Excellent point--just looked over their credits, and they did Wendy & Lucy, the Cazale documentary, many more. Will point this out to my friend (who's more of a music guy). But I do agree Summer should have been there, having won one.
― clemenza, Monday, 25 February 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
If Griffith and Gazarra were omitted, that's bad too. A Face in the Crowd, all those Cassavetes films...I wouldn't think they'd require any lobbying at all.
― clemenza, Monday, 25 February 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
I think Donna Summer didn't actually win the award. She performed the song that won it, but the award went to the composer.
― Moodles, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
Another good point. In the space of five posts I'm thinking, what the hell is my friend whining about?
― clemenza, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
anne hathaway looks so bizarre on the cover of the newspaper today. her face is so humongous and alien-like.
― scott seward, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
so my childhood friend billy was in charge of the tiger in life of pi. worked for two years on the tiger. that's what he won for last night. i didn't see the movie.
― scott seward, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
The tiger was f'in rad, your pal did a good job
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
did it ever bite him
― This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
did he have to clean up its poop
can you ask him this for me thanks scott
― This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
still waiting
― This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Monday, 25 February 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
The tiger was some of the best FX I've ever seen. I've had people swear to me that it was real, despite all logic to the contrary.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
I can understand that. It was fucking phenomenal, and heavy CGI is usually like sand in my eyes.
― Alba, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5kNMz_c3JI
― scott seward, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
as usual, watched this 24 hour later with friends (annual ritual based on time zones)
ugh, this was the worst ceremony i have ever seen and i want to hire a hit squad on the smarmiest, least likeable, most misogynistic host ever. sadly can imagine Oscars finding us even worse options in future
― H in Addis, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
he won an oscar for the lion witch wardrobe movie. i haven't seen him since high school. he was the brainy kid who was ALWAYS drawing. always. on the bus, in class, etc. very focused.
― scott seward, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7SFtdOjcUw
― piscesx, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
adorable!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
No Andy Griffith or Ben Gazzara!― Moodles, Monday, February 25, 2013 4:54 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Moodles, Monday, February 25, 2013 4:54 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Apparently Gazzara snuck in last year (@3:41):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNCHAEgm0L8
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
I mean @ 3:11
or 3:07... I need to stop hangin' w/Quentin.
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
Lots of coverage here (incl. reruns and new stuff)http://www.newyorker.com/arts/oscars
― dow, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
Honorary Award speeches (a few seconds shown last night):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JsYTFukcgw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACXVz7BRvfs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHRqpheZyU8
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwy9UY2VgnQ
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
Those four clips added together roughly equal the time last night's Oscarcast wasted reminding the world that they were right about awarding Chicago and preemptively warning the world that history would vindicate Les Mis.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
wait, Boal won something?
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 05:25 (eleven years ago) link
Harry Carey Jr., Ann Rutherford, Susan Tyrell, Alex Karras also non-memoriam'd.
"I'm pretty sure lazenby is dead"
no but as Dorothy Parker said of Coolidge, how would you tell?
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 05:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/ScreenShot2013-02-25at92849PM_zps5a5f61e2.png
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 05:30 (eleven years ago) link
Morbs with the Lazenby zing!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 05:38 (eleven years ago) link
here's my Seth Macfarlane imitation:
"whenever i see Joan Rivers doing K-Stew slut jokes on her red-carpet review, I think what a sad, scary old cunt!"
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
Can't remember a time when the winners of both screenplay awards have cheesed me off so much.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
there w/ you
did Crash win it
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
just a guess but eric you might want to take a glance at 2003
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
gasp in horror at 1990 while you're at it
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
Meh, Coppola didn't defeat anything particularly distinguished, and 1990 predates my rubbernecking Oscar races.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
2005 definitely much closer to the mark.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
morbz do you have the netflix? i'm gonna have a lubitsch marathon this weekend. loved the wildcat so much. the doll, i don't want to be a man, anna boleyn, and one arabian night are up next. hope they add more stuff like that. they thrill me and also make me fear death.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
no netflix; NY public library
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
morbs how much hours a week would you guess you spend sitting in the library posting on the internet?
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
I've owned a laptop for almost 4 years, Bright Eyes.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
wait do you work at the library? just trying to figure out why 'ny public library' is yr reason for not having netflix. does netflix have a beef w/ the ny public library and you're taking sides?
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
NYPL has 90% of what i need to see.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
ok, that makes total sense. netflix is convenient but it definitely has its holes.
― balls, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N1vdyAIf28M#at=18
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Goddamn it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1vdyAIf28M#!
Long, uneven postmortem by Denby, gets to the point here:
...All of which leaves Bassey. “Goldfinger,” whose title track she delivered last night, came out in 1964, a date recalled by Emmanuelle Riva, Alan Arkin, William Shatner, Quvenzhané Wallis’s grandparents, and nobody else. Short of importing Mary Poppins, or the Audrey Hepburn of “My Fair Lady,” there could be no swifter way of spiriting us back to that candy-colorful year. Here was the Bond song, all a-glitter, not merely repeated but refreshed for our delight. And our lady, at the gilded age of seventy-six, was no less fair. The spider-like pause, on “It’s the kiss of death,” was left to hang far longer, and more luxuriously, than it was in the original recording; the climactic growl on “only gold” would have sent Richard Parker packing; and, as for the knowing, hands-on-hips mini-shimmer at the words “pretty girls,” even the girlish Jennifer Lawrence must have been left pondering what it yet might take, in the long haul of stardom, to own the town. The assembled throng rose before Bassey had even signed off; these folk know royalty when they see it. Whatever you think about Quentin Tarantino, the man loves the pantheon, and he was up on his hind paws and clapping like a kid who didn’t realize that Santa Claus could show up in the middle of Lent. For an instant, we could all party like it was 1964.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/02/pleasant-shocks-anthony-lane-on-the-2013-oscars.html
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
so, how bad has Seth McFarlane been so far?
as bad as expected muliplied by worse
Most-watched Oscars in 6 years, he should be back. Almost half the jokes were decent to great, btw. (And I fucking hate Family Guy.)
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
u_u
i think I just realized how much I hate the Oscars is what it boils down to. And that Seth McFarlane is terrible
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
But Denby wrote it! No wonder I laughed a couple times.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
I would think the overriding job of a host at this point is to generate lots of din, and to keep the show front and center (which, logically, it really shouldn't be any more). So he did that.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 04:21 (eleven years ago) link