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smellykellyjay:
--- Quote from: BelAir on February 24, 2008, 10:14:19 pm ---Yes, that song made me wish they'd ix-nay the category.
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Remember back in the day when you had heard three or four of the songs before, even if you hadn't seen the movie? Of course, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" was once nominated in this category. That alone makes me a non-supporter.
I think the Academy has changed the rules for this category in the last few years to prevent songs that were barely featured in a film from getting a nomination and possibly winning. I also think that's why none of the original songs from Bbm were nominated, because they didn't meet the criteria. It was a disappointment to me, as I was hoping "I Don't Want to Say Goodbye" to at least get a nomination and wanted to see if performed live.
--- Quote ---The Walking Tall dude? Really??
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Do you mean Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock? No worse than Jessica Alba in my mind. Actually, I like the looks of him. He looks like he tastes good.
smellykellyjay:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on February 24, 2008, 11:29:58 pm ---They always do. They always announce them in the same order every year.
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I've been watching the Oscars since I was, like, three, and I think the earlier announcement of Best Actress is recentish, that it used to be one of the last awards given out. Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Picture, the big four, used to be the last handed out. I thought they moved it on up (along with Best Supporting Acting awards years earlier), spreading them out through the ceremony, because they wanted people to watch the whole show and not just the last half hour or so to see the big uns.
opinionista:
I just realized that I guessed she'd win.
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,17423.0.html
Marion Cotillard
As Edith Piaf
serious crayons:
Here's a Slate discussion of Oscar fashions. I've excerpted part in which they discuss the preponderance of black (and red).
http://www.slate.com/id/2185033/nav/tap3/
--- Quote ---Oscar Fashion Report Card
Why so many black dresses? And which ones were best?
By Amanda Fortini and Julia Turner
Posted Monday, Feb. 25, 2008, at 4:50 AM ET
Julia Turner: Amanda, thanks for joining me once again to discuss this year's Oscar frocks. I was going to start by asking you who had the best dress, but we can narrow it down a bit tonight: Who had the best black dress, and who had the best red one?
Amanda Fortini: I think I counted nine black dresses.
Julia: At least! Ellen Page, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Garner, Laura Linney, Hilary Swank, Penelope Cruz …
Amanda: Tilda Swinton.
Julia: Yes! Even Little Miss Once. And in red we had Anne Hathaway, Katherine Heigl, Helen Mirren, Miley Cyrus …
Amanda: … Ruby Dee, Heidi Klum, Julie Christie. There was quite a divide. One group seemed to be paying homage to this somber moment we're in, and one group seemed to be attempting a celebratory mood.
Julia: Do you think the preponderance of black had anything to do with the writers' strike?
Amanda: I think so. There has been so much fallout, not just for the writers but for everyone in the industry, and so I guess it seemed a moment for respect. There was an almost funereal aspect to much of the garb—well, off-the-shoulder looks excepted.
Julia: Right. They all seemed to be in mourning, except that in Hollywood, mourning includes sequins and marabou.
Amanda: And then there was the opposite approach: Let's celebrate the end of the strike! In bright red! The color seemed a very deliberate effort to brighten things up.
Julia: Or maybe it was Reds red: Cheers to those commies in the unions!
Amanda: Don't you wonder, though, how it comes to be that practically everyone wears red? Who says, This year, girls, it's red! Why not bright green or royal blue?
Julia: I know! Poor Amy Adams didn't get the memo.
Amanda: And yet I liked her dress. It was Cameron Diaz who looked like she was of another moment. Blush felt out of place—like it belonged to a more carefree, innocent time.
(continues ...)
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oilgun:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on February 25, 2008, 11:44:14 am ---Here's a Slate discussion of Oscar fashions. I've excerpted part in which they discuss the preponderance of black (and red).
http://www.slate.com/id/2185033/nav/tap3/
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Looks like Marion Cotillard was the style winner of the night with her J-P Gaultier "explicit mermaid" dress and I have to agree. I hated those god-awful black frocks it felt like a Victorian funeral or something.
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