Academy awards - a mark of quality?
Just a thought triggered by some of the answers to the 'Great actors at work' thread:
Do you consider an Oscar to be a mark of quality?
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prizes .. shmizes...good excuse for a good piss up but not to be taken seriously........
Yes. I forgot to add that! It is a good chance to organise a free piss up too...
with all of it paid for by some Sponsor. In Yorkshire I would hope for it to be John Smith's or Tetley's.
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mmm down here in sunny sussex one would hope harveys of lewes would get the concession...aaah we can dream
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ps Dermot do i win a prize for dodo!!!??
There's one in the post for you now....if it doesn't get there soon....
simple answer... not really but I wouldnt mind one on my shelf..
I think you should get a Best Supporting Licorice Comfit.
That would sit next to my quarter mile certificate for swimming nicely!!
A lot of the time Oscars are given for conspicious "acting." For example in 1993 Tom Hanks won for his "brave" "daring" performance as an AIDS victim in Philadelphia. Yet Liam Neeson gave, in my view, a much more subtle and cinematic performance in Schindler's List. No limp, no tics, no boring Method postulating.
The next year Hanks won again for Forrest Gump. Same story.
Kate Winslet got it right in Extras: you win an Oscar playing cripples or mental defectives.
She won for The Reader, but I don't know anyone who's actually seen the thing (or who wants to, for that matter).
George C. Scott famously turned down his Oscar for Patton because he believed the awards ceremonies are ridicolous. How can one actor be better than the other?
Having said that, I've got my speech all prepared (which I'll do live by satellite from the set of Free Willy 5).
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