2011 Oscar Nominations

[Guest The Second Spitter]

themetfairy wrote: So far it's won two of them!

Ok, maybe I was wrong. Fantastic result!

[Guest themetfairy]

The dog deserves a special Oscar

[Guest themetfairy]

And it wins Best Picture - yea!

[Frayed Knot]

It says something about the predictability of these things when Meryl Streep winning is considered the night's biggest upset.

[MFS62]

themetfairy wrote: OMG - this Cirque du Soleil production is horrendous!

A few weeks early for this question, but, why is this night different from all other nights?

Later

[Vic Sage]

it was a rush to the past, with the 2 big winners (ARTIST, HUGO) being nostalgic homages to the history of cinema, Christopher Plummer and Meryl Streep winning Oscars, Woody getting another screenplay award, Scorsese getting passed over again, and 9-time host Billy Crystal mixing things up in an easily digested stew. Even the ridiculously out of place Cirque bit was typically atrocious for Oscar telecasts in the 70s and 80s.

I think last year's bad box office and the threats of piracy and new technologies has hollywood running scared, reaching for their guns and bibles (metaphorically speaking).

[Edgy MD]

He won for Beginners? I thought I had put up a thread about that film six months ago, but can't find it now. I seem to remember starting a conversation and it going nowhere. Must've been in the secret forum.

[metirish]

Billy Ctystal in black-face and then Octavia Spencer winning was inspired.......


awful show made tolerable by having a laugh on twitter....the sound was awful too, what was up with that ABC?

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: Billy Ctystal in black-face and then Octavia Spencer winning was inspired....... awful show made tolerable by having a laugh on twitter....the sound was awful too, what was up with that ABC?

I think Twitter made it worse, though I couldn't stay way. In fact, I have yet to come across any 'popular' TV event that's not routinely sarcastically criticized on Twitter.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I think Twitter made it look worse because 3/4 of the jokes made online are funnier than anything-- ANYTHING-- they put on screen last night (and honestly, AMPAS and NARAS and the NFL should thank GOD that Twitter and real-time social-networking exist-- they're the only reason live-televised events still draw decent ratings). The truly shocking thing about his Sammy Davis impression isn't that it was in blackface-- it's that he was aiming to get laughs with a SAMMY DAVIS JR. impression. I'm pretty sure I heard a J. Edgar Hoover drag joke in there, too.

Put another way: when you start longingly wondering what a post-1980s Eddie Murphy and Brett F*cking Ratner would've done with this show, you know you're watching something poorly conceived.

[Ceetar]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I think Twitter made it look worse because 3/4 of the jokes made online are funnier than anything-- ANYTHING-- they put on screen last night (and honestly, AMPAS and NARAS and the NFL should thank GOD that Twitter and real-time social-networking exist-- they're the only reason live-televised events still draw decent ratings). The truly shocking thing about his Sammy Davis impression isn't that it was in blackface-- it's that he was aiming to get laughs with a SAMMY DAVIS JR. impression. I'm pretty sure I heard a J. Edgar Hoover drag joke in there, too. Put another way: when you start longingly wondering what a post-1980s Eddie Murphy and Brett F*cking Ratner would've done with this show, you know you're watching something poorly conceived.

oh, not just this one. Things that I think are at least passingly interesting get routinely slaughtered on Twitter. It's like amateur hour. There seems to be this sense of obligation to these events that don't exist any more. Many people watching (me included, although if my wife didn't put it on, i wouldn't have) hadn't even seen half the movies.

Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but I imagine it stems from the people interested in a particular part of a show aren't tweeting about it, they're watching, and the people that don't find it interesting use that time to complain.

[Edgy MD]

This sounds like a dreadful exercise in human debasement. Not the Grammys, but what is?

When Sammy Davis, Jr. died, Crystal said he was going to bury the imitation with him.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

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And the outtakes;
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