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Tuesday, March 25, 2003 My Brain is Oozing I have developed this reputation around the office as a human Internet Movie Database. I guess working for a year at a video-store will do that for you. But honestly I don't really have that many connections in my head... And speaking of movies, I now realize I haven't mentioned the Academy Awards yet. I have developed a major love-hate relationship with the Oscars in recent years. I find them overly political (with Hollywood insider politics,) self-congratulatory, and frustratingly predictable. it has nothing to do with the best films, but rather the movies that people liked most. And not even people people, but rather HW People. The telecast itself has become a tiring barrage of montages and truncated speeches. If it wasn't for TiVo I don't think I could sit through it at all. And yet I watch it EVERY year. It is such a big part of our culture, and even a bigger part of MY culture as a filmmaker. This year was pretty standard fare. The highlights were a few of Steve Martin's Jokes, notably the dig at HW star worship, and the statement, eluding to the flawed system of ballots and nominations, that Miramax didn't have to buy the oscar this year (as they did with "Shakespeare in Love",) because they actually made a good movie that everyone likes. And of course, Adrien Brody's heartfelt acceptance speech. I'm a little upset that Scorsese didn't get the statue, and I'm REALLY upset that Adaptation didn't win in the screenplay category. But hey. What can you do? posted by JMV | 3/25/2003 12:07:00 PM | |
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