BRILLIANT!
Here is the EOnline video in which Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe tells Gerard Butler she’d “hit that”!
It’s about 2 minutes in!
On 03.12.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
On 03.10.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
After failing to include Farrah Fawcett in the Oscar ceremony’s In Memoriam montage, a representative for the Academy Awards responded to criticism of the decision. Bruce Davis, the man responsible for that Oscar segment since 1993, told People Magazine that:
“There’s nothing you can say to people, particularly to family members, within a day or two of the show that helps at all. They tend to be surprised and hurt, and we understand that and we’re sorry for it.”
Still, Davis stands by the decision, telling People that he thought Fawcett’s extensive high-profile work in television shows like Charlie’s Angels made a tribute at the Emmy Awards a more appropriate honor.
On 03.10.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
In what will go down as one of the more controversial Academy votes for best picture, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker ran roughshod over James Cameron’s Avatar on Sunday night in a race that initially was thought of as a cakewalk for the 3D extravaganza.
Talk about a money gap: Since its release in June, Bigelow’s taut Iraq War drama has mustered a measly $14.7 million at the US box office, while her ex-husband’s years-in-the-making epic has in three months grossed $721 million stateside and a whopping $2.6 billion worldwide. Only his other tour de force, Titanic, comes close, with a $1.8 billion worldwide haul.
On the budget side, too, the discrepancy was huge, hers costing $15 million and his $300 million or thereabouts.
So what happened?
A lot of folks were asking that in the wake of Tom Hanks’ bolt to the stage to blurt out the final winner at the end of the overlong, 3-and-a-half hour awards show. The audience hardly had time to gasp before being herded to the exits. Not since, Shakespeare in Love outshone Saving Private Ryan, or Ghandi edged E.T. or, MOST notably, Crash beat Brokeback Mountain has there been such an eyebrow-raising finale.
No doubt there will be a lot of theories, conspiratorial and not, bandied about, even though we arguably never will know what precise mixture of factors contributed and in what percentages.
Even so, The Hurt Locker’s messages were clear and clearly portrayed, and distributor Summit did an excellent job in mounting an awards campaign that appealed to Academy voters across the various industry categories.
Then there’s that preferential voting system, which likely skewed the outcome toward the indie pic. Avatar might have garnered more first-place ballots than any other contender, but probably just as likely it appeared way down on the ballots of other voters who didn’t wish to see it win. The Hurt Locker probably was high on most everyone’s list, benefiting when the second and third place entries were scooped up and re-assigned.
Also playing a role in the selection might have been a predilection for the perceived underdog, and a charming, talented, articulate woman at that, over the self-styled king of the world who no doubt rubbed some Academy members the wrong way the last time he was onstage brandishing the Oscar.
The very idea that a female helmer made the kind of movie heretofore the exclusive reserve and prerogative of male directors also might have been too tantalizing to resist.
More appealing was that a little pic with a difficult story managed the feat of amassing enough dough to shoot under adverse conditions in the Middle East while Fox for years was signing the checks for a helmer hunkered down in a high-tech hangar in West Los Angeles.
Bigelow’s crew faced suspicious crowds, curfews and fusillades; Cameron’s crew faced a bunch of computers.
What do you think? Was the right decision made?
On 03.10.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
Just in case you were interested!
On 03.10.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
When Music By Prudence director Roger Ross Williams was interrupted during his acceptance speech for Best Documentary Short during Sunday’s Oscars, viewers were aghast. Who was the woman who cut him off? Why was she up there? Did Kanye West have something to do with this?
Turns out the woman who rushed the stage was Music By Prudence producer Elinor Burkett, whose name had also been called for the award. She tells EW that the confusion began because Williams had refused to discuss beforehand which one of them should speak on stage if they won. (The two aren’t on speaking terms due to a creative conflict over the film.) She also claims she only stepped in because he was neglecting to thank the film’s main subjects, the Zimbabwean band Liyana. And she had a few things to say about being compared to a certain mic-grabbing rapper:
“It’s ridiculous. I won an Oscar. Kanye West injected himself onto the stage where he didn’t belong. I don’t know why everyone is acting like I didn’t have the right to be there. My name was called, and I went up because because I won an Oscar. And that’s the only thing I kind of resent, is people acting like I didn’t get an Oscar. It’s really demeaning and denigrating to somebody who did all the work. The Producer’s Guild certified me as the producer. HBO certified me as the producer. There’s this assumption that [Roger] had more of a right to speak than I did. His Oscar is not bigger than my Oscar.“
So there………………..now you have all been set straight!
On 03.08.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
Some of the best lines actually happen backstage in the Press Room AFTER the Oscars are handed out. Here is a list of the night’s best.
The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow, who was asked right off the bat about the significance of being the first woman to win Best Director. “I hope I’m the first of many,” Bigelow said. “I’d love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I long for the day when a modifier can be a moot point. But I’m ever grateful if I can inspire some young, intrepid, tenacious male or female filmmakers and have them feel that the impossible is possible.”
The Mo says – BRILLIANT! Succinct and a point that was desperately overdue to be made!
Sandra Bullock, fresh off of delivering a truly magnetic acceptance speech, still had plenty of charm remaining for the reporters backstage. Bullock was asked about the Razzie she won Saturday night for her role in the clunker All About Steve, and the actress, who actually showed up at the ceremony to accept the statue, said she plans to keep her Oscar and Razzie next to each other. “They’ll sit side-by-side in a nice little shelf somewhere,” Bullock said. “Well, the Razzie maybe on a different shelf, a lower shelf.”
The Mo says – As we reported a couple of days ago, Sandra wins big props for being able to laugh at herself!
Best Supporting Actress winner Mo’Nique elaborated on what she meant when she commended the Academy Awards for being “about the performance and not the politics.” Earlier in the awards season, Mo’Nique had been criticized by some in the media for not making all of the appearances an Oscar hopeful is seemingly supposed to make. Here was her response backstage: “Through this journey and process — and I’m sure some of you are sitting in this room right now — some reporters wrote, ‘Someone needs to teach Mo’Nique a lesson. Someone needs to tell her how this game is played.’ And I am very proud to be part of an Academy that says, ‘We will not play that game. We will judge her on her performance and not on how many dinners she attended and how many pictures she took. It’s on the screen.’”
The Mo says – We truly love you but get over yourself!
“I was all over him.” ~ Star Trek makeup artist Mindy Hall when asked about doing the makeup for star Chris Pine.
The Mo says – Girlfriend…….we hear you!
On 03.08.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
On the whole there were few surprises. I was a little shocked to see The Hurt Locker win the “Big 2″……although I was positive Kathryn Bigelow would win Direction it is not unusual in recent years for the Academy to split these two awards, so The Hurt Locker also winning Best Picture was a minor upset!
The show itself seemed to be a bit of a shambles, with none of the slick polish of previous years.
A complete list of winners is below.
BEST PICTURE
“The Hurt Locker”
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Jeff Bridges for “Crazy Heart”
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Sandra Bullock for “The Blind Side”
DIRECTING
Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker”
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Christoph Waltz for “Inglourious Basterds”
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mo’Nique for “Precious”
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“El Secreto de Sus Ojos”
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“Up”
SCREENPLAY (Adapted)
“Precious”
SCREENPLAY (Original)
“The Hurt Locker”
ART DIRECTION
“Avatar”
CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Avatar”
COSTUME DESIGN
“The Young Victoria”
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“The Cove”
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
“Music by Prudence”
FILM EDITING
“The Hurt Locker”
MAKEUP
“Star Trek”
MUSIC (SCORE)
“Up”
MUSIC (SONG)
“The Weary Kind” from “Crazy Heart”
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
“Logorama”
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
“The New Tenants”
SOUND EDITING
“The Hurt Locker”
SOUND MIXING
“The Hurt Locker”
VISUAL EFFECTS
“Avatar”
On 03.07.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
Tonight’s the big night!
Let’s see how I do!
Best Actor – Jeff Bridges
Best Actress – Sandra Bullock
Best Film – Avatar
Best Director – ok…..i’m hedging here, but I am sticking with Kathryn Bigelow
Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz
Best Supporting Actress – Well……DUH…….Mo’Nique
A lot of them are an almost surefire lock this year but there’s my two cents worth!
On 03.07.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
Again Hollywood………..this is how you do it!
Sandra Bullock has been crowned top of the flops at the 30th Razzie Awards in Los Angeles, the annual eve-of-Oscars spoof which pays homage to the very worst of Hollywood.
Bullock – who could complete an unprecedented double on Sunday if she wins a best actress Oscar for her performance in The Blind Side – delighted guests at Los Angeles’s Barnsdall Theatre by appearing to collect her award on Saturday night.
The 45-year-old also handed out DVD copies of her offending performance in the box office flop All About Steve to guests.
“I’ll show up again next year if you promise to watch the movie and really consider if it was the worst performance of the year,” said Bullock after receiving her “Razzie,” a plastic gold spray painted raspberry.
“And if it isn’t, I’ll give back the Razzie,” added Bullock, revealing that she had ducked out of a charity dinner with Hollywood powerbroker and producer Jeffrey Katzenberg to attend the awards.
“Now I’ve got to get back to that event, because you know, it’s Jeffrey Katzenberg and he can basically prevent me from ever working again,” Bullock quipped.
Bullock also picked up a Razzie for worst screen couple in partnership with All About Steve co-star Bradley Cooper.
It was the first time a worst actress recipient had appeared in person to collect their Razzie since 2005, when Halle Berry walked off with the award for her performance in Catwoman.
On 03.04.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
Nicolas Chartier who financed The Hurt Locker and is one of the 4 officially credited producers can’t attend the Academy Awards because he sent a mass email that never even mentioned Avatar by name?
And the Oscars governing body thinks his badmouthing is so much worse than what nearly everyone in the Best Picture category has done year after year? I find it ludicrous that the Academy of shame has made a decision so lame.
Is it then, in my opinion, mere coincidence that Academy president Tom Sherak (at one time a bigtime Fox movie exec), Oscars producers Bill Mechanic (at one time a bigtime Fox movie exec) and Adam Shankman (currently a bigtime Fox Broadcast talent), and Academy Board Of Governors member Jim Gianopulos (currently a bigtime Fox movie exec) all have strong ties to the Avatar studio?
The Academy should have leaned over backwards not to appear Fox-sympathetic because of this. Would this draconian action have been taken if Chartier’s name had been Grazer or Rudin or some other Hollywood insider? I think not.
On 03.03.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
The “Springer Episode” that has been this lead up week to the Academy Awards has hit a new high!
Nicolas Chartier, a producer of the war story The Hurt Locker will not be allowed to attend Sunday’s Academy Awards because of e-mails he sent urging academy members to vote for his movie, Oscar overseers said Tuesday.
However, if Chartier wins best picture for The Hurt Locker, he will receive an Oscar at a later date.
The executive committee of the producers branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences imposed the penalty on Chartier, who violated Oscar rules that prohibit mailings promoting a film and disparaging another.
He did not immediately return a call Tuesday from The Associated Press seeking comment on the academy’s penalty. Officials at Summit Entertainment, which released The Hurt Locker, declined to comment.
Avatar producer Jon Landau did not immediately return a call for comment.
The Hurt Locker and Avatar have been at the head of the pack throughout awards season, and they lead the Oscar field with nine nominations each.
Avatar won the Golden Globe for best drama, but The Hurt Locker has dominated honors from critics and key Hollywood trade groups, including guilds representing directors, writers and producers.
At last month’s British Academy Film Awards, The Hurt Locker also won out over Avatar, taking six prizes, including best picture.
Well……..drama, drama, drama!
On 02.26.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
Today, Summit Entertainment issued the following statement:
“An enthusiastic and naive young producer made a mistake. When we found out, we asked him to stop immediately and let the Academy know and he is making amends.”
What is all this about i hear you ask? Well, turns out young Nicholas Chartrier, more a financier than a real producer but who nonetheless has a producers credit on The Hurt Locker, allegedly sent out an email last week to Academy voters asking them to campaign for The Hurt Locker and not that “$500- million film” (Avatar, of course!).
Chartrier has since issued a statement apologising for breaking the rules of Oscar campaigning which he claims he didn’t know.
“My naivete, ignorance of the rules and plain stupidity as a first time nominee is not an excuse for this behavior and I strongly regret it,”
Now THIS is how I like my Oscars! Dirty, down and mudflinging!………..
On 02.04.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
There were still some surprising snubs in this years Oscar noms…………a few that I am really ticked about and some that just gets a raised eyebrow. Here’s the list…….
- The Blind Side being nominated for Best Picture is bulls**t plain and simple.
- Julianne Moore NOT being nominated in the Supporting Actress category was nothing short of requiring a call to Amnesty International for Human Rights violations! Maggie Gyllenhall being nominated in her place for a GOD AWFUL performance in Crazy Heart was what put my fingers on the phone!
- Viggo Mortensen being locked out of Best Actor and The Road being locked out of everything was another travesty. Not even a Best Adapted Screenplay nod? The film itself is standard Oscar fodder which makes this all the more surprising!
- Last year Gran Torino and this year Invictus? The Academy really seems to have it in for Clint these days!
What are your thoughts? Let us know!
On 02.02.10, In Entertainment, By The Mo
The 2010 Oscar noms have been announced, and there were no real surprises of a major magnitude, except for both Up and The Blind Side being nominated in the Best Film category!
All major noms are listed below…………….
BEST PICTURE
“An Education”
“Avatar”
“The Blind Side”
“District 9″
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
“Up in the Air”
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Jeff Bridges for “Crazy Heart”
George Clooney for “Up in the Air”
Colin Firth for “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman for “Invictus”
Jeremy Renner for “The Hurt Locker”
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Sandra Bullock for “The Blind Side”
Helen Mirren for “The Last Station”
Carey Mulligan for “An Education”
Gabourey Sidibe for “Precious”
Meryl Streep for “Julie & Julia”
DIRECTING
Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker”
James Cameron for “Avatar”
Lee Daniels for “Precious”
Jason Reitman for “Up in the Air”
Quentin Tarantino for “Inglourious Basterds”
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Matt Damon for “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson for “The Messenger”
Christopher Plummer for “The Last Station”
Stanley Tucci for “The Lovely Bones”
Christoph Waltz for “Inglourious Basterds”
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Penelope Cruz for “Nine”
Vera Farmiga for “Up in the Air”
Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart”
Anna Kendrick for “Up in the Air”
Mo’Nique for “Precious”
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“Ajami”
“El Secreto de Sus Ojos”
“The Milk of Sorrow”
“A Prophet”
“The White Ribbon”
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“Coraline”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“The Princess and the Frog”
“The Secret of Kells”
“Up”
SCREENPLAY (Adapted)
“An Education”
“District 9″
“In the Loop”
“Precious”
“Up in the Air”
SCREENPLAY (Original)
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“The Messenger”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
ART DIRECTION
“Avatar”
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
“Nine”
“Sherlock Holmes”
“The Young Victoria”
CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Avatar”
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“The White Ribbon”
COSTUME DESIGN
“Bright Star”
“Coco Before Chanel”
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
“Nine”
“The Young Victoria”
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Burma VJ”
“The Cove”
“Food Inc.”
“The Most Dangerous Man in America”
“Which Way Home”
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
“China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province”
“The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner”
“The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant”
“Music by Prudence”
“Rabbit a la Berlin”
FILM EDITING
“Avatar”
“District 9″
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious”
MAKEUP
“Il Divo”
“Star Trek”
“The Young Victoria”
MUSIC (SCORE)
“Avatar”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Sherlock Holmes”
“Up”
MUSIC (SONG)
“Almost There” from “The Princess & the Frog”
“Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess & the Frog”
“Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36″
“Take it All” from “Nine”
“The Weary Kind” from “Crazy Heart”
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
“French Roast”
“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty”
“The Lady and the Reaper”
“Logorama”
“A Matter of Loaf and Death”
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
“The Door”
“Instead of Abracadabra”
“Kavi”
“Miracle Fish”
“The New Tenants”
SOUND EDITING
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Star Trek”
“Up”
SOUND MIXING
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Star Trek”
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
VISUAL EFFECTS
“Avatar”
“District 9″
“Star Trek”
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