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movie producers, there was talk of how
the Oscars might actually be over in a
reasonable amount of time this year.
Had these people ever heard how
many months a movie can be in pro
duction? Even small movies are in
production for several months.
So the Academy brings in people
who work in terms of months to pro
duce a show that is only supposed to
run for three hours. Smart, huh?
All talk of an early evening went
out the window when only one Oscar,
one for costume design or something,
was presented in the first 25 minutes.
Thankfully, most of the early min
utes were spent watching Billy Crys
tal do his ritual song-and-dance rou
tine, which is the most entertaining
part of the show, anyway.
They obviously hoped to keep the
Oscars short by limiting the time each
recipient had to thank everyone they
have ever known in their life, which
surprisingly, seemed to work. Not.
Don't these producers realize that
if they were to do away with all the
dedications to past movies and pro
grams, the awards would be over in
half the time, even if all those bloated
Hollywood egos were allowed to talk
as they wanted to at the podium?
Now everyone knows the Acade
my Awards have been know n to pick
movies w hile everyone else in the
world asks themselves, "How in the
heck did that win an award?”
This year's awards actually started
off promisingly as the first two main
awards presented, best supporting ac
tress and best supporting actor, went
to the actual two most-deserving
nominees, Angelina Jolie for Girl, In
terrupted and Michael Caine for The
Cider House Rules, respectively.
Good job by the Academy, but what
about the 11-year-old wonder Haley
Joel Osment from The Sixth Sensei
Well, if this role was any indication,
this kid w ill have many more nomina
tions to come, so do not despair.
The Academy went w ith the "hip and
cool” route for technical awards, totally
shunning Star Wars: Episode I Phantom
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Menace (Yeah!) and giving the awards
for visual effects, film editing, sound and
sound editing to The Matrix (oh, yeah).
The awards for best original
screenplay and best adapted screen
play went to American Beaut}' and The
Cider House Rules, respectively,
which makes a lot of sense consider
ing these movies led the way with
eight nominations and seven nomina
tions, respectively.
It was fitting that Hilary Swank
won for best actress for her brilliant
performance as a girl pretending to be
a guy in Boys Don't Cry. The Acade
my must be celebrated for taking such
a big risk by giving her this award.
It was obvious that the ABC cam
era operators were really rooting for
Kevin Spacey for best actor since he
was given more camera time than Bil
ly Crystal. Could Spacey have possi-
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ble looked any more smug, though?
Not quite surprisingly, Spacey won
despite my cursings at the TV.
What the heck were those people
thinking though to give the Oscar for
best actor to Kevin Spacey?
The guy is a good actor, but he has
given the same deadpan performance
in every role of his career. Having met
the "esteemed" actor, it just does not
seem like he really did that great of a
job of acting in this movie. In fact, he
gave the same performance in Ameri
can Beauty as he did in Rocket Gibral-
ter — minus the flat-top hairdo.
Ifone hasn’t heard of that movie, go
rent it and watch the now-superstar
Spacey struggle in a "blah" role. The
Academy could have picked nearly any of
the oilier aetors nominated and not gone
wrong, but this decision was nothing short
of a disgrace to the other nominees.
It was as disgraceful as giving!
statue for best director to Sam Max
for American Beauty. I am not®!
that this movie is bad — it isagrea
extremely inventive movie.
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Alan Ball, which won exactly*
deserved, and the rest ofthepeopi
involved in the movie are what it
this movie great.
Sam Mendes said it himselfit
interview that without Conrad Hi
his cinematographer and his edits
the movie would have beennothipW YES SiP.,
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rector to a man who had no film exp!
ence. It is obv ious that he reliedka
on his underlings to tell the story for
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best picture as well. 1 agree
choice. 1 think this film eamedte
picture and best original screenpt
and best cinematography. These
awards are all richly deserved.
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did not deserve to win the.award!
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represented in their categories.te
because Mendes manages to tell I®
actors w here to-stand does not
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pretend it will end on time, people
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