"And the Oscar goes to ... Kevin Costner for Dances with Smurfs in Space!"
Posted on 04/13/2010 3:27:22 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
Sigourney Weaver has launched a blistering attack on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, saying James Cameron didn't win the Oscar for Best Director because he "didn't have breasts."
Outspoken "Avatar" star Weaver said she believed Cameron -- who lost out to his ex-wife, "The Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow -- didn't win because the academy wanted to make history by naming its first ever female Best Director.
"Jim didn't have breasts, and I think that was the reason," Weaver told Brazilian news site Folha Online over the weekend. "He should have taken home that Oscar
In a stunning rebuke hinting at frustration in the "Avatar" camp -- who applauded gracefully when "The Hurt Locker" also took the Best Picture Oscar -- Weaver added, "In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw."
LOL LIB FIGHT!
I don’t recall her saying something like that in November 2008.
I suspect Avatar did not win because Jim is a little “jerky” and the movie was just popping special effects eye candy for the youths. Hollywood probably liked the message and agenda of the movie though. Yes Ben Hur had a great story and well as being a big production.
It never occurred to her that it wasn’t the best movie?
"And the Oscar goes to ... Kevin Costner for Dances with Smurfs in Space!"
Speaking of Oscar winners, I watched “Marty” the other night on AMC. A movie that would no doubt never get made these days. CGI and 3-D does not equal good film-making.
Sigourney Weaver who?
Ahh,
..she musta had time off from Alien VXII
Ben Hur was also a story that was captivating from beginning to the end.
Avatar... a rehash theme played over and over again.
Another freeper who took his daughter to see it, asked her afterwards what she thought, and she noted (with an exceptional display of insight) that "it was Pocahontas with blue people".
First thing that came to mind..Cowboys and Indians...
Dear Sigourney,
Neither do you (have breasts).
Regards,
nesnah
Movies used to go to the one with the biggest box office take, now it is liberal politics. I think this movie won for three reasons. The female director, the portrayal of a solder as a bit mad who is in love with war, and they were told they had to vote for it if they wanted additional work in Hollywood by industry elites.
She’s too busy fighting against the ocean being turned to acid by global warming.
What worthless people. What a worthless self-indulgent arrogant award for absolutely nothing. Who cares! These stiffs are all morons.
Leave the Oscars alone bitch!
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