Posted on 11/11/2018 6:44:09 PM PST by EdnaMode
Filmmaker Michael Moore was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award, while Won’t You Be My Neighbor won the Best Documentary and Best Director categories at the third annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, held last night at BRIC in Brooklyn.
Robert De Niro presented the award to Moore right before rushing off to appear on SNL, calling him “a true, true American hero … one of the greatest truth- tellers in this country right now.”
Moore used his acceptance speech to finish his 2003 Oscar speech for Bowling for Columbine. At that ceremony, he had been pulled off the stage and was not able to finish his planned speech.
“Fifteen years later now tonight, we are not only still at war, but we have a president who has declared war on our democracy and war on us,” Moore said. “Keep picking up those cameras, everyone here in this room, because the people gathered here tonight, you may be America’s last line of defense and hopefully the first line of rebuilding this country that he is currently destroying.
“I encourage anyone watching at home tonight in the Gary, Indianas of America, in the Camden, New Jerseys, in the San Ysidros, in the East St. Louises and, yes, the Flints and Detroits and the Pontiacs and the Dearborns to pick up a camera and fight the power, make your voice heard, and stop this senseless war.”
Morgan Neville won the Best Documentary and Best Director award for his Mr. Rogers documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, said he was “just so happy people have responded so well to it and let’s hope all of us together can bring some more positivity and civility and understanding and truth into the world.”
ulia Cohen and Betsy West, the directors of RBG, the winner for Best Political Documentary, started off their acceptance speech with a medical update about Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
“I’d like to interrupt this speech with a medical report. As many of you know, Justice Ginsburg fractured three ribs a few days ago, and I hope you also know that she is out of the hospital and we can report from her family that she is feeling better and eating voraciously.”
Really, who cares.
A circle jerk composed entirely of jerks.
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What is a San Ysidro,
For 200 Doughnuts, Alex.
Why does this 2003 Mike Moore speech keep getting posted here? This is at least the third time I’ve seen it up within the last week. Is it especially significant?
They just never get tired of giving themselves awards, do they?
Nope.
He used his Oscar speech to attack George W. Bush. Even a lot of the people in the audience were shocked. Guess he’s trying to relive the moment now.
San Ysidro is the neighborhood of San Diego which is right on the Mexican border.
He probably was making a reference to illegal immigration by mentioning San Ysidro
Sunny Sidro...Sunny Mexico...what’s the difference?
The event, which was attended by a circle of jerks, was followed by a circle jerk.
Liberals never tire of giving each other awards. What a yawn.
>>“Fifteen years later now tonight, we are not only still at war,
Lardass didn’t say sh!t against war for 8 of those 15 years.
and the Orlando Pulse shooter was a bisexual jihadist who was an irate Obama voter who was upset about Obama’s use of drone strikes against muslim nations.
Where’s Mikey’s movie about that? Rampage killing, war. Wrong political party?
fake award for a fake documentary filmmaker.
An aside here, I came across several Youtube videos and then went to the Youtube website run by "Midnight's Edge', a fan site of and for SF media. They have a pretty good case on how Hollywood PC has had a strong & deleterious financial impact on both the Star Trek and Star Wars franchises. Gee, fans do have a right to NOT GO to where Hollywood wants to lead!
“Robert De Niro presented the award to Moore right before rushing off to appear on SNL, calling him “a true, true American hero … one of the greatest truth- tellers in this country right now.”
He may be a great actor on screen, but off screen he’s a twisted moron.
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