Awards

Amos Stevens

New Member
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner:
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Frances Walsh

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Winner:
Sean Penn for Mystic River (2003)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Winner:
Charlize Theron for Monster (2003)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner:
Tim Robbins for Mystic River (2003)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner:
Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003)

Best Achievement in Directing
Winner:
Peter Jackson for Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003)

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Winner:
Lost in Translation (2003) - Sofia Coppola

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Winner:
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Frances Walsh

Best Achievement in Cinematography
Winner:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) - Russell Boyd

Best Achievement in Editing
Winner:
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Jamie Selkirk

Best Achievement in Art Direction
Winner:
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Grant Major, Dan Hennah, Alan Lee

Best Achievement in Costume Design
Winner:
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Ngila Dickson

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Winner:
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Howard Shore

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Winner:
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Frances Walsh, Howard Shore, Annie Lennox ("Into the West")

Best Achievement in Sound
Winner:
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek

Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Winner:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) - Richard King

Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Winner:
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, Alex Funke


Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Winner:
Finding Nemo (2003) - Andrew Stanton

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Winner:
Invasions barbares, Les (2003) (Canada)

Best Documentary, Features
Winner:
Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, The (2003) - Errol Morris, Michael Williams

Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Winner:
Chernobyl Heart (2003) - Maryann DeLeo

Best Short Film, Animated
Winner:
Harvie Krumpet (2003) - Adam Elliot

Best Short Film, Live Action
Winner:
Two Soldiers (2003) - Aaron Schneider, Andrew J. Sacks
 

TDWoj

Administrator
Staff member
Thanks, Amos! For some bizarre reason, I decided to watch the Oscars last night, and now I know why I don't watch them... goodness, gracious me, they are boring! The only part of the show I enjoyed was the song from the Triplets of Belleville.

Would someone please take Joan and Melissa Rivers and drop them somewhere where we never have to see them again... I felt so sorry for Mickey Rooney. He's pretty much the only one left standing from the early days of Hollywood, and he was lurking behind some young thing just in reach of Joan's microphone, I guess hoping Joan Rivers would talk to him. She ignored him (and so did Ben Mulroney, our poor excuse for an entertainment reporter). It was the saddest thing I'd ever seen.

I notice the emphasis was on youth this year. All the hot young things in Hollywood were up there presenting, with maybe a couple of middle-aged B-listers, and except for Sean Connery's brief appearance, no one with any real "history" with the film industry was anywhere in sight on the presenting stage.

Ugliest dress of the night: Uma Thurman's. What the heck was that?

Liv Tyler, on the other hand, was gorgeous.

Did you notice how many of the hairstyles and dresses were retro-20s/30s look? (Leftover style influence from last year's Chicago, I'll bet!).

And Peter Jackson - poor guy, you can't dress him up at all... :D
 

Serena

Administrator
Thanks, Amos. :) This was one of the first years in a while I was actually home from work and able to watch them. Zzzzzzzzzzzz..........Anyone else happen to find them rather boring and bland? :D
 

TDWoj

Administrator
Staff member
They're always boring and bland, but this year they seemed to be even more boring and bland than usual. Janet Jackson's costume malfunction a contributing factor, maybe? No - the show would have been planned long before that little incident.

I was watching Biography where they did a bio of the Oscars, and they showed some of the highlights of past Oscar ceremonies. One being, when the streaker ran behind David Niven onto the stage. He was such a cool character and so full of dignity and style - he didn't miss a beat and said (I'm quoting loosely) something about how "unfortunate that the only way this guy could get a laugh was to strip off his clothing and show everyone his shortcomings".

Or when Charlton Heston (the host one year) got stuck in traffic and couldn't make the start in time, and the director tapped Clint Eastwood to start the proceedings, and Clint says: "So they pick the one guy who hasn't said more than three lines in the last dozen movies he's made."

That was a good segment on Biography about the Oscars. I wish now I'd taped that instead of the pre-Oscar red carpet spots (I was trying to see if anyone we were particularly interested in turned up in the crowd... but, alas).
 

Baseball Lady

New Member
Serena,

I'm like you, rarely off during the oscars. I happened to be off last night and of course there was nothing on tv. I tried watching the actors, but some of the utter stupidity of their lines was too painful. So I surfed the net and wrote a lecture for work instead. I agree with TD though, I don't think it would matter what you put Peter Jackson in, he would still looked like he slept in it. But you gotta like the fact that he was excited and it meant something to him (like a kid in a candy store).
BB
 

suziwong

Administrator
Staff member
Thank you very much Amos. I wanted to watch but it was too late for Turkey !!!
Steven wasn't there huh ??? :(
 

Serena

Administrator
Baseball Lady said:
Serena,

I'm like you, rarely off during the oscars. I happened to be off last night and of course there was nothing on tv. I tried watching the actors, but some of the utter stupidity of their lines was too painful. So I surfed the net and wrote a lecture for work instead. I agree with TD though, I don't think it would matter what you put Peter Jackson in, he would still looked like he slept in it. But you gotta like the fact that he was excited and it meant something to him (like a kid in a candy store).
BB

Hello again, BB Lady! Good to see you, as always. I did the exact same thing (maybe it's a nurse thing? :D), surfed the net while it was on, looked around here in between. You're so right about the lines being too painful to watch. And what was that horrible half-hour show before? OMG--I was embarrassed for them, as they apparently didn't have the sense to be. :D And I do get a kick out of Peter Jackson myself. People may be smiling when they look at him, but as the old cliche goes, who'll be laughing all the way to the bank? And I don't mean the blood bank! :D
 

TDWoj

Administrator
Staff member
Yeah - except Peter Jackson's doing King Kong next and the last time they did King Kong, it was a complete and utter disaster. (Who directed the last one, was it the Jessica Lange version I'm thinking of? It was an awful, awful movie.)

I thought some of the "dates" some of the stars brought were really cute. Alec Baldwin brought his daughter and one of his brothers (I can never remember which one's Stephen and which one's William - it definitely wasn't Daniel, though), Clint brought - I think it was his mother? - and Marcia Gay Harden brought, along with her husband, her mother and sister. A family affair! :D

On the other hand, there were a lot of old guys there with their young trophy wives. Like, euuwww.

-TD, definitely nobody's trophy, and not even a contender
 

TDWoj

Administrator
Staff member
Re Peter Jackson - he does sort of look like a hobbitses himself, doesn't he? :D
 

TDWoj

Administrator
Staff member
suziwong said:
Thank you very much Amos. I wanted to watch but it was too late for Turkey !!!
Steven wasn't there huh ??? :(

Well, that's why I taped the pre-Oscar "red carpet" segments - so I could watch them later and check out who was in the background. I didn't see him. Didn't mean he wasn't there, though. Unfortunately, he's just so far off anybody's list in Hollywood he's not someone any of the entertainment reporters want to talk to even if he was there.
 

Serena

Administrator
TDWoj said:
On the other hand, there were a lot of old guys there with their young trophy wives. Like, euuwww.

I thought it was rather funny when Billy Crystal introduced presenters Francis Ford Coppola and Sophia Coppola as "The only 60-something-year-old and 30-something-year-olds in Hollywood to not be dating each other." They are, of course, father and daughter.

And I actually don't see anything wrong with a "trophy wife". I think it's a mutually beneficial arrangement. He gets to feel like a younger man and she gets--well--the benefits of his financial situation. ;) :D Not such a bad deal at all, as long as both parties are in agreement--and as long as she doesn't kill him first by her "youthful passion". ;) :D
 

yudansha

TheGreatOne
BC funny, no surprise

LOL ... crime of passion


I found Billy Crystal quite funny during most of his monologues, and that's the most entertainment I got from the show.
 

Serena

Administrator
yudansha said:
LOL ... crime of passion


I found Billy Crystal quite funny during most of his monologues, and that's the most entertainment I got from the show.

Me too, Yudansha. He did have some funny bits. I liked the part where he had stars on the screen and was telling them what they were thinking. "Mrs. Billy Crystal. Mrs. Billy Crystal." :D
 

Littledragon

Above The Law
PRINCE AND HIS WIFE MANI WERE THERE AS WELL. 20 YEARS AGO he won for BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR PURPLE RAIN!

He is making a comeback!

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Amos Stevens

New Member
I only watched hit/miss of the awards-but what I did notice is that they seemed to have the winners all sitting towards the front to save time-thus the only name actors to be seen sitting in the front was Clint Eastwood-who unfortantly didn't win.
Also especially during the tributes to the actors that have recently passed away,I found the audience to be rude by their little responses of applaude to actors that were certainly due!
 

yudansha

TheGreatOne
billy c

lol Serena! yeah that was funny - ... Mrs. Billy Crystal, Sir Mrs. Billy Crystal
he's a great entertainer
 

tora

Funmaker
Shucks...I didn't even watch it...no interest as long as Steven Seagal doesn't appear on the stage to shake the crowd...I hate this ceremony.
 

Serena

Administrator
LOL--"There's nobody left in New Zealand to thank."

I liked Jack Black and Will Ferrell singing "No need to thank your parakeet/you're boring", in reference to the music that plays when winners go on too long with their acceptance speech.

And when Billy Crystal was talking about his first stint as host 13 years ago. "Things were so different then. You know how different it was? Bush was president, the economy was tanking and we'd just finished a war with Iraq."

His parody of "Lord of the Rings," sung to the tune of "My Favorite Things," warbling the line, "Frodo and Sam on a mystical planet, then Smeagol pops out like the right boob of Janet."

Robin Williams and Billy Crystal standing side by side as Williams, in a joke about the recent flurry of same-sex weddings performed in San Francisco said, "Look at us -- a San Francisco wedding cake."

There were some entertaining bits here and there, but almost all by Billy Crystal.
 

yudansha

TheGreatOne
imagine: Bush as a comedian (I can't do that)

Everything you mentioned Serena was absolutely hilarious. In my opinion, comedy should rule the world. How great would it be to have a world with no weapons, and presidents who are all comedians? (don't take that seriously, just laugh at it ... or not)
 
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