Some recent turns of events look orchestrated to ensure that Hurt Locker is undermined as the choice for Best Picture, thus at very least making Avatar seem like a more reasonable choice if not solidifying its position at the winner. Anyway from now on I'll let Filmdrunk explain. Any parts which I have written will be in italics like this. I'd also like to quickly point out before we start that Filmdrunk is very often intentionally immature. (For some old examples see here and here.)
Hurt Locker Producer Forced to Apologise For Being Honest
Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier sent out what seems like a pretty honest and logical email urging people to choose Hurt Locker as best picture, which the fun-hating shrivs at the academy have since made him apologize for. Here’s the original email, which Chartier has since called “extremely inappropriate.”
I hope all is well with you. I just wanted to write you and say I hope you liked Hurt Locker and if you did and want us to win, please tell (name deleted) and your friends who vote for the Oscars, tell actors, directors, crew members, art directors, special effects people, if everyone tells one or two of their friends, we will win and not a $500M film, we need independent movies to win like the movies you and I do, so if you believe The Hurt Locker is the best movie of 2010, help us!
I’m sure you know plenty of people you’ve worked with who are academy members whether a publicist, a writer, a sound engineer, please take 5 minutes and contact them. Please call one or two persons, everything will help!
best regards,
Nicolas Chartier Voltage Pictures
(gasp!) An honest plea for to vote for the best movie of the year (which deserved to earn far more than its $12 million domestic take) instead of the highest-grossing movie of all time which doesn’t need an award? The dastard! Let’s get that fat moron
Pete Hammond to write
an article about this!
( More on Pete Hammond, plus why this letter REALLY isn't a big deal - under the cut )Finally here's the latest news:The Hurt Locker Smear Campaign Continues
Meanwhile, remember the
producer
who wrote that letter I said wasn’t a big deal? The Academy announced that he can’t come to the ceremony as punishment. And I’m not the only one who smells an ulterior motive in everyone making a big deal out of this:
So let me get this straight; Nicolas Chartier who financed The Hurt Locker and is one of the 4 officially credited producers can’t attend the Academy Awards because he sent a mass email that never even mentioned Avatar by name? And the Oscars governing body thinks his badmouthing is so much worse than what nearly everyone in the Best Picture category has done year after year?So I must ask: is it mere coincidence that Academy president Tom Sherak (at one time a bigtime Fox movie exec), Oscars producers Bill Mechanic (at one time a bigtime Fox movie exec) and Adam Shankman (currently a bigtime Fox Broadcast talent), and Academy Board Of Governors member Jim Gianopulos (currently a bigtime Fox movie exec) all have strong ties to the Avatar studio? The Academy should have leaned over backwards not to appear Fox-sympathetic because of this. [DeadlineHollywood]
My sources tell me the Academy
would’ve leaned over backwards, but couldn’t, on account of their all being 85-year-old Jews. Anyway, I don’t want to act
too indignant because I make wiener jokes in my underwear for a living, but suffice to say, I’ve got my torches and pitchforks at the ready in case
Avatar wins Best Picture.
*lights cat on fire, throws it through window* Attica! Attica!
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