Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Mickey Moore Totally Out of Oscar Contention

Well the Flatulent Fool From Flint Failed to get into the Oscar contention for best picture.
Hurray!
Though this news article is a bit suspect.
Michael Moore's Bush-bashing Fahrenheit 9/11 lost its bid to become the first documentary nominated for best picture. And Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ was nominated for cinematography, score and makeup.

"Fahrenheit 9/11 won the top prize at Cannes, the People's Choice Award, opened No. 1 at the box office and grossed ($220.7 million) worldwide," Moore said. "That's more good fortune than any film deserves for one year."

Fahrenheit would have been a contender for best documentary, a category Moore's Bowling for Columbine won in 2003. But his decision to air the movie on TV before the presidential election disqualified it in the documentary category. And Bush's re-election cooled passion for the film. "With who's in the White House, it was too political," says Kamal Larsuel of the movie site 3blackchicks.com.
I want someone to tell me how Farehfarce qualifies as a documentary. Beyond the deceptive editing and the outright errors, how is that a documentary?

So maybe the academy isn't a complete farce this year?

Gibson's "Passion of Christ" didn't get in either, but he didn't even try.

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