2005 Academy Awards

[anna]

Ok, so I give up. I thought I the internet was my friend, but I'm totally stumped on this (seemingly pretty easy) one:
 
I know that the 2005 Academy Awards are this Sunday 27th Feb, but...
 
I cannot find anywhere: information on which channel, and at what time, the 2005 Oscars are being screened on TV in the UK.
 
And more importantly: if highlights are being screened the following evening.

I'll be well impressed if you can find out!

Does anyone remember what of the awards was shown on TV last year? I'm sure it was more than just the Jonathan Ross Film 2005 review on BBC1, but that's all I can find for this year!

The reason? We're planning to have an extremely exclusive, glamorous and intimate "Oscars Party" at our flat.

The prize for the info: a personal invitation!

 B)

 

[skepticaloptimist]

Anna,
just in case you are unable to find this year's Academy Awards, I will now give you psychic predictions so that you won't feel as though you're missing anything (and then you can have a glitzy party and not be bothered by having to pay attention to the winner for Best Art Direction prattle on and on about people you don't know who are probably not all that impressive anyway):

Chris Rock will offend three people before he finishes his first monologue.  One of those people may be Scarlett Johannsen.

Someone who wins an award for doing something that you'd be hard pressed to explain will thank a litany of people and perhaps even God (though likely not).  The orchestra will play over the part where they attempt to thank their third cousin once removed.  There will then be a commercial.

Another person who wins an award for doing something you'd be hard pressed to explain will deliver a generally amusing speech in which nobody is thanked but everyone has a couple good chuckles.

The person/people who win one of the following categories will make a politically charged speech: documentary, documentary short, animated short.

The person who wins the foreign language award will make a speech.  You may understand anywhere between 3 and 12 words.

There will be several musical performances that will go to great lengths to wow and amaze.  They will, however, fail.

Someone will be given a lifetime achievement award and take that as a cue to give a speech lasting approximately another lifetime.  Though you won't see it, many people in the audience will get up and go to the bathroom at this time.

There will be a morbid slideshow of dead people.  Somewhere near the end they will show Arthur Miller.  Across the Atlantic, I'll be fighting back tears... we'll never speak of this again.

The event will last approximately four hours.  The end will be disappointing.

I hope that helps.

[JJHards]

Hmmmmmm, this is difficult.  I've been trying for about 15minutes...and nothing....

I watched them last year on tv, but I'm not sure if that was terrestrial or sky/cable/freeview?

[JJHards]

I'm getting closer...

A clue

I think I'm just one step away

[JJHards]

YES! Nailed it...but it took a lot longer than it should have, maybe 20 minutes...

THE ANSWER

Now to look for the highlights...

[JJHards]

And now I've got the skills, the answers just keep on coming...

highlights




Here endeth the lesson

[JJHards]

And So, to recap



77th Annual Academy Awards

Monday 28, 01:30, Sky Movies 1

Live coverage of the Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by motor-mouthed comedian Chris Rock, with Kate Winslet, Jamie Foxx, Imelda Staunton and Morgan Freeman among the stars hoping for success

Highlights[/font]

Monday 28, 21:00, Sky One

Sharon Osbourne, Amanda Byram and Jamie Theakston present a selection of memorable moments from last night's ceremony, revealing how the winners reacted to their triumph - and how the losers dealt with their disappointment
 

[JJHards]

AND FINALLY.

What I have learnt from this is that although everyone in the entire world knows it as the oscars, and has done for ages and ages...People are still using it's official title and calling it the academy awards, which obviously didn't help my searching...

I'm slowly recalling a similar experience last year (spending ages looking when the oscars was on, only to find out everyone was calling it the academy awards)

The other point to note is that I hope everyone has noticed that ADAPTATION is the film before the live oscars broadcast, that's right, adaptation, one of the best films of recent years, and one of the bet screenplays ever (possibly)

[anna]

[Zooey]

Cheers to SkepticalOptimist for making me laugh, and for being pretty accurate at the same time.

[skepticaloptimist]

Three words for you:  Worst.  Oscars.  Ever.

If we're keeping track of highlights, here they are:
Jan Kaczmarek
The weird little move that the guy who won for best song did when accepting the award from Prince, followed by a shot of Antonio Banderas crossing himself
The strange sense of satisfaction I got from seeing Annette Bening lose again (don't ask why)

... and that pretty much does it.  I would make a list of the lowlights, but I simply don't have the time at the moment, so we'll leave it at this:
For some reason, Carson gets a whole segment and the guy who produced Rambo: First Blood gets at least a mention in the Montage of Morbidity, but there's nothing about Arthur Miller?  The man went to bat for the entire industry against the HUAC, wrote a few decent screenplays, and was married to maybe the most iconic star of the century, and not even a mention?  I just can't go on.

[rcjohnso]

God, why do I watch these things every year when I know it's just going to get me angry?  When I know I'm just going to Ignatius J. Reilly out on their Oscar asses?  It's at the point where if I was one of the people who won an Oscar, I'd go home, look at myself in the mirror and do some serious soul searching about what I did wrong.  The Oscars are so out of touch and totally irrelevant, it's nearly painfull.  No Life Aquatic?  No Director/Best Picture noms for Eternal Sunshine??  Eastwood beat Marty???  Swank beat ANYBODY?  And what's up with those songs, man?  Those songs represent the soul of the Academy Awards.

And SEAN PENN IS A TRUE AND PURE REPRESENTATION OF THE ARSE OF A FULL GROWN HORSE.  What a humorless jackass.

I better go drink some tea before I type any more.

[kimanche]

God, why do I watch these things every year when I know it's just going to get me angry?

don't you watch because it makes you angry, and because the awards are so out of touch with what is actually happening; just like they have been since 1941, when Citizen Kane didn't win best picture, but How Green was my Valley did. Any award you can win by spending $100 million competing for $400 statute is not one you want to enter is it?

[marke]

To add to the list of complaints:

Paul Giamatti didn't even get nominated??

And seriously, what is Sean Penn's problem???

[crazyjane]

Rian, how can you blaspheme The Tabernacle of Talent like that. You know you want to make out with Sean Penn, so quit bitching.

Love,
Jane