Ving Rhames and Elisabeth Shue (she looks fabulous!) shot a video for Funny or Die to show the Academy what it would look if he won the Oscar for Piranha 3D. After hearing that speech, I really want him to win because he would so liven up the Oscar telecast. Seriously how awesome would it be to see him give a speech like that on Hollywood’s biggest night of the year?
But it isn’t only acceptance speech as why I am saying he deserves the win, but also because he earned it for his role in Piranha 3D. I had tears in my eyes (granted they were tears of laughter, but I had tears) when he died because he went out a hero and isn’t that who normally wins that award…The Hero?
So let’s start the For Your Consideration campaign to get him the Oscar nom he so richly deserves.
BTW if you are going to see one movie this weekend make it Piranha 3D, it is not like there is anything else worth seeing! Seriously it is the best movie I have seen all year!!!
Yesterday AMPAS announced that Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer will be producing the Oscars telelcast and that is the earliest that they have ever announced who got the job. So people started to wonder why they announced it 8 months before the show is set to air. Well according to Deadline Hollywood, it could be because they might be moving the Academy Awards to January. I think that is a brilliant idea! First off it would make Awards season so much shorter. Second maybe the studios would stop releasing the films they think could get a nom in limited release during the last week in December. I hate that they save their best for last and only let a few people in NY and LA see it. Maybe they would start releasing worthy movies earlier in the year and we could get excited for the noms as compared to what is that movie, never heard of it or saw it.
The only negative is the other Awards show would become even less relevant than they already are, oh wait maybe that is not a bad thing. There are way too many awards shows as it is.
And here is the biggest positive about this year’s Oscars, Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman will not be back producing it! Together those two produced the worst Oscars I ever saw and I am so happy they will not be back! Hopefully not just for one year but forever.
It wasn’t the Oscar winners who sucked this year, but the show itself. When I kept reading what Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman had planned for the Oscars, I was scared that they were going to make the telecast outrageous and crazy, but instead they did the complete opposite and made it the most boring Academy Awards that I can remember. The poor NYers who missed out on the two best bits of the show which were Neil Patrick Harris’ song and Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin’s monologue because of the WABC/Cablevision bullsh!t, but instead had to sit through unfunny bits and an unneeded dance number for Best Scores. They got rid of the Best Song performances for that? How many freaking montages did we need to intro what an award is? We have been watching the Oscars all of our lives we know what Best Editing is about. I love Horror, but I am sorry that montage was a waste of time. And I grew up with John Hughes films, and it was cool to see the Brat Pack together again, but did John Hughes need a special tribute? I also think there were too many newbies presenting, where were the typical Oscar presenters like Julia Roberts, Halle Berry, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Denzel Washington, Jack “f*cking” Nicholson and so on. Even though I don’t like most of those people, they are the Oscars more than Miley Cyrus and Zac Efron. What was up with those long speeches by the actors presenting to the Best Actors and Actresses, when the winners’ speeches would have to be shorter than what their former-co-star said about them. What was the point of having two hosts if you are not going to use them properly? There was not enough of them playing off of the show, everything was rehearsed and not improvised and that is what they should have been doing. And did I mention how bad that dance number was? Adam Shankman lost my respect as a choreographer if that was all he did. I expected so much more from him and really that was the type of routine I could see done at the Junior High School I went to in The Bronx by teenagers and not an A-List choreographer who was producing the Oscars. On that note, I beg AMPAS, please do not invite Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman back to produce next year’s Oscars because even if Hot Tub Time Machine is nominated, I won’t watch.
Now not all of the Oscars was bad, the speeches by Christoph Waltz, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock and Kathryn Bigelow were great! And on that note I will leave you will the winner, in case you were lucky enough not to have watched the telecast.
Best Supporting Actor
Christop Waltz
Animated Feature Film
Up
Music (Original Song)
The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)
Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Hurt Locker
Short Film (Animated)
Logorama
Documentary Short
Music by Prudence
Short Film (Live Action)
The New Tenants
Makeup
Star Trek
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
Actress in a Supporting Role
Mo’Nique
Art Direction
Avatar
Costume Design
The Young Victoria
Sound Editing
The Hurt Locker
Sound Mixing
The Hurt Locker
Cinematography
Avatar
Music (Original Score)
Michael Giacchino – Up
Visual Effects
Avatar
Documentary Feature
The Cove
Film Editing
The Hurt Locker
Foreign Language Film
The Secret In Their Eyes
Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges
Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock
Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow
Best Picture
The Hurt Locker
Finally there was more I didn’t like about the Oscars, but I can’t even remember any more because I am just trying to forget this year’s telecast.
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WTF was up with Charlize Theron’s dress? Even Kate Winslet had to find what those things on her breasts were. Not only did those circular things emphasize her breasts, it also showed how flat she really is. I think the Oscar winner’s dress was like the movie title she won the Academy Awards for…Monster. I think the normally glamorous Charlize Theron was not at her best tonight, in fact I think she was the worst dressed at the Oscars.
First the Oscars banished the Lifetime Achievement Awards to the fall and now comes word from Nikki Finke that the Oscars will forego the Best Song Nominee performances from the show, and instead opt to show the nominated song with scenes from the movie. According to Finke, the show producers, Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic feel that the performances “never delivered ratings, and that is what this Oscarcast is all about.” I’m sorry, but I love the performances more than those stupid montages that have nothing to do with anything. Those producers disagree with me about the montages because they are rumored to be doing one to honor all the movies of 2009. I don’t know about you but I would prefer the Best Song performances any day over another freaking montage. It’s not like we have to sit through 10 of those for the Best Movie nominations.
Not only are they cutting the Best Song performances, but they are asking the winners to cut the Thank Yous out of their speeches and just tell the audience what it means to win the Oscars. Another reason why I watch the telecast is to see their speeches. I don’t care about the hosts’ schtick. The Oscars are about the movies and the winners and not the hosts. On that note, I still don’t get why they went with Steve Martin again, he sucked the last two times he hosted the Academy Awards.
Now while I am talking about what the producers are cutting from the show, Nikki Finke is reporting something they are adding to it. They are adding a special tribute to John Hughes outside of the In Memoriam. Like everyone else under 40, I grew up with his movies but why does he deserve a special tribute over Oscar winners and Hollywood legends who also passed last year?
And one last complaint about this year’s Oscar telecast, I am so sick of Adam Shankman Tweeting about his dance number with a lot of the So You Think You Can Dance contestants. I am sure that dance number will be a time waster and that time could’ve been spent on the Best Song performances or the Thank Yous in the acceptance speeches. How can you cut the Lifetime Achievement Awards and the Best Song numbers and add a second host, a tribute to a non-Oscar winner and a dance number? I really fear that this year’s Oscar telecast will be long, drawn out and extremely sh!tty under the direction Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic, but hey maybe they will surprise me and I will be wrong…but I doubt it.
OK, I feel better now that I got that off my chest!
