Best Actor Oscar 2002
Wed, 3 Apr 2002, 01:43 pmWalter Plinge19 posts in thread
Best Actor Oscar 2002
Wed, 3 Apr 2002, 01:43 pmRussell should have nailed that award but @!#$ does happen these days. If he'd taken the oscar this year instead of last for Gladiator (which he was awesome in - but at heart, was written as a very one dimensional role), the cherry would have been twice as sweet. Imagine that, three consecutive nominations and then on the final, falling ass-backward into Oscar Glory.
Oh well.
Who cares if he gets in a few biffs. Surely that doesn't draw away from his performance, which, lets face it, has raised the benchmark in the history of screen acting. He has every reason to demand respect. He is not paid twenty million a film to 'respect his elders' and be on his 'best behaviour'. He is paid to produce the exemplar final product - which there is no argument, he does.
But, on reflection, Brando did miss out on the Oscar for 'Streetcar.' So this isn't the first time that this has happenned.
Stay cool, everyone.
Oh well.
Who cares if he gets in a few biffs. Surely that doesn't draw away from his performance, which, lets face it, has raised the benchmark in the history of screen acting. He has every reason to demand respect. He is not paid twenty million a film to 'respect his elders' and be on his 'best behaviour'. He is paid to produce the exemplar final product - which there is no argument, he does.
But, on reflection, Brando did miss out on the Oscar for 'Streetcar.' So this isn't the first time that this has happenned.
Stay cool, everyone.
RE: Pushing the Envelope Please
Sun, 7 Apr 2002, 02:03 pmWalter Plinge
Hi buddy!
I'm surprised to hear that your perception of the Oscar "process" is as if that is a comitee of scientists trying to give an award, which makes more sence I guess, than a bunch of people who are deeply influenced by politics and commercialism. Most of the members are American and all of them surely represent high society. That's why it doesn't surprise me that it took them so long to finally give an award to black actors. The jury that you are talking about is the same that spied to authorities and put famous actors on trial in the 60's and accused them for being communists, &tc. Art is the most relative and subjective of all human activities and it is likely to be more(subjective) brilliantly achieved by some guy born and raised in the jungle, than in Hollywood. As far as the awards for International movies are concerned, I bet that must be the ugliest process of all, for instance let me predict that after all the @!#$ happening between US and Arabs, they(Arabs) are never going to get an award, no matter how good their films are. Therefore I recommend that it would be better if those films were subject to the judgement of our own little worlds, instead of letting others judge for us.
As far as Russell Crowe is concerned, I would rather imagine him running a Kebap Shop than being an actor, although I have to admitt that I rarely change my opinion, as I did when I watched "A Beautiful Mind".
Cheerz
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