industry awards.

I saw more breasts on the tube than I've seen in a long time. My wife paid the price (can I say that?). Maybe next year they won't bother to cover ANY part of them.

Those of us here in the Evergreen State were glad to see Swank win. She was raised in a trailer park in Bellingham.

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 02-28-2005 12:32 PM

Chris Rock was less abrasive than I expected but he wasn't all that funny either.

Renee Zellweger looked terrible. Her face reminded me of Michael Jackson with that lipstick. [scream]

Clint Eastwood was a class act all the way. I'm glad he won. Having his mom there was way cool.

Hilary Swank was indeed just like Julia Roberts. She thanked a few dozen people nobody cares about, the orchestra tried to play her off, but she yelled "You can't do that, I haven't gotten to Clint yet!" Then AFTER she raved about Clint, she decided to thank a few more nobodies including her lawyers. She turned what should have been a nice moment into a train wreck. Nice job, Hil.

Jamie Foxx's speech was the best of all.

Overall I thought the awards were pretty good. No major stupid upsets, the winners were deserving and even the nominations were well distributed this year. The show, itself, probably sucked about the same as usual but that's hard to say because I fast-forwarded through a lot of it.

And Bob: Sideways didn't "get nothing." It won for best adapted screenplay. And it's not exactly porn -- there are two sex scenes in it, both used for comic effect -- there's probably only about 20 seconds of nudity in the whole movie.

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Robert E. Allen
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posted 02-28-2005 01:31 PM

OOPS! You're right Mike. I forgot about the screenplay thing. But, what the heck, any fourteen year old with raging hormones could have written that.

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Scott Norwood
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posted 02-28-2005 01:46 PM

I'm still upset that Sky Captain (my favorite film of 2004) didn't even get nominated.

Oh, well. At least I enjoyed Million Dollar Baby and the Aviator. I thought that the "Best Foreign Film" category was particularly weak this year (not sure why), which was somewhat disappointing in general. Did Hotel Rwanda win anything? If not, it should have. I'm glad that the Incredibles won "Best Animated Feature"--not that it had much competition.

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Christian Volpi
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posted 02-28-2005 01:57 PM

quote: Robert E. Allen
any fourteen year old with raging hormones could have written that.

Let's see you write a script that is half as intelligent as Sideways. I hate it when people bitch about a movie over and over again (and in multiple threads). You weren't forced to watch the damn movie, were you?

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James R. Hammonds, Jr
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posted 02-28-2005 02:44 PM

I didn't see most of the movies nominated (I still want to see The Aviator and Million Dollar Baby though), so I can't pass judgement on any of the decisions.
I'm glad Jamie Foxx won though.
He had to go through a lot just to play the character and he pulled it off really well.

Side note:
Did anyone else notice during the Sidney Lumet montage the clip of his new film that is currently in production titled "Find Me Guilty"?
I couldn't believe it myself, but it showed Vin Diesel in what looks to be a REAL MOVIE and WITH HAIR.
I wonder how that will turn out.

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Robert E. Allen
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posted 02-28-2005 04:56 PM

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"Let's see you write a script that is half as intelligent as Sideways. I hate it when people bitch about a movie over and over again (and in multiple threads). You weren't forced to watch the damn movie, were you?"
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Part of my job is previewing a film after it is built to make certain it was done correctly. The fact that this film didn't get the "Best Picture" nod leaves in tact what little faith I have left in the Academy.

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Pravin Ratnam
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posted 02-28-2005 05:19 PM

Robert Allen, your rants on Sideways puzzle me. If the nudity in Sideways troubled you, how do you watch most R movies? English Patient had more sex scenes. Halle Berry won for what was a pretty explicit R rated sex scene. PG rated Titanic had Winslet's tits on full display and that was a movie watched by mostly kids.

I feel Sideways is overrated because the premise is still not such a memorable one, but it is still one of my top movies of the year with excellent direction by Payne. Paul Giamatti was the most deserving nominee but he didnt get nominated.

Rock was disappointingly a little bland, but for me, he was still an improvment over any recent host not named Crystal. He was on par with Steve Martin whose presentation was smoother than Rock;s but his jokes were more boring. Whoopi and Letterman were awful. And Chris Rock's MTV hosting gigs are some of the best MTV ever had. And let's give Chris Rock some credit. He got Sean penn to make a fool of himself. Chris should have said "Hey Sean, even Mr. Hand(the FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh teacher) didn't take himself so seriously."

Future suggestions: Conan O Brien.

Glad to see Benning didn't win the sympathy for the hollywood insider sweetheart oscar. Oscars don't need another win from an unspectacular no name film to bore the audiences.

Technical awards were fun for me even as a kid because they actually had the fun movies and clips. I disagree these nods are boring to the masses.

The Adam sandler song from 50 First Dates in it addresssed to Lucy (drew Barrymore) was better than all the nominated songs this year. What an awful bunch. I guess the only semi decent one was the Motorcycles Diaries one and Banderas ruined it to the level of the other songs. Either the academy needs to include adapted songs(as long as they werent used in other movies and were used in a way crucial to a scene in the movie) or pare down the list of nominees if they can't find enough decent songs.

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 02-28-2005 05:40 PM

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Titanic ...was a movie watched by mostly kids.

Uhhh, no. "Pooh's Heffalump" was watched mostly by kids. "Titanic" was probably the most wide-appeal movie to come out in the entire second half of the 20th century.

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David Favel
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posted 02-28-2005 06:48 PM

I did enjoy the White Chicks bit though.

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