Ken’s Academy Awards Post…

Updated on March 8, 2010 By Ken Begg 14 Comments

I didn’t watch them.

Did you? Consider this an open thread for that subject, or anything else you want to blab about.

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  • Toby Clark

    Can’t complain about any of the winners, although like most years I haven’t many of them yet. The only thing I was disappointed by this year was Melanie Laurent not getting nominated for Inglourious Basterds.

    I was glad to see Star Trek win best makeup, if nothing else.

  • Ericb

    I didn’t watch it either. At least Avatar didn’t get best picture.

  • Mr. Rational

    I watched. Mostly a waste of time. Ten Best Picture nominees were, predictably, five too many — especially when you can pick out the ones that have no chance to win. The only part of the whole thing that really made me laugh was Ben Stiller’s introduction of Best Makeup, decked out like one of Cameron’s blue CGI Avatar things. If I were you, Ken, I’d look that up on Youtube, as well as the tributes to horror movies and John Hughes, and then I’d call it a day for this Oscars.

  • Hey, remember when Farrah Fawcett died last year?

    The Oscars didn’t. Oh well! Not as relevant as a dead pedophile, I guess!

  • KeithB

    How many *movies* was FF in? She was mainly a TV star, right? Stay tuned for the Grammys!

    I aminly recall that CannonBall Run was about the only movie she was in.

    Even on TV, she was most famous for “Charlie’s Angels” and “The Burning Bed”

    And that play where she turns on her rapist.

  • It was nice to see Kathryn Bigelow finally get the recognition she deserved for The Hurt Locker after getting snubbed by the Oscars for Point Break.

  • I’m almost embarassed to say that I watched it, and I enjoyed it. However, I was also following Bill Corbett’s liveTweet at the time, and it was almost like having an MST3K version on screen. Plus all the wins for Up and Hurt Locker made me feel happy inside.

  • Plissken79

    Actually, this was one of the better Cscars in years. It was great to see Christoph Waltz, Kathryn Bigelow and The Hurt Locker win. Even better that the insufferable megalomaniac James Cameron did not take home a statue

  • Oh, and Ken, just because you’re sort of running this kind of site, you missed a glorious Jabootu moment.

    ROGER CORMAN WINS SOME SORT OF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.

    And he was there with fellow winner, Lauren Bacall. Lauren Friggin’ Bacall!

  • BeckoningChasm

    Roger Corman? Wow, makes me wish I’d watched it.

    I didn’t, though. Don’t really care in the slightest. A shame about Sandra Bullock, though, I kind of liked her. Now that she’s won an Oscar, her career will go straight into the toilet, like almost all other female acting winners.

  • Mr. Rational

    BeckoningChasm: Some might argue that, with movies like All About Steve and The Proposal, it was already there…

  • Didn’t watch them either. I had more interesting things to do. Rearranging my sock drawer, putting everything in my refridgerator in alphabetical order, staring at my feet; you know, ‘interesting’ things.

  • The reason that female actors plummet after getting an Oscar, in Sandy Petersen’s opinion, is because:

    1) it takes a while before the academy feels you have the chops to get an Oscar.

    2) by then you’re on the verge of getting “old”.

    3) Hollywood doesn’t value women who aren’t young. They’re the most sexist place in America, except maybe pop music.

  • BeckoningChasm

    In fairness to Hollywood, some of the Oscar winning ladies make really stupid decisions, which, combined with their higher asking price, certainly don’t help with their careers. EG, Catwoman.