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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick
I'm really not fond of awarding a performance or a directing award to someone for their previous work.
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Technically, I would agree. But on a night where body-of-work awards were being given away right and left (*cough*Arkin*coughcough*Scorcese*), I think O'Toole was unsentimentally overlooked for what was, truly, one of his greatest performances. (Though I'd forgotten he'd won an honorary Oscar at one point - - - meaning it would have been ultra triumphant for him to actually
win one after the Academy had essentially ruled him a legendary has-been!)
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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor
I have to admit that this seemed like a very political oscar year to me. I know it's par for the course but geez, WBS was my LEAST favorite of the shorts.
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Wow, if you can't stop your political views from tainting a silly comedy, I seriously think you might consider lightening up. Just because the Kosher Fast Food Joint was managed a little more obnoxiously than the Palestinian Flafel Joint does not make
West Bank Story an anti-semetic piece of Israeli-hating propaganda.
Did you
listen to the acceptance speech? The movie was a musical comedy spoof designed to promote peace. Get a grip.