We did very well. In fact, of the winners, virtually all have been to our parties at SIFF.

You remember Jean DuJardin and his co-star Berenice and their director (the co-star's husband) from The Artist - they were that nice group of French people at the Closing Night SIFF parties two times.

Same goes for the Director of Hugo, who has been to SIFF too, and got an award from us.

It was a great night for Seattle.

Actually, @1, I was hoping someone else here would post about it, but everyone was already busy. Plus, way to miss the point of the post.

Sunday night I was drinking beers with Wim Wenders at Dieter's Wiener Haus at Pico and Bundy. Wim was pretty bummed that "Pina" didn't win. He and I thought it had a really good shot at the Oscar. "Maybe next year, old buddy," I told him.

@3 I could have used some up front clarification that you weren't talking about The Undefeated. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/77124563…

A very confusing start to the post when read with that incorrect assumption.

How exciting, Jen. Congratulations to TJ.

Will UNDEFEATED be screened again soon in Seattle?

@7: Not that I know of, sadly. If that changes, I'll report it here.

"But the scene is uncomfortable because while Money has earned everything he's gotten, plenty of kids from poor black families will work hard and get screwed—and plenty of kids from rich white families won't earn what they get, either."

You mean like how Harvey Weinstein basically bought Undefeated an Oscar? You seriously think it deserved best doc over Paradise Lost 3, a movie that literally saved the lives of three people?

Best chance to get it screened again is at NWFF or at the SIFF Film Center on the Seattke Center grounds, IMHO

Hey Jen, I too am thrilled that a fellow RHS alum won an Oscar, but what's with this garbage - "that stupid-ass, white-people-saving-black-folks Sandra Bullock movie" - are you not aware that story was based on Michael Oher's life? Your name dropping and fact missing detract from your writing.

@10: I have no comment (and made no comment) about whether "Undefeated" is the best movie of this year's documentary list (or whether that list is representative of what's out there). Of the docs nominated, I've only seen "Undefeated" and "Pina." I've heard nothing but good things about "Paradise Lost 3," and want to see it.

Just curious: Have you seen "Undefeated"?

That's exciting.
I also hope I finally get to see this movie. Everybody I know loved it at SIFF.

@12: Yes, I did know that. You might be interested in this: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20…

@ Jen - the way you wrote that sentence does not show that you knew anything about Oher's story. The sentence was a cheap trick. I'm not defending that movie, it's mediocre - but the fact that it was BASED on Oher's life IS inspiring. I like it when people beat the odds. I don't like it when people who are paid to write throw out false "snark" to make their writing look more exciting. Here Oher speaks about the movie himself: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/…

@16: You have seen "Undefeated," then? I also loved the Cunningham movie, but I don't think it took on any particularly interesting subjects.

@17: The movie is a racist piece of Hollywood crap. Why are we arguing?

Why are you turning this in a race issue Jen?

Who cares what color he is?

weinstein did NOT buy this film an Oscar, mr. whiny pants. the general academy membership does NOT nominate or vote on documentaries. only a small group within the academy does that, and a requirement is that you have to see all the nominees before voting. got that? good.

now, this is what i want to see: a film festival featuring ALL the 2011 nominees for documentary feature length and documentary short subject at either SIFF or NWFF. i not only want to see Undefeated, but Saving Face, God is the Bigger Elvis, The Barber of Birmingham, and If A Tree Falls. now, who can make this happen?

@ Jen - So it's "racist piece of Hollywood crap" because it's based on the true story of a wealthy white christian family that takes in a poor uneducated kid, who happens to be black and athletically gifted? Just trying to see where you're coming from.

The Seattle Times film critic says "Undefeated" is likely play in Seattle in March, although she doesn't say where she gets this information.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mo…

I had no idea this guy was from Seattle! Now I'm really looking forward to seeing it. Congrats to everyone involved!

@20. Good idea. Does anyone do this? SIFF? Or does it already happen and I've missed it?

That's awesome. I went to RHS with TJ

So here's me, knowing nothing about this film, googling it. I arrive at wikipedia, to find that it's apparently a Tea Party friendly documentary about Sarah Palin. I am, to say the least, confused. Not that there can't be crossover friendships, but it just seemed on the far end of the statistical distribution that a soon to be married lesbian couple would have a close friendship with an African American director who made a fawning movie about Sarah Palin and got an Oscar for it.

Then I went to the top of the page and realized my mistake. "The Undefeated" vs. "Undefeated". What a difference an article makes.

I think your fiance rides my bus in the mornings...

The film is NOT about race. Its about hard work & intergrity, something that America seems to know NOTHING aboutt these days especially in mainstream America. People have lost sight that things are not GIVEN to them. Should Undefeated have won an Oscar? I don't know I haven't seen all the films. But the fact that TJ Martin & Dan Lindsay capture something on a whim is pretty amazing & the fact that TJ Martin is my first cousin makes me a little bias. All & all it did win. So if its going to run with the fact that he's the first African American to win an Oscar then so be it. Because in the long run it hasn't been done. With great African American directors such as Spike Lee & John Singleton, who I know TJ respects & admires, there's no way in hell that mainstream America is ready to accept them with open arms. Me myself being African American is just happy that the doors are finally opening for us to be accepted. I'm hoping soon it would be a GREAT director actor or actress won an award....& it just so happens they're black or asian or east indian.

And big up to Roosevelt High School. That's my alma mater & majority of our family's too! It became tradition for us to go there.