Oscar 2004 Anticipation/Reaction/Afterthoughts

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Go go go go go go go go go!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 February 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I am considering staying up to watch this. This is despite having seen only five of the films under consideration, and not being too bothered about any other than Belleville Rendezvous winning.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 29 February 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

No Coppola/Lost in Translation wins, please, God.

Okay, after his speech last night, Bill Murray can win best actor.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 29 February 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Basically, so long as Brother Bear doesn't get best animated feature, I am fine.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Sunday, 29 February 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't say I'm all that excited, having only seen a handful of the films in question. All I know is that I want "Cold Mountain" to lose.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Johnny Depp will take it.

― Sym (shmuel), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Go nobody.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

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― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

charlize therzon better get it.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

damnit for the first time ever I am going to miss the oscars because I'm going out. Why are they so early this year? Maybe I'll tape them and try to avoid finding out who won until tomorrow night.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

You may laugh now, adam. But when I'm proven wrong you will laugh even more.

― Sym (shmuel), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't Renne Z. just recently say that she deserves to get the Oscar. For that alone, I want her to lose. And lose big. And for someone to spill marinara sauce on her dress ten minutes before her walk down the red carpet. And for her publicist to be attacked by a roving gaggle of famished wolverines.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

predictions

pic: LOTR
actor: murray
actress: theron (despite my libidinous fascination for her i would like to see her lose thought)

opening monologue: jokes about arnold, WMD, mel, john kerry (if they are brave), stupid hobbit jokes.

big question: will mel be presenting?

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

oops the parenthetical should have been after mel, not kerry.

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

jokes about janet's nipple

― Sym (shmuel), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yes

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe this year the idea that billy crystal is funny will finally go away.

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex Renee actually said - "i think this year the academy will do what's fair" - which is even worse! grrrr... that woman.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

what is she nominated for? ryan, why do you want theron to lose?

hope LOTR doesn't win. This last one was the only one I walked out on. Overrated crap.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I got a big ass bottle of tequila for tonight. The Oscars are generally seven hours of awful but my friends somehow get really excited about the whole thing. I get excited about tequila.

I hope Lost in Translation loses for everything and Sofia Coppola melts into a horrible puddle of shrill horsefaced goo. And then Master & Commander can win everything 'cause it was the best movie all year bar X-Men 2.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

so, is Joan Rivers always a drunken racist?

― Sym (shmuel), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I just hope "American Splendor" wins for best adapted screenplay. And that there aren't too many Janet Jackson jokes.

― J (Jay), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Go Johnny.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

or Bill.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I got a big ass bottle of tequila for tonight.

Me too! And the local pizzeria on speed-dial. I'm set.

― spittle (spittle), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

How can I watch this in London without BBC1?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

just one thing before I go to bed..
Johnny Depp looking neat and tidy.. WOW!

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy shit!!!! The Paybacks' "Hollywood" opened the red carpet shindig a few minutes ago. BEST MOMENT OF 2004 SO FAR!!! ROCK N ROLL.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"over fifty hottie"... hey dude, turn around. Johnny Depp's behind you!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

And can we put an end to the word "really" please?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry if anyone's not watching the pre-show, which is what I'm dialoguing with.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

haha! sofia coppolla looked v. v. uncomfortable.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

There should be laws against them (or anoynoe, for that matter) playing Madonna's "Hollywood" .

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i think joan rivers is getting a bit senile.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"getting"

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Lady" Alexandra Kingley... pan over to her... not the first image that pops into my head at the introduction of Lady Alexandra Kingsley.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

How many years younger than Ben Kingsley is she?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"did you just swear?!"

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

This Preshow is many times more entertaining than the actual show is likely to be.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is older, Kingsley's wife or daughter?

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

ugh. billy crystal. UGH!

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

oh god this is just embarrassing

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Moore was a good sport... I assume.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I like that Dianne Keaton is dressing like annie hall came out last summer..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i thought that was great.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy Crystal is worse than Leno, and there's not many people I'd say that about. He's at a Coulier/Custos level of humor.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh the medley ugh

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 1 March 2004 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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I didn't see the show, but I think ROTK kinda deserved the sweep - it was certainly better than the two previous LOTR films. Of course there are other, more worthy films that didn't even get nominated, but hey, these are the Oscars.

If someone had told me in 1994, before Heavenly Creatures came out, that Jackson would direct a film which would win 11 Oscars, I would've peed in my pants in laughter. From Bad Taste/Meet the Feebles/Braindead to this - that's quite a leap. Of course, Heavenly Creatures is his best film, but I think Jackson has had a surprisingly solid career. None of his films are actually bad, even Frighteners was good entertainment.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 1 March 2004 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It's only a matter of time before Will Ferrell does a musical now.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 1 March 2004 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

nobody in the uk watch this live?

rob brydon?!!!

nice to see sean penn sneak in a 'no finding of WMD' reference.
did nobody else spot this? it was cool. he's ace isn't he?

who was that girl sat next 2 j depp? was that his date?

― piscesboy, Monday, 1 March 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Rob Brydon: I'm not gay!(x45)

― pete s, Monday, 1 March 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i watched it on BBC up until around 2 - i don't get the hate for Billy Crystal or Sofia Coppola on this thread (Steve Martin was funnier last year tho)

the Michael Moore appearance in the opening sequence seemed quite contrived in a 'look i know i pissed you guys off last year but hey i can take a joke and i'll prove it to you now' - of course everyone laughed when he was crushed by the olyphant thing

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Random day-after thoughts:

*Oh my god Angelina Jolie you're breaking my heart! Stop being so gorgeous!
*Alison Krauss has the bestest voice ever. So good I hardly even noticed Sting was up there.
*Sting and Phil Collins on stage at the same time WHERE ARE THE TERRORISTS WHEN YOU NEED THEM?
*Thank GOD for Jack Black and Will Ferrell. I hope you paid close attention to their song Renee Zellweger.
*I love you Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

nobody in the uk watch this live?

Yes, but I was too stunned by Ronnie Ancona's cleavage to post anything.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The BBC gossip panel were DIRE apart from Ronnie Ancona. Was hoping for some Alan Cumming bitchery.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

'Yes, but I was too stunned by Ronnie Ancona's cleavage to post anything.'

Yes it deserved an Oscar. But dear me she's annoying. At one point when Brydon was complaining abvout her interrupting and pawing him all the time, Alistair MacGowan (who used to go out with her) leaned in and muttered dryly 'get used to it Rob'. Ronni gave him a freezing look. She wasn't so pissed she missed that.

― pete s, Monday, 1 March 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

So good I hardly even noticed Sting was up there.

Even though it looked like he was making love to his hurdy-gurdy?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Errol Morris was nicer than sweet potato pie compared to Denis Arcand
I don't get this...Arcand stayed in the background and joked that his time was up rather than eat up more stage time. Why was that a problem?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

what, you glossed over the vaguely sexist dig he made at the woman accepting the award with him?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess I must have! Someone get me a transcript!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

What? He said "Time's up." How is that "vaguely sexist"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

See, that's all that I thought he said, "No no, my time's up." Or something to that effect.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

it was the 'as usual' which piqued my chauvinism radar.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not like he said: "Thanks for hogging up all our time, you blabbering cow!" He just merely stated that the time was up and he attempted to politely demure.

I think the "as usual" was more a dig at the proceedings of the ceremony, not in regards to his colleague.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

What was all that goofy shit in Fran Walsh's hair?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Goth lint.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, the woman up there with him was his wife, I assume it was just the kind of good natured ribbing that goes on between couples...if it was even aimed at her in the first place, which I don't necessarily buy. But I still don't see how that's any worse than Morris' comments...which were more self-serving than rude, anyhow.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Goth lint.

Glint.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Son of Glont.

― pete s, Monday, 1 March 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought when Errol Morris said something about the Academy "finally recognizing [his] films" he was being facetious, he hasn't made that many films, has he?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

At least four or five, no?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"Thin Blue Line", "Fast Cheap & Out of Control", and....er...that one about the inventor of the electric chair, right?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Also A Brief History of Time

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha if only I had checked IMBD before posting.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

He's made TONS of documentaries and I thought what he said was fine, and funny.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

He did one about Stephen Hawking too. (The electric chair one was "Mr. Death".)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I just think he came across as possibly a little less than entirely humble about his work, and that rarely looks good. The films of his I've seen are quite good, however.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

(xpost)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Well now I that I know I totally agree with him that it's about time the Academy acknowledged his work.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

What does he call the interview machine thing he devised? I want to say
a) Jumbotron
b) Orgasmatron

but I know these are wrong

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Interrotron!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

And Gates of Heaven, which is better than all of his other documentaries.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 1 March 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

morris is fucking right, he deserved oscars for the thin blue line.

the rest of it was perhaps one of the more boring spectacles i had seen, what happened to the montages, the interpretive dances, the tit dresses.

also someone should have let mr jackson know that he was a t a formal awards cermony. (clean shirt, tucked in, tie tied up, combed hair, trimmed beard--did he even have shoes on)

― anthony, Monday, 1 March 2004 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe because I think Arcand is just plain a bigger prick in general than Morris... but Hello! You're up there! You've got an Oscar in your hand! Make the fucking speech instead of bitching about the clock on the teleprompter that the audience can't even see anyways! He came off as arrogant and bitchy.

Errol Morris's legendary streak of being snubbed by the doc committee is an industry joke, so I think his comments need to be addressed with that in mind. It was sort of a tongue-in-cheek reference to all those editorial articles in the 1990s that year after year took the documentary selection idiots to task for their incompetence and mentioned Morris's name as the most handy example of outlandish irrelevance on the committee's part.

Man, though, have times changed (or I've changed). The documentary feature category was the only relevant category of the whole evening.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 1 March 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Peter Jackson did manage to wear shoes at the ceremony as Billy Crystal was quick to point out.

I loved how, when they rolled out all the winners from the night at the end, the side of the stage on which the LoTR folx were hanging was all woohoo! party! fun-time chaos! and the folx on the other side of the stage were all oh looky me I have an award and I'm standing perfectly still.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 March 2004 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

It's been three years now and I've been waiting for the very close LotR crew to just have their damned orgy for once and for all. I guess last night is as close as we'll come.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 1 March 2004 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I suspect they're more likely to have a rousing game of Vampire: The Masquerade than an orgy.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 1 March 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm so doing Chaki's Coppola/Scientologist drinking game next year.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 1 March 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked Peter Jackson's look. He was representing for his peeps (the hackers, slackers and nerds). I mean, he looked exactly like the guy who should've made Lord of the Rings.

― spittle (spittle), Monday, 1 March 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

OTM

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 March 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

PJ is a less manicured Mark S.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 1 March 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

PJ also has beard, which Mark S refuses (to that large degree at least).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 March 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

re: Denys Arcand, I was really happy to see him win, but it looked like he was too nervous to make a speech so he made that completely lame "time's up" joke. I didn't see it as a dig at his wife so much as one at himself.

― Elliot (Elliot), Monday, 1 March 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i haven't seen this year's oscars, nor do i expect to

i can't quite explain it, but does anyone else have a really strong negative reaction to even the thought of acceptance speechs?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like acceptance speeches better if rejection speeches were as common.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I described Peter Jackson to fellow attendees at an Oscar party as "the smelly IT guy from your company whom you suspect masturbates on all of the computers when no one else is around; YOU KNOW WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT". I was kind of drunk at the time.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Yesterday somebody told me I looked like a stretched-out Peter Jackson. I said "thanks!".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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