Oscars: Kimmel slams Trump, pleas for unity

[skeeter]

Speaking of Warren.  Who did his make-up...a taxidermist?

Faye Dunaway apparently flew to the event in an open cockpit jet at mach 5.

[Sanguine]

The most politically correct movie of all time.  IMHO
Story line, homosexual theme.

And, totally bleak and depressing!  Like I would want to pay money to watch that?

[GtHawk]

I think the "Best Picture" had something else involving a "Fist" in it from what I heard.

You mean someone in that film suffered from...from.....RectalFistulitus? Oh say it isn't so, well that does it for me, I refuse to watch anything with someone suffering from that disease in it. Thank you so much for the spoiler!!
@dfwgator

[mountaineer]

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We looked inside the $100,000 gift bag Oscar nominees take home, and it's beyond extravagant http://read.bi/2mn3xc6


Mo Mo‏@molratty 22h22 hours ago
Mo Mo Retweeted Business Insider
$100k of free stuff for people who can afford to buy it but complain loudly about how America hates the poor.


Paul Cornelius‏@thunderingjove 16h16 hours ago
@molratty 100K? Are they putting in bars of pure cocaine?

[dfwgator]

Mo Mo‏@molratty 22h22 hours ago
Mo Mo Retweeted Business Insider
$100k of free stuff for people who can afford to buy it but complain loudly about how America hates the poor.

 

That in a nutshell is what I hate about Hollywood, and why I refuse to watch anymore of their dreck.

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Merged four Oscars threads.

[mountaineer]

The Other Disasters You Missed At The Academy Awards
Posted at 12:00 pm on February 27, 2017 by Brad Slager

By now if you have heard anything about last night’s Oscar ceremony you are aware of the debacle that transpired. Somehow during the announcement of the most important award (in their minds) they bungled the reading of the card announcing Best Picture. Mayhem and calamity ensued.

And while that monumental gaffe will be referenced for generations it was one misstep in a night filled with self-centered bromides and error-prone activism. Even though the protest speeches were minimized against expectations the show was at times cringe-worthy, a slog, and ultimately a chuckle-inducing disaster.

The signs of trouble were there hours before show time. There was a major stage malfunction where set pieces came down. It tore a main curtain and destroyed a camera. But in true “the show must go on” spirit the show went on.

One unintentionally moving moment came during a commercial. In a one minute spot for Rolex watches the company celebrated its history of product-placement in film. One clip in the montage was from “Titanic”. It showed actor Bill Paxton, who had just had the announcement of his passing earlier that morning, hours before the ceremony.

It took little time for the political salvos to arrive. Host Jimmy Kimmel was not a minute into his opening monologue when he mentioned the show was being broadcast into “225 countries that now hate us!” I wasn’t aware Trump’s foreign policy had already accomplished this, but then I’m relying on Hollywood here for political accuracy. Always a mistake. ...

In one of the least surprising wins, The Iranian film “The Salesman” won Best Foreign Feature. This was directed by Asghar Farhadi, who chose to sit out the awards in protest of Donald Trump’s aggressive vetting of foreign travel. In his absence a speech was read that was penned by the director. He described Trump’s policy as “inhumane”. Then we were delivered this nugget: “Dividing the world into the “us” and “our enemies” categories created fear.”

Such a quaint moment — Americans being lectured about human rights, from someone ensconced in the human-rights-violating enclave of Iran. I guess when Iran pledges to eradicate the state of Israel, they do not view them as an enemy? But, this would not be the Oscars if the air was not thick with obliviousness. ...

When presenting the award for Best Animated Film actor Gael Garcia Bernal took the moment to pontificate on immigration, of course. “I’m against any form of wall that wants to separate us,” he said receiving applause from many who live in mansions behind security fences and privacy walls. Bizarrely he also had declared that he is “a migrant worker”.

He travels to various countries to work on film sets. This makes him a migrant worker. Let that soak in for a moment. ...

Read the entire article at RedState

[mountaineer]

 That's a shame.

February 27, 2017 6:26am PT by Michael O'Connell
TV Ratings: Oscars Drop Again in Early Numbers

 The longest Academy Awards telecast in a decade culminated in a surreal mix-up over the best picture winner.

A long and eventful 89th Academy Awards continued the ABC telecast's recent downward ratings trend.

Early numbers have the lengthy show off 4 percent from comparable stats in 2016, averaging an overnight 22.4 rating among metered market households. That measurement, courtesy of Nielsen, is shy of last year's — which saw its overnight score (a 23.4 rating) ultimately translate to 34.43 million viewers.

Sunday's Oscar telecast came in at a bloated three hours and 49 minutes, ranking as the longest in 10 years, but only those who stayed up past midnight for the announcement (and re-announcement) of this year's best picture caught the night's most memorable moment. The producers for La La Land were interrupted, mid-acceptance speech, when it was revealed that Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty had named the wrong winner and that Moonlight had actually taken the night's top honor. No matter how many people watched the show, that will surely linger as the defining point of the 2017 Oscars.

Despite the long running time, there also wasn't any big dip towards the end. The telecast was relatively steady throughout, pulling the biggest showing during the 9 o'clock ET hour.   . . .

Rest of story at The Hollywood Reporter

[jmyrlefuller]

The most politically correct movie of all time.  IMHO
Story line, homosexual theme.

A classic case of Oscar bait, it would seem.

[XenaLee]

Hollywood (or rather, Hollyweird) is just showing who and what they are via the Oscars, these days.  It used to represent American values and pride.  They actually made flicks with value and meaning back in my parents' era.   Movies that resonated with most of the nation.  Movies that most Americans couldn't wait to pay to see.  It has been evolving and "fundamentally transforming" since that era into something my parents wouldn't recognize, if they were alive now. 

Bottom line.... the movie that won "Best Picture" is one that most folks here probably will never see.  Just shows how out of touch and tone deaf the liberals in Hollywood have become now.

[240B]

It makes sense Moonlight would get it. With all the complaining and protesting Black people have been doing about not being included, it makes perfect sense that the paper-White multimillionaire elitists in Hollywood would give them a pity/guilt award to prove that they are not racists.

This has nothing to do with the quality of the movie or anything else. It is purely an Affirmative Action award, meant to make all the mega-rich White Liberals feel good about how not-racist they are.

[dfwgator]

It makes sense Moonlight would get it. With all the complaining and protesting Black people have been doing about not being included, it makes perfect sense that the paper-White multimillionaire elitists in Hollywood would give them a pity/guilt award to prove that they are not racists.

This has nothing to do with the quality of the movie or anything else. It is purely an Affirmative Action award, meant to make all the mega-rich White Liberals feel good about how not-racist they are.

Yeah, but it's just like Whitey to mess up their moment.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

So stupid. The "not my president" bozos are the biggest roadblock to unity I know of.

[Hondo69]

Hollywood (or rather, Hollyweird) is just showing who and what they are via the Oscars, these days.  It used to represent American values and pride.  They actually made flicks with value and meaning back in my parents' era.   Movies that resonated with most of the nation.  Movies that most Americans couldn't wait to pay to see.  It has been evolving and "fundamentally transforming" since that era into something my parents wouldn't recognize, if they were alive now. 

Bottom line.... the movie that won "Best Picture" is one that most folks here probably will never see.  Just shows how out of touch and tone deaf the liberals in Hollywood have become now.

 

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[Frank Cannon]

“I became an artist and thank God I did, because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.”

That is a quote from Viola Davis's Oscar speech. This shows just how out of touch, delusional and irrelevant these people are. Hollywood is dying and dying fast. All the stuff that people talk about around the water cooler is TV based. Zombie and Mid-evil shows are all I hear about. Not any one of these shitty Oscar movies that no one went to see. 

[Sanguine]

“I became an artist and thank God I did, because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.”

That is a quote from Viola Davis's Oscar speech. This shows just how out of touch, delusional and irrelevant these people are. Hollywood is dying and dying fast. All the stuff that people talk about around the water cooler is TV based. Zombie and Mid-evil shows are all I hear about. Not any one of these shitty Oscar movies that no one went to see.

Now, Frank, you and I, not being "artists" can truly celebrate what it means to live a life.  Whatever the heck that means...