Comments on: Results Of The Movie Blog Oscar Poll! (and Oscar winners)

By: Zara

Zara — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:46:13 +0000

I was so surprised to know ” KING’S SPEECH” won the best picture. I did not expect really! But I’m glad it did. =)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:51:52 +0000

Why is historically acurate being mentioned? This wasn’t the “Most accurate award”, it’s best picture.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:08:37 +0000

In reply to Ryan.

Soo why did you want ‘Social Network’ to win over ‘King’s Speech’ again? Social Network occurred in more recent times and * it * was historically inaccurate too and they freely admitted to it. It was the biggest debate of that film, in spite of the good writing and acting involved.

Yes, if they take a living (or dead) person, make him into an uncaring slacker-villain, when he is anything but, make up stuff about the guy and his motivations, I would consider that historically inaccurate. Wouldn’t you?

By: Rod

Rod — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:54:24 +0000

The King’s Speech deserves the “Best Picture” award, I wished for it! =P

But.. for the best director? Aronofsky or Fincher should have won.

By: KatieP

KatieP — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:49:56 +0000

I think that the biggest upset of Oscar Night was Tom Hooper winning for Best Director. I saw both the King’s Speech and The Social Network and David Fincher should have won in my mind. In lesser hands, The Social Network would have been a movie about a guy creating a computer program. However, in David Fincher’s hands, it was a movie about greed, loyalty, and our current society. He also got three great performances out of Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake. I knew it was a great movie when I forgot that Justin Timberlake was a pop-star. I know the Academy likes to award Best Director to the Best Picture winner, but COME ON?!

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:38:57 +0000

In reply to Roman.

no Roman… Mystic said Inception didnt win Original Screenplay, which was why he was disappointed. You questioned him saying “how can something based off of a book be an original screenplay”

He was talking about Inception. Which is not based on a book, so like the Winner King’s Speech, it was in the category of Best Screenplay.

The Social Network won best ADAPTED Screenplay (being that its based on an existing novel) and did not compete at all against Inception in those categories.

By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:23:55 +0000

In reply to Roman. I know that Rodney I was agreeing with xMYSTIKJOKERx, Social Network won the award right? That movie was based on a book called The Acidental Billionaire (am i right?) I was rooting for Inception which was original while 3 of the nominees were books.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:56:28 +0000

There may have been a few minor disagreements here and there, but I thought the Oscar results were all reasonable. There was nothing particularly egregious about the night (save maybe the hosting), I would have preferred either Social Network or Black Swan for Best Pic and Best Director, but I thought King’s Speech was close to them in both regards. The only issues I had with King’s Speech was the writing — while the script, written by a stutterer, absolutely nailed the major issue of the movie (stuttering), it completely flopped on any sort of historical accuracy in ways that were so obvious it utterly broke my suspension of disbelief. It was still a good movie, but the stuff they threw in there that were historically inaccurate just didn’t need to be there — it did little for the story. They should have just eliminated the Winston Churchill character from the movie altogether.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:18:12 +0000

In reply to Roman. Inception was not based on a book. Christopher Nolan wrote Inception as a movie screenplay, and made that movie.

By: Roman

Roman — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:48:11 +0000

In reply to xMYSTIKJOKERx. how can something based off of a book be an original screenplay?

By: xMYSTIKJOKERx

xMYSTIKJOKERx — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:21:07 +0000

I just feel like Inception got majorly screwed on best original screenplay i mean c’mon. OK its not artsy enough for best picture but it was a completely original piece and one of the biggest mind***** i have ever seen. C’mon oscar fall into the right hands.

By: knossis

knossis — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:06:10 +0000

Just glad Christian Bale and Natalie Portman won, love both of them as actors. It’ll take a miracle for Nolan to finally win one. He’d have to direct and write a hell of a film to get a win. He’ll probably get a lifetime achievement award at the end of his career.