Honorary Oscars Announced
Honorary Oscars Announced
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#1Honorary Oscars Announced
Posted: 9/11/09 at 4:25pm
Going to the great genius Gordon Willis, the great Roger Corman, some other guy, and Lauren Bacall.
Lauren Bacall? An honorary Oscar? Really?
Hmmmm.....
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2re: Honorary Oscars Announced
Posted: 9/11/09 at 5:41pm
Great choices
Whoever thought Roger Corman & Oscar would be in the same sentence. The montage of film clips from his movies should be fun.
Poster Emeritus
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: Honorary Oscars Announced
Posted: 9/11/09 at 5:48pmAre you joking? FOUR honorary Oscars?? Who cares- not one of these folks deserves a free ticket much less a statue. No wonder viewership is down.
#3re: Honorary Oscars Announced
Posted: 9/11/09 at 6:12pm
Roger Corman is an interesting choice. Nearly four hundred films as Producer or Co-Producer. Lauren Bacall? Well, it must be for her early work or just for living so long as a Holywood darling whilst only garnering one nomination her entire career. Gordon Willis is an excellent choice. I really don't know anything about John Calley or why his Oscar is deserved. Is it because he's almost 80?
Lauren should have won for this!
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Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4re: Honorary Oscars Announced
Posted: 9/11/09 at 7:23pm
Gordon Willis was the director of photography on THE GODFATHER, THE GODFATHER PART II, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, ANNIE HALL, MANHATTAN, ZELIG and other films without ever winning an Oscar and only getting nominated twice.
His honorary Oscar is shockingly overdue. They finally got this right.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#5re: Honorary Oscars Announced
Posted: 9/11/09 at 8:04pm
It happens occasionally
Normally they wait until someone dies & give it posthumously.
Poster Emeritus
#6re: Honorary Oscars Announced
Posted: 9/11/09 at 8:35pmBacall should get it for being snubbed for her brilliant performance in The Mirror Has Two Faces alone.
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