My review of the Oscars (1994)!!
I was going through a really really old box of "diskettes" (remember those things?) and found in it a treasure-trove of old letters, images and crap I was writing during my graduate days back in 1994-1996. I wrote this little ditty (pre-JoBlo.com, of course) on the night in March of 1995, about the Academy Awards show that I had apparently just watched. I was so green... ;)
I just saw the Oscars, and I must say that it was one of the most exciting Oscars ever !!
Can you believe that Pulp Fiction actually won Best Picture ??? Was it just me, or did Tarantino kiss Roger Avary right on the lips when he won ?? What was that all about. Anyway, it was kind of cool how he thanked everybody from his old video store for helping him "Get a life !!!", as he put it. Also, he seemed to kind of choke up when he spoke of his desire to be the best he could be, so that he could show his father (who he hasn't seen since his childhood) that he was worth something. I almost cried.
No surpises for best actor: Tom Hanks. Thank God he didn't go on and on about the people in the Heavens and stuff like last year. But he was funny, as usual. I didn't think Winona Ryder deserved the best actress award, she seems like she is always playing that same young, goodlooking, vulnerable, nice girl in her movies. I don't see her acting very differently in any of her movies. Anyways, it was nice of her to mention Johnny Depp in her acceptance speech.
The best moment of the show was when the best supporting actor award was called out by Brad Pitt, and he named "Martin Landau" (of course). With the camera on all of the other nominees, we could actually see Sam Jackson cursing when he heard the name called. He then proceeded to walk off the show with his wife in tow. That was hilarious !!! It was funny the way Landau kept saying, "Sam, come back, Sam, oh SAM !!!".
I had the gun placed to my head when they named best supporting actress, just waiting for them to announce Jennifer Tilly's name, after which I would have proceeded to pull the trigger and leave this cruel planet we call Earth. Luckily her name wasn't called, and instead it was that English woman, Helen Mirrem (sp?).
Anyway, I thought Letterman was great, especially that song and dance routine he performed with Madonna, but I didn't expect him to do that crazy thing at the top of the show. That was completely un-Dave-like. Overall, this year's Oscars were a success. Despite a few political statements made by some, describing the tales of Sarajevo and the Peace in the Middle East (we viewers don't like to be reminded of the reality of our world while we're off in our fantasy show), it was really great. Any show that can make Clint Eastwood CRY when receiving his Irving Thalberg award, is okay in my book.
Until next year, make mine Oscar.
PS: The best director award was a token to Zemeckis for not having chosen Gump as best picture (you could see the disappointment in his face)
Embarassed
I'm confused. Forrest Gump did win Best Picture, Winona didn't win Best Actress.
Good read though, the Sam Jackson thing was indeed hilarious.
Holy shit, you're right!! That's a little bizarre actually. I KNOW that I was taking 'creative writing' courses back then, so maybe that's what I was doing... odd stuff. Another thing I found is a letter in which I say that I want to "own my own company one day and travel the world". Well at least that worked out!
Haha, that's funny :) I figured it was a creative writing piece. It has that creative-writing assignment sorta vibe, what with you taking a real-life event that's based heavily on chance and tweaking and altering how it went down (imagining how it could've very well went down). I actually thought you were referencing its departure from reality in your intro when you said it was about "the Academy Awards show that I had apparently just watched"...i.e. "the show only *I* saw." :)
This is really cool. Tiiiiiime waaaaarp.