Posts Tagged ‘oscars’

2010 Academy Awards Winners
March 7th, 2010 by The Mayor

Here’s the complete list of this year’s winners. The Hurt Locker took the biggest prizes, winning Best Director and Best Picture, I really thought it should have been QT’s year as The Hurt Locker in my opinion was highly overrated as good as it was.  Winners in RED.

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Download the 2010 Academy Awards Ballot
March 5th, 2010 by The Mayor

You can play along at home this Sunday and download the official ballot for The Oscars.  I do watch the show each year, often bored.  I am not looking forward to the dual hosting job of Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.  Martin seems like he’s been pissed off for the last ten years, while Baldwin, well he’s just great actually.  [Download]

Here is hoping that Inglourious Basterds wins everything and shuts up Avatar and the Hurt Locker.  Ooh that’s a bingo!

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82nd Annual Academy Award Nominations
February 2nd, 2010 by The Mayor

The nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards have been released and looking up and down the list, I kind of wish they didn’t have 10 nominees for Best Picture.  Looks a little forced.  I won’t say what movies shouldn’t be there, but for betting sake, I will bold my choices for the biggest awards.  As expected, James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow both have Best Director Nominations, and their films Avatar and The Hurt Locker are competing for Best Picture.  Too bad they broke up (married from 89-91), because that would be crazy celebration sex.  I guess after making my choices below, AVATAR only gets one Oscar.  Inglourious Basterds gets five.  Something tells me that will not be the outcome on March 7th.  Also, some odd snubs and facts from Cinematical:

COMPLETELY SHUT OUT (FOR THE WORSE)
(500) Days of Summer, Away We Go, Moon, Where The Wild Things Are
COMPLETELY SHUT OUT (FOR THE BETTER)
The Hangover, Public Enemies, The Twilight Saga: New Moon
THERE IS A GOD
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is not in the running for Best Visual Effects
IS THEIR MEMORY GETTING BETTER?
Four of the ten Best Picture nominees (District 9, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds and Up) were all released last summer as opposed to the other six, released from October on.
OR WORSE?
17 of the 20 acting nominees were in films released in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Here is the list:

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the oscars get even longer, sigh
June 24th, 2009 by The Mayor

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that the number of Best Picture nominees has gone up from six to 10 for the 82nd Academy Awards, which will be presented on March 7, 2010.

“After more than six decades, the Academy is returning to some of its earlier roots, when a wider field competed for the top award of the year,” President Sid Ganis announced. “Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going to allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories, but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize.”

Does anyone else out there who makes a top 10 list at the years end also find it near impossible?  Why can’t they also take this time to trash the Best Animated award too?  Nonsense this seems to me.

You know that feeling when you are cleaning the bog and you have to take off the cleaning gloves and of course you touch the gloves in the process defeating the whole purpose anyways? Well that’s how I feel whenever I come across this fashion shit we are all submitted to every month.

fashbadgeDays ago at the Oscars, god oh mighty not a minute went by without some slapper talking about Brad and Angie’s clothes or Beyonce’s tits being “voluptuous tonight”. The whole idea of fashion is a mystery to me. The hate begins with musicians I think, why is it that every so called artist grew up wanting to make music, movies, clothes, perfume, and eventually hearing aid commercials? They didn’t, they couldn’t have because of course they grew up wearing rags and finding food on the streets. Right? Well that’s what the E true Hollywood Story or their ghostwritten autobiography says.

But I digress. The issue at hand is the meaningless mind numbing fashion bonanza that is shoved down our throats every time there is an award show. It’s bad enough that we are submitted to these shows that are let’s face it, basically there to keep the boners of the stars nice and hard, Viagra for the ego if you will. And telling me that there is a difference between men in tuxedos is granting me permission to kick your arse.

Question: What’s the difference between Sean Penn in a tuxedo and Jack Black in a tuxedo?
Answer: The Neverending Story III

cojerk
“I sold my soul for pie!”

“Oscar Red-Carpet Fashion: Best and Worst”. OMFG! LOLZ! Fashion! My dream! Fuck off. The following is an actual person’s rebuttal to an article on MTV’s website; I won’t post the link because I care about you a little.

“Reading this years MTV best and worst of the red carpet left something to be desired. I am not sure what credentials Jocelyn Vena has that allows such assessments but I strongly disagree with certain choices. Sarah Jessica Parker’s dress was fantastic yet it did not fit her! A woman of her glamour should realize a little bit of mystery is far more sexy…I didn’t have enough time to watch everyone on the red carpet last night and found myself here by searching for all the wonderful couture I missed last night.”

The search is over for the biggest wanker on the internets. The Haute Couture jargon spewed out by even the likes of Ryan Seacrest (surprise) comes off so forced and redundant. Picture your father sitting at home watching the show…how very awkward. Now imagine watching it with him. Yeah, ditto. A Bonnie lassie has every right to dress herself up, I like a woman who takes care of herself. I also like women with a little meat on their bones. The Oscars could have been a secret intervention for half the women walking in there. They stand there with their claes barley covering their visible ribs and I’m supposed to get hot and bothered? Bullocks. Everyone has a right to be ugly, but these people abuse the privilege.

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No one I have ever spoken with talks about the fashion at these shows in a positive light. It’s a waste of time and energy to show and talk about what people wear. The shows running even as we speak that highlight the best and worst are being watched by people who I can only imagine are bed ridden and the remote is lost in the sheets somewhere, poor bastards. So to all the “personalities” out there who give a damn about the fashion of the stars…haud yer wheesht!

mickey rourke makes best speech ever
February 22nd, 2009 by The Mayor

Mickey Rourke’s acceptance speech at yesterday’s Independent Spirit Awards was fantastic pretty much sums him up.  This is exactly why he needs to win the Oscar tonight.

oscar noms and snubs
January 22nd, 2009 by The Mayor

81st Academy Awards gave out the nominations this morning.  Are you surprised that they really dropped the ball on some of these?  Get off my lawn.  And the snubs are…

- The Dark Knight gets snubbed for Director, Best Picture, Score
- Darren Aronofsky gets snubbed for Best Director
- Leonardo DiCaprio snubbed for Best Actor
- Clint Eastwood fails to get a Best Actor nod
- Kate Winslet doesn’t get double nomination
- The Wrestler snubbed for Best Picture
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads nominations with 13
- Sam Mendes…nothing
- Australia snubbed for Best Cinematography.
- Best song 3 noms, 2 are for Slumdog and one for Wall-E, why not just another for the boss?