Academy Awards

Pointdiver · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: Academy Awards

As you might guess by my avatar I watch the Oscars with a bias.

For those who missed it the film to the left won:

1. Best Picture
2. Best Director
3. Best Screen Play

Not bad huh! Cool

Jack did a pretty good job as a Whitey Bulger type. The worst Boston accents were on the 2 guys from Boston (Matt Damon & Mark Whalberg).

hondacustom · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:26 am Post subject:

huh

the bugs bunny , road runner show was my favourite

that damn coyote

D-Day · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:02 pm Post subject:

I thought they'd ban Scorsese forever after "Gangs of New York". What a dog!! Good to see he still has his chops....

I was happy to see Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, and Alan Arkin win. All excellent actors and not some passing fad...

genesound · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject:

What's funny is I worked on the Oscars and I have no idea who won what. Got the hat and I'm ordering the jacket. Laughing

Pointdiver · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject:

Gene, I read you were there and also guessed as with MNF you had no idea of the winners. Laughing

I have to say my wife is the culture vulture in the family. We actually saw "Pans Labrinth" and I kinda liked it (it was all in spanish with sub-titles). It won a couple of of Oscars and I was the only one in my office that even heard of it.

genesound · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject:

I can vouch for Scorsese being a nice guy though, and his daughter is a knockout Wink

genesound · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:23 am Post subject:

Here's my current hat... it's a limited edition now Wink

but they will be available in bulk in a few weeks Very Happy

I'm just a crew guy, but I can fill out a hat Laughing

click pics

BTW, Scorsese is genius. He hides it so well. Laughing

The guy that really gets me going is George Clooney, he's funny as hell. All the other characters in this picture I took at work aren't bad either. Laughing

This is my ultimate hero... Go ahead... make my day Razz

Hell, the guy on his right directed Titanic!!!

genesound · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:04 am Post subject:

Jeeberz I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote this post so now it reads like this. Shocked

79cb750f · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject:

James Cameron's major claim to fame (besides directing the Terminator movies) is he was married to the GODDESS Linda Hamilton.

I would dead lift the CBX formerly known as mine for a date with her. (I hear she's on the market. I know I am)

Pointdiver · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:58 pm Post subject:

Nice pictures Gene. I notice all those guys dress like I do but I might have better boots then Clooney. Shocked

genesound · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:27 pm Post subject:

I need new boots!

Thanks guys. At least at the Guild they don't bug me for taking pictures. The Academy is very sticky about it.

Those pics were taken at the Directors Guild Theatre I during "Meet the Nominees".
I've been doing it 12 years, but missed the last one because I was in Miami for the SuperBowl ESPN studio shows on location.
I kind of missed hangin with the Directors, but I couldn't really turn down 4 months of work for 2 days. Confused

genesound · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:21 am Post subject:

Here's one I took this evening from the mixing console about 80 feet from the stage... Wink

Good old what's his name. I like to refer to him as "The Master of the Universe"! Laughing

George Lucas

He's got some major kind of heels on those boots there. Wink

The "Master's" Boots

This was a very good day. He is very interesting and downright humble.
What an incredible task to be the "Master" and so humble and he handles it so transparently.
Oh, to have such a burden. Twisted Evil

His main message was to be persistent. That's it. Persistence. Come to think of it, he should own an old Japanese motorcycle. Laughing

Pointdiver · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:56 am Post subject:

He never won an Oscar but my guess is he made more money then any other producer/director to date! Cool

genesound · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject:

Spielberg is pretty close, but I'm guessin Lucas is the Master of income too. Has his own town, police force, the whole schmageggie.
George and Steve aparently talk quite a bit, he kept refering to him during the interview, like Steve this or Steve that.
I'll bet between the two of them, they've made close to as much as all the rest put together, if not more.

Ratfink · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:59 am Post subject:

I would like to meet Clint myself. And the master of the Universe would be fun to talk to as well. The Departed was a good movie. Better than I thought it would be. And I always like Jack. Not a lot of people do. But he plays a great nut. Been enjoying him since One Flew over, to The Shining up to today. I would like to get to talk to him too. But, I don't expect that to happen.

Another one of my on screen Hero's would be Steve McQueen. Met his brother who is a lot like him from what I hear. Cool guy, and he looked like him too.