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February 26, 2007
Goodfella
Well, I was happy to see Marty win, finally! I had totally forgot who he lost to in 1990, when he was up for Goodfellas... Kevin Costner. Blech. He SHOULD have won for Goodfellas... and I also have a soft spot in my heart for The Last Temptation of Christ. It pissed off a lot of Christians and got itself firebombed in France. Fight the power, Marty!
It was the most moving moment in the Oscars, but you knew it was coming when Coppola, Spielberg and Lucas came out the present Best Director. I mean, they're going to present the award to the guy who directed "Babel"? Of course not. You only get the three Young Turks from the 70s together to fete the Fourth Young Turk: Martin Scorsese. And it was very sweet, I have to say. Especially the part where they pointed out Lucas hasn't won a directing Oscar... well, he wasn't going to win for the last three Star Wars films. Woof! "American Graffiti", on the other hand, or the first "Star Wars"... well, I've gotten off topic.
Anyway, cheers for Scorsese. But maybe it's better NOT to win. The list of those great directors who never won an Oscar: Robert Altman (discount honorary), Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Lumet, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Igmar Bergman, Charlie Chaplin, Alan J. Pakula, Peter Weir, Spike Lee, Cecil B. De Mille, Federico Fellini, Norman Jewison, George Lucas...
And they gave one to Costner. Just think about it.
Posted by emily at February 26, 2007 3:36 PM