Last night's Oscars were really really boring. It almost seems as if the controversies the day after ware more interesting than the
Case in point: When Scott Rudin won Best Picture for No Country for Old Men, he thanked his partner, John Barlow. Then this happened:
You'll recall when Scott Rudin, whom viewers might have recognized from the classic Goya portrait "Producer Devouring One of His Assistants," closed his Best Picture acceptance speech with a special mention to "my partner, John Barlow. Without you, honey, this is just hardware." His spouse appeared nowhere on the screen--we pictured much mayhem in the control booth, with Gil Cates barking into a headset at a camera operator, "Not Travolta, you fool! Barlow! Check the legend! CHECK THE--oh never mind,"--but it was a tender moment nonetheless. Good As You now notices that the mention has been stricken from the official Academy transcript:
[C]heck out this official press transcript from the Oscars website and see how they chose to present Rudin's words:
CATEGORY: BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR SPEECH BY: SCOTT RUDIN, ETHAN COEN AND JOEL COEN FILM: "NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN"
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Scott Rudin:
This is an unbelievable honor and a complete surprise. [...]
I want to thank my friend, Sydney Pollack, who taught me that with the responsibility -- with the opportunity to make movies comes the responsibility of making them good. This for him.
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