Oscars, part 6

[cleolinda]

HELP HELP IT'S GOING SO FAST

Wow. Jessica Biel looks fantastic from the neck up, and then she's wearing some blousy drapy satin bedsheet horror, I don't even know. She's here to recap the Sci-Tech Awards Thingy, because she was the Hot Chick Consolation Prize Host they always throw to the tech guys who aren't "important" enough to be awarded on the show itself.

And... that was it. Commercials. YOU ASSHOLES! I HIT POST FOR THAT?

Movie commercial: Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx in The Soloist, a movie that looks like it was created in a lab to win Oscars.

We're back. It's the Apatow short film. It's... Seth Rogen and James Franco in Pineapple Express mode. They're going to watch all the movies that were nominated for an Oscar, except for The Love Guru, which they got instead of Slumdog Millionaire. They roll around laughing at Doubt and The Reader. Dollar bills are stapled to faces. Franco tries to make a move on Rogen during Milk. Janusz Kaminski and his two Oscars come and hang with them.

Please welcome! James Franco! Janusz Kaminski! And Seth Rogen!

Best Short Film, Live Action

Auf der Strecke (2007): Reto Caffi
Manon sur le bitume (2007): Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont
New Boy (2007): Steph Green, Tamara Anghie
Grisen (2008): Tivi Magnusson, Dorthe Warnø Høgh
Spielzeugland (2007): Jochen Alexander Freydank

"Spielzeugland" wins; Rogen laughs at Franco's enthusiastic pronunciation. I think an oncoming headache is sapping me of any sense of humor.

Next up: a once-in-a-lifetime performance! I imagine it will not involve Peter Gabriel!

Comments

[sirinde.livejournal.com]

And... the Heath Ledger award goes to... yep.

[sirinde.livejournal.com]

also *tear*
and as much as I love him and this role, I can't help thinking they just gave it to him because he died...

[kittenkatt.livejournal.com]

If you think that, we saw two different films. Cause, seriously, that performance was so well done that I was uncomfortable with the character (and love both Heath and the Joker in other situations). That was a hell of a performance and would have stood out even if he'd lived.

[smu.livejournal.com]

This. It was a performance worthy of an oscar, living or dead. It was nothing short of breathtakingly sinister and crazy.

[sirinde.livejournal.com]

oh nonononono!

I loved loved loved the performance. I was repulsed and couldn't look away. I just always wonder if they give people oscars just because they die. I was trying to express my cynicism about the Academy and obviously failed.

[smu.livejournal.com]

Well, the Oscars have only given two posthumous Oscars, so they do have a LOT of meaning.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

Well, I think they more than likely thought he really deserved it. The Academy has only ever awarded two posthumous acting Oscars - the other being for Network - so I'm assuming they felt he deserved it, as well as being sad that he's gone. I don't think that many posthumous Oscars have been awarded for other categories either, to be completely honest.

If it makes you feel any better, I interned in the film industry back in 07 and 08 and it was going around before his death that he was gonna be a shoe in for a nod and, most likely a win, for the Oscar.

I do remember by boss saying "He's gonna win an Oscar for that role, that bastard"...then like 3 weeks later Heath died and my boss felt bad about that comment...

[bluebythebook.livejournal.com]

Agreed. There were murmurs of an Oscar nomination even before he died. And had he lived, he still would have won tonight. Hands down.