Oscars
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- ninjasavant0
I think Ellen, who I normally find unfunny, did the funniest oscar hosting of the last 10 years. The speeches were dreadful though.
Here's why I think Scorcese shouldn't have won. Mind you I've never seen any of his movies (or many movies at all for that matter, but I work in film . . . weird . . . anyway) so whether or not The Departed deserved the attention it got is besides the point. The reason is that he's no longer socially relevant on the Oscar scale. Before last night he was the director of amazing films but had never won the directing Oscar. So every year he made a film his name was brought up in many discussions about nominees and whatnot. Now he's got his Oscar so its no longer a topic.
Its kinda like the Red Socks, when they won the world series, they aren't the curse of the bambino team anymore, they're just the shitty team from the city with funny accents that won a couple years ago. No more talk about playoffs and curses, no more social relevance.
Peter O'Toole's face was priceless though when he continued being socially relevant though.