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     Peter_d Member Username: Peter_d Post Number: 44 Registered: 05-2005 |
From last night's Oscars.. http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/02/24/o nce-actress-marketa-irglovas-wonderful-o scar-acceptance-speech/ | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 436 Registered: 01-2006 |
It shouldn't have qualified as it wasn't written specifically for the film. The Academy made the mistake of including it in the noninations and then hadn't the balls to remove it once they found out it was written before the film. It appears on three different records, two by the Frames and one of the soundtrack. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 24 Registered: 02-2008 |
The Academy's lack of sack was our gain then. what a gorgeous song and what a great moment when it won. Glenn and the Check girl seem like super nice people and I'm chuffed that they won. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1052 Registered: 01-2005 |
I thought is was the best moment of the night when the song from Once won, despite the eligibility error that wasn't acted on. I'm also glad that the French woman won Best Actress for playing Edith Piaf. | ||
| Peter_d Member Username: Peter_d Post Number: 45 Registered: 05-2005 |
I agree, I'm not a huge Frames fan but everyone deserves to be cut a bit of slack once in a while..and what nice words she spoke too.. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 437 Registered: 01-2006 |
Yeah fair play to them though The Frames do very very little for me, a lot of their stuff sounds the same I think and this sounds like just any other one of their songs...Hansard has now been in two Oscar winning films, BoNo won't be happy.... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2070 Registered: 05-2005 |
What was the other one? | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 444 Registered: 01-2006 |
My mistake thought the Commitments won something too. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1053 Registered: 01-2005 |
Glen played Outspan Foster in The Commitments, who was long haired guitar player in the band. Gerry Hambling, The Commitments, was up for the 1991 Oscar for Film Editing, but lost to Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia in JFK. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 29 Registered: 02-2008 |
Are the Frames any good? If there stuff is one half as good, nay one-twentieth as good, as Glen's solo stuff, I am most certainly interested. I still think that was the best, most greatest moment of the Oskies. Seconded only by Marion Cotiallardi in her beautimous fish dress. I would never throw her back, heh heh! | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 145 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ewan wrote: "Are the Frames any good?" Imho - in a word 'no'. If popularity is a benchmark of quality then one would at least have to concede that in Ireland the Frames are good, and analogously that the Go-betweens were not any good the world over. The logic of this theory seems (even to me!) manifestly flawed but there you have it anyway ... |