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In Reply to: "When Al Gore takes the stage *twice*, and he's the *highlight* of the show..." posted by clarkjohnsen on February 26, 2007 at 09:37:04:
LONG overdue.I snoozed through a lot. They didn't love Children of Men so to heck with the rest.
Nice to see Pan get a couple. The Three Amigos seemed happy.
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I think they're finally getting embarrassed by their poor judgement in awarding oscars in this category. Scorcese finally got his ... but Kubrick, Hitchcock and Fellini never got theirs
(Though, Fellini, I believe, did finally get a lifetime achievement award --GEEESE!). Did Bergmann ever get one?But then again, the oscars have never geen about "merit." Awarding an oscar has always been about the perceived financial payoff to the Hollywood community.
This year's oscars looked smaller, less "star"-like, and more trivial than in many decades past.
Maybe the story about Nicholson saving his head for a move role was just a cover story. Maybe he was PROTESTING!
Please, oh please, bring back Billy Crystol!!!! Degeneris was the WORST host since Letterman. (Poor Dave! He though he could turn the oscars into "The Late Show." Ouch! I say Give Letterman another chance! Banish Degeneris (she has NO Hollywood credentials), and Woopie should be under a retraining order requiring her immediate arrest if she gets within 5 miles of the oscars. If you can't get Crystol, get Steve Martin -- or try someone entirely new. Conan O'Brien, anyone?
...in the Oscar race.As I've posted nearly every year, the Oscars are a great show and fun to handicap but AMPAS is basically about film business, not film art. (Undoubtedly many AMPAS voters *think* the awards are about the best films, but I can't take Dakota Fanning seriously as an aribter of cinematic excellence.)
That the Academy occassionaly rewards a few fine films and some true cinematic craftsmanship along the way doesn't really change anything. The Oscars are, after all, industry awards, decided by a wide range of commercial film people, not scholars and critics.
I simply don't look to the Academy for validation of any film. It's like a horse race, - fun to handicap, a great show, fun to be snarky about the clothes and hairdos. But there will always be far more great films that never won a Best Picture Oscar than there are great films that did. This is not criminal IMO - this is just show BIZ. (The flim montages were underwhelming this year, and as much as I love Pilobolus Dance Theater, their dancers didn't add much to the broadcast. More interesting to see that kind of thing in person.)
What is the best film of any given year anyway? Who can say what that animal is? The one thing a film needs to achieve classic film status (time) isn't available for annual awards, so you're down to opinion, influence and perceived value at a very specific moment in time. The result is that you usually get more of a snapshot of contemporary ideas about filmmaking than you do films for the ages.
Of my top 10 "best of" list (Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, Army of Shadows, Death of Mr. Lazarescu, United 93, The Departed, The Queen, Tristam Shandy, When The Levees Broke and Volver) an astounding TWO MOVIES (admittedly in my bottom 5) were nommed for best pic. That's a huge percentage for me. And for once, this year's 5 Oscar BP nominees didn't contain a single movie that made me cringe, a true rarity.
I was disappointed that CoM didn't win for cinematography, but the film is just as brilliant today after as it was the day it was released. The people who know and appreciate such things (such as the American Society of Cinematographers which gave CoM its highest award) don't need Oscar to validate what Emmanuel Lubezki accomplished.
I thought when I saw Spielberg, Lucas and Coppola come out to present that it had to be a Marty's year. That he won for a very fine genre film (as opposed to one of his masterpieces like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or Goodfellas) doesn't trouble me in the least. In fact, I would have been perectly happy to have seen him win for The Aviator, which I thought was very underrated. A great director finally has an Oscar...and he apparently actually wanted to win one in competition (as opposed to Robert Altmann, who was amused by the whole process.)
I don't think Bergman ever received a Lifetime Oscar (a la Chaplin or Altmann) - he did get the Irving Thalberg Award sometime in the 70's (I think). The DGA gave him a Lifetime Acievement Award in the 80's, and Bergman won every other major award at one time or another.
I rest my case.
...The Lives of Others is off, only because you haven't seen it.clark
Indianapolis is a better film town than it used to be but can't compare to Boston, NY, LA or Chicago.I got to see a bunch of great films at the end of last year during a trip to visit friends in Chicago. We had an orgiastic cinema weekend catching the re-release of Rules Of The Game at the Music Box Friday, Volver on Saturday and then a double bill of Children of Men and Pan on New Year's eve - wotta weekend!
Since then, I've had to wait for flicks to show up in Indy...which they do, but a couple weeks after they've opened on the coasts and Chicago.
I'm looking forward to Lives Of Others. Heck, I'm even looking forward to Zodiac.
BTW, I didn't see L'Enfant either, which made numerous top tens. It was here while my Dad was dying of cancer and I simply couldn't watch it at the time. I'll be catching it on DVD soon.
Refreshingly relevant - Thanks for your well-written contribution Harmonia nt
"But then again, the oscars have never geen about "merit." Awarding an oscar has always been about the perceived financial payoff to the Hollywood community."This is just a load of crap. Nothing more.
Steve is an idiot, but can be funny, and at the minimum has some presence... something the girl completely lacked. From her first outfit (looked like she stopped by on her way to buy some sour cream), to her lame jokes that no one laughed at, it was basically a no-show. It was a rudderless ship.
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