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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Harrowby Hall on February 27, 2017, 08:52:00 AM

Title: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Harrowby Hall on February 27, 2017, 08:52:00 AM
Is it not possible that the incorrect announcement of the winner of the Best Film award, was organised by agents from the White House to ensure that unfavourable comments made by recipients about their wonderful, intellectually brilliant, humanitarian President would not be reported?
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: floo on February 27, 2017, 01:53:38 PM
What annoyed me at lunchtime was this silliness got the number one slot on the BBC news, ahead of the much more important child sexual abuse enquiry! :o
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Robbie on February 28, 2017, 05:06:37 PM
I saw more on today's lunchtime. Appreciate it was an important issue to those concerned but,come on, not the end of the world. Nobody died unlike in Tunisia.
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Sebastian Toe on March 01, 2017, 12:23:13 AM
I saw more on today's lunchtime. Appreciate it was an important issue to those concerned but,come on, not the end of the world. Nobody died unlike in Tunisia.
Someone died at the Tunisian Oscars?
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Robbie on March 01, 2017, 02:55:33 AM
 ;D
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 03, 2017, 09:39:11 AM
There is always someone with a death threat ready for all circumstances



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39148836
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Maeght on March 03, 2017, 11:26:21 AM
Amazed that anyone really cares.
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: floo on March 03, 2017, 12:31:59 PM
The Oscars and any other ceremony of that nature are so very unimportant, and frankly very boring, we never watch them.
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Robbie on March 03, 2017, 01:11:34 PM
Not boring to those involved or those who like film.
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: floo on March 03, 2017, 01:38:16 PM
Whether I liked the film or not, I would still find that sort of thing yawn making.
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Sebastian Toe on March 03, 2017, 02:13:14 PM
The Oscars and any other ceremony of that nature are so very unimportant, and frankly very boring, we never watch them.
If you never watch them, how do you know?
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Robbie on March 03, 2017, 07:26:17 PM
I presume that's the royal "we", floo.
You may find it all yawn making, can't say I'm that bothered about watching the ceremony (though I like to know who has won what afterwards if I've heard of them), but such things are important and interesting to many. Certainly important to people in the industry.
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Sebastian Toe on March 03, 2017, 09:26:35 PM
Certainly important to people in the industry.
But not in Tunisia!?
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Robbie on March 04, 2017, 02:06:55 AM
 :D
Maybe if they provided Kerkennaise & Mloukhia sauce for our chips/fries.
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Maeght on March 04, 2017, 08:23:46 AM
I can understand that people find the ceremonies interesting but why get so upset about a mistake?
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Harrowby Hall on March 04, 2017, 10:14:45 AM
I can understand that people find the ceremonies interesting but why get so upset about a mistake?

Possibly because - in the first year of Trump - AMPAS appears to have made a deliberate attempt to recognise minority interests and participants in the film industry and, due to a moment of inattentiveness on the part of a hired agency, this was all totally overshadowed by an embarrassing blunder.

The public agenda was shipwrecked.
Title: Re: Oscars cock-up
Post by: Robbie on March 04, 2017, 06:39:24 PM
I can understand that people find the ceremonies interesting but why get so upset about a mistake?

The organisers like everything to be as near perfect as possible and those shortlisted for award are likely to be disappointed with such a mistake. Still, I agree with you, it's not the end of the world.