Rehearsals

*shudder* This must be when all the nominees have to be up on stage for the award. Geeze, this is going to be so horrible.

PEACE, Mike

Oh no, I just realized that too. Gosh, don't do this to those people...


I mean, it is deeply embarassing to be standing in front of thousands of your peers and millions of viewers and be labelled the loser. Heck, I think even the winner would be embarassed.


On the other hand, it makes for great entertainment.


I'm not likely to watch though, hehe.

OSCAR DAY IS HERE!!!!



I wonder what Marty is going to be presenting. Best director or best picture perhaps? :razz:

Best Picture

The Aviator
Finding Neverland
Million Dollar Baby
Ray
Sideways

Like Highlander, "in the end, there can be only one."

Sideways

Bit of censorship news

February 27, 2005
Cut From the Oscars: Cartoon Characters' Sins
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER

OS ANGELES, Feb. 26 - ABC executives have forced Robin Williams to drop a comic song from the Oscars show that might well have proved one of the most political and racy numbers of the broadcast, despite the fact that the network and the show's host, Chris Rock, have been promoting the night as anything but tame.

Mr. Williams, the presenter of the Academy Award for best animated feature, decided last week that his one minute on stage would be a prime time to lampoon the conservative critic James C. Dobson, whose group Focus on the Family last month criticized the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants for appearing in a video about tolerance that the group called "pro-homosexual."

For a bit of material, Mr. Williams predictably turned to Marc Shaiman, the composer, whose oeuvre includes Oscar-night medleys for Billy Crystal and songs for shows like "Hairspray" and movies like "South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut".

Overnight, Mr. Shaiman and his partner, Scott Wittman, dashed off a mock exposé of the dark underbelly of cartoonland for Mr. Williams to deliver, over a gospel-music groove, as if he were a full-throated preacher inveighing against other newly-discovered sinners in the nation's midst:

"Pinocchio's had his nose done! Sleeping Beauty is popping pills!/ The Three Little Pigs ain't kosher! Betty Boop works Beverly Hills!"

The producer of the Oscars telecast, Gil Cates, urged Mr. Shaiman to make the bit "less political," Mr. Shaiman said, so he quickly removed any reference to Mr. Dobson's protests - and turned Mr. Williams into a fabulous, lisping character dishing up the latest juicy gossip:

"Fred Flintstone is dyslexic, Jessica Rabbit is really a man, Olive Oyl is really anorexic, and Casper is in the Ku Klux Klan!"

Officials from ABC's broadcast standards and practices office were not pleased. On Thursday, they detailed their objections.

Some lines were opposed for "sexual tone," as the ABC officials, Susan Futterman and Olivia Cohen Cutler, put it to Mr. Williams, Mr. Shaiman and Mr. Cates. These lines included "Chip 'n Dale are both strippers," "Bugs Bunny's a sexaholic," and "Josie and the Pussycats dance on laps."

In the end, however, the sexual references would have been allowed, a network spokesman said. But they held the line on material that they believed might be seen as glorifying drug use or offending Native Americans or disabled people.

Among other lines, they included "The Road Runner's hooked on speed" and "Pocahontas is addicted to craps."

On Friday, faced with rewriting or killing as many as 11 lines out of a 36-line piece, Mr. Shaiman said, he and Mr. Wittman refused, and Mr. Williams had to look for new material.

Mr. Williams, interviewed at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday, said he was disappointed.

"For a while you get mad, then you get over it," he said. "They're afraid of saying Olive Oyl is anorexic. It tells you about the state of humor. It's strange to think: how afraid are you?"

He added: "We thought that they got the irony of it. I guess not."

Prediction - The Aviator

Preference - Sideways

Preference
1. Sideways
2. Million Dollar Baby
3. The Aviator
4. Ray
5. Finding Neverland

Probability of Winning
1. Million Dollar Baby
2. The Aviator
3. Sideways
4. Ray
5. Finding Neverland

I believe M$B has this. Of course, I could be wrong.

Preference:
1. Million Dollar Baby
2. Sideways
3. Finding Neverland
4. Ray
5. The Aviator

Probability of Winning:
1. The Aviator
2. Million Dollar Baby
3. Sideways
4. Finding Neverland
5. Ray

I know, I know. I haven't seen The Aviator yet, but, I'm turned off by the idea of watching a man's downfall for three hours. Plus, I'm sick of Harvey. Let Scorsese have it, though.

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aviator
ray
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aviator
mdb
sideways
ray
neverland

Preference -
1. Million Dollar Baby
2. Sideways
3. Finding Neverland
4. Ray
5. The Aviator

Probability of Winning -
1. The Aviator
2. Million Dollar Baby
3. Sideways
4. Finding Neverland
5. Ray

Even though The Aviator isn't great, it's most likely going to win which is a real shame.

Preference -
1. Million Dollar Baby
2. Sideways
3. Ray
4. The Aviator
5. Finding Neverland

Probability of Winning -
1. The Aviator
2. Million Dollar Baby
3. Finding Neverland (for some reason, this movie keeps on winning polls when normal people are asked who they want to win, so I'd put it ahead of Sideways now)
4. Sideways
5. Ray

Preference
Million Dollar Baby
Sideways
The Aviator
Ray
Finding Neverland

Probability of Winning
Million Dollar Baby/The Aviator
Sideways
Ray
Finding Neverland

Prediction: The Aviator

Preference- Finding Neverland, as it's the only one i've seen

Million Dollar Baby because Clint was robbed last year!!!

Anybody know what time it starts in GMT?

Preference:
1. Sideways
2. Ray
3. Million $ Baby

I haven't seen Aviator or Finding Neverland, but I would not be upset if Aviator won either.

My 100% guaranteed Oscar Winner:
1. The Aviator

How the rest will finish:
#2. Million Dollar Baby
#3. Sideways
#4. Ray
#5. Finding Nemoland

What should have won, but wasn't nominated:
#1. Anchorman
#2. Super Size Me
#3. Napoleon Dynamite
#4. Collateral
#5. Garden State
#6. Paul Giamatti

What wasn't nominated (and rightfully so), and should never be mentioned again:
#1. Connie and Carla
#2. Chronicles of Riddick
#3. The Punisher
#4. The Big Bounce
#5. Around the World in 80 Days

I agree The Punisher isn't an Oscar worthy film, but it was good and being branded "never speak of it again" is too harsh.

I can't stop looking at this picture, they are so lovely. Imagine having sex with BOTH of those.....*DROOLS* hehe

Preference:
1. Million Dollar Baby
2. Sideways
3. Ray
4. Finding Neverland
5. The Aviator

Probability of Winning:
1. Million Dollar Baby
2. The Aviator
3. Sideways
4. Finding Neverland
5. Ray

Preference
The Aviator
Sideways
Million Dollar Baby/Finding Neverland
and way way way down there..
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Ray

Probability of Winning
The Aviator
Million Dollar Baby
Sideways
Finding Neverland
and way way way down there...
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Ray

PEACE, Mike

1. Million Dollar Baby
2. Sideways
3. The Aviator
4. Ray
5. Finding Neverland (no director, smallest box office, no chance))

Million Dollar Baby winning Best Picture? That would be so awesome. I'm getting CTV's Oscar Coverage. So excited!!!

*bump*

Could we sticky this?