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Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:44 am
by Big Magilla
Sonic Youth wrote:So, I would like to know if anyone here saw La La Land win Best Picture, and then immediately turned the set off.
I almost did, but decided to leave it on while I went to the bathroom first.
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:39 am
by OscarGuy
Other than this, how many other times has the wrong envelope been given. Someone said Sammy Davis Jr. got the wrong envelope sometime back in the 1960s.
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:38 am
by Aceisgreat
Spotlight, Moonlight...
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:35 am
by Sonic Youth
So, I would like to know if anyone here saw La La Land win Best Picture, and then immediately turned the set off.
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:29 am
by nightwingnova
Largest sign that the Academy membership is now much more sophisticated.
11 years ago, they couldn't award best picture to the much more vanilla Brokeback Mountain.
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:29 am
by Big Magilla
dws1982 wrote:I will say, and then I have to go to bed, that I don't that the parties involved could've handled that with more grace or class.
Agreed.
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:28 am
by Big Magilla
inky wrote:Reminds me of the Oscar Ceremony scene in Naked Gun 33 1/3 ...
Reminds me of the myth perpetrated by Rex Reed that Maria Tomei really didn't win for
My Cousin Vinny.
For a moment I thought maybe Beatty and Dunaway couldn't read the card and were winging it.
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:26 am
by dws1982
I will say, and then I have to go to bed, that I don't that the parties involved could've handled that with more grace or class.
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:23 am
by Sonic Youth
This was actually quite a flop for La La Land. 14 nominations and it couldn't win Best Picture? And this just felt cruel, having it snatched out of its hands like that. And I don't mean metaphorically.
Can't they be co-winners?
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:17 am
by inky
Reminds me of the Oscar Ceremony scene in Naked Gun 33 1/3 ...
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:16 am
by Aceisgreat
Too bad something like that didn't happen in the general election...
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:14 am
by mlrg
greatest wtf moment ever
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:14 am
by inky
So this is a four-year streak: Both Independent Spirit Awards & Oscars agree with the Best Picture winners!
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:14 am
by Heksagon
Oops
Re: 89th Oscars: Best Picture
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 12:13 am
by Sonic Youth
You know what sucks about the Academy Awards lately? There are no surprises anymore.