78th Annual Academy Awards

[BigTigLSU]

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LMAO.

people should be equally as mad that a film about a racist cop won.

I'm confused are you talking about Training Day cause Crash was far more complexed than just story about a racist cop.

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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... At least this year's show had upsets...

No kidding. Especially when you can walk around and say that 3-6 Mafia are Oscar award winners.




Maybe a #16 seed will finally beat a #1 seed. LOL

[Freelance]

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Crash was a decent movie, but Picture of the Year? C'mon, that overacted, poorly edited film?

Hardly in the same category as Capote or Walk the Line. Please.

[ZB9]

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Crash was a decent movie, but Picture of the Year? C'mon, that overacted, poorly edited film?

Hardly in the same category as Capote or Walk the Line. Please.

Crash was very good. I can see how it should win best screenplay, or best editing...but i dont know if it should have won best picture. However, imo it deserved to win moreso than a couple of other movies that were nominated with it.

[DGetz]

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Crash was a decent movie, but Picture of the Year? C'mon, that overacted, poorly edited film?

Hardly in the same category as Capote or Walk the Line. Please.

Kind of ironic it won for best editing too then huh?

I was surprised, but not shocked that it won. I thought Brokeback was going to take Best Picture especially after Ang Lee won; I would have preferred Brokeback but I also feel once you get to certain point movies get so good you can't argue about which is better. I have no idea how to distinguish between Crash, Capote and Brokeback as to which was best, because they're all so good.

[guysmiley1463]

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Crash was a decent movie, but Picture of the Year? C'mon, that overacted, poorly edited film?

Hardly in the same category as Capote or Walk the Line. Please.

Poorly edited???? It was probably one of the best edited films...hence the irony of it winning for film editing also!

[videobastard]

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I like when jon stewart was joking about 3 6 mafia winning. The best picture nominations were weak this year. Crash was an average movie at best.

[VanCitySportsGuy]

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Of the big movies on the nominations for the big awards this year, I saw Walk the Line, Brokeback, Crash, Cinderella Man, Pride and Prejudice, and Junebug.

Is Junebug any good? I went to the video store yesterday and saw the DVD box but passed on the film.

[aukevin]

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Is Junebug any good? I went to the video store yesterday and saw the DVD box but passed on the film.

I'm not sure how to recommend it. It has the independent vibe to it. If you saw The Family Stone this past Christmas in the theaters, it has a similar general plot to it, but with that independent feel and not as funny. But it was a movie where the good son brings home his new NYC wife to his dysfunctional family. Junebug just offers way more real social and family problems than the comedic Family Stone did. This is a drama for sure, but it does have funny parts. Mainly the funny parts are just the movie's portrayal of this off-beat NC family and the town they live in and how they view. Amy Adams deserved her nomination for the movie, she is what really kept the movie going with her super-positive chipper self throughout the movie. All the actors did a good job in the movie I believe, but I not surprised that only Adams was nominated. I have a hard time recommending movies just because my movie taste is pretty broad I think, but also I realize that the mood a person is in determines how they enjoy a movie.

[VanCitySportsGuy]

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I'm not sure how to recommend it. It has the independent vibe to it. If you saw The Family Stone this past Christmas in the theaters, it has a similar general plot to it, but with that independent feel and not as funny. But it was a movie where the good son brings home his new NYC wife to his dysfunctional family. Junebug just offers way more real social and family problems than the comedic Family Stone did. This is a drama for sure, but it does have funny parts. Mainly the funny parts are just the movie's portrayal of this off-beat NC family and the town they live in and how they view. Amy Adams deserved her nomination for the movie, she is what really kept the movie going with her super-positive chipper self throughout the movie. All the actors did a good job in the movie I believe, but I not surprised that only Adams was nominated. I have a hard time recommending movies just because my movie taste is pretty broad I think, but also I realize that the mood a person is in determines how they enjoy a movie.

Sounds like a decent movie. There's a lot of other movies I want to see before this one though.

The Oscar ratings were solid:

8pm: 21.9
9pm: 21.8
10pm: 20.1

[Freelance]

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Poorly edited???? It was probably one of the best edited films...hence the irony of it winning for film editing also!

It came across to me like a really good power point presentation. I liked it, but it was way oversimplified, making LA look like Jackson, MS, in 1950.

[Jistic]

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Sounds like a decent movie. There's a lot of other movies I want to see before this one though.

The Oscar ratings were solid:

8pm: 21.9
9pm: 21.8
10pm: 20.1

Apparently the media sees it a little differently..

The Academy Awards were down 10 per cent from last year's ceremony, based on preliminary Nielsen Media Research ratings from the nation's 55 biggest markets. If the full national ratings follow suit, this year's ceremony would likely be the second least-watched Oscars telecast behind 2003, when Chicago won best picture.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar organizers' fears of weak television ratings for an Academy Awards lacking in star power and box-office hits may about to be confirmed.

Preliminary figures released by Nielsen Media Research on Monday for ABC's 3 1/2-hour Oscar telecast capped by the surprise Oscar triumph of racial drama "Crash" indicate a ratings drop of about 10 percent from last year's ceremony.

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Mixed reveiws on Stewart..

In one of the most scathing early reviews late on Sunday, Tom Shales of the Washington Post said he found it "hard to believe that professional entertainers could have put together a show less entertaining than this year's Oscars, hosted with a smug humorlessness by comic Jon Stewart, a sad and pale shadow of great hosts gone by."

Similarly, MSNBC contributor Andy Dehnart predicted that Stewart would end up ranked alongside last year's host Chris Rock and 1995's emcee David Letterman as a flop, based on what Dehnart perceived as a lukewarm reception from the audience of movie stars and studio executives in the Kodak Theater.

Critics Robert Ebert and Richard Roeper of the movie review TV show "Ebert and Roeper" also raved about Stewart's performance.

"He was smart, he was funny, he was as comfortable as anyone since Johnny Carson, and I think he could have the job for life, if he wants it," Ebert said. Roeper chimed in that he thought "the Carson comparison is perfect."

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[aholbert32]

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It came across to me like a really good power point presentation. I liked it, but it was way oversimplified, making LA look like Jackson, MS, in 1950.

That is a ridiculous comparison and even tacky for you, Erod.

[Blaxican8504]

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I think Stewart did a real good job hosting. I hope he does it next year.

[RubenDouglas]

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question...

why the hell do the go by the neilsen rating so many times.. its a flawwed system.. in my entire life, i have not known ONE FAMILY with that service. lol yet they use it like its ketchup.. something everyone has.

btw a 10% drop from last year, to 21.9, is about 2 million less "viewers". definetly cause for concern, in their regard