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Grumpy young men will keep trying to tell you otherwise, but they're wrong. Academy Awards are fun. On average only one winner gets my vote of approval nowadays, still the ridiculous ceremony remains something to look forward to every year, if only to imagine how a bomb in the Kodak Theatre would change the world. A few improvements however: set up a decent live stream, try to cut down the amount of shots of Jack Nicholson acting cool, don't ever nominate Will Smith again, keep slowly increasing the input of foreign films, bring back Whoopi! One of the most enjoyable years was when I joined her radio channel, including a chatbox. She was just being one of the bunch, who happens to be famous, lovely. Here in Holland the broadcast starts at like 3am, only the real diehards stay awake for it, so you can imagine the cozy circumstances. Of course it's all nonsense, a prime example of sucking up, or as we say it in Dutch: sticking feathers up each other's asses. But it's one of the best guilty pleasures a movie fan can have, especially combined with predicting the outcome. Ever since I can remember I've been organizing Oscar pools, lately with some neat prizes largely financed by myself, because I enjoy it. Here are, according to American, British and French juries, major award winners:
Bet you didn't remember Seabiscuit received a nomination for best film. The licking of George Clooney's ass should stop, his Oscar for Syriana is the most ridiculous ever. Peter Gabriel had every right to refuse performing in a medley. Dresses are hardly ever beautiful. And here are some other totally unimportant thoughts I felt the need to share with you.
The key to having a good time with these ceremonies is indulging in voyeurism and useless statistics. I draw my line of personal acceptability at the biggest of them all and I never care who wins. Biggest advantage is the release/leaking of dvd screeners, given out to the happy elite who are allowed to vote. Apparently some of them have a computer too, so early winter probable nominees become available online. There's nothing like illegally watching politically correct films.
Paying visitors are just as valid as official jury jerkoffs, the more awards the merrier I say. And I just love to tear those little ballots, which tend to have way too few options, I want to vote between 1-20 and have optional space to leave notes about best actor, best actress and best kiss! So I'm not responsible for these festival audience awards:
Aren't these booooring lists, geez! Decent films all over the place, hardly any of them is exceptionally memorable, voting for future Oscar winners should be outlawed. I applaud unexpected crazy titles like The Wackness (and Grace Is Gone, well, more about that later, much later), films like that don't seem to be able to win in Rotterdam, we're so conservative here. In fact, whenever I visit this festival, many of my favorites usually end up rock bottom of the list, even if I rig the votings by rating higher than the truth. Jokes aside, of course overall quality at cultural and bloody expensive festivals is higher than at the MTV Movie Awards, but somehow I enjoy seeing Twilight win best picture of the year more than all pseudo-independent initiatives. Therefore we now dive headfirst into the wrongest list of them all: the moneymakers.
No one expected any film to beat Titanic this decade, and indeed it remains the highest grossing film ever, by far. On a side note, this list isn't adjusted for inflation. With it The Dark Knight would lead, ending up only 27th of all time though. Right now the second installment in the Twilight saga, New Moon is breaking records, so it might end up between all the Potters. And who knows, maybe James Cameron blows us away after all, but first signs for Avatar don't look very good.
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