Academy Award Party Thread!

[Neenahboy]

I love the documentary category. Always interesting stuff.

Maybe in a year or so...;)

You'll have to try to smuggle me in. :D

[nyny523]

Why am I still awake?!?!?

Give the best actor already!!!

[nyny523]

You'll have to try to smuggle me in. :D

I will seriously be in heaven if things work out...

[jsmeeker]

Why am I still awake?!?!?

Give the best actor already!!!

what? you can't stick around to best picture?? :D

[hmeister]

I love the documentary category. Always interesting stuff.

Maybe in a year or so...;)
Yes.... Now I would like to see this...
This documentary looks interesting...

[nyny523]

what? you can't stick around to best picture?? :D

Dude.

I have to get up at 5!!!!

[Neenahboy]

Why am I still awake?!?!?

Give the best actor already!!!

Daniel Day-Lewis.

There, you can go to bed. :D

[nyny523]

Daniel Day-Lewis.

There, you can go to bed. :D

But he's so cute.

I wanna see. :p

[nyny523]

Harrison is getting old - but he still looks Hawt!

[Neenahboy]

Let's go, Diablo Cody...

Yay!

[Figaro]

But he's so cute.

I wanna see. :p

Another guy with sloppy hair. I am picking up a theme here.

[jsmeeker]

wow.. cool. I guess the L.A. cliche pays off.

;)

[nyny523]

Another guy with sloppy hair. I am picking up a theme here.

Actually, it's the accent...;)

[hmeister]

Factoid: Cody was a stripper before a writer...

[nyny523]

Factoid: Cody was a stripper before a writer...

Why are you posting everything twice? :confused:

[Neenahboy]

Factoid: Cody was a stripper before a writer...

Yes, they mentioned this several times earlier in the broadcast. So?

[Figaro]

Factoid: Cody was a stripper before a writer...

Pics or go away...

[Sparty99]

Factoid: Cody was a stripper before a writer...
Yeah, that was a kind of disappointing speech. If a former stripper is crashing the Oscars, I want to see a much more revealing outfit and a more entertaining speech.

Unless it's a dude. Then I don't care. :D

[jsmeeker]

We needed to be told again

[nyny523]

We needed to be told again

:D:up:

[Neenahboy]

And into the home stretch! Get ready, Ninny.

[nyny523]

I'm ready!!!

[hmeister]

Yes, they mentioned this several times earlier in the broadcast. So?

(beat the poor guy! I didn't know! Ack) My wife told me!

[hmeister]

Yes, they mentioned this several times earlier in the broadcast. So?

(beat the poor guy! I didn't know! Ack) My wife just told me!(twice)

[nyny523]

You don't need a title for every post....

[nyny523]

That dress would be gorgeous without those sleeves....

[Neenahboy]

Whoa, Helen Mirren was creepy in that intro. :eek:

[hmeister]

What title?

[nyny523]

What title?

:D:up:

[hmeister]

So Johnny has his tux on for a change! ;)

[Neenahboy]

Congrats to Daniel Day-Lewis for an epic performance and win.

[jsmeeker]

'night ninny!!!!!


;)

[Graymalkin]

Now, there's a shocker. :rolleyes:

[hmeister]

Viggo looks good in his beard...

[nyny523]

Viggo looks good, period! :up:

[Sparty99]

So Johnny has his tux on for a change! ;)
Is it just me, or is Johnny Depp going to get a ton of nominations throughtout his career and finally win for something that really doesn't deserve it? It seems a shame that he doesn't have an award yet.

[Neenahboy]

Night, Sheryl. :)

[nyny523]

That's all for me - nighters!

[Graymalkin]

Helen is telling Daniel, "Hah hah! The Americans got shut out of the acting awards! Long live the Euro!"

:D

[hmeister]

That's all for me - nighters!

good night....

[hmeister]

Johnny got Pirates nomination...

[Graymalkin]

G'nite, Ninny!

Tell your boss my mom loved her wrap dresses in the 1970s! :D

[Neenahboy]

Hmmmm, they haven't given a shoutout to the independent auditors yet, unless they think the Sid Ganis speech counts.

[Graymalkin]

Give a guy an honorary Oscar, and they expect him to work the show!

[Neenahboy]

This should be an interesting ten minutes...

[Neenahboy]

Congrats again to the Coens. Well deserved.

[Sparty99]

Johnny got Pirates nomination...
And he was nominated for Finding Neverland. I figured he would've had more than the 3 nominations. Probably could've gotten nominations for Ed Wood, What's Eating Gilbert Grape or Donnie Brasco.

[Neenahboy]

Holy crap, what did Denzel do to his hair?! Please let that be for a role.

[Graymalkin]

Why has Denzel Washington turned into Isaac Hayes?

[Graymalkin]

Apparently There Will Be Blood but No Oscar.

No Oscar For Old Men.

Geez, the puns are going to be endless. And bad.

[Neenahboy]

And congrats again, Coens.

[Neenahboy]

Apparently There Will Be No Oscar.

Not exactly unexpected. While not exactly a pop culture mainstay, the Coens are more mainstream than Paul Thomas Anderson, even though I personally thought Blood was better.

[hmeister]

And congrats again, Coens.

Coens again! Wow...

[hmeister]

Good night everyone... ;)

[Neenahboy]

And that's all she wrote!

Great chatting with you all. Night, peeps.

[Graymalkin]

Niters peeps!

[cwoody222]

My local affiliate forgot to switch back to HD for the last segment. Idiots.

When the Cohens got up for their director award there was an audio glitch... some folks from the control room or something were speaking. Not sure if it was on the HD feed too. Pretty funny. Just their reaction to the win and a woman asking "What's it about?" :)

[EVizzle]

shocked that There Will Be Blood didn't get one of the last too...

Biggest surprises for me were Diablo Cody and Tilda Swinton, those were big!

[Neenahboy]

shocked that There Will Be Blood didn't get one of the last too...

Biggest surprises for me were Diablo Cody and Tilda Swinton, those were big!

FWIW, most early predictions had Cody taking Original Screenplay.

I'll agree with you on Swinton, though. Wow. I honestly didn't think it was deserved, but that's me.

[hc130radio]

Coens again! Wow...

Not bad for a movie shot partially in Albuquerque, NM. Funny, I recognized a part of the movie shot in the strip club, Fantasy World just off I-25 here in town. Even funnier was that my wife was wondering how I knew that.

[Royster]

Well, I never did catch up. I was reading about 20 minutes behind.

[whitson77]

There Will be Blood is overrated. I also thought the soundtrack was crap.

[laststarfighter]

Random thoughts


The five nominated songs were pretty weak. I woulda given the nod to "Happy Working Song" if they had giant rats and pigeons dancing on stage with Amy Adams.
Diablo Cody's screenplay wins a BAFTA and now an Oscar. The emperor has no clothes! Seriously, the writing is overrated. I get turned off by movies that are just an endless stream of setups for the writer's "clever" monologues that they have been saying around their buddies for years.
I am a little disturbed that shaky-cam Borne Ultimatum won for "Best Film Editing." I think this means there is no end to shaky-cam any time soon. I'm still recovering from my headache from Cloverfield.


Seacrest out.

[EVizzle]

There Will be Blood is overrated. I also thought the soundtrack was crap.

I loved it. Slightly more than NCFOM.

The reason Juno surprised me because Michael Clayton and Ratatouille seemed to be better IMO. Loved them all but a little surprised.

Best supporting actress should have gone to Ruby Dee... she was awesome!

[atrac]

Judging by the lack of interest in a thread on here, I'd say this is going to be a low ratings year for the Oscar. ;)

I honestly didn't really care this year at all, but there were a couple of interesting moments for me:

"The Golden Compass" won best Visual Effects over "Transformers." - INSANITY (defies logic)

"Falling Slowly" won best song from "Once." - LOVE IT (fantastic song)

Jon Stewart allowing Marketa Irglova to come back and give her acceptance speech after being played off by the orchestra. - CLASSY (such a genuinely nice girl too)

Tilda Swinton strikes me as a very cool lady. The kind I'd like to hang out with.

I have never seen "La Vie En Rose," so when they showed the clip from the movie for Best Actress, I thought "looks interesting...I wonder if that older lady will win." Then they cut to Marion Cotillard in the audience (very much NOT an older lady). I was not surprised to learn that the movie won Best Makeup. A truly "holy sh*t" moment for me. (Oddly enough I missed seeing the Best Makeup Oscar segment so that actually would have ruined that moment for me).

2007 was probably the weakest year ever for me personally in terms of movies. I think I went to maybe 1 or 2 movies total (I used to go every weekend in the 80's and 90's).

I hope this year is better for me.

[MikeMar]

well not in the tv show area, but PLENTY of interest!!

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=385663

[Sparty99]

"The Golden Compass" won best Visual Effects over "Transformers." - INSANITY (defies logic)
I ask this seriously: did you see "The Golden Compass" (not many people did)? The visual effects were pretty impressive, perhaps more so than "Transformers". I loved the latter, but I've got no problem with it losing this award to "Compass".

[IndyJones1023]

I ask this seriously: did you see "The Golden Compass" (not many people did)? The visual effects were pretty impressive, perhaps more so than "Transformers". I loved the latter, but I've got no problem with it losing this award to "Compass".

I think integrating CGI into reality (like Transformers did) is much more complicated than incorporating it into fantasy (like Golden Compass).

[Sparty99]

I think integrating CGI into reality (like Transformers did) is much more complicated than incorporating it into fantasy (like Golden Compass).
I don't disagree, and there's something to be said for Michael Bay's crew making sure that the robot incarnations of the cars were accurate in terms of what can fit when it's in the car's incarnation (I hope that makes sense). I guess my bigger complaint was the poster's claim that it was insanity and defied logic that Golden Compass won the award over Transformers. Sorry, but it wasn't and it didn't.

[IJustLikeTivo]

well not in the tv show area, but PLENTY of interest!!

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=385663

Ok, that's too funny. This stayed in happy hour for 10 hours and 18 pages and THEN gets moved to TV talk? You have to see the humor.

[kh92463]

He is so freakin HOT and I'm so glad he won!

[MickeS]

Was it just me, or did they go crazy with the montages this year? They seemed to be showing clips before and after every award. Yeah it's the 80th Oscars, but geez... 80 isn't normally THAT celebrated is it? Yes, we get it, there were Oscars before this one! Who knew?

[eddyj]

Probably a result of the strike, since the montages do not require writers...

[Joules1111]

Probably a result of the strike, since the montages do not require writers...

But the strike is over, no?

[eddyj]

But the strike is over, no?
But they did not have a lot of lead time. I suspect this show has been in the works for months, and the strike was just over a couple of weeks ago.

[Joules1111]

But they did not have a lot of lead time. I suspect this show has been in the works for months, and the strike was just over a couple of weeks ago.

They made a couple of jokes reference montages (like the binocular one and waking from a bad dream) but I'd think most of the other ones were intentional and not a result of the writer's strike. Unless, of course, the jokes were tongue-in-cheek and indicated that they were STILL having to do a lot of montages BECAUSE of the writer's strike. :confused:

[Neenahboy]

Maybe it was just me, but I felt there were either just as many or less montages than in previous years (yes, there usually are that many).

But they did not have a lot of lead time. I suspect this show has been in the works for months, and the strike was just over a couple of weeks ago.

It's actually only been in the planning stages for 1-2 months tops, and they had two teams of writers instead of the usual one in place as soon as the strike broke. Aside from the binocular montage, I think they were all intentional. Also, keep in mind that more can be expected in a milestone year like this (it was the 80th, after all).

[jsmeeker]

Random thoughts


I am a little disturbed that shaky-cam Borne Ultimatum won for "Best Film Editing." I think this means there is no end to shaky-cam any time soon. I'm still recovering from my headache from Cloverfield.





Camera work would be a cinematography thing. Not an editing thing.

[laststarfighter]

Camera work would be a cinematography thing. Not an editing thing.

Yeah, I know but it doesn't help my head when you combine quick cuts with those shaky-cam close ups.

[That Don Guy]

Were there only 3 cartoons made this year?
No, but since there were fewer than 16 with Oscar eligibility, only three were nominated in the category. (Had there been five nominees, Shrek the Third almost certainly would have been one, and probably either The Simpsons Movie or Meet the Robinsons as the other.)

Besides, they could have nominated every animated film from 2007 - do you really think the outcome would have been different?

-- Don

[That Don Guy]

Hmmmm, they haven't given a shoutout to the independent auditors yet, unless they think the Sid Ganis speech counts.
Actually, they stopped doing it a number of years ago (I think that clip with Robin Williams was the last time they were introduced onstage; way back when, they were introduced when the rules were read at the beginning of the show). When they showed celebrities on the red carpet during the opening credits, rather than having an entire half-hour show dedicated to it, they would mention the two or three PriceWaterhouseCoopers (for those of you who don't know, Price, Waterhouse merged with Coopers & Lybrand a few years ago) accountants with the envelopes.

They showed them during one of the pre-shows this year, although it might have been the Richard Roeper-hosted one that aired only in the west while the Barbara Walters special aired in the east.

-- Don

[smak]

I'm still wondering what would have happened if No Country For Old Men won best editing.

-smak-

[appleye1]

Judging by the lack of interest in a thread on here, I'd say this is going to be a low ratings year for the Oscar. ;)Not exactly right about the thread, but you were dead on on the ratings.

The 80th anniversary edition of the Academy Awards, dominated by European stars and films that played poorly at the box office, averaged 32 million viewers, entering the record books on Monday as the least watched Oscar telecast ever....

Sunday's broadcast, with comedian Jon Stewart making his second appearance as Oscar host, now ranks as the smallest U.S. TV audience for the Oscars since 1974, when actual viewer totals first became available.

The national household rating of 18.7 also marks the lowest level by that measure going back to the very first televised Oscars in 1953.

By contrast, the most watched Oscar broadcast on record was the 1998 show, when the box-office blockbuster "Titanic" sailed off with a record-tying 11 awards, including the prize for best picture. Some 55 million Americans tuned in that year. (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080225.woscarrating0225/BNStory/Entertainment/home)

[cwoody222]

My local affiliate forgot to switch back to HD for the last segment. Idiots.

When the Cohens got up for their director award there was an audio glitch... some folks from the control room or something were speaking. Not sure if it was on the HD feed too. Pretty funny. Just their reaction to the win and a woman asking "What's it about?" :)

I guess what I heard was a local error.

http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/story/284549.html

[Mr. Soze]

Cool ad, Sheryl. I didn't realize it was for American Express.

[nyny523]

Cool ad, Sheryl. I didn't realize it was for American Express.

Yeah - it WAS pretty cool, right? :up: