Hunh. I don't know why, but I thought they were going to do more of a tribute to Heath instead of tacking him on the end like that. :(
Gads, that music was from the "Brokeback" trailer. I was crying just from that. :'(
OK, who wants to start the Daniel Daniel Daniel thread? ;D ;D ;D
yeah, you can count me in the "felt gipped" category...
:(
I would've liked to have heard his voice.
(Is it too small of me to say: take THAT Philip Seymour Hoffman! Hah!)
Daniel Day Lewis is making up for it.
Heaven bless him for turning his acceptance speech into such a lovely, heartfelt tribute.
“Heath Ledger gave it to me,” he said. “We wanted to follow him and yet we were afraid to follow him.”
“In Brokeback Mountain, he was unique. He was perfect. The scene in the trailer at the end of the movie was as moving as anything we have ever seen. I‘d like to dedicate this award to him.”
I don't have a television, but I saw this on the web:
From The New York Times Weblog
The Carpetbagger by David Carr
http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/ (http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/)
January 27, 2008, 10:03 pm
Aiming Point
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/01/28/arts/28sag.3373.jpg)
In the least surprising win of the night, Daniel Day-Lewis was named the best leading actor in a dramatic role. He was halting, smashing and effecting in receiving the award. Instead of merely saying he was humbled, he clearly demonstrated. “It has always been the work of my fellow actors, including my fellow nominees, who have given me a sense of regeneration.”
“Heath Ledger gave it to me,” he said. “We wanted to follow him and yet we were afraid to follow him.”
“In Brokeback Mountain, he was unique. He was perfect. The scene in the trailer at the end of the movie was as moving as anything we have ever seen. I‘d like to dedicate this award to him.”
(Is it too small of me to say: take THAT Philip Seymour Hoffman! Hah!)
“Heath Ledger gave it to me,” he said. “We wanted to follow him and yet we were afraid to follow him.”
“In Brokeback Mountain, he was unique. He was perfect. The scene in the trailer at the end of the movie was as moving as anything we have ever seen. I‘d like to dedicate this award to him.” [/b]
But it sounds as though DDL more than made up for it. Heartfelt respect from an admirer of Heath's work, from someone who hadn't even known Heath personally... what's Tolkien's line about the praise of the praiseworthy again? (Meryl? Mikaela?)
Spoken by Faramir: "The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards."
Damm now i'm crying all over again.
Heaths pic was the last one on before commercial.
DDL acceptance speach! Thank you BayCityJohn for posting this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WIZ1cIxrrw
Faramir. That's it. Thanks, Meryl.
(Shit. Now I'm wishing that I could see Heath play Faramir. Dear brain: stop it, ok? Just stop.)
I'm guessing that we now know at least one person who voted for Heath for the Oscar two years ago...
thank you thank you thank you thank you...
my whole existence is somehow validated... (at least my whole zombie existence of this past week)
During the awards show religious protesters gathered across the street from the Shrine Auditorium, toting signs that read, "Heath's in Hell," a reference to his "Brokeback Mountain" role in which he portrayed a gay cowboy.
Did ya'all see this clip of DDL on Oprah?:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/25/daniel-daylewis-breaks-d_n_83238.html
Daniel Day Lewis is a very fine actor in his own right, very much in the same mold as Heath. He shuns Hollywood and publicity, he lives in Ireland and works as a carpenter between acting jobs and is very picky about his roles.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
The Crucible
In the Name of the Father
The Age of Innocence
The Last of the Mohicans
Gangs of New York
A Room with a View
My Beautiful Laundrette
I believe they would have been friends as well. Those heart felt comments coming from him are a treasure.
DDL acceptance speach! Thank you BayCityJohn for posting this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WIZ1cIxrrw
A very heartfelt thank you to Eric for posting and to John for putting it on youtube. Being European, I have no other choice than to hope someone will put it online.
(I would also like to see the memorial sequence, so if anyone comes across it, please post the link here.)
DDL is my hero today. I'm so thankful to him for this. It really means a lot, I think to all of us.
Here's a link to a clip of the "SAG In Memoriam" for those who'd like to see that.
I actually liked the way they'd handled that - the clip of Heath they used too. Ennis's expression there is the kind of stunned, sad and worried disbelief that it is so easy to relate to just now...
Thank you, Bay City John, Eric, and Mikaela for the links.
I feel that we are Daniel Day-Lewis in that we didn't "know" Heath, but have deeply admired his work and his humanity.
DD-L is a class act and did a beautiful, selfless thing. How touching of him to dedicate his award to Heath.
I think whenever I see him in a film I will feel a twinge of pain and sadness.
OMG, Daniel Day Lewis is my hero! :-* :-* :-*
Now I'm actually hoping the Oscars will be televised, so he can win and do it again.
I hope the Oscar votes are in, or I wouldn't put it past various Academy morons to vote for someone else just so he won't win and therefore can't do it again.
>:(
If they do that, we'll have yet ANOTHER reason to boycott the Oscars!
From everything I read, DD-L seems to have "a lock" on the Best Actor Oscar. I suspect Julie Christie will win for Best Actress (same as the SAG). However, I hope Cate Blancett gets Best Supporting Actress for I'm Not There. I thought she was excellent.
The OSCARS? That still comes on?? ;)
As for having a lock on an Oscar, well... didn't Brokeback have that until very late in the process, 2 years ago?
We should send our thanks to Daniel Day Lewis, Ryan Gosling, Cate Blanchett and whoever else helped in keeping Heath's memory alive.
We should send our thanks to Daniel Day Lewis, Ryan Gosling, Cate Blanchett and whoever else helped in keeping Heath's memory alive.
During the awards show religious protesters gathered across the street from the Shrine Auditorium, toting signs that read, "Heath's in Hell," a reference to his "Brokeback Mountain" role in which he portrayed a gay cowboy.
I would like get everyone of these people together in one room and.. love the hate right out of them...
(BTW, I hadn't put DD-L and My Beautiful Laundrette together. That's a movie that I haven't watched in a long, long time.)
Both My Beautiful Laundrette and A Room with a View opened weeks (if not days) apart in early 1986 in New York (View was in the Paris Theater across from the Plaza). Twenty-two years later, I cannot remember which one of the two films I saw first, but I do remember the 'O' I made with my mouth when, half-way through the second film, I suddenly figured out that the same actor playing 'Johnny' in Laundrette was also playing 'Cecil Vyse' in View.
O. M. Gawd, I thought, what an actor--
What's weirder (and sadder) is--those films were made in 1985, when Daniel Day-Lewis was--yes--28 years old.
Heath was 28.
(Both DDL and Heath were both born in April, too.)
I'm maundering. But you know what I mean, I think.
I would like get everyone of these people together in one room and.. love the hate right out of them...
Yes, I've been thinking the same thing. (Any sleuths have their addresses for sending them fan mail?)
We should send our thanks to Daniel Day Lewis, Ryan Gosling, Cate Blanchett and whoever else helped in keeping Heath's memory alive.
I've been searching in vain trying to find what, specifically, Cate Blanchett and Ryan Gosling did/said. I don't doubt it - I just like to read the tasteful and heartfelt tributes wherever I can find them. Thanks in advance.
From E! Online (http://www.eonline.com/redcarpet/detail/index.jsp?uuid=577336f7-0824-4c3c-b4e3-c3484f3b9bb5):
Backstage Report: The Battle Over Heath
3:45 p.m. PT: The SAGs honor Heath Ledger tonight. I trust and hope it'll be as heartfelt as Jason Sedillo's tribute.
I met Jason outside the Shrine, where I was interviewing a protester who was holding the cruelest sign I had ever seen. It read "Heath in Hell."
Sedillo stood beside the young woman, Jael Phelps, of the notoriously antigay Westboro Baptist Church, of Topeka, Kansas, with his own sign. It read "I'm sorry for them/R.I.P. Heath."
Sedillo was sorry. I was inspired.
On Friday night, Sedillo told me, he read that Westboro Baptist was planning to picket the SAGs, Heath and his work in Brokeback Mountain.
Right then and there in Fort Worth, Texas, where Sedillo serves as a church youth minister, the 30-year-old decided to plunk down $800, fly to Los Angeles and show up at the SAGs himself. With his own sign. To say he's sorry for something he wouldn't dream of saying himself.
To be honest, Sedillo's sign wasn't much of a sign—it was a little dry-erase board, and his message was scribbled in green ink. The passengers in the passing limos probably couldn't even see it.
"Here's a guy," Sedillo said of Ledger, "who didn't do anything but perform in movies."
But that was enough. As was Sedillo's sign.
I'd rather take my chances in a room full of rattlesnakes.
However, while I think I understand your desire to help them, Br. Patrick, I agree with Meryl. People need a reason to hate. Their reason, more than likely a good measure of homophobia blessed with more than a good amount of misguided ignorance mixed religious conviction, is one of the strongest kinds of venom (hate).We can't change them with love any more than they can change us with hate.
But we can wisely accept them as they are, like accepting rattlesnakes. Most earthly creatures, except those that eat them, stay out of striking range and move quickly away without hesitation.
I love it when I am given a job!
Cate Blanchett
Wolf-Kasteler Public Relations
335 North Maple Drive
Suite 351
Beverly Hills, CA 90210-3857
USA
or:
Cate Blanchett
RGM Associates
PO Box 128
Surry Hills, NSW 2010
Australia
Ryan Gosling
1118 15th St #1
Santa Monica CA 90403
USA
or:
Ryan Gosling
c/o IFA Talent Agency
8730 Sunset Blvd.
Suite 490
Los Angeles, CA 90069
USA
Daniel Day-Lewis
c/o Gene Parseghian
Parseghian Planco LLC
23 East 22nd Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10010
USA
or:
Daniel Day-Lewis
William Morris Agency NY
1325 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10019
USA
Leslie
News Sleuth on the job!
Good job, Leslie!! And you're fast too!!
I've been searching in vain trying to find what, specifically, Cate Blanchett and Ryan Gosling did/said. I don't doubt it - I just like to read the tasteful and heartfelt tributes wherever I can find them. Thanks in advance.