The Oscars - Best Picture

[JWBear]

Brokeback was robbed!

Did anyone else find the music played over the acceptance speaches to be extremely annoying?

[wendybeth]

I can't decide which was more annoying- the music drowning out the overlong speeches, or the overlong speeches...

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Oh, the Oscars are my Super Bowl too, but I haven't been able to post until now. And I'm running out the door so more to come later, probably, but I really only have one thing to say:

Oh, Paul Haggis. Your film is a hammer, not a mirror? Truer words were never spoken.

[The Shadoe]

I love this article from the Washington Post.

Pretty scathing:

The epitome of honesty perhaps came when Stewart muttered "I am a loser" into the microphone. He was speaking not only for himself but for the whole show.

[Gemini Cricket]

Did anyone catch the acceptance speech for the 'Crash' Best Pic win? A female producer stepped up to the mike at the very end and thanked her husband and her wife. No joke. I want the 411 on that...

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Did anyone catch the acceptance speech for the 'Crash' Best Pic win? A female producer stepped up to the mike at the very end and thanked her husband and her wife. No joke. I want the 411 on that...

She was rushing to finish as the "get the hell off the stage" music began and said "wife" instead of "daughter".

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

She was rushing to finish as the "get the hell off the stage" music began and said "wife" instead of "daughter".

Ha ha. So much for the lesbian polygamy rumors.

Thank you. Don Cheadle, our partner, we wish he could be here with us tonight. Thank you everybody. Thank you to my husband, to my wife, to all of our families.

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They usually don't cut off the final speech with music unless it's really, really long. I remember the speech for 'Schindler's List' to be mega-long.

Love Ang Lee's quote here:

Their names are Ennis and Jack. And they taught all of us who made "Brokeback Mountain" so much about not just all the gay men and women whose love is denied by society, but just as important, the greatness of love itself. Thank you.

[Ghoulish Delight]

The movie "Munich" was represented in one category, musical score, by a clip in which suspense built over a bomb that didn't go off. The Oscar show on ABC, televised live from Los Angeles, was a bomb that did.

Wow, that's some terrible writing.

[innerSpaceman]

And the Crash producer had to speak the entire time because Paul Haggis had previously embarassed himself on worldwide television, and precluded his fellow winning screenwriter from speaking, by rambling on and on incoherently through intense nervousness - and then proceeding to ramble about his intense nervousness.

Contrast that, if you will, with Ang Lee's eloquent, beautiful, substantive and gracious acceptance speech for best director ... and you have, if I may be so bold, yet another example of the ways in which Brokeback Mountain outshines Crash in class and style and quality.


Bah to the Academy. But business as usual, if you look at most of the Best Picture choices through the years.

[tracilicious]

Who is the academy? How do they choose them?