The Oscars

Bill Murray should have won...
LOTR- too many... It's good, but not THAT good...
Glad that 'Finding Nemo" got some as well.
And Billy Crystal was cool...

Oh,and btw,that's Bill being Bill!Not alot of people got it,but...he was actualy kidding.

I'm glad Sean Penn and Tim Robbins took some awards for their awesome performances in "Mystic River".

I just wish Clint Eastwood had taken the awards for best picture and best director. After all, he deserved them for "Mystic River".

As much as I am a Tolkien fan and saw all the movies in theatres, the only reason LOTR got rewarded was because it involved a lot of cast and crew. Otherwise, there's nothing special about staging large battle scenes that ivolve computer generated images.

"Best Song - Kiss at the End of the rainbow (c'mon, at least it's in the movie - they publicised "into the west" as "we wrote this for a boy who DIED so if you don't vote you'll feel GUILTY!")"

That was a really unfair thing to say. Said boy was Cameron Duncan, who incidentally was quite well known here and was a very, very talented filmmaker. He was good friends with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, and was supposed to have been helping them with the movie which would have been a hell of a break for him, and he'd have had quite a filmmaking career set up for him. Except that he got cancer and died.
I think that they were entirely justified in dedicating Into the West to him. And it had nothing to do with guilt trips.

Blast thee, New Zealand! Out does Australia 11-2.

All the songs that were performed at the gala (all moninees?) were simply terrible. It's hard for me to understand how anyone can like them. What comes to LOTR, I'm not going to say what I think because it will hurt lots of feelings. I'll just say that that movie can't be taken seriously and given serious awards. That's rediculous.

Well, what was good then? Master & Commander got two well deserved Oscars and should have got a couple more, like in the Best Actor category (but it wasn't even nominated) and in Best Directing.

The gala was well organized this year. It wasn't too long, which was a very pleasant surprise. There's though one thing that makes me furious about all these Award galas: the commercial breaks. The Golden Globes were a tragedy. I was watching it in the middle of the night and there was a commecrial break every 10 or 15 minutes (I'm not even exagerrating). The Oscars weren't quit that annoying, but I still don't understand why they have to have commercials at all. Can't the Academy just sponsor the whole shit and make the gala watchable? It's not like they don't have money.

"All the songs that were performed at the gala (all moninees?) were simply terrible. It's hard for me to understand how anyone can like them. What comes to LOTR, I'm not going to say what I think because it will hurt lots of feelings. I'll just say that that movie can't be taken seriously and given serious awards. That's rediculous."

I agree. This year was much weaker than other years.

And...Russell Crowe wasn't good enough to be nominated this year!!

Virtuoso, that's what YOU think. In my opinion he certainly deserved a nomination and a win.

(The 2002 Award was also robbed from him, because he had that incident with the BAFTA producer. Fuck the Academy!)

>>Blast thee, New Zealand! Out does Australia 11-2.

Whoot.

That's what the academy and I agree on,Russell didn't deserve the oscar,period.But they did robbed him 2 years ago,Denzel's performance IMO wasn't comparable to Crowe's one.

BTW,as I know ,you're a big Russell fan.So your opinion will undoubtly be uncrediteble for such jugments.

You're right :-))))

But still my opinions about the other categories count, I hope...

I know this topic is old, but the ceremony was a snoozer. Because it was very predictable, but I'm glad that LOTR won.

However, I was pissed off that The Mighty Win and Bill Murray were robbed grrrr

I actually though Lost in Translation was the most boring movie ever, and Bill Murray sucked, just my opinion

"*gasp* that's one of my favorite movies ever...!"

i guess it's a chick flick? i dunno, but not for me, my dad hated it too