Got Oscar Fever?

If not, there's something seriously wrong with you

Of all the films nominated, I pick LOTR...if only because that's the only film I've seen that's nominated

no, but i do have a fever...

i'm mad at the oscars because they didnt nominate 'party monster' for best costumes or best film...

I'll be watching the Oscars tonight, but I don't expect anything too entertaining or anything too suprising; LOTR will be a big winner, and Charlize Theron will win for best actress.

...and Janet Jackson will flash her boob again, ensuring that everyone forgets about her freak brother on trial :D

Ricky Gervais for The Office

My pick for best actor: Ben Affleck in Gigli (a tour de force performance as a supposed "actor")

Best Actress: Jennifer Lopez, Gigli

Best Supporting Actor: Those wacky kids in Eurotrip

Best Supporting Actress: Dame Judi Dench (she was in a film this year, surely. Maybe as one of the biker chicks in 2Fast2Furious)

Best Director: Stanley Kubrick (it's about time, people! )

Best Picture: From Justin to Kelly

I predict a perfect score at the office Oscar party this year :D

There is an "Oscar Party" at the movie theatre I work at tonight. All I know is that we've actually had to do a good deal of detailing and cleaning (something rare in that place), and yesterday there was an ass load of flowers. People kept asking if they were for a funeral

So it may be cool tonight, or a load of wank. Either way, should be interesting

Sean Penn deserves Best Actor for Mystic River,but hes too outspoken too get it. Mystic River deserves Best Film too.

Originally posted by Taboo # 7 My pick for best actor: Ben Affleck in Gigli (a tour de force performance as a supposed "actor")

Best Actress: Jennifer Lopez, Gigli

didn't they already receive an 'award' for their performances :D

Originally posted by Geri > Originally posted by Taboo # 7> My pick for best actor: Ben Affleck in Gigli (a tour de force performance as a supposed "actor")

Best Actress: Jennifer Lopez, Gigli

didn't they already receive an 'award' for their performances :D No, that was a "reward" for their capture.

Originally posted by Aleph ... and yesterday there was an ass load of flowers.

Is this a technical measurement for an amount of flowers? And if so, does Morrissey know about it?:)

In fact, could you use it for anything else? For instance: "How big are New Order in ass-loads?"

Over to you Garymac...

Originally posted by death of art In fact, could you use it for anything else? For instance: "How big are New Order in ass-loads?"

That should be an easy calculation, but it all depends on the conversion factor. How many fathoms in an ass-load?

Originally posted by Jeff Tomlinson no, but i do have a fever...i'm mad at the oscars because they didnt nominate 'party monster' for best costumes or best film...

Yes, the film wasn't bad. The costumes were fairly good and it was fairly amusing (and I was not on anything), although not exactly a contender for best picture.

Originally posted by Geri > Originally posted by Taboo # 7> My pick for best actor: Ben Affleck in Gigli (a tour de force performance as a supposed "actor")

Best Actress: Jennifer Lopez, Gigli

didn't they already receive an 'award' for their performances :D Yeah. Both received a Razzie.

I'm in the middle of watching and the only thing that is keeping me from chaning the channel is Billy Crystal; he has done a great job at hosting so far. And as predicted, LOTR has gobbled up everything so far.

Originally posted by Spotnick 8 so far, and the big ones are not even up...Quebec is 0-1 yet, the song of the Belleville Triplette didn't win...Now is the big one.. will we win? ;)

yes you did

LOTR got 11 oscars; is it just me, or is LOTR glaringly not deserving to be tied with Ben Hur and Titanic as the most oscar award winning film in history.

Have yet to see LOTR or Titanic. Vaguely remember Ben Hur. Probably will never see Titanic.

LOTR whats all the fuss about

looking at the films that won I discovered why I did not go to the threatre last year--too fucking depressing or boring.
Mystic River?? Fuck that, Dead Man Walking was bad enough, really Sean, whatever happened to Spicoli??

Lost in Translation--total bore, I never finished it, I even like The Razor's Edge but this film was pointless.

Monster??? How many ways can we make a film about a serial killer??

I probably will rent Cold Mountain.

I tried to convince my kids to buy the LOTR dvd set with their Christmas money but they saw right through that. Maybe if there is nothing else to rent and I have 10 hours to kill....

My dvd player has Adaptation and Secondhand Lions. Both great flicks from the previous year.

Best actor should have been Gollum / Smeagol, that pale little monster in LOTR (which is not such a masterpiece anyway, it's the average fantasy pagan epic, just well directed), I find him one of the best designed charachters ever, the way he moves his eys and mouth is so expressive, amazing really... These pictures give only an idea of what we saw on the screen.

I thought Steve Martin did great the two or three times he's hosted, but Crystal was a welcome return and kept the tremendously unfunny Whoopi from hosting.

I was rooting for Bill Murray to win, not so much for his performance in LIT (which I still haven't seen, due to the video store's one copy always being gone) but because of the criminal oversight of his not getting it for Rushmore. But Sean Penn and Tim Robbins were fun to watch in light of the five-second delay (you just know the right-wing muthafuckas were hoping those two would pull a Michael Moore, but they didn't), and I'm glad LOTR pulled a hat trick and got all 11 (pardon me for saying so, but Titanic didn't deserve a single Oscar, and Ben-Hur maybe for Chuck "Damn Dirty Apes" Heston but that's about it)

i was just amazed that sean penn showed up. was this the first time he'd been at the oscars?