Outrage over "The Passion" being snubbed at the Oscars!

[romantico]

Okay, knew this was gonna happen. Talked to my brother this morning who lives in Illinois & he said last night on his ride home on a local AM talk radio show, the hoast was furious that 'The Passion' was overlooked in major categories. He felt it should have been received a Best Picure, Best director, Best Actor, Best actress, Best supporting Actor, Best supporting Actress, & Best Screenplay nod as well as the other three. He mentiod FreeRepublc & a few other right wing websites where he said he was organizig something "Very Big'for Hollywood.

My brother said he ouldn't turn the dial because the guy sounded like a complete nut. He was screaming at parts of this rant & said he did not sound well. When he came back from a break his voice was so hoarse he could barely underand what he was saying. He said the guy was pounding his fist, insulting Leo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet & Natalie Portman the most for some reason. He then went off on a Barbra Streisand rant which was weird because she wasn't even nominated, but he felt she was the reason so many liberals were nominated. This host blames 'liberal Hollywood' for this. Here were his argumnets.

Leo Dicaprio-Best actor nomination (campaigned for Kerry)

Jamie Fox- Best actor nomination (campaigned for Kerry)

Don Cheadle- Best actor nomination (has supported Democrats in the past according to newsmeat)

Johhny Depp- Best actor nomination (lives in France & says bad things about the USA & Bush)

I thought it was funny he left Clint Eastwood off the list, but I guess it would weaken his arguments.

Annette Bening - Best actress nomination (active liberal & wife of Warren Beatty, another active liberal)

Kate Winslet- Best actress nomination (Spoke out against the war in Iraq & has said very unkind words about Tony Blair )

Alan Alda- Best supporting actor (Well known liberal)

Morgan Freeman- Best supporting actor (Well known liberal, campaigned for Kerry, & narrated 'The Hunting of the President' has gone on record saying Bill Clinton is the best President he's seen in his lifetime)

Clive Owen- Best supporting actor (Has spoken out against the war in Iraq, refered to Bush while doing press last summer for 'King Arthur' as being "A Very Blank Man on the inside"

Natalie Portman- Best supporting actress (Campaigned for Kerry, hosted a party at the Democratic Convention in Boston this past summer, told a reporter Bill Clinton is a babe & is very hot!)

Cate Blanchet-Best supporting actress (Has said very unkind things about Bush & urged people to see 'Fahrenheit 911' calling it an amazing piece of film)

I will post his comments from his website tonight when my brother sends it to me but it sounds like this guy is trying to organize something big. Don't be surprised if this story gets a ittle bigger over the next week or so. Another thing my brother thought was odd. This guy did not mention "Fahrenheit 911" once. Nor did he mention Michael Moore, other than reporting that Cate Blanchet liked the film & said kind words about it. How can you leave Michael Moore out of such a discussion?liberal Media my ass!

[WI_DEM]

1. The oscar list this year looks good to me.

[Jawja]

46. Looks good to me too,

and I hope both DiCaprio and Winslet win.

Winslet was robbed of the "Titanic" Oscar, in my must humble opinion.

[Cocoa]

2. that's the radio guy's job

if he didn't rant about Oscar's insult to Jesus, what kind of right-wing radio screamer would he be?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. We are at War! These right wing SOB's are Hitler to me!

We must destroy them at all costs!!!

:grr:

[Bertha Venation]

4. These people need to get a life. We're talking about ENTERTAINMENT.

Not the Word of God. Give me a break.

[5X]

5. Today show must have spent ten minutes on this n/t

[skippythwndrdog]

6. The Passion should have been included.

It's an excellent film.

[yardwork]

8. It sounds like the guy who played Jesus deserves an Oscar for something

but I didn't see it, so I don't have an opinion.

[ET Awful]

9. But there is no category for being doused in the most fake blood

and I heard they removed the category for Best Leading Actor in a Snuff Film.

[AllyCat]

10. Well, yeah there is...it was nominated for make-up n/t

[henrik larssonisking]

13. i concur

jim cavezial was amazing, never really heard of the guy before but i was very impressed with his acting. Im actually surprised at the number of people who attack this movie without actually seeing it, its kinda like the right wingers who attacked f911.

[ET Awful]

14. I have seen it. . . I thought it sucked.

It was just an overblown snuff film.

[DrWeird]

16. Oh?

You speak Aramaic?

[henrik larssonisking]

17. no

but my jewish wife does and hebrew and she was impressed, as was i when she could translate a lot of the language. She also thought it was a very good movie as an artistic piece, even though to her the subject wasnt a part of her beliefs.

[wickywom]

32. What the hell?

If the Titanic was in Aramaic it wouldn't have won either..
Its a movie award not a religious one.

[DrWeird]

34. If the Titanic was in Aramaic...

I wouldn't be going on and on about how Leonardo Dicaprio gave an Oscar worthy performance.

[jdj]

43. Cavezial?

Well, how many facial expressions are there for ouch?

He was in "The Radio".

[jdj]

41. that's like saying that porn actors should get nominated as well.

I'm not saying they shouldn't, but the Oscars generally don't include strict S&M films, whether they are made for religious or sexual gratification.

[Zebulon]

7. It *must* be

due to liberal bias and (implicitly) those "Hollywood Jews". It couldn't possibly be that the film just wasn't that good. /sarcasm

[GoldenOldie]

11. Hillarious - Fundies attack "The Hollywood Elite"

Throughout the Bush Administration the Fundies and the "liberal media" with full support of Rove have attacked "The Hollywood Elite," (only those who oppose GWBush & CO) as being traitors, pinko's, uneducated slime, etc., etc.

Now they are attacking Hollywood for not giving their rubber-stamp approval to a "MOVIE!" I am awaiting for the Fundies to proclaim Passion of the Christ, was written, directed, and produced, by GOD himself.

Just when ya think they can't get any weirder....they do.

[jdj]

44. According to Fox News Edge in Charlotte, its because of Jewish people

who do the nominating.

Even more sad, this came out of the mouth of Beth Troutman, a democratic talking head on this show.

[question everything]

39. I wonder, too, when they will start blaming the "Hollywood mafia"

which would be a code word for the Jews in Hollywood.

I am kinda glad that neither was nominated.

[earth mom]

12. Thank God they snubbed it! n/t

[ooglymoogly]

15. actors for the most part are very intelligent people

some made it with a pretty face mg comes to mind.

[ooglymoogly]

18. the trailers were enough to make me puke

why torture yourself with this sadistic fantasy. looked to me like a sadistic serial killer's dream.

[henrik larssonisking]

21. as a conservative catholic

ill try to explain what i got from the film, even though i know the trials of the passion to actually witness (even though its just an interpretation) the suffering that jesus went through for me, was immense. The whole point of the Passion is to show that god gave his only son so we could be saved, if you believe the bible jesus at any point could have succumbed to satan and spared himself the pain, but he didnt.

[Bridget Burke]

26. Since The Passion was so meaningful in a spiritual sense....

It should not be sullied by such a worldly bauble as an Oscar nomination.

[henrik larssonisking]

27. personally

i dont care if it got oscars, but if you are going to judge it as a movie, then some of the performences were exceptional.

[DrWeird]

37. Well, then nothing personal...

but a catholic conservative remarking on the quality of The Passion of the Christ carries about as much weight as an N'Sync fan remarking about the quality of From Justin to Kelly.

[anarchy1999]

19. Just makes me laugh. Awww. "The Passion" got snubbed. Unbelievable

these days what people get "upset" about. Don't we have a new reality show coming up soon? The Apprentice comes to mind.

Never mind everyone, go back to your TV.

I do believe that I heard "The Passion" did receive 2 or 3 nominations though, maybe make-up was one. Not sure, anyone else?

[Beaverhausen]

20. I thought Mel actually spoke out against the war?

didn't he?

[henrik larssonisking]

22. yup he did

but i believe it was lost in the attacks apon him.

[PA Democrat]

47. Why should his stance on the war have anything to do with

Oscar nominations or lack thereof?

[fujiyama]

23. Waaaa Waaaa!

Stupid RWers whining about something.

They used to accuse liberals of playing the victim. They've done a hell of a job themselves.

Clint Eastwood was nominated. I heard he's a republican. Michael Moore and F 9/11 was not nominated for anything, so this apparent "bias" is not existant.

BTW why wasn't F 9/11 nominated for best picture? I though it had something to do with getting the film on PPV?

Anyways, I haven't seen the other films that were nominated but I did see the Passion. It wasn't all that great...and I think the Academy Awards rightly overlooked it for bp. After all, Passion was nominated for several other awards though - cinematography, Original Score, makeup, etc. IMO that itself is generous.

But it didn't deserve a Best picture nomination. It simply wasn't that good.

[porkrind]

24. What if they made a jesus film and nobody cared.

Yawn.

[bvar22]

25. This just proves what everybody already knows.

Do the math:

Intelligence
Education
Travel
Creativity
LIBERAL



"...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." ---Karl Rove

[wickywom]

28. give me a break...it's a movie!

people sacrifice their lives for others every day in this world... and they are real
our nation is obsessed with the gore -- This freakish love of this film goes hand in hand with dead fetus posters and the rest of the fundementalists' desire to not see reality ... like dead iraqi children.

They are turning a beautiful religion filled with hope into a worthless death cult.
Just my opinion.

[Seemann For Congress]

29. They're lying

Passion was NOT snubbed. It was nominated for Best Cinematography in a Motion Picture AND Best Makeup in a Motion Picture.

In fact, it got two more nominations than Fahrenheit 9/11 did.

Shove that in their face when they say it got snubbed.....then ask them if they were or were not declaring the Oscars as "irrelevant" 2 years ago when Bowling For Columbine won.

[ComerPerro]

30. right wingers get off on feeling persecuted

Why do you think they complain about a liberal media. They control everything else, so they have to pretend that there is something holding them back.

It goes the same for this whole "war on Christianity" bullshit.

[wickywom]

31. this whole thing is creepy..

Their irrational response to being "snubbed" by people they so frequently loathe looks to me like some bizarre on- mass insecurity issue and need for exceptance.


I lost all fatith in the academy after the Titanic... which I thought was a piece of crap...how hard could it be to make an exact replica of a giant boat with millions and millions of dollars and thousands of Mexicans working for almost nothing ...

[MrModerate]

33. Freepers just don't get it. Snuff films never do well at the Oscars

n/t

[mark414]

35. haha the freepers are just jealous

that all of our celebrities are actually cool/talented

[Felix Mala]

36. That's why professionals make the nominations

Directors nominate directors, make up people nominate make up people. True every one gets to nominate a best picture, but it's based on the quality of the film more so than the subject of the film. Even in the bad old conservative Hollywood times, biblical epics, Ben Hur excepted, rarely won. The experts agree, The Passion was simply not good enough.

[rocktivity]

38. I'll be he was happy about 9/11 Being snubbed at the Oscars

:evilgrin:
rocknation

[jakefrep]

40. Just another helping of right-wing victimhood n/t

[newportdadde]

42. The only thing I get from this is Liberals = Better actors.

Maybe its because of RW lack of souls? :)

[txaslftist]

45. Well...it's not really an original story.

I mean Mel totally stole the plot from the Bible. It's complete plagiarism. The whole script was literally swiped from another book.

Sure, translating it into Aramaic was meant to disguise this plagiarism, but with the subtitles we could all see right through it!

Originality has to stand for something!

[PA Democrat]

48. I'm outraged that Ben Affleck didn't get nominated for best actor

last year for his role in Gigli.

:evilgrin:

[ignatzmouse]

49. Who Do They Think Made The Movie -- Des Moines, Iowa???

These guys are all about blaming Hollywood values, but who made the movie in the first place? They also like to spout about the Hollywood elite who are out of touch with middle class America, and yet they seem to run an actor for office at every turn. Funny that.

[sophie996]

50. shades of mccarthy

here we go again! it's not the first time hollywood's been under attack. remember HUAC, the hollywood 10? the blacklist?

some background: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html

can't kick communism around any more, so "liberal" will have to do.