Oscar Results

[dreamwatch]

So, what are your thoughts? I'm over the moon about LOTR's, and generally not that fussed by other winners, except that I had really wanted Bill Murray to get the best actor award.

For those of you who missed it:

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Sean PennMYSTIC RIVER

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Tim RobbinsMYSTIC RIVER

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Charlize TheronMONSTER

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Renée ZellwegerCOLD MOUNTAIN

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
FINDING NEMOAndrew Stanton

ART DIRECTION
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KINGGrant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (Set Decoration)

CINEMATOGRAPHY
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLDRussell Boyd

COSTUME DESIGN
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KINGNgila Dickson and Richard Taylor

DIRECTING
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KINGPeter Jackson

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
THE FOG OF WARErrol Morris and Michael Williams

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
CHERNOBYL HEARTMaryann DeLeo

FILM EDITING
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KINGJamie Selkirk

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONSCanada
Directed by Denys Arcand

HONORARY AWARD
HONORARY AWARDBlake Edwards

MAKEUP
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KINGRichard Taylor
Peter King

MUSIC (SCORE)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KINGHoward Shore

MUSIC (SONG)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING"Into the West"
Music and Lyric by Fran Walsh and Howard Shore and Annie Lennox

BEST PICTURE
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KINGBarrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
HARVIE KRUMPETAdam Elliot

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
TWO SOLDIERSAaron Schneider and Andrew J. Sacks

SOUND EDITING
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLDRichard King

SOUND MIXING
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KINGChristopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek

VISUAL EFFECTS
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KINGJim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KINGScreenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
LOST IN TRANSLATIONWritten by Sofia Coppola

 

[Goreripper]

Do you find it interesting that two of the actors who spoke out loudest against the war in Iraq won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor?

 

[Goreripper]

Also, why are all the winners listed as non-working hyperlinks?

 

[mattt]

i don't really care for the oscars but Sean Penn deserved to win. He is brilliant.

Ive seen pirate copies of Monster and 21 Grams and Naomi Watts had a way better performance than Charlize Theron.

THINGS THAT PISS ME OFF ABOUT THE OSCARS
* People Crying when they accept awards
* Thanking God/Satan
etc

 

[Goreripper]

Actually if someone got up and really did thank Satan, I'd think that was hilarious.

 

[mattt]

yeah i know. If i ever win an oscar, I will do just that.......i better start acting.....

 

[dreamwatch]

The links work for me, but I just copied the results from the Oscar site, I wasn't really interested in the linkage.

The speeches were particularly boring, thank God for Jack Black and 'Mitch and Mickey' injecting a little humour into the proceedings. It really was quite a dull night.

Haupy - see, the thing is, Charlize Theron is a very beautiful (so I've been told) woman who has been made to look quite plain. Now in Hollywood this is considered the most supreme sacrifice for ones career, Renee Zelwegger also won best supporting actress for best performance by a good looking chick in an ugly role. Ugliness wins prizes.

 

[Goreripper]

On a more serious note: LOTR won 11 Oscars, and won everything it was nominated for! That's almost unprecendented.

 

[Celestial-Todd]

What pisses me off is, people rave about the fact that Charlize Theron put on weight and wore fuckloads of make-up/prosthetics so no-one could recognise her.... didn't Andy Serkis practically do the same but digitally? Meh, suppose it's pointless to argue it anymore

I reckon next year we'll see a massive "we love America" backswing at the oscars... seriously, they joke about "everyone in New Zealand" being thanked, but they'll even it out by doing the patriotic thing and awarding "their own"

 

[Goreripper]

The fact that a film that was filmed and produced in a country that isn't the United States won so many Oscars is an achievement in itself. Apart from "Chariots of Fire" I can't think of a film in recent memory to win Best Picture that wasn't a Hollywood production. Spiff would know, but he's not here right now. Also, has anyone else noticed the lack of black people nominated for anything this year? I mean LOTR had an all-white cast, but it wasn't up for any acting awards. Were there any black nominees?

 

[Celestial-Todd]

It's also the first sci-fi/fantasy film to win ever I believe

 

[Goreripper]

Yes, you are correct.

 

[KoichCPA]

I didn't watch them because I hate Billy Crystal.

Out of all the movies nominated for oscars is various catagories, I have only seen Finding Nemo.

I won't care until they have a "best porn" and "best horror" section.

 

[Goreripper]

For some reason, I find it rather amusing that you, of all people, have seen "Finding Nemo".

 

[KoichCPA]

Not really, 90% of the stuff I watch is animated, the other 10% is Australian Soap Operas and The price is right.

 

[Spiff]

I was very surprised that LOTR:ROTK won 11 Oscars. Only two films have won that many, Ben-Hur and Titanic. I knew it was possible that it would have a clean sweep but thought it very unlikely - I had it down for 9.

Haupy - Oscar-winners very rarely thank God. You're thinking of the Grammys.

Goreripper - quite a few overseas, non-Hollywood films have won Best Picture - The Last Emperor and Gandhi both spring to mind.

Penn and Robbins winning while both being outspoken protestors of the war in Iraq is a coincidence - they've been frontrunners since the beginning.

There were quite a few non-white nominees:

* Ben Kingsley, nominated for Best Actor for House of Sand and Fog, is part Indian
* Keisha Castle-Hughes, nominated for Best Actress for Whale Rider, is Maori
* Djimon Hounsou, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for In America, is from some African country
* Ken Watanabe, nominated for Best Supporting Actor for The Last Samurai, is from Japan
* Shohreh Aghdashloo, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for House of Sand and Fog, is from Iran.

 

[Goreripper]

After perusing the list of nominees, I should have clarified my question to state African American nominees. But considering only 5 African Americans have ever won Oscars for acting, it's hardly surprising.

 

[Spiff]

Well, for what it's worth there aren't any performances by African Americans last year which I think were overlooked. Should they be nominated just for the sake of it?

 

[Goreripper]

No of course not. The point I think I'm making is that they seem to be thin on the ground in any year. I was thinking about this some time ago when I saw Halle Berry in an ad, that until a few years ago I couldn't even name a black American actress except Whoopi Goldberg and when I was in high school the only black male actors I knew were Carl Weathers and Billy Dee Williams. It just sort of reinforces the claims that same black Americans make about inequalities when none of them seem to get cast in roles that would get them nominated for an Oscar. They are still either comic relief, minor roles, or action stars.

 

[spawn]

Im glad Lord Of The Rings won, the amount of stress that it must have put on Peter Jackson filming all 3 of them together would have been monumental, and the fact the films are so great is an even bigger achievement.