Before I go off on my rant about how sh!tty the Oscar noms are, I just want to give my sympathies to Billy Crystal who has nothing to work with this year. Him and his SNL co-star Eddie Murphy who not won’t be hosting the shindig. Murphy’s movie Tower Heist would’ve been a shoe-in for at least one nom had Brett Ratner and him been part of the telecast like they were going to do before the Rush Hour director said a lot of stupid sh!t.
Now back to the Academy Awards the ratings for Awards shows down, so they figure to get them up they are going to nominate the A-Listers (Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Glenn Close, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Gary Oldman and Woody Allen) whether they deserved the nomination or not. But that will not make up for the fact that almost all of the movies that are nominated in the top categories came out in limited release during December and barely anyone who will watch the show have or will ever see the movies that AMPAS says are the best. Seriously how many of the Best Pictures have you seen? I have seen one and it will stay that way for me.
When it comes to the acting categories, I think Best Supporting might go to Nick Nolte who has yet to have a statuette on his mantle. Either him or Christopher Plummer. Good thing Melissa McCarthy won the Emmy for Bridesmaids because there is no way she is getting the Oscar for it. I would like Brad Pitt to get the Best Actor award so he can tell Clooney to shove his where the sun don’t shine. And finally I am so happy that Michelle Williams gave such a beautiful speech at the Golden Globes because she will be the best actress and Rooney Mara will win the bitchiest.
What do you think of the Oscar nominations? Will you watch on February 26th.
Best Picture
“The Artist” Thomas Langmann, Producer
“The Descendants” Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” Scott Rudin, Producer
“The Help” Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
“Hugo” Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
“Midnight in Paris” Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
“Moneyball” Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
“The Tree of Life” Nominees to be determined
“War Horse” Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
Actor in a Leading Role
Demián Bichir in “A Better Life”
George Clooney in “The Descendants”
Jean Dujardin in “The Artist”
Gary Oldman in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Brad Pitt in “Moneyball”
Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh in “My Week with Marilyn”
Jonah Hill in “Moneyball”
Nick Nolte in “Warrior”
Christopher Plummer in “Beginners”
Max von Sydow in “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close in “Albert Nobbs”
Viola Davis in “The Help”
Rooney Mara in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady”
Michelle Williams in “My Week with Marilyn”
Directing
“The Artist” Michel Hazanavicius
“The Descendants” Alexander Payne
“Hugo” Martin Scorsese
“Midnight in Paris” Woody Allen
“The Tree of Life” Terrence Malick
As we all know Brett Ratner was suppose to direct the Oscars and Eddie Murphy was going to host. Then Ratner said some stupid stuff, dropped out and Murphy followed him. Then Brian Grazer got the job and brought back Billy Crystal to do what he does best and I thought the telecast would be enjoayble again. Something it hasn’t been since Hugh Jackman ran the night. Well now I know that Academy Awards will sincerely be good again because AMPAS released a trailer for the show and it is f*cking brilliant. If they are doing this as a preview, imagine what the big event will be like on February 26th? Welcome Billy Crystal, we missed you!
Now if only we can have movies nominated that anyone besides the voters and reviewers saw, then I would think the Oscars would be perfect. Just like it must’ve felt for Megan Fox to finally have her only chance to work with Robin Williams.
AMPAS released the poster for the 84th Academy Awards and the theme of it is “Celebrate the movies in all of us.” Along with the Oscar statuette they included a photo of a picture from each decade that the Awards have been around. The movies are Forrset Gump, The Godfather, The Sound of Music, Gone with the Wind, Driving Miss Daisy, Giant (the only non-Best Picture winner), Gladiator and Casablanca. Looking at that list of photos where are the three movies that won the most awards in their years Ben-Hur, Titanic and Lord of the Rigs? I mean why Driving Miss Daisy over Rain Man? Isn’t sad that Gladiator is the most interesting and most memorable film to win in the last decade?
I think this poster shows just how out of touch the Academy Awards has pretty much been since Forrest Gump minus The Lord of the Rings. I wish that this year they could get more in touch with the average movie goer, but there really wasn’t anything worthy (minus The Help which will probably only win minor awards) in 2011. Sad, but looks like another snoozer year for the Academy Awards. Seriously can you remember what movie won last and the year before that and so on. I can’t.
Ever since Billy Crystal last hosted the Oscars in 2004, I have been wanting him to do it again! So yesterday when a vacancy suddenly happened due to Eddie Murphy dropping it, it became the opening he needed to host the show for the 9th time. The actor broke the mahvelous news on Twitter in a way only he can by saying, “Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions. Looking forward to the show” I guess now he won’t have to tell any pharmacist his name anymore when he goes to pick up his Viagra!
I am so elated that he will once again that I made the same sound Meg Ryan made in When Harry Met Sally, you know the one!
A day after Brett Ratner “resigned” from hosting this year’s Oscars, Eddie Murphy, the star of his bomb Tower Heist and his choice to host the shindig has done the same. The SNL alum said this in a statement from AMPAS, “First and foremost I want to say that I completely understand and support each party’s decision with regard to a change of producers for this year’s Academy Awards ceremony. I was truly looking forward to being a part of the show that our production team and writers were just starting to develop, but I’m sure that the new production team and host will do an equally great job.” Now that he is out, I am bummed because with the right production team he might have done a great job! Afterall he was once a very funny guy!
Now who should host the Academy Awards??? Hands down please please please bring back Billy Crystal!!!
UPDATE: The Academy announced that Brian Graizer (the guy who has Sideshow Bob’s hairstyle will produce the Oscars with Don Mischner.
