Jan 22 2009
The Way It Is: OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2009
Good day, Readers. Today is the day that the Academy Award (Oscar) nominations for the 2009 ceremony were published. I know that you have probably read the list for yourself, or heard different critics and various media streams deliver their opinions on the nomination list.
However, as we do everyday, I am going to break the list down for you THE WAY IT IS and the way that it should be. If you would rather get the sugarcoated version, please go to some other blog or website. Here is the uncensored, straight-up-honest version…
BEST ACTOR - Now, Mickey Rourke received the Golden Globe for this category, so many people have already assumed that he will win the Oscar. If he does then he is robbing BRAD PITT because THAT was acting! In “The Wrestler”, Mickey Rourke plays a wrestler that USED to be famous but now has become some old washed up celebrity trying to make a comeback. ISN’T THAT MICKEY’S REAL LIFE STORY?? Can you really call that acting??? NO!!!! Brad Pitt, however, dug deep down into his soul and created this beautiful work of art in Benjamin Button. For those that don’t know (with the exception of the very first and last portions of the movie) it was HIM the entire time. In a lot of those scenes, when he was playing the old boy, he had to act BY HIMSELF in green screen just to be digitally enhanced and placed in the movie during the editing process. Now THAT is acting!!! Mickey went to jail for drugs and alcohol a while back. If he wins this award, he should go back to jail for THEFT.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - While I find it HILARIOUS that Robert Downing, Jr. got an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a black man in Ben Stiller’s comedy “Tropic Thunder”, no one in that category can hold a candle up to HEATH LEDGER’s performance as The Joker in “The Dark Knight”. As soon as the movie came out, it was obvious that his name belonged in the runnings and he needs to walk away with that award. A lot of people say that he was nominated because he’s dead now. Normally, I would’ve agreed with them; posthumous performances have been getting a lot of attention over the years. However, dead or alive, what Heath brought to that role was pure GENIUS and he deserves every single bit of acclaim and praise for his performance — including the Oscar.
BEST ACTRESS - This category is a bit of a toss-up between Angelina Jolie from “Changeling” and Kate Winslet from “The Reader”. Both roles were successful stretches for both actresses, and they both deserve the award — but only one, of course, will walk away with it. Kate won the Golden Globe, so (if I had to choose) I would agree that she is also walking away with the Oscar this year. If Meryl Streep or Melissa Leo walk away with it, Kate and Angelina were robbed. But if Anne Hathaway walks away with it, the Oscars are rigged.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Taraji P. Henson was finally given a role that she deserved to play. Over the years, she has been called upon many times to play the stereotypical black woman role. However, both of her performances from 2008 deserve to be recognized (along with starring in “Benjamin Button”, she was also in Tyler Perry’s “A Family That Preys”). She played that role better than any other black woman in the industry could have played it. She made it her own, and she did exactly what a good supporting actress is supposed to do in a good movie — force the leading actors and actresses to perform at their best. Marisa Tomei has already caused an Oscar upset before from “My Cousin Vinny”. I think that’s enough for one lifetime, don’t you?
Those are the main categories that I wanted to analyze closely in this blog. Everything else could go either way; anyone that has ever seen the Academy Award ceremony knows that! I do believe that Best Animated Feature should go to WALL-E, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button should win everything that it was nominated for.
Well, that’s the way it is. Let’s see just how badly the media is going to distort the truth on February 22nd. I’ll see you at the Oscars!!
