Jon Stewart was a class act last night, especially when he brought the chick who won Best Song, who was cut off, back on the stage so she would get to say something. She ended up giving a really heartfelt thank you. And you know Stewart had to ice one of his bits to give her the time. Really classy!
But the Academy blew it on a few counts.
First off, in the “In Memorium” montage, they included Heath Ledger (of course), even though he died this year. But they didn’t include Roy Scheider, who also died this year. Roy Scheider was in Jaws! They also didn’t include Brad Renfro in the montage.
Next, their little behind the scenes video explaining how the voting worked was the most boring piece of shit I have ever seen on the Oscars. And they regularly have 10-minute interpretive dance sequences, so that’s saying a lot. Luckily, it was saved by (you guessed it) Jon Stewart, when they cut back to him saying, “Well that was amazing,” in the most sarcastic tone imaginable.
And worst of all, in the montage of past Oscar hosts, they left out Whoopi Goldberg (the first female AND the first black Oscar host) and STEVE MARTIN! What the fuck is that about?
This was also the least watched Oscar telecast ever. Not saying there’s a correlation, but you know…if the fuck-up fits.
6 responses so far ↓
1 FrankTheTank // Feb 26, 2008 at 6:43 am
Or, you know, they could nominate movies that more than a dozen people have actually seen…
Also, please get off your knees in front of Jon Stewart.
2 Wikipedia // Feb 26, 2008 at 9:27 am
The last rigth move the Oscars made was giving the Best Picture to “Crash.” That was a decade defining movie and legen…wait for it…dary!
3 TOPLESS_TUESDAY // Feb 26, 2008 at 10:14 am
One phrase: GayDolf Titler!
4 Baba Ganoush // Feb 26, 2008 at 11:42 am
Agree with Wiki… “Crash” is the best movie of the decade. You can not argue with that.
5 Mr. Wonka // Feb 29, 2008 at 6:27 pm
more than a dozen people have actually seen? like Juno which grossed 110 million? or Atonement which was playing in 1400 theaters at it’s height, and also made over 100 million? even michael clayton tripled its budget and had a pretty wide opening.
you want they should nominate Transformers as best picture?
6 FrankTheTank // Mar 3, 2008 at 11:08 am
Atonement did not make $100 M
And when it was on 1400 screens it grossed $4M, or $2850 per screen. “The Hottie and the Nottie” did better than that (completely untrue)
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783233/business)
And Michael Clayton did not gross triple it’s budget
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465538/business)
Oscar ratings are only good when you have high grossing movies like Chicago or Titanic nominated for best Oscar.
Either people need to quit complaining about low ratings or they need to nominate movies that people actually saw.
If people don’t care enough about a movie to watch it in a theater, they sure as hell aren’t going to sit through a 3-hour telecast to see if it gets an award.
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