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ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 07:17 PM

I'm watching the Red Carpet show on ABC. Paul Giamatti is a gifted actor (and the son of a former Baseball Commissioner), but he's highly unattractive. Still, I'm hoping and predicting that he wins this year's Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Cinderella Man.

mlbaseballtalk Mar 05 2006 07:30 PM

Ehem: I hope there are two big winners tonight Their performances were just divine Hope Reese and Joaquin are dressed real fine Cause its time For Walk The Line! BILLY CRYSTAL EAT YOUR HEART OUT!

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 07:34 PM

Joaquin was great, but Philip Seymour Hoffman was incredible. Reese will likely win - it's a horse race between her and Felicity Huffman.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 08:20 PM

Clooney wins Best Supporting Actor. I'm seriously shocked. Now the Academy REALLY owes one to Paul Giamatti!

metirish Mar 05 2006 08:24 PM

Clooney gave a good speech, I don't know that the Academy owes Giammatti anything, they might owe one to the likes Martin Scorsese though.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 08:30 PM

King Kong wins Best Visual Effects

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 08:33 PM

Best Animated Feature - Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 08:44 PM

Best Live Action Short - Six Shooter

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 08:47 PM

Animated Short Film - The Moon and the Sun - An Imagined Conversation

seawolf17 Mar 05 2006 08:49 PM

Chicken Little has a pretty impressive voice talent list.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 08:50 PM

Best Costume Design - Memoirs of a Geisha

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 08:59 PM

Best Makeup - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Willets Point Mar 05 2006 09:04 PM

Let me know if Scarlett gets a booby squeeze.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 09:06 PM

Best Supporting Actress - Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)

mlbaseballtalk Mar 05 2006 09:07 PM

metirish wrote: Clooney gave a good speech, I don't know that the Academy owes Giammatti anything, they might owe one to the likes Martin Scorsese though. Anyone (specifically him and Stewart) go political in any way?

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 09:09 PM

Willets Point wrote: Let me know if Scarlett gets a booby squeeze. Which Scarlett? Me or Johanssen?

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 09:12 PM

Both Clooney and Stewart made mild political references, but nothing over the top.

metirish Mar 05 2006 09:12 PM

]Anyone (specifically him and Stewart) go political in any way? No nothing political, Clooney sounded humbled, Stewart is playing it pretty straight, although he did have a funny gag about the big statue behind him that he wondered if they pulled it down would Hollywood get democracy.

seawolf17 Mar 05 2006 09:14 PM

ScarletKnight41 wrote: ="Willets Point"]Let me know if Scarlett gets a booby squeeze. Which Scarlett? Me or Johanssen? Probably either.

Willets Point Mar 05 2006 09:16 PM

seawolf17 wrote: ="ScarletKnight41"] ="Willets Point"]Let me know if Scarlett gets a booby squeeze. Which Scarlett? Me or Johanssen? Probably either. That would be Ms. Johanssen, no offense, or rather, um, er, ... well you're probably offended regardless.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 09:20 PM

Best Documentary (Short Subject) - A Note of Triumph - The Golden Age of Norman Corwin My choice in this category - great stuff!

TheOldMole Mar 05 2006 09:21 PM

Norman Corwin deserves the remembrance.

TheOldMole Mar 05 2006 09:23 PM

I like the penguins.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 09:23 PM

Best Documentary Feature - March of the Penguins The acceptance speech includes large stuffed penguins. For those unfamiliar with Norman Corwin, you can hear his historic On A Note of Triumph broadcast [url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4668028]here[/url].

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 09:35 PM

Art Direction - Memoirs of a Geisha

TheOldMole Mar 05 2006 09:37 PM

I would have voted King Kong.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 09:50 PM

Best Score - Brokeback Mountain

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 10:02 PM

Best Sound Mixing - King Kong

TheOldMole Mar 05 2006 10:07 PM

OK, one good moment on the show. Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep.

Elster88 Mar 05 2006 10:10 PM

I like Rachel McAdams. A lot.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 10:24 PM

Best Original Song - It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp (Hustle and Flow). I'm shocked. And the people in the Midwest who just heard this song for the first time are having heart attacks!

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 10:30 PM

Sound Editing - King Kong Let me ask - has there EVER been a year that the winner of Best Sound Editing didn't also win Best Sound Effects Editing? Why do they bother with separate categories?

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 10:39 PM

Best Foreign Language Film - Tsotsi (South Africa) The Wall Street Journal predicted this one.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 10:42 PM

Film Editing - Crash

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 10:48 PM

Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 10:56 PM

Cinematography - Memoirs of a Geisha

Willets Point Mar 05 2006 10:59 PM

Next year's Oscars will be better when Best Picture goes to Snakes on a Plane.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 11:01 PM

Best Actress - Reese Witherspoon

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 11:10 PM

Best Screenplay (Adaptation) - Brokeback Mountain

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 11:13 PM

Best Screenplay (Original) - Crash

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 11:20 PM

Best Director - Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)

ScarletKnight41 Mar 05 2006 11:24 PM

And finally, Best Picture - Crash A big surprise, but well deserved.

Frayed Knot Mar 05 2006 11:47 PM

Best Original Song - It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp (Hustle and Flow). That may have been the worst "song" I've ever heard. And I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that line ending in "witches" isn't the original lyric. It's always fun when they pick a song which shows how daring they are, only to have the performed version of it censored because ... well because they're too politically correct to risk being daring.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 06 2006 07:24 AM

You're correct FK - they changed the lyric. It's important not to use the word "bitches" on the Oscar telecast - it might be shocking (as if anyone would care after realizing that it was a song about pimps).

sharpie Mar 06 2006 11:23 AM

Other than the set pieces (the gay cowboy thing and the 2 attack ad sequences) I thought the show was quite lame. Jon Stewart looked uncomfortable. Not a good setting for him.

metirish Mar 06 2006 11:32 AM

I couldn't agree more sharpie, lame show, lame host.

ScarletKnight41 Mar 06 2006 11:40 AM

Stewart did look a bit hesitant, but I still think that he could develop into a host in the Johnny Carson mold over time. At least he didn't do anything memorably stupid, like "Uma...Oprah..."

Rotblatt Mar 06 2006 12:39 PM

sharpie wrote: Other than the set pieces (the gay cowboy thing and the 2 attack ad sequences) I thought the show was quite lame. Jon Stewart looked uncomfortable. Not a good setting for him. I agree. I desperately wanted him to do well--and think he did, after the first hour or so--but he was clearly uncomfortable during the introductions. I was relived that the press let him off the hook this morning. Maybe he came across better to those not used to seeing just how good he can be on a nightly basis? I hated Crash and can't believe it even won best original screenplay (over Squid & the Whale, which had, you know, a plot? Not to mention great dialogue and a sense of humor--both of which were sorely lacking in Crash) much less best picture. The writing, direction and acting were way over the top (with notable exceptions in Terrance Howard and Don Cheatle). I mean, who REALLY thinks that a cop could get away with fingering a wealthy black woman in front of his partner--even in LA? Anyway, this movie didn't have a story to tell or even a message to impart--it had observations to make, and just kept hitting you over the head with them. "Racist stereotypes are ugly." WHAM! "But they're true sometimes." WHAM! "Everyone is racist." WHAM! "But even racists have their moments." WHAM! "Except when they don't." WHAM! In short, I think the movie took itself way too seriously.

seawolf17 Mar 06 2006 01:48 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 06 2006 02:20 PM

Sports Guy wrote: • Was anyone else incredulous that Don Knotts got left out of the People Who Died This Year Montage? I'm not even sure if "incredulous" is a strong enough word. I might even have to go with "outraged." Chris Penn and Vincent Schiavelli make it, and Don Knotts gets shafted? (And while we're on the subject, shouldn't the People Who Died This Year Montage be turned into its own end-of-the-year TV show? They could do sports, music, movies, politics ... like you wouldn't watch this? It's the only can't-miss segment of any awards show. Plus, where else would I get to appreciate Pat Morita one final time as the Sports Gal sadly says, "Oh, Mr. Miyagi!") • Raise your hand if you thought Reese Witherspoon was going to forget to thank Ryan Phillippe. (Raising hand.) • Part of me still thinks Jack Nicholson saw "Brokeback Mountain" on the winner card, took a deep breath, said to himself "Screw it, I hated that movie," called an audible and said, "And the Oscar goes to ... Crash!" By the way, is Nicholson ever NOT the coolest guy in the room? Even when he's coming back from the bathroom at Lakers games, the whole place pretty much stops until he goes back to his seat. If you judge somebody's popularity by the number of people who would yelp, "Oh no!" if they found out Celebrity X died, I think Nicholson wins. He gets the most "Oh no!" yelps. I'm convinced. edit: forgot to quote this from today's Bill Simmons column.

MFS62 Mar 06 2006 01:55 PM

One of the political repoters on the Cris Matthwes show yesterday morning predicted Crash would win best picture. He said he used to write movie reviews for the NY Times and described the "thinking" of Hollywood. He said the voters like to vote for a picture that deals with "social" issues. He added that three of the films dealt with sexuality, one (Munich) dealt with terrorism, but that violence in response to terrorism isn't a "good" message. So he felt that Racism was a "safe" issue to vote for. Made sense to me when he said it, and it turns out he was correct. Later

Lundy Mar 06 2006 02:17 PM

Don Knotts, Darren McGavin, and Dennis Weaver all died within days of each other and none of them were mentioned in the montage. There must be some cutoff date for that piece--they'll most likely be mentioned next year.

sharpie Mar 06 2006 03:27 PM

Don Knotts' film career, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Pleasantville, etc. isn't what he'll be remembered for. He was a TV actor. Surprised that Richard Pryor got that coveted final spot as his movie acting career wasn't all that great, he was a far better stand-up comedian than film actor (although his stand-ups became memorable films). I woulda thought Shelley Winters or Ann Bancroft would've gotten the final slot.

TheOldMole Mar 06 2006 03:41 PM

Stewart was the worst host since Letterman. It really doesn't work when an outsider does it.