When it comes to hyping the Oscars, ABC has two rabbits in its hat. Nightline and Oprah. Nightline lends respectability and Oprah brings the numbers. JustJared reports that ABC’s Nightline will start their countdown to Oscar and of course, it looks like they’re leading with Angelina Jolie who, it sounds like, must talk yet again about Brad and the kids:
On her Oscars nomination: I feel very very lucky that I have won in the past. Listen, it’s lovely to be nominated. But I’m hoping Benjamin Button does really good on the night…. I’m rooting for Brad [Pitt].
42 Responses for "Nightline’s Countdown to Oscar Starts Tonight"
aww Angie wants her man to win. How nice. Unfortunately, I think they are overrated so I could care less. I can’t wait to see Angie face when she loses (again) come Oscar night.
Of course she’ll talk about Brad and the kids. That’s the only subject people are interested about her. Really, I can’t understand how this chick was nominated for all that sobbing and screaming in The Changeling. Thank God neither she or Brad will win anything.
They did an interview with Meryl streep last night. It’s pretty good. Im sure it’s on the website.
Cool. I’m glad Nightline is going to be talking Oscar for awhile. Cut down all this news and politics lately have been over exposed. Oh well can’t wait to see Angelina Jolie.
Imagine if Sally Hawkins had gotten a nod instead of Angie, or Rosmarie DeWitt instead of Taraji. Then we’d have a real horse race!
Can we please lay off Angelina Jolie – you “haters” – and that’s what you are – really think that Angelina Jolie is such a bad actress??? Have you seen Changeling? Have you seen A Mighty Heart? Have you seen Gia – girl can act.
You want to hate someone, hate the press and constant bloggers who salivate over anything to write about her.
Do I think she will or should win for Changeling? Yes, I do. I also that she was robbed of a nomination last year as well.
I don’t think she will… obviously. But I can’t wait for the cut to her reaction afterwards. Her death stare at Hathaway is still my favorite this awards season.
filmboymichael
it’s unfair to blame the Jolie-Pitt media coverage strictly on media outlets. Both actors are equally toying with the press. They know what they are doing and they have mastered the fine art of manipulating the press for their self-interests.
Case in point, pictures of SHiloh to people, the picture of Angie breast-feeding (supposedly from Brad’s personal archive), the non-stop world tour, strategic information leaks during the child birth in France and the list goes on.
The press and celebrities feed of each other (in most cases and in this case) so don’t look at things from one side of the equation.
I need to take back something I posted earlier – I don’t think that Jolie should win for Changeling – I meant to convey that I think she deserves her nomination.
Afrika,
I really don’t see your point at all – I think that the Jolie-Pitt clan are very media savvy to sell pictures to mag publications – and then (horror of horrors) donate the money to charity….how manipulative indeed.
The point i was trying to get across is that the constant media coverage (mags/blogs/haters, etc.) clouds the talent that she possesses…it was a clear point, but i see you missed it.
I knew this post would bring out the Brangelina haters. It’s only a matter of time before someone mentions Jennifer Aniston…D’oh!
you had to go THERE, didn’t you Alfredo!
Angelina has always said that award shows aren’t really her thing. It’s because she’s very professional, in my opinion, that she attends them in support of her films. And this year she wants to support Brad, who has not yet won an Oscar – she’s more his “plus one” than anything else.
Plus she is an amazing actress, deserving of this nomination. It’s not “her year” (we all know that), but that’s no reason to dog her nomination as if she is some talentless actress. Sheesh!
She was terrific in this movie, and it`s not her fault that she is the most famous women in the World. I saw a picture of her promoting Changeling in Japan and there about 300 photog. in the room. Its not her fault thats everybody (special overseas and in the third world) knows who she is. Of course Winslet doesnt LOL.
To Africa
Jolie and Pitt donated 8 million dollars in 2008. You should be happy about that, because you know the oscars and just the oscars.
Good for her. She knows she has no shot of winning. It is a shame that she took up a spot that could have gone to either Sally Hawkins or Kristin Scott Thomas. They both deserved to be nominated. Maybe even over Melissa Leo for what might deserve an Indie Spirit win only.
I love Angie. But I didn’t care for the film, and I think it’s possible for people to be resentful of her this year not because of her enviable personal life but because her performance was pure Oscar-mugging. I’m usually not against that, but it was stereotypical, not that great, and amid a strong group of lead actress performances this year. But none of that is Jolie’s fault.
Angie is an excellent actress when the script (especially dialog) is good. Changeling was not well written. I consider this nomination as a “make-up” for not nominating her far better performance in “A Mighty Heart” (not a great script, but an excellent performance).
It’s too bad “Gia” was made-for-television. I’ve seen all of her films (yes, many of them truly suck) and I still feel that is her very best (and most Oscar-worthy) work to date.
GO ANGIEEEEE GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 CROSSED FINGERS PEOPLE
CHANGELING WAS EXCELLENT
AND HATERS FUCK OFF
THE THIRD NOMINATION IS COMING, WITH ATLAS OR THE MERCENARY SO GETTIN USED TO
GOOO ANGIEEE!!
Is it HER FAULT that Sally and Kristin not nominated??? … Is she that super powerful so that she could demand all the voters to vote for her???
That 8 million $$$$ …. gone to the hungry stomaches children in the third world. Now eat your hatred!!!!
It’s all about OSCAR in your life …
I am waiting for Jennifer Aniston fanboy/gurls now …. just a matter of minutes they’ll come.
She is beautiful, inside and out. Good to see her nominated.
She always says she doesn’t care about awards shows. While why does she show up and look angry when she loses?
I’m so tired of this woman and her need to share every tidbit of her life. Of course she is bleating on about Brad and the kids in her interview. That’s the only reason anyone cares about her. It certainly isn’t because of her stellar film career (Taking Lives, Beyond Borders, etc.) It’s because she’s the homewrecker who stole America’s Sweetheart’s husband.
And she is really starting to look haggard. She looks at least ten years older than her age. Part of it might be that she weights about 90 pounds. She is nothing but skin and bones.
I know I’ve been harsh, but I think she is a non-actor who robbed the deserving Kristin Scott Thomas, Sally Hawkins, Cate Blanchett, Michelle Williams, etc. of a nomination for their stellar work. Even Keira Knightley in The Dutchess was better than Jolie and more deserving of a nomination.
Angelina deserves the nomination, but even if the 1934 Oscars were written into the film (talk about Oscar bait), she has no shot in hell at winning!
Anyone here who still firmly believes (as opposed to just hoping) that slumdog millionaire will be upset for best picture and director?
Not me, not hoping, not believing.
Well, I don’t think Angelina is a bad actress. She’s not spectacular either. She’s average. Her best job, though, is being a “movie star”. You know what I mean. It’s truly admirable the way she was able to craft her image from crazy heroin addict/homewrecker to St. Angelina, the salvation of the impoverished people. I just wonder how come things changed so much. I’m waiting forward for Paris Hilton’s transformation too. LOL!
Now, seriously, I’m disgusted with so much exposition. It’s like she has to call the press and take a picture everytime she takes a piss (I know it’s a vulgar term, but, I don’t doubt she’ll end up doing it one of these days.) Don’t say it’s not her fault. Of course it is. Other huge Hollywood celebrities are able to live in considerable privacy and preserve their kids from this whole madness. Why can’t she?
I tell you why. She just loves the attention. She wants to be seen. She claims to want privacy. But she sells the pics of her kids to tabloids and takes millions of “intimate” pictures to magazines like W, for instance. And it’s not once in a lifetime. She does it frequently. And why talk about “Brad and the kids” all the time? Hello? Talk about The Changelling a little bit?
I used to be a fan, but I can’t stand her anymore. She sounds so self-important these days. So pretentious. She acts as if Brad and her were Bogie and Bacall. A little modesty, please.
Humanitarian? Yeah, right. I still take Paul Newman as a humanitarian. His legacy is there for everyone to see and he didn’t spend his whole life shoving his (stunning) face down our throats. Apart from his movies and his humanitarian work, you heard little from him. He lead a considerably modest life and his kids lived in privacy. Even Scott, who died in tragic conditions.
Now that someone mentioned Aniston, the Brangeloonies will have a good time labelling everyone who says something more critic about the couple as “fan of Maniston”. Can’t I dislike them both?
Well, I don’t think Angelina is a bad actress. She’s not spectacular either. She’s average. Her best job, though, is being a “movie star”. You know what I mean. It’s truly admirable the way she was able to craft her image from crazy heroin addict/homewrecker to St. Angelina, the salvation of the impoverished people. I just wonder how come things changed so much. I’m waiting forward for Paris Hilton’s transformation too. LOL!
Now, seriously, I’m disgusted with so much exposition. It’s like she has to call the press and take a picture everytime she takes a piss (I know it’s a vulgar term, but, I don’t doubt she’ll end up doing it one of these days.) Don’t say it’s not her fault. Of course it is. Other huge Hollywood celebrities are able to live in considerable privacy and preserve their kids from this whole madness. Why can’t she?
I tell you why. She just loves the attention. She wants to be seen. She claims to want privacy. But she sells the pics of her kids to tabloids and takes millions of “intimate” pictures to magazines like W, for instance. And it’s not once in a lifetime. She does it frequently. And why talk about “Brad and the kids” all the time? Hello? Talk about The Changelling a little bit?
I used to be a fan, but I can’t stand her anymore. She sounds so self-important these days. So pretentious. She acts as if Brad and her were Bogie and Bacall. A little modesty, please.
Humanitarian? Yeah, right. I still take Paul Newman as a humanitarian. His legacy is there for everyone to see and he didn’t spend his whole life shoving his (stunning) face down our throats. Apart from his movies and his humanitarian work, you heard little from him. He lead a considerably modest life and his kids lived in privacy. Even Scott, who died in tragic conditions.
Now that someone mentioned Aniston, the Brangeloonies will have a good time labelling everyone who says something more critic about the couple as “fan of Maniston”. Can’t I dislike them both?
She hopes Benjamin Button does “really good”?
Well, between you and I, I hope it doesn’t.
Between you and me, I hope it does, too.
Yes they are over-rated for anyone that wants to make a quick buck and get hits off of them…including this site. Funny how Meryl Streeps interview last night was “over looked”, so Angie’s interview tonight could be used to rile up the bloggers here. It is shameful that Angie’s past life, which she has always spoke of honestly, is thrown out at will, while say Robert Downey Jr and a few other male stars get free passes. And Downey was caught in bed with a minor, but as long as you mention Angie’s past…….
Did you expect Angie to root for anyone other than Brad? Since Aniston was brought up , she couldn’t even remember to thank him when she won an award while married to Brad. Hillary Swank did the same thing to Chad Lowe. Funny how both Jen & Hillary are no longer married to those men.
I don’t blame Angie & Brad for selling pictures of THEIR children instead of some pap lining their pockets.
I saw Changeling and Benjamin Button. Both nominations were both deserved.
Keep hoping, “Angie” (I think it’s so weird when people call celebrities by nicknames). It won’t “do well”. Benjamin Gump, oops, Button will be bombed. I’m not a fan of Slumdog Millionaire, but, hell, it will be fun to watch Angelina’s death stare again.
Kate, please forget her name again! This time, she may jump on your neck and try to kill you live on the air! So exciting. Where is the fucked up Angelina when you need her?
I just saw the interview. it was ok. To me her being nominated is also kind of a nod to Clint Eastwoord. He was shut out this year at the Oscars and his only link to the grand event is Angelina.
I think Suzanne is on the wrong message board. WTF was that incoherant rant? I don’t think you were ever a “fan”. Geez
I wish that interviewer would have asked her about Atlas Shrugged and Love & Honor. It would have been nice to hear a definitive answer about these projects instead of speculation. Oh well….
Angelina is seen as a threat because she somehow gets it all done. Family, acting, humanitarian work..while others seem to complain about their lives. Media and public love to label and box women. Robert Downey is said to have overcome his past, heck even Mickey is now labeled as the comeback while everyone scorns Angelina with some saying “where’s the old Angie?” what?you can’t deal with the new Angie? why does it pain many that this woman probably went through some dark times but seems to have come out much much better than even she ever thought.
“I’m waiting forward for Paris Hilton’s transformation too. LOL!”
I think nobody would stop her doing that if she wants!
“It’s like she has to call the press”
Do you have any proof that their publicist doing that? Even some celebrity admit that the exposure the media has put on them has been beyond a super narcistic celeb could even bear it!
Brangelina hate it but they gave in in return they expect that the media can also look at their humanitarian effort.
“Other huge Hollywood celebrities are able to live in considerable privacy and preserve their kids from this whole madness.”
Do they really want it that way? or because they can’t afford to buy the attention? I can name some celebrities who can not “sell” out their family pics, not because they want privacy.
Pleaazze, having lived in the business for 2 years are enough for me to know 95% of the celebrities are egomaniac/narcistic/self important/attention hungers. The difference is they don’t have the same opportunity!
According to my experience; the calmer type of celebs are the one who passed their prime time and they are no longer in the business, well maybe once in a while for the sake of the fun not money nor fame. Well usually the “others” who sneered at Brangelina are the ones who discreetly want the same amount of attention.
The well respected Paul Newman and Joanne were not Star types. In their time it was Elizabeth Taylor and Her husbandss reigned the tabloids. I don’t want to discuss about them, but my point is at the end of the day it’s all about commodity. Being a Hollywood brand like Elizabeth Taylor or Brangelina you have no choice but be ready to be “sold”. Who pick the status for them? Their publicists? NO … It’s the media / it’s us! … there are hundreds of celebrity in Hollywood are longing to get the status what Brangelina have … Can they? In they dream! ….. welcome to the land of hypocrisy (oh my I have lots of stories about this).
I am not a big fan of Angie, in fact I hope Melisa Leo who’d win the award, but I hate people who hate them just because of jealousy. I am not a fan but from I heard how much money/time they spent for humanitarian effort I have no choice but giving them my best respect. They can be utter pompous as what you what like to call but they still manage to do something on the side.
Aah on the same note I would like to give same kudo to Sandra Bullock too. I know she is nothing but a joke to wannabe movie (self-important) critics but if only you know how big heart she has, (‘d like to shout this out to you; shame on you!.
Well, I’m not a fan, and not a hater either, but, I wonder, is it really that difficult to “get it all done” when you’re a Hollywood star? She obviously has many nannies and a whole staff to take care of all her necessities. She doesn’t take care of things like an average woman does. With the whole structure she has, any woman would be able to find time for everything.
About RDJ and Mickey Rourke, well, I’m not that much into the “comeback” thing. I’ve seen some very suspect pictures of RDJ lately. And Mickey…well, he seems stoned to me all the time. But I may be wrong. I hope I’m wrong, because, I like them both.
Violet offcourse it’s not too difficult to get it all done given that they have tons of money. If you compare her to other actresses, she seems to hardly involve herself in the whole hollywood lifestyle, she chooses to concentrate her efforts outside of it and while most stars head to the island for so called relaxation, Angelina heads to a refugee camp. Not because she is better than them, but because she realized long ago that being a star is not what makes her happy but what she can do with her stardom seems to make her happy.
Ahhh, Paul. That’s what I like to see. You love the film, and I hate it, but we can reach across the aisle and unite in our persnickety grammar policing.
(You’d think, since grammatical errors rankle me, that I might consider avoiding a place like The Internet, but alack.)
In the parallel universe, Lee asked me if any more Oscar films had opened in my neck of the woods (aka the ass end of nowhere). Here’s what I said:
“Yes, but I haven’t got around to them yet. Should hit Slumdog this Friday, and possibly Rev. Road later this weekend.
Milk is still MIA in this area. Perhaps they figure it won’t, um, play well here? On the other hand, The Wrestler is also nowhere to be seen, and there’s no reason that wouldn’t speak to the local populace.
I did see Frost/Nixon a week or two ago, and I guess this is as good a time as any to hold court on that.
Frank Langella is incredible. Incredible. His performance covers a tremendous range–presidential alpha-male swagger, competitive wolfishness, dismay at the prospect of public oblivion, and a few moments of genuine guilt–and it’s all so smooth. Masterful acting. It’s actually kind of fun that Milk and The Wrestler are two of the films I haven’t yet seen, because I’m struggling to imagine how Penn or Rourke could top this.
But Langella’s genius is the only ace in the film’s hand. The rest is strictly amateur hour.
In contrast to Ryan, I sort of liked the drunk-dial scene. That sort of historical speculation is one of the things that I found brilliant about The Queen. On the other hand, if Peter Morgan is to blame for other sections of F/N’s script, then I guess The Queen was a fluke.
But I suspect the main difference between The Queen and Frost/Nixon is the difference between Stephen Frears and Ron Howard. In this corner, a director who respects his audience’s intelligence, trusts that they will make connections, and allows them to draw their own conclusions! And in this corner… one who… doesn’t.
The most egregious offenses are the “retrospectives.” Intercut throughout the film’s narrative are shots of the actors, addressing the camera in character, talking about the significance of specific moments in the story. You know the moment in Million Dollar Baby when Morgan Freeman tells us that Clint Eastwood’s character didn’t “have anything left”? Even though we knew that already? Yeah, imagine that, several times over.
At the start of the interviews, Frost asks a bold question, and Nixon responds with easy composure. Michael Sheen’s face registers his character’s reaction to this: a deer-in-the-headlights stare. Yet still, Ron Howard (along with Peter Morgan?) feels it is necessary for Kevin Bacon to appear and explain to us the emotional content of this scene, using a boxing metaphor. It’s insulting.
Speaking of Kevin Bacon, he’s actually quite good here. But except for him and Langella, not a single performer in this movie ever resembles anything other than a 21st-century actor in 1970s clothing. Even Sheen and Oliver Platt are unconvincing, and Sam Rockwell is embarrassingly bad. If you are going to do a period film set in a time when sound-recording equipment was a reality, you’d better damn well make sure your actors talk like they are from that period. Please see Johnny Depp in Ed Wood for a rare example of this being done right.
Of course, the blame for the overall awfulness of the cast belongs to the film’s director. Ron Howard’s philosophy, it seems, is that a great filmmaker is one who is smarter than his audience. To achieve that status, then, he panders to the stupid.
As an awkward coda, here’s one more key difference between Frears’s The Queen and Howard’s Frost/Nixon. The Queen was content to let the viewer decide how significant were the events portrayed. Was it truly a tremendous English and international tragedy and ensuing controversy? Or just a bunch of ninnies getting bent out of shape over a phony celebrity? The film accommodates both views.
But Frost/Nixon doesn’t grant us that freedom. It hammers down our throats the idea that the interviews really were the trial Nixon never had–even though we know better.”
I cannot stand the fakery of this moviestar. I don’t daresay actress because she’s more a star than an actress especially her shenanigans in the media.
I find the whole Brangelina brand so repulsive and vile. The way they whore out those poor kids and their personal lives in the public eye. Look at the other superstars who are somehow able to live normal lives because they don’t do what these two do – Julia Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow who refuses to walk the red carpet with Chris Martin, even Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck. They are still followed around by papparazzi yet they are able to live out relatively low-key and normal lives but Brangelina adores the media attention and craves for it. Hence all the staged photo ops and all the whoring out of their family to the public.
I can’t wait for the day when the public grows tired of them and quits their antics OR the day they break up, whichever comes first. You know that both are inevitable. Trust this.
Gina
omygosh omygosh omygosh, you are like my HERO. Beautifully said.
Paulo,
the Pitts donated 8million in 2008? and Oprah built a school in South Africa, gimme a break. I am sick of celebrities toying with the media and using poor children, third world countries and war-torn regions for personal gain and self-interest. Just gimme a break.
Afrika,
you need a serious glass of chamomile tea…stat….
you seem to hate just because it makes you feel better about yourself….
@ peace: of course we don’t just care about Angelina because of Brad (and Aniston). We’re interested because she’s the most complex and noble A-lister in Hollywood. We’re interested in her ever-increasing family, her mission to do good for the rest of the world, and her intriguing beauty.
You don’t have to appreciate her performance in Changeling to appreciate her as a human being.
Angelina Jolie is a wonderful actress. Good job Academy in recognizing her again this year. She was wonderful in Changeling. And she definately gave one of the best performances of the year.
She doesn’t care about awards shows because she has 3 Golden Globes, an Oscar, an Actor(SAG) and a BFCA critic award. She surely cared then. So excited to win, happy as hell. Bitch is just weird and fake. Don Cheadle doesn’t get half the press that she gets for his nobility and charity work.
“We’re interested because she’s the most complex and noble A-lister in Hollywood. We’re interested in her ever-increasing family, her mission to do good for the rest of the world, and her intriguing beauty.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I’m interested to see her fall flat on her face, for her to be exposed for the humanitarian fraud that she is and for her to finally get tired of this charitable phase and go back to her wild child roots. There’s no one more vile, more fake, more repulsive in Hollywood than Angelina Jolie.
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