Feh is right. I think they just missed the boat this year. Not on PSH, who was fantastic, but I am disappointed about BBM.
One of the many things Capote was about was the gulf of perception separating urban and rural America, and that may have been one of the many things at stake in the vote this year.
I am really dying to see Capote--and Good Night, Good Luck.
I was really glad PSH won. Really, there weren't too many categories (if any) where I had only one thing I would want to win. I thought George Clooney was a great speechmaker, though! He's pretty good at sort of standing up for Hollywood's wanting to talk about issues without slipping too far into self-congratulations. (I think one of Jon Stewart's best moments was after that Issue-montage when he said, "And none of those issues was ever a problem again.")
I very much liked GNGL. Capote is an extraordinary movie that really resonates with me because it raises so many issues about writing itself, particularly about a writer's troubled relationship to his/her subject: is that relationship about adoration or exploitation? I think you'd find the movie fascinating not only about writing but about fannishness and fame. And PSH is brilliant in it.
That said, of course I would have been delighted too if Heath Ledger had won, or Joachim Phoenix -- an embarrassment of riches in Best Actor this year.
Just a quick comment on something you said up-thread --
It's like comparing Casablanca to Love, Actually--one's about one relationship, the other's about how the relationships connect to each other.
This is a brilliant analogy in so many ways. My Inner Rhetorician is all agog. :D
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One of the many things Capote was about was the gulf of perception separating urban and rural America, and that may have been one of the many things at stake in the vote this year.
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I was really glad PSH won. Really, there weren't too many categories (if any) where I had only one thing I would want to win. I thought George Clooney was a great speechmaker, though! He's pretty good at sort of standing up for Hollywood's wanting to talk about issues without slipping too far into self-congratulations. (I think one of Jon Stewart's best moments was after that Issue-montage when he said, "And none of those issues was ever a problem again.")
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That said, of course I would have been delighted too if Heath Ledger had won, or Joachim Phoenix -- an embarrassment of riches in Best Actor this year.
Just a quick comment on something you said up-thread --
It's like comparing Casablanca to Love, Actually--one's about one relationship, the other's about how the relationships connect to each other.
This is a brilliant analogy in so many ways. My Inner Rhetorician is all agog. :D
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