One of many reasons why autocorrect is The Devil!

Totally with you on as to your point, but I’m guessing autocorrect screwed you on the actress’s name. Emma Watson starred in the live-action Beauty and The Beast; Emily Watson starred in Breaking the Waves. Not quite the same audience ;-)

Hey, those dream kitchens of hers don’t come cheap...

Dennis was Cher’s leading man in Suspect, but Liam Neeson was the actual suspect Cher was defending in Suspect. :)

I guess because no one in her family was smart enough to actually pass it...

I very much doubt I am older than your dead grandpa, but you should probably be advised that there are, in fact, lots of people who do exactly THAT for movie award ceremonies from 60+ years ago. Many books have been published on the subject.

Have you read Ted Sennett’s book Hollywood’s Golden Year, 1939? Great argument for that year as the peak year in film history.

There was no way the Academy wasn’t going to give the award to GWTW. The making of that movie was front-page news for more than 3 years, the “search for Scarlett O’Hara” was legendary, just about every actor and craftsman in Hollywood wanted to be a part of it (except of course poor Leslie Howard). It would have won…

To the Academy’s (partial) credit, Titanic’s 14 Oscar nominations did not include a Screenplay nod. James Cameron is a visionary and a genius when it comes to film technology, but the man can’t write.

Midnight Cowboy is the one that won Best Picture that year, not True Grit. Were you thinking of the Best Actor race instead? (John Wayne winning over both Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight?)

I remember reading that she assigned the members of her writing staff numbers so she wouldn’t have to learn their names. I’ve definitely heard quite a lot about it being a toxic workplace. (Although Brett Butler and Cybill Shepherd faced similar accusations, so we can’t completely discount misogyny as a factor there.)

Having famous friends shill for you strikes me as somewhat less embarrassing than shilling for yourself. (Look up the Oscar campaigns of Chill Wills, Sally Kirkland, Margaret Avery, and Melissa Leo for some of the most cringe-inducing examples.)

I was kind of hoping for Vatican City.

Uh, I have 2 film degrees, of course I don’t think The Godfather was a crap movie! (I wasn’t the commenter who mentioned it, and hadn’t even seen their comment when I last replied.)

Well, the first movie was crap, so the sequel didn’t have a high bar to clear ;-)

A sequel, actually — and arguably one better than its predecessor — but I get where you’re coming from. I was gobsmacked that the National Board of Review named Top Gun: Maverick as the Best Film of 2022, but less so that the HFPA (a notorious bunch of starfuckers) fawned over it.

I gasped out loud when he delivered that joke and said on my Facebook feed “Oh man, say goodbye to Jerrod! The Church of Scientology is coming for him.”

Yeah, not sure what the deal was there. Possibly they decided they were happier with whoever was filling in than with the woman on medical leave.

I know of someone who had been out of the office for some months (on medical leave), and when she informed the higher-ups that she was ready to come back, her boss invited her to a “welcome back” breakfast at a nice restaurant for the morning she would resume work. When she walked into the restaurant, she saw the head…

He’s been married to Suzy for nearly 23 years now! And she did look like Skeletor the last time I saw her at a red carpet event.