Archive for Academy Awards
The Movie Mash Podcast: And The Oscar Goes To…
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Hey there Movie Mashers and welcome to the first Movie Mash Podcast! Today Matt and I run down all the important categories and nominations for Sunday’s Academy awards. We’ll give you our picks on who will win, but more importantly, who SHOULD win. All the big statues are up for grabs: Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Score, etc. Click play below to hear Matt and I break it all down for you. If you are interested in jumping to our thoughts on a certain nomination (i.e. Best Score, Best Actress), hit the jump to see a timeline of the podcast.
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MUST MASH: Academy Award-Winning Short Film, Logorama
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I am ecstatic to finally see and promote the Animated Short Winner from this year’s Academy Awards, Logorama. The 16-minute short is a cataclysm of thousands of current and former corporate cultural icons, mascots, and logos playing out in a quick and cliché narrative. But when I say cliché, this is a good thing.
Ben Stiller Shows The World His Na’vi Lingual Skills
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“Kin ta uuuna masupa kalosi ttttttt ssssssssmmmmmmpapapapa.” This was without a doubt the best moment of last night’s horrifyingly boring Oscar show. About mid-way through the awards, Ben Stiller came out on stage to present the Best Makeup category dressed up in full-on Na’vi makeup, poking fun of the blue aliens from Avatar. He then spouted complete gibberish, making fun of the fake Na’vi language James Cameron came up with for the film and hilarity ensued. I literally almost peed my pants and was on the floor laughing for almost 10 minutes.
Full Oscar Recap: Hurt Locker Wins Big, Avatar and Those Lovable Basterds Get Snubbed
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Where in the hell did this from? After getting no love from The Golden Globes or the SAG Awards, The Hurt Locker came out of left field to win six Academy Awards including Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow) and Best Picture. I thought it was a solid film, but NO WAY did it deserve Best Picture. Avatar and Inglourious Basterds were the only worthy nominees for the biggest award of the night in my opinion. I guess the Academy is still too conservative and/or short-sighted to give props to any film that wins big at the box-office.
82nd Academy Award Nominations Announced
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the nominees this morning live from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Anne Hathaway, who was nominated for Best Actress last year, and AMPAS President Tom Sherak presented the nominations. This is going to be very different than any other due to the decision by the Academy to expand the Best Picture category from five to 10 nominees. I talked about the Best Picture issue in great detail when the expansion was announced this past summer.
Inaugural Movie Mash Podcast: Oscars Will Now Feature 10 Best Picture Nominees
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Weeeellllll….Look who comes crawlin’ back. It took a little movie about a man dressed as a bat, trying to stop a psychotic clown, and another cartoon movie about a robot with a heart of gold to make Hollywood WAKE THE F UP! The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, “The Academy,” announced yesterday they are expanding the best picture nominees of the Academy Awards to 10 nominees, from the traditional five. This is, in my mind, and I think everyone else’s, an appeasement move to change the image of the Academy of being short-sighted and out of touch with the movie-going public, as it doesn’t USUALLY honor popular movies as best pictures.
