And if you think you’re weirded out by the fact in the subject line, imagine how such Oscar-free actresses as Julianne Moore, Glenn Close, Sigourney Weaver, Angela Basset, Laura Dern, Mia Farrow, Gena Rowlands, and a dozen more I can’t think of right now feel.
Nevertheless, hurrah for Oscars’ Ladies Night! (I guess it was nice for the Academy Awards orchestra to greet Kathryn Bigelow’s Best Picture win with a blast of “I Am Woman,” but what would they have played for Lee Daniels? “Young, Gifted, and Black”?) Beyond Bullock (boo!) and Bigelow (yay!), there were the amazing women of Precious: Best Actress nominee Gabourey Sibide (who, from her red-carpet opener—”If fashion is porn, this dress is the money shot!”—to her annunciation by Oprah, was clearly having more fun than anyone has ever had at the Oscars), and Best Supporting Actress winner Mo’Nique, whose lovely acceptance speech you can see below.
(Also of note: Mo’Nique’s impressive interview with Barbara Walters, in which she discusses her dark but fully conquered past, her open marriage, and her forever hairy legs. Watch it here.)
i thought bullock was humble, funny and self-depricating in appropriate proportions, and i think she told meryl it should have gone to her again.
And that is why I don’t watch the Oscars.
@1 I thought the same thing about what she said to Meryl. And I agree. Streep was dead perfect. I don’t think Bullock deserves an Oscar, but the fact that she is so damn likeable makes it easier to handle.
And I am not at all sure Lee Daniels wouldn’t have exited the stage to the theme from The Jeffersons, had he won.
Loved Bigelow’s wins. Loved Mo’Nique.
Sigourney Weaver won an Oscar for Aliens in 1986. So she is not Oscar – free.
It’s a new dawn for America. I am proud to be alive today.
@4…..
Huh?
@4 She was nominated but she didn’t win. She was also nominated for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl.
4: You are wrong.
This didn’t make me cry last night, but it sure did today.
I still think everyone should stop hating on Sandra. I haven’t seen The Blind Side yet, but if nothing else, she’s had some great performances in the past. Chalk it up to a career award if it helps you sleep at night.
Mo’Nique’s diatribe was over-the-top. Bless her heart for being herself, though.
Hey, lots of people have gotten Oscars who didn’t deserve them. Lots of people who have deserved them didn’t get one. While they keep us on our toes by occasionally doing the right thing, let’s not forget that this is, at heart, a popularity contest.
I don’t mind so much that she won, since there’s no way in hell I can feel sorry for any of the nominees who didn’t get the nod. She seemed quite aware of the absurdity of her nomination and win, and she’s very much in charge of every project she does, and I can’t help but admire her for those things. But whoever did her lips last night should hang his or her head in shame.
It is far far worse to be living in the Clint Eastwood Has Two Best Director Oscars Era, I’d say.
@9 Name one. Because I just looked at her IMDB entry and failed to see anything award worthy. I’m not saying she isn’t likable, I’m just saying.
@6, @8 My bad.
Of course you are correct.
Marlee Matlin won for “Children of a lesser God” that year.
I guess I just wanted it to be true.
@14 — 28 days, Crash. Awesome movies.
@12 – Agreed. I was way more aggravated about how terrible her lip color was than I was about her winning.
This is also day two in “Sandra Bullock is a Razzie Award Winner era.”
Which reminds me, I need to watch All About Steve again. That movie is pure magic.
@16 Crash?! Really?! She was good at overacting in that one.
I can think of many adjectives to describe Mo’Nique’s speech, but “lovely,” isn’t one of them. More accurate would be: “boorish,” “childish,” “ungracious,” and “profoundly arrogant.”
@ 18 — She was playing a rich white woman, what do you expect? She can’t just go on screen and play herself. Do I think her performance in Crash was Oscar worthy? No (she also didn’t have a very big part), but my point was that it’s not like she’s an awful actor or anything. Good for her, I think.
@19: Thank you!
As for Mo’nique, I am overjoyed about her interview. Her unsentimental forthrightness punched a hole clean through all the mawkishness of the Precious promotional machine.
And she is clearly delighted by the happiness of her secret-free open marriage to the childhood friend. Does anyone else get the impression that her husband’s freedom to, as she said so precisely, have as much sex as he sees fit with another “person” might have been a roundabout way of saying he is gay-except-with-her?
As much as I hate the fact that Bullock won for what looks like a thoroughly disposable, forgettable movie, she had the best acceptance speech I saw last night.
I don’t get the Bullock hate. Sure, she’s had plenty of shallow roles in lame movies. But the oscar isn’t about her performances in those past movies. It’s supposed to be about her performance in ONE particular move: The Blind Side. She wasn’t nominated, and didn’t win, for any of those past lame movies. She won for this one.
So many haters! I don’t love Sandra but her acceptance speech was a charmer. Monique was amazing, deserved her Oscar, and deserves another award for that Barbara Walters interview. Her honesty and confidence (and Barbara’s “alarmed” reactions) was the best part of the night, in my opinion.
@ 20 “She was playing a rich white woman, what do you expect? She can’t just go on screen and play herself.”
huh? wha???
#22 – right? Here’s what I find interesting about the Monique open marriage thing: I get the sense that it’s an E.Lynn Harris novel come to life. Best friends since they were fourteen…she tells Walters that “she’s never strayed outside of marriage but it’s okay if one of us does”…
If it’s true – if Mr. Monique has some sugar in his shoes – I can’t decide if I think the marrige is healthy or screwed up. I mean, it’s a social contract, right? And if it makes them happy… on the other hand, the closet…
Hmmmm….
Also, does anyone else think she’s pitching a Hattie Mcdaniels biopic? The shout out was nice, but to wear the flowers in her hair exactly as McDaniels did for her Oscar acceptance…
Sandra won because she did what you have to do to win Best Actress.
Everything else is commentary.
@24,
Tell that to Scorsese who won for The Departed. A lion’s share of Oscars are given out because it’s so-and-so’s year, not because their performance/direction in that particular movie is fantastic.
I know it’s not “cool” to like Sandra Bullock but I do. I can’t judge this particular performance because I have not seen it and that folks, THAT is what the Oscars are about, a particular performance on a particular year, so the fact that Julianne Moore, Glenn Close, Sigourney Weaver, Angela Basset, Laura Dern, Mia Farrow, Gena Rowlands, is a moot point. Whaaaaa…..
Ms Bullock has been one of those rare celebrities that has come to the aid of many before the goverment even lifts a finger. Not long after Katrina, she was the first to donate a million dollars to the relief efforts and has consistently been generous.
Doen’t mean you should like her but take a look at yourself and what you do before so flippantly judging everybody else.
I know it’s not “cool” to like Sandra Bullock but I do. I can’t judge this particular performance because I have not seen it and THAT, folks is what the Oscars are about, a particular performance on a particular year, so the fact that Julianne Moore, Glenn Close, Sigourney Weaver, Angela Basset, Laura Dern, Mia Farrow, Gena Rowlands, is a moot point. Whaaaaa…..
Ms Bullock has been one of those rare celebrities that has come to the aid of many before the goverment even lifts a finger. Not long after Katrina, she was the first to donate a million dollars to the relief efforts and has consistently been generous.
Doen’t mean you should like her but take a look at yourself and what you do before so flippantly judging everybody else.
Uhhhm, that Mo’nique speech WAS arrogant and full of itself… “I’d like the to the thank the acadamy… it’s about the performance not the politics”…
Dear lord we’ll never hear the end of her smug “I’m all black n all that” crap…
And Oprah, the self proclaimed “heterosexual” is allready cringe-worthy, now she will be unbearable…
meant to say:
“Uhhhm, that Mo’nique speech WAS arrogant and full of itself… “I’d like to thank the academy… it’s about the performance not the politics”…
Sandra Bullock is a great comedic actor, and comedies hardly ever get Oscars for their directors or actors. I think the academy just decided to give her one for doing OK in a drama.
Anyway, I’m glad the Academy finally made up for robbing Bigelow of the Best picture back in ’87.
Also Katherine Bigelow was robbed in 1991. The woman should have three best picture awards.
You can hate on Mo’Nique all you want, but that role in Precious was amazing.
What I thought when I saw it was “who would even want to play that part” and not only did she play it, she sold it. One of the best, most memorable moments in film history, so far as I’m concerned. So, I grant her some brashness in her acceptance speech.
Also…let’s just deflate the importance of the Awards show itself. Isn’t it painfully obvious to everyone that the Oscar’s don’t fall from the lips of God?
So many people act as though the Oscars represent some objective measure. They never have, and they never will, because such a thing is impossible.
If you like something that didn’t win, cherish your unique viewpoint; you likely already do. I know I do.
@16 Good god woman, you think crash is a good movie?
And yes, 28 days is a enjoyable movie in mindless,s fluffy kind of way, but if you think that is an academy award winning performance you have been sniffing some industrial grade glue. Maybe you should stick to the people’s choice awards since they routinely reward mediocrity.
@ 34 & @35…..
Katherine Bigelow was robbed? Best Picture in 1987 and 1991…..?
Near Dark & Point Break?
Oh, I get it. Satire.
SANDRA BULLOCK GOT BEST ACTRESS AND AVATAR MADE MORE MONEY THAN ANY MOVIE EVER. SUCK IT, HATERS.
The people that vote on the Oscars are the ones who star in or direct/write the movies.
Their choices make perfectly logical sense, when you realize their interests.
Does every black Oscar winner have to mention Hattie McDaniel? Is it in their union or something? She wasn’t as bad as Halle Berry, of course–she who immediately became a black role model while conveniently forgetting that her black father ran out on her family when she was a kid, leaving her to be raised by her (unfortunately) white mother.
Mo’Nique’s performance was raw and terrifying, so good for her.
Dave do you really think that Mo’Nique speech was awesome? Because this might be the end of us.