Host: Eddie Murphy




Two Words: Fat Suit

9/6/2011 7:54:40 PM

Two words : not watching.

9/6/2011 7:57:03 PM

You're not gonna fall for the banana in the tailpipe?

9/6/2011 8:50:08 PM

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"Actor Eddie Murphy has withdrawn as host of the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday, following producer Brett Ratner's resignation over an anti-gay slur. The news of Murphy's departure came Wednesday, a day after Ratner quit as producer of the Feb. 26 show. "I completely understand and support each party's decision with regard to a change of producers for this year's Academy Awards ceremony," Murphy said in a news release from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "I was truly looking forward to being a part of the show that our production team and writers were just starting to develop, but I'm sure that the new production team and host will do an equally great job." Murphy was considered an unconventional choice for Oscar host, hand-picked by Ratner to shake up the staid awards ceremony and draw in new - and younger - viewers. AMPAS President Tom Sherak said in a statement that the 42-year-old Ratner "did the right thing for the Academy and for himself." "Brett is a good person, but his comments were unacceptable,'' Sherak said. Ratner used a pejorative term for gay men during a question-and-answer session at a screening for "Tower Heist." He also discussed his sexual exploits on a recent episode of "The Howard Stern Show," leading to speculation that it wasn't just the slur, for which Ratner apologized, that had Oscar organizers worrying. In a written resignation statement released Tuesday, Ratner said he's "taking real action over the coming weeks and months in an effort to do everything I can both professionally and personally to help stamp out the kind of thoughtless bigotry I've so foolishly perpetrated." The director, whose credits also include the "Rush Hour" films, said that being asked to produce the Oscar show "was the proudest moment of my career," but he didn't want to distract from the academy "and the high ideals it represents.""

New host: Billy Crystal

11/15/2011 6:37:40 PM

You should've included the dateline of that article.

11/15/2011 6:47:28 PM

Eddie Murphy backing out is old. The academy going with ultra safe Billy Crystal is the news


but because you asked. Nov. 9th

11/15/2011 6:49:28 PM

that is also old news

11/15/2011 7:04:08 PM

Eddie Murphy.

Bring in younger crowd? Shake things up?


Does. Not. Compute.

11/15/2011 7:28:52 PM

Bring back Hugh Jackman.

11/15/2011 7:44:50 PM

Justin Timberlake should host.

I'm not kidding.

11/15/2011 8:36:20 PM

Just want to say that Brett Ratner SUUUUUUUUCKS.

Also, I have no idea what will win best picture this year because it has been a pretty terrible year for movies. Maybe The Descendants by default since it's Clooney and Alexander Payne?

11/16/2011 6:11:06 AM

Oh come now...you know a Clint Eastwood directed biopic with Leonardo DiCaprio will win by default

11/16/2011 10:09:09 AM

I doubt it

I've heard nothing but AWFUL things about that flick

11/16/2011 12:31:54 PM

Billy Who????

11/16/2011 12:37:11 PM

Tree of Life should definitely get a Best Picture nomination. Attack the Block deserves a slew of technical awards but almost certainly won't get them.

11/16/2011 12:43:02 PM

^Considering the fact that there are 10 nominations to dole out now instead of 5, Tree of Life will almost certainly get nominated. Hard to imagine the Academy giving the win to such an innately artsy film, but I'd be ecstatic if, for whatever reason, they did; it has easily been my favorite movie of the year thus far.

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"Oh come now...you know a Clint Eastwood directed biopic with Leonardo DiCaprio will win by default"

That's actually a good point. It wouldn't have anything to do with the actual movie, but I can see the Academy rewarding that duo in such a down year for film. I didn't hate J. Edgar, but I definitely didn't love it and thought that there were some major issues in terms of both direction (any amateur could've edited this movie down to a cool hour and a half and retained all the film's dramatic "importance"; I expected better from Eastwood, whom I actually really like as a director), acting (I liked Armie Hammer in Social Network and really wanted to like him in this, but he was absolutely atrocious as an old man), and script (Hoover's first words of the film are something like "NOW IT'S TIME TO TELL MY SIDE OF THE STORY" or something like that IIRC). So, yeah, overall a pretty poorly executed film. Somehow it isn't completely terrible, though.

[Edited on November 16, 2011 at 1:09 PM. Reason : t]

11/16/2011 1:08:29 PM

I would think that both Midnight in Paris and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close would get best picture nods as well. Also Elizabeth Olsen is this year's Jennifer Lawrence so I'd expect her to get a nod for Martha Marcy May Marlene.

11/16/2011 1:21:15 PM

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"Lots of "(Blank) got robbed" this year Where should we start? Albert Brooks in supporting (shame on you Academy for giving "Drive" just a sound nod), Michael Fassbender in leading actor, Tilda Swinton in leading actress, Thomas McCarthy ("Win Win") and Will Reiser ("50/50") in original screenplay, "Project Nim" in documentary (that deserves a "wow" too), Shailene Woodley in supporting actress and "Tinker Tailor" for art direction are just some of the omissions we can't wrap our heads around this morning. On the other hand…"

I agree with all of this except I thought Project Nim was lame.

1/24/2012 1:10:15 PM

Unbelievable that Extremely Loud and War Horse get best picture noms. Spielberg has the academy in his pocket.

I guess I hope the Artist wins a lot.

Disappointed at the lack of The Skin I Live In.

Disappointed at the lack of Ryan Gosling but not surprised, his 3 performances all took votes away from each other.

A JONAH HILL BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR WOULD BE AMAZING but Plummer's going to win.

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"it has been a pretty terrible year for movies."

Everyone keeps saying this. Disagree.

[Edited on January 24, 2012 at 2:16 PM. Reason : .]

1/24/2012 1:53:38 PM

Bad year for movies at the box office, but great year for quality films:

The Tree of Life
Melancholia
Take Shelter
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Drive
Moneyball
Certified Copy
Hugo
The Artist
Midnight in Paris
Meek's Cutoff
Weekend
The Descendants
Shame
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Hanna
Source Code
Warrior
Win Win
50/50

1/24/2012 4:02:43 PM

^Don't forget Bridesmaids!!

Melissa McCarthy for supporting actress and an original screenplay nomination for writers Kristin Wiig and Annie Mumolo

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"Dear God: Please don't let Melissa McCarthy win an Oscar for pooping in a sink."

oh how I hope so!

1/24/2012 4:26:13 PM

^^
You left off Beginners, which along with Midnight in Paris were the two best movies of the year.

1/24/2012 11:20:03 PM

"Academy Award-nominated actor Jonah Hill"

All joking aside, he was great in Moneyball.

1/24/2012 11:33:34 PM

Oh snap, I hope Rooney Mara wins Best Actress

1/24/2012 11:58:26 PM

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"You left off Beginners, which along with Midnight in Paris were the two best movies of the year."

uhhh, hey now.

1/25/2012 1:42:18 AM

Honestly...I felt like 2011 was mostly garbage when it came to film....the only one I really wanted to see was Melancholia

1/25/2012 1:43:53 AM

If the only film you wanted to see in 2011 was Melancholia then you basically weren't paying much attention.

1/25/2012 2:59:44 AM

Kirsten Dunst's character really annoyed me in Melancholia

1/25/2012 11:35:51 AM

say what you want about the Tree of Life's story, but if this doesn't win best cinematography something is wrong...

i had the pleasure of watching this film on Blu-Ray on a 64 inch top of the line plasma and DAMN...even more impressive they shot it with only natural light

1/25/2012 11:36:01 AM

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""Academy Award-nominated actor Jonah Hill" All joking aside, he was great in Moneyball"

1/25/2012 11:52:00 AM

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"uhhh, hey now."

What?

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"Kirsten Dunst's character really annoyed me in Melancholia"

Was that an insult or compliment, because that's kind of what she was going for.

1/25/2012 12:58:26 PM

Rango should win for animated feature that movie was just bad ass

1/25/2012 1:56:55 PM

Tarantino's favorite films of 2011 (plus some other stuff):

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" 1. Midnight In Paris 2. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 3. Moneyball 4. The Skin I Live In 5. X-Men: First Class 6. Young Adult 7. Attack The Block 8. Red State 9. Warrior 10. The Artist / Our Idiot Brother (tie) 11. The Three Musketeers Others he liked (no particular order) 50/50 Beginners Hugo The Iron Lady Carnage Green Hornet Green Lantern Captain America The Descendants My Week With Marilyn Fast Five Tree Of Life The Hangover Part II Mission Impossible 4 The Beaver Contagion The Sitter War Horse Nice Try Award Drive Hannah Drive Angry Real Steel Best Director Pedro Almodovar Bennett Miller Woody Allen Jason Reitman Michel Hazanavicius Best Original Screenplay Midnight In Paris Young Adult Red State Attack The Block Our Idiot Brother Beginners Best Adapted Screenplay Moneyball The Skin I live In Carnage Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes Hugo X-Men: First Class "

http://www.tarantino.info/2012/01/14/exclusive-quentin-tarantinos-favorite-films-of-2011-more/

1/25/2012 2:43:08 PM

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"What?"

I was saying hey now as an exclamation of my disagreement.

^It's an interesting list. I highly disagree with a lot of it but it's interesting.

And I'm glad he included The Sitter.

[Edited on January 25, 2012 at 3:12 PM. Reason : .]

1/25/2012 3:11:19 PM

Oh my bad. Those are two outrageous choices.

1/25/2012 7:46:32 PM

Ok

1/25/2012 10:33:34 PM

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""Academy Award-nominated actor Jonah Hill" All joking aside, he was great in Moneyball."

I'm not saying he didn't do a good job...but he played about as un-complex a character as you could get. I don't think you can say a job was "great" unless it was slightly difficult.

1/26/2012 8:25:10 AM

He was a baseball Ast GM that graduated from Yale. How much more difficult can you get?

1/26/2012 8:57:52 AM

He played a computer nerd. That's it. Not difficult. He already looked like someone who averages over 200+ posts a day on TWW.

[Edited on January 26, 2012 at 9:15 AM. Reason : .]

1/26/2012 9:14:38 AM

He did an adequate job in his role, but was not an award winning performance.

1/26/2012 9:36:29 AM

I saw Moneyball last night, good stuff.

Jonah Hill was OK but most of his performance just seemed like blankly staring at things.

Brad Pitt was good. Better than Descendants Clooney

1/27/2012 4:01:52 PM

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"He played a computer nerd. That's it. Not difficult. He already looked like someone who averages over 200+ posts a day on TWW."

As much as I'm trying to avoid the, "Oh yeah, if it's so easy, let's see you do it" argument, playing someone completely pedestrian can be very difficult.

For instance, I'd challenge most people to convincingly act like themselves while working from a script.

1/27/2012 4:23:53 PM

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"For instance, I'd challenge most people to convincingly act like themselves while working from a script."

Most people aren't actors.

He was given a simple role and he nailed it. Move on. What's wrong? Jack Black beat you out for the pretentious music store clerk in "High Fidelity"?

1/27/2012 4:36:42 PM

We should probably rescind Kevin Spacey's Oscar for playing every suburban father ever, then.

1/27/2012 6:08:57 PM

American Beauty was vastly overrated.

1/27/2012 7:08:17 PM

So was Godfather I and II.

III was pretty good.

1/27/2012 10:37:45 PM

^ Wrong. I know it's the hippest latest thing these past few years to call The Godfather overrated, but it's simply not the case. No idea where it started...maybe that Family Guy episode where they're in the safe room?

...but I do agree III was okay.

1/27/2012 11:54:05 PM

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"He was given a simple subtle role and he nailed it."

1/27/2012 11:57:10 PM

^^
C'mon maaaaan.

1/28/2012 12:23:52 AM

next hey now will compare Good Will Hunting to On the Waterfront.

1/28/2012 12:53:09 AM