You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
The rough reviews of Seth McFarlane in the L.A. Times.
“belittled, arrogant, nasty” just some of the terms to describe his announcement of the nominees for this year’s show.
Seth McFarlane is a quirky genius famous for insults, one liners and border line inappropriate things that most humans wouldn’t dare say aloud.
He is hosting the Oscars this year because they want a younger audience. McFarlane showcased some of the at caustic wit Thursday morning.
It was a live broadcast to announce the honorees of the 85th annual academy awards nominations
It was hosted in Beverly Hills California.
with Emma Stone at 5 am he stood on stage and unveiled the nominees.
The Best Supporting Actor category had heavy hitters.
christopher waltz and philip seymour and
robert de niro and alan arkin and tommy lee jones.
“all won before,” Emma Stone said to a host of laughs.
A real breath of fresh air in that category, McFarlane quipped.
For best original score, McFarlane’s song
everybody needs a best friend in his movie TED was nominated. To this the Oscar host said.
“that is cool, I got nominated. Now I can go to the oscars.”
Stone countered; “MTV awards gave michael jackson an award so he would show up so.”
For best supporting actresss:
sally field , anne hathaway, helen hunt and amy adams were all nominated.
McFarlane “congrats to you five ladies. You no longer have to pretende to be attracted to harvey weinstein,” he said.
Very inside baseball, but the group laughed.
For best foreign language film the entries included; amour
“I read amour was co-produced in austria and germany. The last time they colaborated on anything it resulted in Hitler. This is much better.”
The audience groaned, but it was witty, in a borderline unacceptable way. Old people may hate him, but 20 somethings may tune in like never before.
For best Adapted screenplay, the nominees included beasts of the southern while
and lincoln and silver linings playbook and the life of pi.
“Best adapted screenplay. We all know the writers of these just copied stuff from Microsoft Word and pasted it in,” he said smiling.
Again labored laughter.
Finally inthe best director category, the nominees include silver linings playbook
life of pi and Lincoln.
“five people who are the best sitting in a chair watching others make a movie.”
It was a slam on the power brokers of his industry. some won’t like it. Especially those in Tinsel Town. I don’t McFarlane cares which is what makes his hosting this year exciting.
should be good but long tv on Sunday february 24th.
And that is crazy™