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The Night of The Gay Commie Bastard
23 Feb 2009Milk actor, Sean Penn was very cute and sincere and wonderful in his acceptance speech (rock on gay Commies!), but it was this acceptance speech that made me cry:
It’s something only queer folks would get, think or say–that feeling of isolation and loneliness mixed with self abuse that is endorsed by everybody from your closest friend to your God is devastating on so many levels…I have to say that even though I am extremely disappointed that queer folks of color got written out of the LGBT movement in the movie–it was SO important to me to see somebody acknowledge what it’s like to grow up The Only…in horrible conservative surroundings with no support.
Congratulations to him, to everybody connected with Milk, and to all the queer/LGBT community for a wonderful night.
The Oscars Have a Language Problem
7:00 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Bilingualism|language|Movies|TV · 4 Comments
23 Feb 2009Gracias to all the twitter followers who watched the Oscars with us last night.
I’ll admit I haven’t seen most of the movies that were nominated and won. Ok, I’ve only seen one pero por lo menos that film saw an award with Penelope Cruz winning mejor supporting actress for her role in Vicky Christina Barcelona. That’s the closest there was to a Latino win (and yes I know Pe’s not Latina. She’s Spanish as in European). Pero Latino weren’t completely absent. I counted four musical references to West Side Story and after the Oscars there was a commercial for a new ABC show that used a racist Latino gang stereotype.
I was very bothered that neither The Garden nor Trouble the Water won for best documentary. That award went to a film about a French tightrope walker.
The Oscars seemed to have a problem with foreigners, especially ones with accents, especially POC. Yes, I know that Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture. Pero the main awards went to the Brit production teams and the tech awards and musical awards going the actual Indians. I haven’t seen Slumdog pero white directed movies about non-white people always concern me, especially when the directors based the film on a book written by someone from Indian, and let’s not forget the fact that Great Britain colonized India. As I write this I am watching Jimmy Kimmel make references to the child actors from Slumdog Millionaire never acting and never being on sidewalks. And did Ryan Seacrest just hold up a paper with their names because he couldn’t read them?
Pero Hollywood loves POC, especially when they sing and dance. A.R Rahman’s performance complete with a quasi Bollywood dance number was met with much applause. Pero when POC spoke, especially when they spoke with an accent people thought it was hillarious. Take for example the Japanese winner for mejor foreign film Departures. The audience was laughing, not cuz there were jokes pero cuz the winner had an accent. I even saw some tweets on how director Yojiro Takita was screaming cuz no one could understand him.
So POC just keep singing and dancing, just don’t speak, especially if you have an accent.
Penelope Cruz Wants Her Damned Oscar
9:32 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Chismes|Entertainment|Events|Movies|Spain · 1 Comment
3 Feb 2009This past Sunday Penelope Cruz picked up a Goya award (see above video), her country’s version of the Oscars for her performance in Woody Allen’s Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona. While most people are pleased to just be nominated, la Pe told Liz Smith she wants more than that:
I congratulate Penélope again on her nomination. I ask, because it’s the tiresome but necessary question, if it really matters to her if she wins. “Hmmm … what can I say? It’s not a lie that it is an honor to be nominated, and if I don’t win, I won’t be any less honored, but … look, ask anyone who is nominated. No matter what you think you feel about awards, when you’re there, sitting in that seat, with those people, all dressed up — of course you want to win!”
At least she’s honest! I personally don’t think she’ll win (though I thought her performance was fabulous)…too much stiff competition in that category.
P.S. What is up with the intro to that video?
Via / wowowow.com
Oscars: The Nominations Are In
9:18 am By Maegan La Mala · Entertainment|Events|Movies · Comments Off
22 Jan 2009
Here’s a quick and dirty list of the nominees for the 2009 Oscars. Check it out!
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films)
Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)
Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)
Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Josh Brolin in “Milk” (Focus Features)
Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder” (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax)
Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)
Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” (Universal)
Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Meryl Streep in “Doubt” (Miramax)
Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams in “Doubt” (Miramax)
Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (The Weinstein Company)
Viola Davis in “Doubt” (Miramax)
Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)
Best animated feature film of the year
“Bolt” (Walt Disney)
“Kung Fu Panda” (DreamWorks Animation)
“WALL-E” (Walt Disney)
Academy Awards Yield No Surprises
9:31 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Movies · Comments Off
25 Feb 2008
I admit I didn’t watch the Oscars last night. I was too busy watching Oscar nominated La Vie en Rose. The star of the film, Marion Cotillard, won the well deserved best actress award. But apparently there was a Spanish accent among some of the winners with Javier Bardem winning best supporting actor in “No Country for Old Men”, which also won Best Picture.
Cody Diablo, whose stripping blog I was a huge fan of, won best original screenplay for Juno.
Via / Yahoo
And the Nominees Are…Not Latino
10:58 am By Maegan La Mala · Entertainment|Movies · 1 Comment
22 Jan 2008
Folks, this isn’t 2007, when Latino representation on the list of Oscar nominees — and ultimately winners — was in full effect. Indeed, this year it comes down to a documentary short from Colombia and props to our friend Javier Bardem (while not Latino, a VL fave). The official nominees for the little golden men have been announced, and without further ado, we give them to you:
Best Picture: “Atonement,” “Juno,” “Michael Clayton,” “No Country for Old Men,” “There Will Be Blood.”
Actor: George Clooney, “Michael Clayton”; Daniel Day-Lewis, “There Will Be Blood”; Johnny Depp, “Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street”; Tommy Lee Jones, “In the Valley of Elah”; Viggo Mortensen, “Eastern Promises.”
Actress: Cate Blanchett, “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”; Julie Christie, “Away From Her”; Marion Cotillard, “La Vie en Rose”; Laura Linney, “The Savages”; Ellen Page, “Juno.”
Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”; Javier Bardem, “No Country for Old Men”; Hal Holbrook, “Into the Wild”; Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Charlie Wilson’s War”; Tom Wilkinson, “Michael Clayton.”
Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, “I’m Not There”; Ruby Dee, “American Gangster”; Saoirse Ronan, “Atonement”; Amy Ryan, “Gone Baby Gone”; Tilda Swinton, “Michael Clayton.”
Director: Julian Schnabel, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”; Jason Reitman, “Juno”; Tony Gilroy, “Michael Clayton”; Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, “No Country for Old Men”; Paul Thomas Anderson, “There Will Be Blood.”
Foreign Film: “Beaufort,” Israel; “The Counterfeiters,” Austria; “Katyn,” Poland; “Mongol,” Kazakhstan; “12,” Russia.
Adapted Screenplay: Christopher Hampton, “Atonement”; Sarah Polley, “Away from Her”; Ronald Harwood, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”; Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, “No Country for Old Men”; Paul Thomas Anderson, “There Will Be Blood.”
Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, “Juno”; Nancy Oliver, “Lars and the Real Girl”; Tony Gilroy, “Michael Clayton”; Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava and Jim Capobianco, “Ratatouille”; Tamara Jenkins, “The Savages.”
Animated Feature Film: “Persepolis”; “Ratatouille”; “Surf’s Up.”
And the anti-Oscar goes to…
5:53 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Entertainment|Events|Movies · Comments Off
26 Feb 2007
While Latino directors and actors may have been disappointed about not taking home their Oscar last night, other stars can be sad that they did take home an award: a Razzie. The Razzie Awards, held the day before the Oscars, now in their 27th edition, extends honors to only the very worst in filmmaking. This year three films pretty much dominated all of the categories:
Worst Picture: Basic Instinct II (aka Basically, It Stinks, Too)
Worst Actress: Sharon Stone (Basically, It Stinks, Too)
Worst Actor: Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans (for Little Man)
Worst Supporting Actress: Carmen Electra (for Date Movie and Scary Movie 4)
Worst Supporting Actor: M. Night Shyamalan (for Lady in the Water)
Worst Director: M. Night Shyamalan (for Lady in the Water)
Worst Screen Couple: Shawn Wayans & either Kerry Washington or Marlon Wayans (for Little Man)
Worst Remake Or Rip-off: Little Man (Rip-off of the 1954 Bugs Bunny cartoon “Baby Buggy Bunny”)
Worst Prequel or Sequel: Basically, It Stinks, Too
Worst Screenplay: Basically, It Stinks, Too
I’m not sure if any of these stars actually showed up to collect their “award”, but those that do “receive a gold-spray-painted, golf-ball-sized raspberry atop a mangled super 8 film reel, with an estimated street value of $4.97.”
Via / Razzies.com
Does Ellen Really Think that All People With Spanish Accents are Mexican?
3:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Events|Los Angeles · 2 Comments
26 Feb 2007
I have to agree with what most critics are saying about Ellen DeGeneres hosting last night’s 79th Academy Awards.She was boring and I could have done without her dancing but my ears perked up when she appeared to call Penelope Cruz “Mexican”, an error she even apologized for on air later during the broadcast.
In Ellen’s defense, I honestly think that she just lost her train of thought. While she was thinking about properly acknowledging the diversity that was represented by the nominees, it appears that she wanted to say something about the Volver star and then began another thought without finishing her first one.
Image Via / Boston.com
Oscar night brought wins and losses for Latinos
12:04 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Entertainment|Events|Latin America|Movies · Comments Off
26 Feb 2007
Latinos were in the house last night at the 79th annual Academy Awards (yes, we count Penelope Cruz), and while the nominations were full of Latino names, not everyone got to take home their gold. There were A LOT of Latino nominations, but unfortunately most didn’t pan out.
First, the winners:
Mexican Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth took home the Oscar for Best Cinematography for this Mexico-Spain co-production. Viva!
Argentino Gustavo Santaolalla took the Oscar for Best Score for Babel. He dedicated his Oscar, as he did last year, to Latinos in the U.S. Yay!
The biggest Latino box office hit in U.S. history
12:02 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Movies · Comments Off
6 Feb 2007
Latinos swept the Golden Globes and then the Oscar nominations, and after this past weekend, Latinos have some more entertainment news to crow about: Mexican Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth beat a record previously held by Like Water for Chocolate to become the biggest Latino box office hit in U.S. film history, raking in a whopping $21 million dollars. And it seems that’s only the beginning:
Box office previsions for this week say that the film will take in $3 million dollars more, leaving way behind the 1992 film by Mexican Alfonso Arau with screenplay by Laura Esquivel, which took in $20 million.
In total, Pan’s Labyrinth has taken home 9 Goya awards (Spanish equivalent of the Oscar — the movie was a Mexico-Spain coproduction), received 8 BAFTA nominations in the U.K., and 6 Oscar nominations.
Via / 20 Minutos
Image: Reuters
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