AMERICA HAS SPOKEN! F/911 wins People's Choice Best Picture
AMERICA HAS SPOKEN! F/911 wins People's Choice Best Picture
#0AMERICA HAS SPOKEN! F/911 wins People's Choice Best Picture
Posted: 1/10/05 at 4:35am
And had a very nice speech to go with it:
"Thank you! Thank you very much.
We live in a great country and we all love our country very much and I am so amazed that you did this — the people of America — that you voted for this film. I can't thank you enough.
I'm honored and gratified and I know that there are many people tonight — mothers and fathers across this country — with sons and daughters in Iraq. Our prayers are with them and I dedicate this award to them tonight.
I want to thank, most of all, the people out there who voted for this. I don't want you to give up. This country is still all of ours. Not just right or left, democrat or republican, it's all of our country.
I love making movies and I'll take this as an invitation to make more ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’s.
Thank you very much. Thank you very much."
Updated On: 1/10/05 at 04:35 AM
magic8ball
Broadway Star Joined: 3/28/04
#1re: AMERICA HAS SPOKEN! F/911 wins People's Choice Best Picture
Posted: 1/10/05 at 5:28amIf only the People's Choice Awards were the election...
"Goodness is rewarded. Hope is guaranteed. Laughter builds strong bones. Right will intercede. Things you've said I often find I need, indeed. I see the world through your eyes. What's black and white is colorized. The knowledge you most dearly prized I'm eager to employ. You said that life has infinite joys."
#2america speaks
Posted: 1/10/05 at 7:47amthey also chose the passion of the christ as the best movie drama...
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
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pray to st. jude
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he was the gimmicky sort
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...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#3america speaks
Posted: 1/10/05 at 7:48amReally?
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
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#4america speaks
Posted: 1/10/05 at 7:55amAnd Shrek2 as best comedy - making it a clean sweep for the fantasy genre.
#5america speaks
Posted: 1/10/05 at 8:01amgive that man a ci-gar!
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Feodor Sverdlov
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/21/04
#6america speaks
Posted: 1/10/05 at 9:27amWhat people????? In all the years that show has been on television, I have not known a single person who voted for one of the choices.
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Updated On: 1/11/05 at 09:27 AM
#7america speaks
Posted: 1/10/05 at 10:11am
This makes perfect sense... A majority of America picks a BUSH-BASHING film as Best Picture...and lso elects Bush to the White House.
Yep that makes sense.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
#8america speaks
Posted: 1/10/05 at 11:36amDid anyone else find it rather amusing that the Best Film nominees were Fahrenheit 9/11, Shrek 2, and Spider Man 2?!?! Gee, what an eclectic selection! Whatever, I think the People's Choice Awards (like pretty much all awards shows, I suppose) are pretty much a joke.
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
#9america speaks
Posted: 1/10/05 at 3:01pm
I have to admit, DGrant, that THAT was hilarious! 
I voted for the People's Choice Awards--anyone could have online.
Here's the thing: the group voting for the PCAs are not the same as the electorate. Some of that is based on age. Some of it is based on all of the usual voter turn out issues.
I think that if voting was required, Bush would have lost in a landslide.
But the fact of the matter is that only those who vote have a voice. (That is unless they are voting on a Diebold electronic voting machine )
#10america speaks
Posted: 1/10/05 at 9:16pmIt's hard to take an awards ceremony seriously that has categories for the People's Choice for Best Hair and Best Look.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#11america speaks
Posted: 1/10/05 at 9:20pmYes, MM, belittle the fact that middle America voted for the Bush-hating film.
#12america speaks
Posted: 1/10/05 at 9:38pm
Interesting pictures... I think they are pretty good picks, but I would choose Lost as the best new series.
I don't think that shrek 2 should have gotten comedy picture.
And I do not agree with Fahrenheit 9/11
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#13america speaks
Posted: 1/10/05 at 9:49pmjrb - I was not specifically belittling them for their Farenheit 9/11 choice, but they also voted for the Passion of the Christ, Joey, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler, and the Donkey from Shrek 2 (and anything else related to Shrek 2). They also agreed Jennifer Garner had the best hair and Kate Hudson had the best look.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#14america speaks
Posted: 1/10/05 at 10:31pmi gave up on the people's choice awards YEARS AGO.
RIP glebby <3
#15america speaks
Posted: 1/11/05 at 4:16amI know what you are saying, MM. It just doesn't belittle the impact that they actually voted for F/911 over Shrek 2--which was sweeping the awards.
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