Posted on 11/15/2004 10:00:12 AM PST by jimbo123
Make no mistake: Michael Moore is seriously going to try to get his "Fahrenheit 9/11" nominated for Best Picture.
Moore was a guest last night at the premiere of Terry George's beautifully done "Hotel Rwanda," along with Daniel Day-Lewis, Susan Sarandon and Willem Dafoe.
The characteristically slovenly Moore was sans his trademark baseball hat and sported a great haircut as he stumped for Academy support.
"The screeners go out this week and we have a great idea for an Oscar campaign," Moore said. "Now you can make your vote really count."
The appeal is obviously to blue-state voters. Moore is counting on Academy votes coming mostly from California and New York — and wanting to make a statement about the election.
He said that the film has already sold about 4 million DVDs and taken in roughly $250 million around the globe, which is great for any film, but extraordinary for a documentary or non-fiction film. The total worldwide box office has hit $218 million.
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If the Academy even nominates F9/11, let alone votes for it as best picture, they're going to make the term "Academy Award" a biiger joke than, say, an MTV Movie Award.
Of which, this is neither.
I think they're going to see this as their big chance to make a "statement" about the election, though. But you're right. It will show them up as the isolated goofballs they've become.
Needs a "barf alert" on the title. ;)
Oh please let this win "Best Picture". Please please please please please please please....
I'd rather see "Team America: World Police" get it, especially since Moore blows himself up in that one.
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Stupid is as stupid does.
Moore has said, Americans are stupid. He is only trying to prove it in a public forum.
I think it is a good idea, the nomination; the mainstream people will be more enlightened as to what Hollywood and TV stands for.
POS, imho.
Actually I hope it wins, and wins big. It will simply confirm to the rest of the country just how clueless the "elites" are.
I can think of nothing that would result in a greater decline in the aggregate revenues of Hollywood.
I hope they do nominate it..and I hope it wins..we can then split the cultural divide wide open..
It's a gamble on Moore's part. By positioning himself for a Best Picture nod he took himself out of running for Best Documentary by doing so. By pushing for a Best Picture nod...he will possibly piss off actors and producers who could have gotten a chance for their own films to be in that spot.
Moore is taking a big gamble by doing this..of course The Passion of The Christ was and is easily the best film of the last year if not decade.
This is off-topic, but I thought you might find it entertaining.
Has anyone seen the picture of Dick Cheney on Wonkette today ?
It is the same one that was posted by a Freeper on Saturday night but was quickly pulled... you know the one I"m talking about - at the custard place.
I wish I had a link for this, but a few days ago on the Factor, O'Reilly had some hollywood types to discuss their effect on the election. It was stated that Moore was expecting a Best Picture for 911, when O'Reilly predicted a severe backlash. When asked about this, he repeated that if 911 even got nominated for Best Pix, there would be a major boycott of the film industry. I think we have our marching orders.
Let him have his precious little Oscar. Privately, he'll still be bawling his eyes out that his masterpiece couldn't give John Kerry the election.
The little creep rec'd his money. Now he wants recognition.
LOL! I was thinking the same thing when I read this article. It would send a loud death knell through the cocaine dens of Hollyweird. "You are irrelevant."
Right on - the more they use this kind of crap to define the Democratic party, the better for our side.
It was broadcast on Cuban TV so it is ineligible for an Oscar is what I heard. But I hope they nominate it so we can show them what we think of that. Do they really want to spit at over half of America
*** movie theaters don't take food stamps do they? ***
You know...
Over the years, lots of stupid, boring, and "artsy" films have won best picture in many cases. But in most of these, they ha some sort of redeeming quality- cinematography, acting, etc.
But in the case of MM's trash piece - there are no redeeming qualities - it's very amateurish in production, it has a poorly constructed "story line" and really has no other qualities that would qualify it for any sort of legitimate award. In fact, the only reason it made so much money is because of the timing of it - in the middle of a major political season.
It's a done deal. This will be Hollywood's response to the election, a raspberry for the red country from the "heart and soul of America"!
This is too easy,
now starts OUR oscar campaign to ADVERTISERS and studios.
How about anti-oscar parties where there will be no viewing of the Oscars?
The Passion of The Christ could, quite possibly, be the best movie of all time. And this comes not just from a biased/Christian point of view. The entire production from acting to cinematography, to the artistic eye, to just about any criteria usually used for inclusion in the Academy awards nominations.
AMPAS deserves this. Heh heh heh heh.....
'marching orders' received! Ban all things Hollywierd! I'm so THRU with celebrities and their big fat obnoxious drivel. Along with MSM blowhard anchors. (Praying for the left and east coasts to fall away and off of Jesusland.)
OK, here's the deal, Michael. You get a piece of gold-plated junk to put on the mantle and we get the rest of the country...
Is that OK with you?
Good, because it's fine with us!
George Will said recently he hoped the Academy awarded F/911 with the Oscar to publicly expose them for what they are. I concur.
Sounds about right to me. Just as his loathsome presence at both conventions certainly helped energize me and many others to get involved. I hope tinseltown enthrones him and rubs our collective noses in his armpit (echh! cough! gasp! may have overdone metaphor!) It is a long shot, given the circumstances, however.
It's a gamble on Moore's part. By positioning himself for a Best Picture nod he took himself out of running for Best Documentary by doing so. By pushing for a Best Picture nod...he will possibly piss off actors and producers who could have gotten a chance for their own films to be in that spot.
You can say that again, win, place or show he is going to make heap big enemies with this massive ego-gasm. A lot of his friends in hollywood are going to be mighty pissed.
But, Fat Bastard's antics aside, I can't wait for this Hotel Rwanda to play Peoria: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395169/usercomments. The true story of a popular Hutu hotelier in Kigali who, along with his Tutsi wife and children, calls in all his chits to take in a thousand Tutsi refugees and keep them safe during the bloodshed. According to the comments, the bloodshed takes place offstage, and it is harshly unsparing of the neglect of the UN and the Western Powers. Recalling that gripping PBS Frontline special on the subject, I wonder how the film makers do this without cutting in Good King Billy for his share of the blame.
I saw it. I think it's a colostomy bag or some other medical device. I don't think it is what everyone else thinks it is - nobody's built like that.
I thought it was maybe a wallet and a cell phone ? Anyone else see the infamous picture of Dick now up at Wonkette ?
I think AMPAS voters might be crazy enough to try this, but in the end they won't for one reason: money. If there is anything Hollywood really worships it's making money, and the prospect of a large-scale boycott by US moviegoers for all of 2005 over AMPAS nominating Fahrenheit 9/11 will temper AMPAS voters from doing this.
After all, they saw first-hand how a highly-successful campaign against The Reagans miniseries forced Viacom to show the miniseries on Showtime instead of CBS; CBS really feared a possible consumer boycott of the Super Bowl and Super Bowl advertisers back in November 2003.
Besides, someone else on this message thread mentioned that Fahrenheit 9/11's nomination could cause snubs of other Oscar contenders--and that will anger way too many people in the entertainment community to no end.
I never watch the Oscars, and never read anything about them the next day. I just don't care.
Well, it makes a good freak show :)
I think that pig might get upset to be compared to Michael Moore. (Sarcasm) Great picture though. Better looking also. LOL
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