Talk about bad timing!
You get nominated for an academy award for leading actor and your film gets nominated for best picture. Any other year that would be great. Unfortunately this year you’re up against a movie and actor about an amazingly gifted gay man during World War 2 and an Oprah Winfrey movie about Martin Luther King.
And you unfortunately are playing a white redneck who was amazing with a gun.
Sorry, Dude.
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Plus a guy playing Stephen Hawking … Oscars love the “playing a disabled person” movies (My Left Foot, Forrest Gump, etc)
I never figured that one out. How is it so amazing when an actor plays a disabled person or pretends to have some kind of injury? Soccer players do it 10 times every game! And for acting like you’re mentally handicapped, simply add a lisp, look like you don’t like to make eye contact, speak slowly and inappropriately loud. All it takes to get an Oscar for one of those roles is to have them character deliver some heartfelt speech about how they may not be very book smart, but they are still a person and deserve respect and love. The critics will then say, “WOW! His character is supposed to have about a 60 IQ and yet he understands the world better than most geniuses! What a concept! What an actor!”
Never go full retard.
Is the movie that good, or is it just the Eastwood effect getting it the attention?
Reminds me of the “Modern family” episode where the gay couple is trying to get their kid in a school and the loose out the mixed race lesbians, one of whom is disabled.
Don’t mess wiff no Okra Winfree!
American Sniper is this year’s token. Just because of the story it won’t actually win anything.
I listened to the Stern interview with Bradley Cooper.
I think he really had it in his heart to do the right thing and that’s a big part of why he went with Mr Eastwood to get the movie made.
I am sure Cooper would love to win the award, but having a veteran like Eastwood at your elbow during the process of making the movie was more reward than any little gold statue could ever provide. I’m also sure Clint took a moment and more than schooled him on the political side of winning these types of awards for his work.
BTW if you haven’t listened to Stern in a while I was rather amazed at how he has become a rather good interviewer since I last listened to him.
I miss being able to hear him. He always was good at cutting through the b.s. and getting to the real scoop with celebrities.
I agree, working with Clint on the project would be better than any award given. Not much of a Stern fan but the interview with Seinfeld on Comedians in cars getting coffee was interesting. Good series on Crackle.
I read an interview with Cooper, talked about how he really want to make this right and get Kyle as close as possible. He interviewed Kyle’s wife, listened to tapes, talked with those who knew him, worked with a speech coach to get the accent and inflection right. Cooper said that since Kyle’s family is alive and has an interest in this he felt obligated to do the best job he could to honor (my word) Kyle’s persona and life.
In 1977 those Hollywood ****tards gave “Annie Hall” the Best Picture award beating out “Star Wars.” It was then that I understood Academy Awards didn’t mean a damn thing and it was basically Hollywood rewarding itself for it’s work because certainly nobody else was going to take the time to kiss their ass.
Every time I see these Hollywood award shows I think of the film award depicted for the ‘Simple Jack’ fictitous movie portrayed by Stiller’s character in the movie Tropic Thunder.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U-n_zk7e0ZU
Hollywood has way too many award shows.
How about taking time to honor all of the American men and women who selflessly serve others.
Hollywood actors are just carnies with nice teeth. -Craig Furgerson
Eddie Redmayne got the Golden Globe for Theory of Everything… I would say he is favored to win the Oscar as well. Wife and I are going to see American Sniper tomorrow. With all the build up, I hope it lives up to it. I read the book when it first came out, would like to see how true to the book the movie is.
We’re going Sunday to see it. I do hope it’s more about the stories in the book and less about the wife at home but I don’t get that vibe from the trailers.
He went full retard!! :sarcastic:
Kill me now, I just can’t take the BS anymore.
Al Sharpton Calls For Emergency Meeting To Address ‘Appalling’ All-White Oscar Nominees
This Will Be The Whitest Oscars Since 1998
Meanwhile Oprah’s ****ing movie about King incorrectly depicts LBJ as being opposed to the civil rights movement. After all we have to make sure all the white people are the bad guy, even the one who dedicated his entire Presidency to civil rights no matter how absurd the demands were.
But nobody is really talking about that. To point out the racial bias and inaccuracies in Oprahs film would be “racist.” And as the NAACP representative pointed out, the film is a drama and not a documentary so it doesn’t have to be historically or racially accurate.
Really the only problem is if it is not automatically nominated and considered the oscar pick, and we need greater diversity in the films selected, it is wrong to select simply based upon artistic considerations.
In my entire life span, I think we might be at the MOST racist point I’ve ever seen in this country.
did not know the oscars were on
never cared at all IMHO just actors patting themselves on there back and using the people that watch them to prop themselves up really insane the way people think about it all
The fact it got nominated means it has a chance. Remember when Hurt Locker beat Avatar.
Yes, I remember the time when Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman in history to win the best director award at the Oscars and beat out the male director of Avatar.
I’ve never gave a rat’s azz about what the “academy” thought was a good picture/actor/score etc.