God, I would have given anything to have this kind ^^ of moment on the Oscars red carpet this year. There was no big controversy, no huge moment like The Leg, also known as Angelina Jolie’s terrible Versace dress at the 2012 Oscars. Oscar ratings were way down this year too – partly because Neil Patrick Harris wasn’t a very good host, partly because there were very few surprises (three of the four acting categories were sure-things weeks ago), partly because there was no huge movie that people rallied around (that could have been American Sniper, but AS was almost completely shut out).
I believe the low ratings were also because the Oscar producers didn’t really try to bring some big name people to the telecast, and the Academy voters seemed to not want any race to be a big fight. While Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo probably wouldn’t have won anything, the Best Director and Best Actor races would have been so much more interesting if they had been nominated. And there were so few huge-name celebrities, you know? I realize Angelina Jolie wouldn’t be everybody’s cup of tea, but wouldn’t you have enjoyed seeing her as a presenter this year? Or Brad Pitt? Or George Clooney? Or Julia Roberts? And what about Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, or Kristen Stewart or even Tom Cruise, you know? People like Gwyneth Paltrow tried to bring the drama and it just kind of felt lukewarm.
Anyway, Jon Voight is still disappointed that Angelina wasn’t nominated for Best Director. He attended the VF Oscar party and he told E! News:
“I think the nominations were mostly right. They don’t get everybody. I’d like to have seen my daughter’s film get a few more nominations. But we were very well represented. I think Hollywood did very well with the films this year especially towards the last couple of months.”
Voight seems to be a lot calmer about Angelina these days, have you noticed that? I wonder if she’s letting him spend any time with his grandkids. Anyway, I don’t really have a strong opinion about whether Jolie should have been nominated for Best Director. I thought her direction was adequate, which is how I would also describe Morten Tyldum’s direction of The Imitation Game, and Tyldum got nominated. So… yeah. The Academy voters need to regroup and think about how they nominate and award films.
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I dunno… I’m a huge Brangeloonie and after seeing Unbroken I think the fact that it wasn’t nominated for much is because it really wasn’t very good. The pacing was off and it was honestly more like a couple of hours of heavy-handed inspirational music and torture pr0n.
I would have looooooved it if they had attended though! But like…just because I think Angelina the person is awesome doesn’t make everything she does automatically great 🙂
It just wasn’t a good film,and she is not a great director. None of the critics were impressed by her directing skills or the overall movie.Alejandro really deserved his Oscar. And the other directors who were nominated also deserved their nominations. I mean, did her fans seriously think she was gonna get all the Oscars when she is an still considered an unproven director? Jolie and Universal for sure thought Unbroken was gonna sweep everything. Until the reviews came out. They even hired an Oscar campaign strategist even before a single scene was shoot. They campaigned for 1 whole year and got nothing. So much money was spent on the promotion and the Oscar campaign. It went to waste really.
And I know Jolie has 2 Oscar, but she does not have a Best Director or Best Picture, which were the ones she was after and are two of the most prestigious Oscars probably. More then her 15 year old Best Supporting Actress and her Honorary one. So don’t say she wasn’t after or cares for the Oscars, she certainly wanted those two.
Poor Angelina with her less prestigious 15(!) year old Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar and her more recent Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Honorary Oscar. How shall she go on? Maybe she can console herself with the knowledge that she has 2 more Oscars than some people!
@ Zut Alors
Aww, I love the ignorant and the blind-fan delusion you guys suffer from really. You honestly don’t think she didn’t care about Best Director or Best Picture Oscars? if she didn’t then why did she run an expensive and 1 year long Oscar campaign and hired an Oscar campaign strategist before a single scene of the movie was shot? She played the hardest and lost the biggest. Have a nice day .
You don´t fool nobody . You can´t be a Jolie-Pitt fan if you think Angie did not deserve a Oscar nomination in Best Movie and Direction for “Unbroken”.
If you really saw the movie and appreciated cinema, you, and no one, can describe this movie as a “torture p.o.r.n “. Just because you learn that new-dumb-critic-word recently it´s not the best form to criticize “Unbroken”.
What i don´t get is why you don´t like the movie and the Angie Direction, when the great majority of the public enjoyed and have said that the movie was really good and very well done. And the box-office numbers are there to prove. More than 160 millions dollars worldwide.
Maybe you are the few that don´t like the movie but don´t say that you are a JP-fan, no fan of Angie would post something so …. untrue and offensive.
A Angie fan would love the movie because it was a beautiful, emotional and heroic movie and Angie work very hard for more than two years to give the world this amazing history.
You sound deranged really. Its possible to be a fan of a celebrity and not like everything they do or say. That being said, no, Angelina and Unbroken were not ‘snubbed’ or ‘robbed’ of an Oscar. The movie and her direction were not that great or awards worthy sorry. Which talented and seasoned director should have been taken out to make room for her? Who? You sound obsessed and creepy.
We know Jon, we know.
This dude…I still remember him teary eyed on tv begging Angelina to get help . I can’t keep up with this dudes 180s.
Lol, that’s like more than a decade ago though, they’ve been pretty consistent for a while now.
Also, before that embarrassing TV moment, their relationship seemed like there was a lot of love and try but not a lot of understanding, especially from Jon’s side.
I’m just going to say it. He creeps me out.
The Oscars’ ceremony needs an intervention pronto. If they keep dragging endlessly a show that could easily end in 1 hour and a half for 3 hours, in the next few years there won’t be many people tuned in to watch it.
‘Unbroken’ was a good film in my opinion but it doesn’t mean everytime Angelina does soemething it has to be nominated.
And ‘Oscar’ doesn’t mean ‘the best’. It just means that you have a good PR team and a lot of spare time to go to the Academy events.
I think part of the problem with the Oscars, besides being a huge yawn fest, is that, there are so many award shows these days. They have one or two a week, for months before the Oscars. We’ve already seen who is going to win, what they are going to say… same old, same old…How many times can these narcissist’s give each other awards and pat each other on the back, and act like they just discovered the cure for cancer? I am boycotting all award shows from now on…I can see anything interesting the next day on the internet!
I agree. By the time the Oscars air, people are bored and done with it.
I disagree, many people in general do not follow the award season exhaustively as some (like us gossip followers) do. Many people I know, particularly out of the USA d not care much about many awards. On the posters they do not put uo an “oscar winner” banner, but foe the oscar winner they usually do. It draws more people it.
In my country Gravity came and went without a lot of glory, but after Cuaron won, they re-released it.
He was probably a voter.
He probably is a member of the academy, he’s been nominated once I think.
He’s an AA winner for best actor, and was nominated 3 more times.
He is a voter, and could not convince any of his fellow colleagues to vote for his daughter. I am sure he wanted Jolie to win, but she doesn’t deserve a Best Director or Best Picture Oscar sorry.
He seriously deserves an Oscar for his role in Ray Donovan. If she has any talent it’s thanks to him. There. I said it!
Isn’t Ray Donovan a television show?
Yes. It’s a great show. I think Ginger meant he deserves an Emmy. 🙂
Actually, he’s so good in it, I want him to have an Oscar for it!!! 😉
Maybe it’s because I’m missing the tone but he doesn’t sound mad at all. He’s her dad so of course he wants to see her win.
I think the main reason the Oscars were blah.
1) alot of the films nobody really heard of. And while that’s usually the case for Oscar it seemed doubly true this year. 8 films were nominated for best pic but off the top if my head (birdman, imitation, theory of everytjing, AS) I know four.
2) the movie that could have been the juggernaut was polarizing and controversial. To some, American Sniper was a jingoistic sanitized version of a racist sociopaths memoirs.
3. No big currnt stars in the main categories. Eddie Redmayne is not fully a thing here yet. Micheal Keaton peaked in the 80s.
The women’s categories were stronger but still. There was no Mathew or Affleck.
4. No breakout newcomer to rally around. There was no Lupita this year. Even Jared Leto who for so long was on the fringe of celebrity could be viewed as an outsider and underdog last year.
It all added up for a bland underwhelming evening.
I didn’t think that gown was terrible! I loved Angelina’s Versace gown!!! I thought she looked stunning that year, leg or no leg!!!!
+10000000
Her face was breathe taking!
As a matter of fact it still is! 🙂 😉
Her face is amazing i agree. The leg looks weird though.
I met Jon at a fundraiser several years ago. He is very tall and very nice. There was a line of people waiting to meet him, and his handlers had to have a talk with him to try to get him to move the line along more quickly, as he was just very chatty with everyone, like 5 minutes would go by and he’d still be chatting with the same person. He didn’t listen to his handlers and continued chatting to the guests for as long as he felt like. He talked to my husband for 10 minutes, and that only ended because a handler physically brought up another guest to meet him, and even then he continued talking over the handler’s head. He is a super chatty guy! He was great.
Good post, Kaiser. You make excellent points.
i was really rooting for unbroken to win for best cinematography, the big reason i liked it was for how beautiful it looked! other than that, i didnt feel like it deserved to be in other big categories, i loved angie’s direction and everything and i know what she wanted to do with this story, but it was very a one-tone story (it’s basically 2 hours of him overcoming abuse) that relies heavily on jack’s acting which was good and im sure was overlooked by the academy people that voted for american sniper
I agree about cinematography, it was breathtaking. Roger Deakins is slowly becoming the Susan Lucci of the Academy Awards.
I LOVE Roger Deakins photography, he is tied in my mind with Emmanuel Lubezki, who won twice in a row last year and this one.
The secret garden, The little princess, fabulous cinematography from both. They are in my short list of most beautiful movies ever.
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The Shawshank redemption, the Long Way Home, so many from Deakins, but also from El Chivo: Meet Joe Black, Tree of life, Sleepy Hollow.
I am glad Lubezki has finally been recognized, I really wish Deakins gets his due too.
Voight is absolutely incredible on Ray Donovan. Actually all the acting in that show is great (though Voight is the best of a terrific cast) — I wish the writing were half as good as the acting. Jolie absolutely inherited a lot of his talent, and I hope her skills grow over time, as his did. (I for one will be really really sad if she retires from acting.)
I think that Pitt encouraged Jolie to reconnect with her father after her mother died. I can’t find a source but I remember reading that somewhere (who knows maybe it was a tabloid but I can see this happening). I don’t think Jolie and Voight will ever be close but I think the Pitt-Jolies allow him to visit and spend time with the grandkids as long as he doesn’t talk about their private lives to the press.
He’s really amazing on Ray Donovan.
Angelina was interviewed by ABC’s Cynthia McFadden when she was on the promotional tour for Salt in 2010. Cynthia asked her if Brad was responsible for her reconnecting with her father and Angelina point blank said no.
” I thought her direction was adequate, which is how I would also describe Morten Tyldum’s direction of The Imitation Game, and Tyldum got nominated. So… yeah. The Academy voters need to regroup and think about how they nominate and award films.”
Uh no sorry. Morten Tyldum’s directorn for TIG was far better then Jolie for Unbroken. Having seen both films I can understand why Morten got the Best Director nom and not Jolie. Jolie really lacks some majors skills to be a director, Morten’s directorn was good. Unbroken just wasn’t that good sorry. Her direction was one of these things that was panned for the movie. You know, there is a reason why the category is called “Best Director”, not “Best Mediocre Director ” Or ” Worst Director”.
and yet the happiest part of all this was that unbroken has made more money than boyhood birdman the imitation game etc
And yet American Sniper, which made close to 400 millon so far AND got major Oscars nom beat Unbroken in every possible way too. Better Movie, Better Acting, Better Direction, Better plot,etc.
I know you Angie fans are all just jealous and upset at those directors and their films which got the Oscars and not her. Keep bringing up her measly 149 million and claim that its a hit. its not.