"Truth" wins!

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Jerry Seinfeld announcing the Best Feature Documentary Oscar.."these incredibly depressing movies"...I missed the point of that "the deal is, you rip us off" joke...and the Oscar goes to An Inconvenient Truth! Not a surprise but a fluttery pleasure wave anyway. Al Gore's speech at the end was noble, perfect...what a guy. He's so much more tonight than he's ever been before. Al, everyone loves you, and everyone (even a sizable portion of the right-wing denial brigade) is on the team.

Hudson wins!<< previous | next >>Ennio Morricone

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 25, 2007 at 7:46 PM

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Josh Massey says ...

Historians: Has the Best Documentary Oscar ever been even partially accepted by a person who was only the member of the cast?

Posted by Josh Massey at February 25, 2007 7:54 PM

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JD says ...

Did they get Seinfeld to present this because Larry David's wife was one of the recipients? That's incredibly weird. I especially liked the reaction shot of Larry David, beyond expresionless in the audience.

Posted by JD at February 25, 2007 7:58 PM

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Thrudvangar says ...

Now I remember why I usually skip the Oscars. Celine and Randy Newman. They're always there.

Posted by Thrudvangar at February 25, 2007 7:58 PM

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Posted by J. Mark English at February 25, 2007 8:00 PM

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ltlewis3 says ...

Why exactly was Gore on stage holding the Oscar and giving a speech? He wasn't the director of the film.

Posted by ltlewis3 at February 25, 2007 8:00 PM

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rocco says ...

The problem is, he can dumb-down global warming so that even people like Jeff think they've got it pegged, but try dumbing down federal budgets, prescription drug costs, social scurity, et al, and the wheels fly off, a la "lock box".

There has never been a bigger shoe-in for office in my lifetime than Al Gore right now...one can only wonder...

Posted by rocco at February 25, 2007 8:00 PM

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sunny says ...

Hey Josh, Gore was hardly *only* a member of the cast. He'd been touring the world with his presentation for some time when the filmakers decided to make a documentary out of it. The whole thing was Gore, from his passion, to his ideas, to his face on the screen. The filmakers were a vehicle to get him to the local cineplex.

Posted by sunny at February 25, 2007 8:01 PM

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Mike Schaefer says ...

"Al, everyone loves you, and everyone (even the right-wing denial brigade) is on the team."

I wish that were true, but the right wing bloggers and Faux News Channel will be making hay out of this for weeks to come -- "Hollywood liberals, blah blah blah." Nothing's changed, sadly.

Posted by Mike Schaefer at February 25, 2007 8:01 PM

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corey3rd says ...

Foreman and Ali came on stage for When We Were Kings.

Posted by corey3rd at February 25, 2007 8:02 PM

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rocco says ...

btw...Seinfeld was hilarious, the funniest part of the show so far...Jeff, how could you not get it? Did you just step back from the loo??

Posted by rocco at February 25, 2007 8:03 PM

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lesterg says ...

Love Morricone, but I'd imagine ABC just hemorrhaged a few hundred thousand viewers during his acceptance speech.

Posted by lesterg at February 25, 2007 8:06 PM

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Josh Massey says ...

Check the credits, Sunny. That's what counts as far as the Academy is concerned.

Posted by Josh Massey at February 25, 2007 8:07 PM

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SpinDozer says ...

'Has the Best Documentary Oscar ever been even partially accepted by a person who was only the member of the cast?'

I've noticed you seem a bit fixated on this...

don't think its too difficult to understand personally, but

the answer is yes:

'Awards and recognition
When We Were Kings is frequently regarded as one of the best boxing documentaries ever, having received strong reviews from critics such as Roger Ebert [1] and Edward Guthmann.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. At the presentation, both Ali and Foreman came up to join the filmmakers to make it clear they had long since made peace since that match.'

From wonderful Wikipedia

Posted by SpinDozer at February 25, 2007 8:09 PM

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Mike Schaefer says ...

"Al, everyone loves you, and everyone (even the right-wing denial brigade) is on the team."

I wish that were true, but the right wing bloggers and Faux News Channel will be making hay out of this for weeks to come -- "Hollywood liberals, blah blah blah." Nothing's changed, sadly.

Posted by Mike Schaefer at February 25, 2007 8:12 PM

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rocco says ...

It was never a matter of ifthe planet is warming, but how much impact we've actually had. More people react to the demagoguery and hysteria surrounding the issue than the actual issue itself.

Despite the earth remaining stable for the last seven years and the fact that the world's leading scientists left open a whopping 10% chance that it's all natural (for comparison, consider that Carl Sagan estimated the chances of life arising spontaneously as an incomprehensible 1/10^40, yet most of us would buy that for a dollar), most people have realized they can lead a more environmentally responsible life, which can only be a good thing (even if there's a small chance it won't stop warming).

Posted by rocco at February 25, 2007 8:32 PM

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