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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-25-2011, 12:59 PM:
 
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards

Best Picture

* “Black Swan” Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers
* “The Fighter” David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers
* “Inception” Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
* “The Kids Are All Right” Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers
* “The King's Speech” Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
* “127 Hours” Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers
* “The Social Network” Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
* “Toy Story 3” Darla K. Anderson, Producer
* “True Grit” Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
* “Winter's Bone" Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers

Actor in a Leading Role

* Javier Bardem in “Biutiful”
* Jeff Bridges in “True Grit”
* Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network”
* Colin Firth in “The King's Speech”
* James Franco in “127 Hours”

Actor in a Supporting Role

* Christian Bale in “The Fighter”
* John Hawkes in “Winter's Bone”
* Jeremy Renner in “The Town”
* Mark Ruffalo in “The Kids Are All Right”
* Geoffrey Rush in “The King's Speech”

Actress in a Leading Role

* Annette Bening in “The Kids Are All Right”
* Nicole Kidman in “Rabbit Hole”
* Jennifer Lawrence in “Winter's Bone”
* Natalie Portman in “Black Swan”
* Michelle Williams in “Blue Valentine”

Actress in a Supporting Role

* Amy Adams in “The Fighter”
* Helena Bonham Carter in “The King's Speech”
* Melissa Leo in “The Fighter”
* Hailee Steinfeld in “True Grit”
* Jacki Weaver in “Animal Kingdom”

Animated Feature Film

* “How to Train Your Dragon” Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
* “The Illusionist” Sylvain Chomet
* “Toy Story 3” Lee Unkrich

Art Direction

* “Alice in Wonderland”
Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O'Hara
* “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1”
Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
* “Inception”
Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
* “The King's Speech”
Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Judy Farr
* “True Grit”
Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh

Cinematography

* “Black Swan” Matthew Libatique
* “Inception” Wally Pfister
* “The King's Speech” Danny Cohen
* “The Social Network” Jeff Cronenweth
* “True Grit” Roger Deakins

Costume Design

* “Alice in Wonderland” Colleen Atwood
* “I Am Love” Antonella Cannarozzi
* “The King's Speech” Jenny Beavan
* “The Tempest” Sandy Powell
* “True Grit” Mary Zophres

Directing

* “Black Swan” Darren Aronofsky
* “The Fighter” David O. Russell
* “The King's Speech” Tom Hooper
* “The Social Network” David Fincher
* “True Grit” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Documentary (Feature)

* “Exit through the Gift Shop” Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz
* “Gasland” Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
* “Inside Job” Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
* “Restrepo” Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
* “Waste Land” Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley

Documentary (Short Subject)

* “Killing in the Name” Nominees to be determined
* “Poster Girl” Nominees to be determined
* “Strangers No More” Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
* “Sun Come Up” Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger
* “The Warriors of Qiugang” Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon

Film Editing

* “Black Swan” Andrew Weisblum
* “The Fighter” Pamela Martin
* “The King's Speech” Tariq Anwar
* “127 Hours” Jon Harris
* “The Social Network” Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

Foreign Language Film

* “Biutiful” Mexico
* “Dogtooth” Greece
* “In a Better World” Denmark
* “Incendies” Canada
* “Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi)” Algeria

Makeup

* “Barney's Version” Adrien Morot
* “The Way Back” Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
* “The Wolfman” Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

Music (Original Score)

* “How to Train Your Dragon” John Powell
* “Inception” Hans Zimmer
* “The King's Speech” Alexandre Desplat
* “127 Hours” A.R. Rahman
* “The Social Network” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Music (Original Song)

* “Coming Home” from “Country Strong” Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
* “I See the Light” from “Tangled” Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
* “If I Rise” from “127 Hours” Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
* “We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3" Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

Short Film (Animated)

* “Day & Night” Teddy Newton
* “The Gruffalo” Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
* “Let's Pollute” Geefwee Boedoe
* “The Lost Thing” Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
* “Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)” Bastien Dubois

Short Film (Live Action)

* “The Confession” Tanel Toom
* “The Crush” Michael Creagh
* “God of Love” Luke Matheny
* “Na Wewe” Ivan Goldschmidt
* “Wish 143” Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

Sound Editing

* “Inception” Richard King
* “Toy Story 3” Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
* “Tron: Legacy” Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
* “True Grit” Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
* “Unstoppable” Mark P. Stoeckinger

Sound Mixing

* “Inception” Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
* “The King's Speech” Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
* “Salt” Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
* “The Social Network” Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
* “True Grit” Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

Visual Effects

* “Alice in Wonderland” Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
* “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1” Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
* “Hereafter” Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
* “Inception” Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
* “Iron Man 2” Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

* “127 Hours” Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
* “The Social Network” Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
* “Toy Story 3” Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
* “True Grit” Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
* “Winter's Bone” Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

Writing (Original Screenplay)

* “Another Year” Written by Mike Leigh
* “The Fighter” Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson;
Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
* “Inception” Written by Christopher Nolan
* “The Kids Are All Right” Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
* “The King's Speech” Screenplay by David Seidler
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-25-2011, 03:05 PM:
 
Congratulations to Jacki Weaver for her Best Supporting Actress nomination. She's been around forever and now she's finally been 'discovered'. If she wins, I'm sure she'll be an overnight sensation, just like Geoffrey Rush was for 'Shine'.
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-25-2011, 04:24 PM:
 
The King's Speech will very likely take the Best Picture Oscar since it already won the Producer's Guild award for Best Picture. The Social Network was previously the favorite to win Best Picture, but not anymore. David Fincher has a good chance of winning the Best Director Oscar though. We'll pretty much know for sure who will win when the Director's Guild's award is handed out this coming Saturday night (Jan. 29).

On Sunday, the Screen Actor's Guild awards show will air on TNT. That will pretty much telegraph the Oscar winners in the various acting categories. I'll be surprised if Natalie Portman doesn't win the Best Actress award for Black Swan.

I'm praying Black Swan does not win a cinematography Oscar. The ASC has its awards ceremony coming up on February 13. The ASC nominees for the feature film award category are the same as the Oscar nominees. It's likely whatever movie wins the ASC award will win the Oscar as well. I'm rooting for Inception and True Grit as a 2nd choice.

Why is The King's Speech nominated in the Best Sound Mixing category? Not that I have a major problem with The King's Speech but it's conspicuously common for various period/costume dramas that are heavily dialog driven to be thrown a Best Sound gimmie nomination to help pump up that overall total of nominations. When the movie wins Best Picture it makes it more impressive sounding to have something like 7, 10 or 8973 Oscars hauled away at the podium rather than just a couple or so.
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 01-25-2011, 04:44 PM:
 
I'm voting for Inception for both picture and sound: the cinematography was awesome (and films based), and out of those noms, the better sound mix too. I didn't see Salt, so I guess I can't really say if it was better than the others.

I, like many, also find it ridiculous that Nolan did not get a director's nom for Inception. Just a downright shame. Let's hope they reward him an original screenplay award, something he definitely deserves.

AJG
 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 01-25-2011, 05:15 PM:
 
So what will the Academy do to get back at Weinstein this time? Close the awards window to two weeks?

10 stinking best pix noms!. I can't wait to see how they draw that out. I am really looking forward to what kind of production number they come up with for Winter's Bone. Singing and dancing Hillbillies on Meth as portrayed by some Hollywood Dance Studio.

For the 83rd year in a row, the worst Academy Awards show ever
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-25-2011, 05:32 PM:
 

quote: Martin McCaffery

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10 stinking best pix noms!. I can't wait to see how they draw that out.

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You must not have seen the show last year. There were 10 Best Pic noms then too. The world didn't end.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-25-2011, 05:45 PM:
 
I understand why they've gone to 10 Best Picture nominations, but it definitely makes the nominations of most of them seem a lesser event.
 

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Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 01-25-2011, 05:54 PM:
 
Although I had enjoyed TRUE GRIT when I saw it in a theatre and SOCIAL NETWORK on Blu-Ray, I am rooting for A KINGS SPEECH for best picture and Best actor. Although both of the other films were also excellent, KINGS SPEECH is a much better picture. I was surprised Jeff Bridges in TRUE GRIT was not nominated for a Golden Globe but I am glad he was nominated for an Oscar. Although he delivered a award winning performance, it is unfortunate he has to compete against Colin Firth who will win. After watching BLACK SAWN last weekend, I am rooting for Natalie Portman for the roll as a ballet dancer driven mad in that film. I did not think the cinematography was anything special that deserve a nomination but I thought the sound for THE BLACK SWAN was fantastic and should have been nominated in that category.

-Claude
 

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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 01-25-2011, 06:17 PM:
 
Not even a nomination for Never Let Me Go in the Best Cinematography category?

The films that I like never win these things, but it would be nice if AMPAS would at least see fit to nominate them....
 

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-25-2011, 07:47 PM:
 
One award I hope the The Social Network wins is Best Score. But I'm a Nine Inch Nails fan. Still, the music was pretty interesting and fitting for the subject matter. The Academy could score some "cool points" by giving Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross the award. They missed another "cool points" opportunity in failing to nominate Daft Punk for their brilliant score of Tron: Legacy.

I'm not going to get up my hopes too much, but The Social Network at least has a shot at the Best Score Oscar since it already won the Golden Globe. I liked Trent Reznor's "Holy Shit" tweet when the winner was announced.
 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 01-25-2011, 09:03 PM:
 

quote: Mike Blakesley

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You must not have seen the show last year. There were 10 Best Pic noms then too. The world didn't end.

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So torturous I must have blacked it out
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-25-2011, 09:13 PM:
 

quote: Claude S. Ayakawa

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I was surprised Jeff Bridges in TRUE GRIT was not nominated for a Golden Globe but I am glad he was nominated for an Oscar. Although he delivered a award winning performance, it is unfortunate he has to compete against Colin Firth who will win.

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quote: Mike Blakesley

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If Bridges did win, would that be the first time two different actors won Best Actor for playing the same role?

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quote: Joe Redifer

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Black Swan will win because they borrowed my camera to shoot some of it (for reals).

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quote: Jonathan Goeldner

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'127 Hours' NOT getting a cinematography nomination - booooo

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quote: Joe Redifer

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Who cares? This is the boring part of the show.

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quote: Bobby Henderson

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As for the Oscars telecast, why bother watching it?

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1) bad gowns
2) bad speeches
3) bad production numbers.

The awards are meaningless. The show is for having your loud movie friends over for eating, drinking and snarking. It's the Superbowl of badness
 

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Posted by Jonathan Althaus (Member # 5042) on 01-26-2011, 08:06 PM:
 
Regarding Original Score..... Zimmer and Howard weren't eligible to be nominated for their Dark Knight score, yet Reznor and Ross are this year? Did the rule change? (And yes I have a hardon for Nolan/Zimmer/Pfister)
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-26-2011, 08:36 PM:
 

quote: Bobby Henderson

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The Producers Guild, Directors Guild and Screen Actors Guild awards telegraph the winners in the most popular Oscar categories.

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quote: Jonathan Althaus

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Regarding Original Score..... Zimmer and Howard weren't eligible to be nominated for their Dark Knight score, yet Reznor and Ross are this year? Did the rule change? (And yes I have a hardon for Nolan/Zimmer/Pfister)

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quote: from some news wire report

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Best Picture – “The King’s Speech” Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers

Actor in a Leading Role – Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech”

Actor in a Supporting Role – Christian Bale in “The Fighter”

Actress in a Leading Role – Natalie Portman in “Black Swan”

Actress in a Supporting Role – Melissa Leo in “The Fighter”

Animated Feature Film – “Toy Story 3” Lee Unkrich

Art Direction – “Alice in Wonderland” Production Design: Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara

Cinematography – “Inception” Wally Pfister

Costume Design – “Alice in Wonderland” Colleen Atwood

Director – “The King’s Speech” Tom Hooper

Documentary (Feature) – “Inside Job” Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs

Documentary (Short Subject) – “Strangers No More” Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon

Film Editing – “The Social Network” Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

Foreign Language Film – “In a Better World” Denmark

Makeup – “The Wolfman” Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

Music (Original Score) – “The Social Network” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Music (Original Song) – “We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3″ Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

Short Film (Animated) – “The Lost Thing” Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann

Short Film (Live Action) – “God of Love” Luke Matheny

Sound Editing – “Inception” Richard King

Sound Mixing – “Inception” Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick

Visual Effects – “Inception” Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb

Adapted Screenplay – “The Social Network” Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin

Original Screenplay – “The King’s Speech” Screenplay by David Seidler

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The only surprise for me in the major categories: Melissa Leo winning the Supporting Actress Oscar for The Fighter.

I was happy to see Inception win the Best Cinematography Oscar. Take that Black Swan! Inception was worthy of its two Oscars for sound and the Oscar for Visual Effects. I wish the movie would have won Best Original Screenplay. The movie was worthy of all the major awards, but didn't get any.

I was also happy to see Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross win the Best Score Oscar for The Social Network. It was a very unconventional score as far as movie music goes.

The Oscars telecast was not all that great. The opening was funny enough and Anne Hathaway is hella-beautiful. But overall it just seemed kind of "meh" in how it plodded along.
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-28-2011, 12:43 AM:
 
I don't normally watch much television so I had the MUTE button at the ready to block ALL commercials. It proved even more helpful than I could imagine. The show starts and OMG WTF IS WRONG WITH ANNE HATHAWAY'S FACE???? Oh wait, that's just Anne Hathaway and her droopy-dog face. Is it melting? Granted, she looks a little better here than the atrocity that appeared in that Wonderland movie.

The show goes on and on and I am muting many of the speeches because I usually just don't care if people who would never hang out with me thank other people who would never hang out with me. Nothing tremendously exiting happens. Kirk Douglas reminds us that he is still alive. The president of ABC and the MPAA appear because they want to be on TV, but nobody gives a shit. Really, nobody... but them. Barack Obama appears on video talking about his favorite song (nobody cares, either). Hale Berry appears to remember some white woman for us. What? She was black? Damn, is my set inverted? The highlight of that segment was that she said "black" and not "African American". Political correctness is for dicks.

They decide to perform each of the songs and again my MUTE button gets a hefty workout. I always kind of feel bad for Randy Newman since he has Down Syndrome. Obviously he won again for the same damn song he has written 20 times before. What? It's a different song? Bullshit. It would be very simple to make an "app" that would create Randy Newman songs. I will give him some honest respect, however, for calling people out who pull lists to read from when they win. So tacky.

Billy Crystal is rushed in in a desperate attempt to save the show. He fails and goes back home. Someone is approaching the screen with a microphone... who is it? OH HOLY HELL MUTE MUTE MUTE!!!!!. Phew. Made it just in time before Celine Dion starts singing about dead people. I'm sure that each and every one of the dead people wish they had died last year instead when Celine wasn't there to dishonor their memories.

The director of "King's Speech" wins. When the camera first shows him, Jen mentions that he looks like a "tweety bird". I kind of thought he looked like a miniature James Cameron myself. Colin Firth wins because 1) He's British and 2) He played someone with some kind of noticeable defect. No, the defect was not that he was British.

King's Speech wins. Nobody cares. TV goes off immediately.
 

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Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 02-28-2011, 01:04 AM:
 
Yeah, Wally Pfister getting that Oscar made my night. It proves someone respects talent when they see it.

AJG
 

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 02-28-2011, 06:49 AM:
 
I admit I haven't watched the Oscars in forever. I understand we don't say "And the winner is..." anymore because that would make everyone else feel like losers. Even though they did in fact ... lose.

And now it seems we're dropping the word "Best" from the categories too. "The nominees for Best Director are" has turned into "The nominees for Achievement in Directing are..."

Huh? Excuse me for a second...

So I guess the other folks didn't "achieve" anything. In particular they didn't achieve "directing". Congratulations sir, you won an "Achievement".

Good grief.

I'm waiting for the "Some Guy We Like Because We Think He's Really Special Even Though He Didn't Accomplish A Freakin' Thing" Oscar. I bet we see that within 10 years. And when we do, you'll remember I called it right here. And I'll expect a psychic achievement award for it.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-28-2011, 11:21 AM:
 
So Melissa Leo wins Best Supporting Actress and immediately gets onstage and says "fucking" and then covers her mouth all embarrassed. The fact that she spouted that word "accidentally" on the stage of the Oscars just tells you that she talks that way all the time. Classy.

Oh well, I guess she'll be more famous for that now than she'll ever be for her acting. Kind of like Janet Jackson is now more famous for her right boob than she ever was for her music.
 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 02-28-2011, 11:53 AM:
 
With Joe on the mute button for Celine Dion. I thought we had escaped, but they keep dragging her back. When did she become a tradition? Thankfully it was for the Best of the Dead which doesn't need sound.

Please tell me the kids at the end were special ed. And if anyone can figure out what the point was, please post.

Anne Hathaway seems to auditioning for Julia Roberts goofier younger sister. Though the go-go gown was good. Franco appears to have just given up after appearing in drag.

The laughs in the show can be counted on one hand missing two fingers.

The Time Tunnel set joins the recent tradition of sets that don't make sense, are annoying to look at and totally wrong for film clips. I can't imagine what it looked like to the audience.

The Bob Hope bit was just wrong. Not sure if Kirk Douglas is just game or an attention whore.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-28-2011, 12:11 PM:
 
Because it's timely, here's a clip from the weekly Dave Letterman newsletter.

Top Ten New Award Categories at the 2011 Academy Awards

10. Best Natalie Portman Film

9. Best Re-vamped, Re-tooled, Re-imagined, Re-envisioned Remake... of a Sequel

8. Best Unintentional Comedy

7. Best Performance By An Actor Too Close To The Grave To Be Considered In Any Future Awards

6. Best Actress In A Surveillance Video

5. Best Performance By A Losing Nominee While Clapping For The Winner In Their Category

4. Best Brooklyn Decker Movie -- Or Any Excuse To Get Her On Stage To Accept An Award

3. Best Over-The-Top Boston Accent In A Motion Picture

2. Who cares, as long as they don't let Letterman host again

1. Truest Grit
 

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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 02-28-2011, 01:02 PM:
 

quote: Martin McCaffery

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Please tell me the kids at the end were special ed. And if anyone can figure out what the point was, please post.

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I don't think they were special ed, but I did try and figure out why they were there. I thought it was especially nice how they were in cheap t-shirts and everyone else in the building was wearing tuxedos and such. Oh yes, and the obviously fake performance too.
 

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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 02-28-2011, 01:09 PM:
 
I loved how one of the winners commented on how the potential winners were told at a lunch that prepared acceptance lists "don't make good television".

I would love for whoever said that to explain to me how ANY of last night's broadcast was 'good television'.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-28-2011, 01:20 PM:
 
I think whoever hosts next year should end the show by saying "Thanks for watching....LET THE BITCHING BEGIN!"*

*Not that said bitching isn't richly deserved this year
 

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Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 02-28-2011, 02:13 PM:
 

quote: Sam Graham

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I would love for whoever said that to explain to me how ANY of last night's broadcast was 'good television'.

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quote: Bobby Henderson

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One serious bitch I have about the awards last night:
their downgrade of Eli Wallach's Lifetime Achievement Award Oscar to the un-televised Governor's dinner. All he got last night was a walk on stage with a couple other guys instead of a retrospective of a very long film career.

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I agree Bobby. There was a time when such an award was given substantial air time. These days, their idea of celebrating the history of motion pictures is to have old man Spielberg hand out an award.

Those technical awards are usually the most interesting to me (and I'll never forget Johnny Carson's running joke over the award for the Acme-Dunn optical printer ), but those are the "boring Oscars," so we must now relegate them to the untelevised portion in favor of the vapid and vacuous.

BTW, one of the other guys with Wallach was Kevin Brownlow. I'm guessing Leo was as pleased as I was to see him recognized. His work involving the history of silent film continues to inspire me. He deserved more screentime as well.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-28-2011, 06:54 PM:
 
Maybe there ought to be multiple Oscar shows.

THE OSCARS for Uber-Fans: Every Award We've Got
THE OSCARS for Movie Fans: All the Acting Awards but None of the Techno-Crap
THE OSCARS for Geeks: None of that Boring Acting Crap, Just the Technicals
THE OSCARS for People who Don't Like the Oscarcast: A two minute crawl with just the winners listed

Another thing I think they could do would be to add a feed across the bottom of the screen, CNN-style, where live griping comments could be seen. The hosts could then comment on these comments. (Anne Hathaway: "Oh look James, they did NOT like that last joke of yours!")
 

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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 02-28-2011, 07:54 PM:
 
Did Melissa Leo's f-bomb actually make it through to anyone? It was muted on my end.
 

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Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 02-28-2011, 08:08 PM:
 
I'm genuinely curious: Why do people who hate the Oscars insist on watching them?

I usually don't watch them at all but last night I had the TV on in the other room, so I caught bits n pieces of it.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 02-28-2011, 08:26 PM:
 
Joe: I think it got through unbleeped in pretty much every other country in the world plus of course the internets.

I think all the bleeping is sort of stupid because anybody from age five on up probably knows what's being said. The sad thing is that people feel the need to talk that way on TV in the first place.
 

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 02-28-2011, 08:33 PM:
 
Spot on.
 

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Posted by Hillary Charles (Member # 769) on 03-01-2011, 08:05 AM:
 

quote: Manny Knowles

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I'm genuinely curious: Why do people who hate the Oscars insist on watching them?

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