Oscars 2009

Little Weezie breaks down all the nominees for this year’s Academy Awards.

written by Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit
Directed by Benji Samit

background music track produced by Jack Anthony (http://www.youtube.com/user/jackanthony)

LYRICS:

Oscar season’s here.
A mediocre year.

Say, you had a lot of flicks try to win your votes.
A few of them had luck, and actually made out with
Oscar noms
Oscar noms

You got nine choices, only one lasts forever,
Now it’s time to find out which one is better.
Oscar noms
Oscar noms

War Horse made it on the list,
Obvious and trite,
Will not win this fight.
Spielberg making this movie
Like he never had a nom,
Never had a nom

Scorcese’s first for young’uns really looked so precious,
And so did Tree of Life,
But that one caused depression, and you
Even had a flick written by Aaron Sorkin,
But let’s face it, that one’s such a bore!
And then you’ve got The Help, but that’s a bit older,
So it will probably end up getting the cold shoulder.
This one’s sitting here like a place holder,
Didn’t get good reviews, in fact it got smoldered.

Everyone thought the frontrunner would be violent,
But it turned out it sucked, so now it’s the one that’s silent.
Oscar noms
(Oscar noms)

And Alexander Payne, I think we get the point,
Fourth movie in a row for us to anoint with
Oscar noms
Oscar noms

Finally we are thrilled,
Woody’s not a hack.
Had a big comeback.
The way he’s making his movies
Like when he used to get some noms,
Used to get some noms

You had a lot of actors that transformed themselves.
All of it in hopes of getting awards on their shelves.
But what’s with Jonah Hill?
And why put Nick Nolte
Up against these Europeans?
That’s just insulting.
Now, I admire Brad Pitt and Gary Oldman,
But they need to pick better movies to perform in.
That Mexican is cool,
And Clooney’s such a beast,
But they’ll probably give it to the one who spoke the least.

Two supporting actresses only had to poop,
And that was all it took for those women to scoop
Oscar noms
Oscar noms

Best Actress? I enjoyed Streep, Williams, Mara, Davis,
But on Glenn Close I’m stuck, what the in God’s name is
Albert Nobbs?
Albert Nobbs?

Oooh,
And I just want to see the show,
To see who is the best
And win the pool.
I wanna win my Oscar pool,
Yeah

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In support of the American effort in World War II, the statuettes were made of plaster and were traded in for gold ones after the war had ended. The root of the name Oscar is contested. One biography of Bette Davis claims that she named the Oscar after her first husband, band leader Harmon Oscar Nelson; one of the earliest mentions in print of the term Oscar dates back to a Time magazine article about the 1934 6th Academy Awards and to Bette Davis’s receipt of the award in 1936. Walt Disney is also quoted as thanking the Academy for his Oscar as early as 1932. Another claimed origin is that the Academy’s Executive Secretary, Margaret Herrick, first saw the award in 1931 and made reference to the statuette’s reminding her of her ‘Uncle Oscar’ (a nickname for her cousin Oscar Pierce). Columnist Sidney Skolsky was present during Herrick’s naming and seized the name in his byline, ‘Employees have affectionately dubbed their famous statuette ‘Oscar”. The trophy was officially dubbed the ‘Oscar’ in 1939 by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Another legend reports that the Norwegian-American Eleanor Lilleberg, executive secretary to Louis B. Mayer, saw the first statuette and exclaimed, ‘It looks like King Oscar II!’. At the end of the day she asked, ‘What should we do with Oscar, put him in the vault?’ and the name stuck. Since 1950, the statuettes have been legally encumbered by the requirement that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for US$1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette. Academy Awards not protected by this agreement have been sold in public auctions and private deals for six-figure sums. While the Oscar is under the ownership of the recipient, it is essentially not on the open market. The case of Michael Todd’s grandson trying to sell Todd’s Oscar statuette illustrates that there are some who do not agree with this idea. When Todd’s grandson attempted to sell Todd’s Oscar statuette to a movie prop collector, the Academy won the legal battle by getting a permanent injunction. Although Oscar sales transactions have been successful, some buyers have subsequently returned the statuettes to the Academy, which keeps them in its treasury. Since 2004, Academy Award nomination results have been announced to the public in late January. Prior to 2004, nomination results were announced publicly in early February. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary organization, maintains a voting membership of 5,835 as of 2007. Academy membership is divided into different branches, with each representing a different discipline in film production. Actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1,311 members (22 percent) of the Academy’s composition. Votes have been certified by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (and its predecessor Price Waterhouse) for the past 73 annual awards ceremonies. All AMPAS members must be invited to join by the Board of Governors, on behalf of Academy Branch Executive Committees. Membership eligibility may be achieved by a competitive nomination or a member may submit a name based on other significant contribution to the field of motion pictures. New membership proposals are considered annually. The Academy does not publicly disclose its membership, although as recently as 2007 press releases have announced the names of those who have been invited to join. The 2007 release also stated that it has just under 6,000 voting members. While the membership had been growing, stricter policies have kept its size steady since then. Currently, according to Rules 2 and 3 of the official Academy Awards Rules, a film must open in the previous calendar year, from midnight at the start of January 1 to midnight at the end of December 31, in Los Angeles County, California, to qualify (except for the Best Foreign Language Film). For example, the 2010 Best Picture winner, The Hurt Locker, was actually first released in 2008, but did not qualify for the 2009 awards as it did not play its Oscar-qualifying run in Los Angeles until mid-2009, thus qualifying for the 2010 awards. Rule 2 states that a film must be feature-length, defined as a minimum of 40 minutes, except for short subject awards, and it must exist either on a 35 mm or 70 mm film print or in 24 frame/s or 48 frame/s progressive scan digital cinema format with native resolution not less than 1280×720. Producers must submit an Official Screen Credits online form before the deadline; in case it is not submitted by the defined deadline, the film will be ineligible for Academ
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RC Moments 2009
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as Power Couple during Awards season/movie Premieres.

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Owner Getty Images and People Magazine.

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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt at Academy Awards 2009

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While presenting the nominees Jen Aniston looked at Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and smile

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Celine Dion’s appearance via satellite live at Oscars 2008.

Starring Laura Landauer as Celine Dion.

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Move over, Lyons & Mankiewicz! Jackie and Dunlap take on liberal Hollywood, this year’s Oscar noms, and Mork.

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BEST ACTOR
-Antonio Banderas, ‘The Skin I Live In/El Piel Habito’
-Viggo Mortensen, ‘A Dangerous Method’
-Leonardo DiCaprio, ‘J. Edgar’
-Gary Oldman, ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’
-Ryan Gosling, ‘The Ides of March’
-George Clooney, ‘The Descendants’
-Brad Pitt, ‘The Tree of Life’

BEST ACTRESS
-Glenn Close, ‘Albert Nobbs’
-Rooney Mara, ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’
-Robin Wright, ‘The Conspirator’
-Felicity Jones, ‘Like Crazy’
-Meryl Streep, ‘The Iron Lady’
-Anne Hathaway, ‘One Day’
-Elizabeth Olsen, ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
-Philip Seymour Hoffman, ‘Moneyball’
-Armie Hammer, ‘J. Edgar’
-Christopher Plummer, ‘Beginners’
-Sean Penn, ‘The Tree of Life’
-Michael Fassbender, ‘A Dangerous Method’
-Jim Broadbent, ‘The Iron Lady’

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
-Charlotte Rampling, ‘The Eye of the Storm’
-Kate Winslet, ‘Carnage’
-Viola Davis, ‘The Help’
-Maria Belllo, ‘Beautiful Boy’
-Jessica Chastain, ‘The Tree of Life’
-Vanessa Redgrave, ‘Coriolanus’

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1/21/09: NEWSWEEK’s annual Oscar Roundtable with Robert Downey Jr., Anne Hathaway, Sally Hawkins, Frank Langella, Brad Pitt, and Mickey Rourke

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Our running commentary of the 2009 Oscar Ceremony
Best Actor

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