Wednesday
Dec282011
This Just In... The Official Poster for Oscar's 84th
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 12:22PM Here he is, in all his shiny beauty and questionable* taste splendor...
"Life Camera Action... celebrate the movies in all of us" -- I'm not sure what this actually means but okay. I do like to live vicariously through movies, it's true.
* Forrest Gump, Gladiator and Driving Miss Daisy are films you want to remind me you loved more than everything else over the past three decades? And you want to compare them to Giant, Gone With the Wind, The Godfather and The Sound of Music? You're such an abusive lover... I give you so much attention, so much affection, everything! And then you slap me around carelessly with those naked gold hands and that frozen robotic face! You don't love me at all, do you, Oscar? [Weeping] You never did!
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Let's not forget they're lumping them in with Casablanca as well!
Not heinous, but it's pretty darn uninspired if you ask me. Totally get the call to nostalgia especially considering this year's line-up, but they could've done better.
are you two related. What's with all the "T"s :)
Platoon would've made us sad.
The Academy is lucky I was a baby when they gave Forrest Gump Best Picture instead of Pulp Fiction...consequences would have never been the same.
Nathaniel, your sentiment couldn't be closer to my own. It's one of my favorite annual traditions to hear people ask, "If you hate the Oscars so much, why do you talk about them so much?" I haven't found the answer.
Driving Miss Daisy was one the best choices for Best Picture ever. And Jessica Tandy's Best Actress Oscar, one of the most deserving of all time.
(had nothing else to do, so decided to troll)
why not -- points for honestly within paranthesis!
The random inclusion of "Giant," the only non-BP winner on the poster, is really odd.
Allow me to remind you, Oscar: you chose "Around the World in 80 Days" instead.
The inclusion of pictures from Driving Miss Daisy and Giant is strange for two different reasons.
Driving Miss Daisy isn't a iconic best picture winner. Giant isn't a best picture winner.
An okay poster overall. I've seen better and worse ones.
Ralph: Have they ever done a poster where they said: These...Were...Just...Nominees?
Ideal images for a plausibly deserving winner who just got nominated exclusive poster:
The Red Shoes
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
There Will Be Blood (It's iconic and well made, even if it offends me personally)
Fargo
Pulp Fiction
Citizen Kane
E.T.
Raging Bull
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
Network
Jaws
Barry Lyndon
Chinatown
The Conversation
A Clockwork Orange
Z
Butch and Sundance
The Graduate
Darling
Dr. Strangelove
12 Angry Men
Roman Holiday
A Place in the Sun
Sunset Boulevard
It's a Wonderful Life
Double Indemnity
The Social Network
The Magnificent Ambersons
I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Have they ever done such a poster?
I think they chose a film from each decade from 1930-2000. They went with indelible images/films/stars, which is likely why they chose James Dean even though "Giant" did not win best picture. Even if you do not personally favor "Driving Miss Daisy" I can see why they chose it: Morgan Freeman is a big name even today, and he is also the only non-white person on the poster. It is also arguable that "Daisy" is as well known as any other best picture winner from the 1980s. Do you really think the masses today know "Chariots of Fire" or "The Last Emperor" or "Ordinary People" better than "Driving Miss Daisy"?
Revisionist history maybe? How awesome—and delicious—would this collage be if it were to include more great films like Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, A Streatcar Named Desire, Funny Girl, Network, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Goodfellas, LA Confidential, Lord of the Rings and Brokeback Mountain that were nominated for but *didn't* win Best Picture. A subtle implication that they may have chosen poorly in a given year is wishful thinking, of course. Still, you have to wonder if even today's AMPAS to be reality-checked that Around the World in 80 Days really was their 1956 winner.
As bad as some of their choices have been, you can't deny that as far as popular culture is concerned, Forrest Gump and Gladiator are considered new classics. They're movies that nearly everyone (regular people) loves.
@Volgagia
No, they never made such a poster. But for the 1985 or 1986 Oscars they had a tribute for the best picture Oscar losers. Irene Cara sang a song (This for the losers?) during which you saw scenes from films like E.T., Network, The Hustler, 42nd Street and Citizen Kane.
Eh, it looks to me like the statue is farting out those movie images. There, I said it.
tonytr87 -- do you really want to hurt me? I know that you're right but i don't wanna know that you're right. SHUSH. ;)
'questionable'... that's putting it mildly ;)
at least we got CASABLANCA and GIANT on there
Really, no one else is going to say it? Okay, fine...
I love Gladiator.
And while I'm doing the walk of supposed shame, I'll say that I don't much like The Sound of Music.
But yeah, Forrest Gump and Driving Miss Daisy are both rubbish.
Some IMDB procrastination I did that I thought some might find mildly interested:
- 10 Oscar contenders this year who, whether or not they succeed in securing a nomination this year, we are likely to see again soon:
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10. Paul Giamatti: Could easily steal the show from Robert Pattinson in 2012 Cronenberg directed "Cosmopolis".
9. Michael Fassbinder: His only future Oscar-y credit on IMDB is Twelve Years a Slave with Steve McQueen in 2013, but they sure worked well together the first time!
8. Viggo Mortensen: On paper, his role of Old Bull Lee is the most intriguing and potentially Oscar-y in 2012's On the Road.
7: Ryan Gosling: Poor Rygos is starting to feel like a permanent Oscar also-ran, but perhaps the lead in Terrence Malick's Lawless in 2013 can get him a well-deserved score.
6:Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Levitt seems a lock for next year's ceremony, with key roles in Steve Spielberg's LIncoln and Quentin Tarintino's Django Unchained.
5. Rooney Mara: Has lead roles in both Malick's Lawless (2013) and Katherine Bigelow's still untitled drama about the capture of Osama Bin Ladin in 2012.
4. Keira Knightly: She has the lead in Joe Wright's adaptation of Anna Karinina in 2012, a good sign since her last nomination came from an adaptation of a fictional classic (Pride and Prejudice).
3. Phillip Seymour Hoffman: The lead in Paul Thomas Andersons follow-up to there will be blood, The Master, in 2013. A lock on paper if there ever was one.
2. Carey Mulligan: Plays Daisy Buchanan in next year's Great Gatsby (Baz Lurman) and a lead in the Coen Brothers next film, Inside Llewyn Davis, in 2013.
1. Leonardo Dicaprio: Playing Jay Gatsby in the Great Gatsby (Lurman, 2012) and presumably the main villain in Tarintino's Django Unchained, 2012 (remember that the villain role in Tarintino's last film won Christopher Waltz the Oscar).
So, though Giamatti, Mortensen, Gosling, Levitt, Knightly, Hoffman and Mulligan will likely all miss this year, they seem fairly set for years to come!
" And Jessica Tandy's Best Actress Oscar, one of the most deserving of all time."
All that came to my mind reading that was: Troll Fail. I adore her performance and at the very least was on par with Pfeiffer that year.
Thougt bubbles? Oh my. No.
And "Giant" is not a best picture winner! Be consistent, Academy!
But this poster is ruined by having such a prominent space for Russell Crowe for "Gladiator," like that win is something to be proud of.