Shark Bytes

Like other award shows, so many jumps so little time. Lets start in 1955 when for best actress you have Dorthly Danverge, Audrey Hepburn, Judy Garlin, and bring up the rear- Grace Kelly. In what I think is one of most unwatchable films ever. Guess who wins, Grace kelly for not wearing make up. Then there were the four events in 1970's that made foniz ride look good. 1. Marlon Brando hires a white actress to pose as an indian, to refuse is award, in protest of hollywoods treatment of indians, 2. V. Rengrave, gets an award and declares the Zionest are out to get her, Sally Field 1, Sally Field 2- have never liked her I really have never liked her

Save your time, please.,

The Academy Awards have been a disaster since day one. In actuality, they jumped roughly around 1948-1949, before the show even hit the tube. Follow me here:

Between the 1927-28 debut & 1940, the awards reflected a stunning level of diversity for best picture. These are the winners, w/genre indicated next to them

1927-28 - Wings (war)
1928-29 - The Broadway Melody (musical)
1929-30 - All Quiet/Western Front (war)
1930-31 - Cimarron (western)
1931-32 - Grand Hotel (drama)
1932-33 - Cavalcade (costume drama)
1934 - It Happened One Night (comedy)
1935 - Mutiny on the Bounty (historical drama)
1936 - The Great Ziegfeld - (biopic)
1937 - Life of Emile Zola - (biopic)
1938 - You can't take it w/ You - (comedy)
1939 - Gone W/ The Wind - (costume drama)
1940 - Rebeecca - (thriller)

From 41-46 you have patriotic films winning most of the time, for obvious reasons

After 1947-48 it follows a pattern of non-stop drama followed by brief breaks of Academy guilt over the high-handedness of it all (the mid-60's musical phase, the western double whammy of Dances w/ wolves & unforgiven). The Chicago/Lord of the Rings shot was the latest in that wave. It is obvious that in the very beginning the voters were more open to just about anything. I've often heard people say that the 30's were tops in films, the 50's for tv, and the 60's for rock. Well I've seen better tv and heard better rock, but that bit about the movies still holds sway. This is one of the reasons why. Sorry for the length of the post. Normally I don't write this long.

This show jumps every time they give best picture to the wrong film..

I recently saw "Shawshank Redemption" for the first time, and it is a true shame how this BRILLIANT film didn't win back in '94...

This event jumped many times over the years! To give a few examples: 1)when "Glory" wasn't nominated for Best Picture and that sentimental piece of fluff "Field of Dreams"was;okay, the winner was "Driving Miss Daisy, but STILL...2)when Billy Crystal stopped hosting,and they brought on the unfunny angryman Chris Rock and other bad hosts.3)"Crash"wins Best Picture-terrible movie.4)lots of crappy Best Songs and dreadful production numbers built around them- I don't need to elaborate on that!5)some embarrassing moments that occurred,like the real David Helfgott playing a super-spastic "Flight of the Bumblebee! I have to admit, though, that this show is a guilty pleasure in spite of all the mistakes,oversights,and bad outfits.

Response to Fiesty Gourmet's comments: The actor's name was Alan Arkin not Alda. Personally, I think that award should have gone to Eddie Murphey for "Dreamgirls" instead of Arkin! "Blood Diamond was a piece of horrific CRAP!!!! Leo DiCaprio speaking in a South African accent and ACTUALLY getting nominated for that award for best actor instead of getting a nod for his BRILLIANT work in "The Departed"?!?!?!? WTF, MAN?!?!?!?

How dare Brokeback Mountain didn't win a single oscar. Instead it lost to a movie about 30 something people getting sexual pleasure from car accidents. And why the hell did Enchanted get nominated for an oscar, that movie was an overhyped movie with the over hyped actress Amy Adams, Enchanted wasn't bad movie, it was just badly made, the chemistry between Patrick and Amy's characters just wasn't there and it was overhyped

When Alan Alda won for Little Miss Sunshine over Dijmon Hounsou for Blood Diamond. Horrible misjustice!

Shakespeare in Love?? You've got to be kidding.

Moulon Rouge even being nominated.

Daniel Day Lewis not winning for Gangs of New York. they tried to make up for with There Will Be Blood, but his performance was not as good as Gangs.

Crash beating Brokeback Mountain

Chicago

Yeah, it's an an awards show. The entire idea of it jumped the shark when you can go to your local ***** rental store, and pick up "The Academy Award-winning movie" about a week after the show airs...with the attendant hype in full force. The last time I sat in a movie theater was in 2005: noisy teenagers yakking on cellphones and taking calls DURING the movie prevailed. With DVD releases coming out mere months after airing in the theaters, why should I bother paying top dollar to sit in a seat (obligatory chewing gum stuck to my arm), while some idiot teen is text-messaging and/or talking to someone on the phone? You couldn't drag me back...As for the movies themselves, Hollywood is so frightened of making a film that's "off the beaten path" or that's not politically correct, that they've kind of trapped themselves. No wonder cinemas are taking it on the chin.

I lost my interest in the Oscars after number 78. Not a single movie I recognized won.

Where to even begin! When Bob Hope left. When "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" won. When Uma Thurman didn't. When Michael Moore appeared. When Marlon Brando didn't. This show has had so many jumps it should be at Sea World.

THe Academy Awards are a complete joke. They show what complete sheep people are. The movies that win are always the most obscure or foreign films. It seems so strange that the movies that come out closest to that show's airtime get the awards (cough) Titanic! Also, people are so pathetic that words like Titanic and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon become catch phrases for the next year. I boycotted it after Titanic when I learned that movies need to have at least a 2 and a half hour run time, need to be a love story, need to have some flavor of the month on them, and need to be incredibly boring. Now "Academy Award Winning" keeps me from renting movies!

Johnny Depp - please. He's the most "overrated underrated" actor ever. And Tim Burton is the most overrated underrated director ever. So JD is an eccentric, that means he is one of our great actors? I don't think so. People who like him are stuck in the 90s and probably think David Lynch is a "genius." Gag me.

Johnny Depp lost for Sweeney Todd this year.
That's about all I have to say. Besides the fact that it obviously pisses me the hell off.

Why do people watch awards shows? Do they enjoy it when surgically enhanced people parade around in outfits that cost what takes them a year to earn? do they enjoy inane pre-show red carpet banter? Are they insomniacs who are afraid of getting hooked on sleeping pills? I just don't get it.