Oscar Roundup 2012: In My Day, the Show Was Hosted By IRVING Crystal

For those of you who didn't stay up for all 48 hours of the ceremony, this year's Oscar for Best Picture went to The Artist, which I think is a Mel Brooks movie starring Marty Feldman and Dom DeLuise. Other winners included Christopher Lloyd Guest Plummer, for Beginners, and Meryl Streep, for The Iron Lady. In the evening's biggest disappointment, Streep did not accept her award by announcing "I AM IRON LADY" and blasting some Black Sabbath.

Hugo won five Oscars, and a guy named Oscar won five Hugos. In one of the documentary categories, an Iranian movie defeated a Holocaust movie, which is just the sort of scenario Rick Santorum has been warning us about. And Billy Crystal, who was originally slated to appear this year in the In Memoriam montage, instead did an almost lifelike turn as the program's host. The Academy hopes to replicate this success next year, when it exhumes Bob Hope.

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[Evan from Evansville]

Did it!

[Evan from Evansville]

I'd like to thank myself for winning this prestigious award.

Thank you.

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No, wait. That's no good.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

...which I think is a Mel Brooks movie starring Marty Feldman and Dom DeLuise.

If only.

[Tulpa]

What are the odds that Celebrity Apprentice beat the Academy Awards in the ratings?

[A Serious Man]

Everyone seems pissed that Streep beat Viola Davis. Well it is only her third win and first since 1982. If they continue to nominate her and pass her up you could make a case that there's some anti-Meryl handucapping going on.

[Tulpa]

Or maybe she just sucks.

[Maxxx]

But her accents are soooo good.

[Montani Semper Liberi]

Actually, I thought Rooney Mara deserved the award out of those nominated.

[Zombie Jimbo]

Has she lost her mind
Can she see or is she blind
Can she walk at all
Or if she moves, will she fall

Sharon Osboure for Prime Minister!

[rather fart in a jar]

Heavy jars full of fart
Hard to move on the cart
We'll just pass them there
Farts in jars everywhere

Everyone wants them
And we just turn their lids

[Carmen D?az]

You, too, are tiresome.

[Amakudari]

So shucks, this thread ain't going nowhere.

Youtube claims man's homemade nature video violated a company's copyright because of birds singing in the background; the company, Rumblefish, claims to own his video's exclusive intellectual property rights to singing birds (via reddit)

[SugarFree]

It seems as if any organization, public or private, does evil on the margins once it gets large enough, whether by intention or inattention.

[Brett L]

Wait, you mean Google doesn't give a shit about people as long as its getting plenty of saleable data? Is nothing sacred? Is the Big Lebowski fiction?

[Amakudari]

Actually, in this case frivolous copyright claims mean that Google grants those claimants the right to place ads on another person's video, which means ad revenue for Google.

I'm actually totally cool with Google (and Facebook, etc.) gathering data on users. That's their business model, and it's implicit when you use one of their services. What's not cool is a system that, unintentional or not, abuses reasonable expectations to the benefit of the company.

[Brett L]

I get your point. The solution is to stop using their product. The whole "don't be evil" thing was always marketing bullshit. Well, it might have been true before they became a multi-billion dollar company, but abusive bureaucracy is syndromic of booming growth, IMO.

[RoboCain]

Doesn't it belong to the birds? They composed and performed those songs.

[R C Dean]

Work made for hire, dude. If Rumblefish recorded the birdsong while the birds were noshing on its birdseed, they're golden.

[rsi]

Sue the birds.

[CoyoteBlue]

I was voting for the Horse in the war pony show.

[Teebo Jones]

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[HeroicMulatto]

In one of the documentary categories, an Iranian movie defeated a Holocaust movie,

But...but...I thought JOOZ control Hollywood?

Oh right, self-hating ones.

[sarcasmic]

Is there any other kind?

[coopinde]

Is there really anyone who gives a flying fuck about this crap?

[Carmen D?az]

30 comments. So yes. Unless it's all narcissism.

[rst]

Thankfully I missed this entirely. Anybody flash any tits?

[ChrisO]

Rumors of a nip slip from Jennifer Lopez. I didn't notice it, though.

[Loki]

Didnt' watch the Oscars last night. If I wanted to watch some narcissistic self agrandizing twats bloviate for several hours about how great they are I'd have watched the SOTU.

[Carmen D?az]

Or come to this chat room.

[Greg]

The Iranian win was for "Foreign language film", not a documentary.

[Syd Henderson]

About a dozen friends of mine have seen it, and the only disagreement is whether it's the best foreign language film of the year or the best film, period.

There's been a surprising number of fine films coming out of Iran the last ten or fifteen years.

[Greg]

I have heard it's fantastic, I have been bugging my wife to see it. I actually think it might be available On Demand, if I can watch it at home then fuck her if she doesn't want to watch it.

[ChrisO]

Angelina needs to hit the In-N-Out Burger a little more often. Painful to look at.

[Proprietist]

Anyone seen "The Artist"? I'd never heard of it but the trailer looks awesome. For a silent film.