OlderThu, 12 March 2009 at 4:57 pm
Matt Damon: The Academy Gets It Wrong
Matt Damon tells Parade that he doesn’t think the Academy necessarily gets it right when it comes down to honoring actors and films.
The 38-year-old actor shares, “I think that the best way to judge movies is, like, 10 years after they’re released. I think they should actually do the awards that way. I think they should have done the Academy Awards this year for movies from 1998. I think it’s better to look at a movie and then step back and look at it again. I don’t think - that the awards necessarily get it right. I think they get it wrong more often than they get it right.”
DO YOU THINK The Academy got it wrong with any of the this year’s winners?
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I agree with Matt. Plus, they snub Matt Damon all the time. And I agree how in God’s name can the academy say Brad gave a better preformance than Leonardo Dicaprio in Rev. Road? WTF?? retards…
And how could the “I WANTT my son Backk!” actress get a nom over Sally Hawkins and Kristin Scott Thomas? And what about Shakespeare in Love win best picture and now Saving Private Ryan? Or how could they take over 20 years to give Al Pacino an award and Martin Scorsese? The academy sucks!
Oh no, Kate Winslet did not deserve anything for the Titanic. She was miscast as she looked way older than 17 and Leo. Also, Titanic was hell of a boring film.
By the way, Matt Damon does indeed need to zip his lips.
voe, you seem to not know anything about acting. Kate Winslet was not miscast and Titanic is NOT a boring film.
Go somewhere to spew your ignorance.
I agree.
Matt, I agree.
definitely got it wrong. i think they are on this kick of just awarding new obscure talent.
Thank you Matt. Finally someone is telling the truth about this Oscar Award. Politics, politics and jealousy, hate, money talks.
I’m more concerned with the precedent that the oscars set. Boring dramatic films usually win and therefore actors would rather do this than meaningful or entertaining movies. It’s not really the best movie anymore, but the “oscar” movie that wins. Same goes for the “oscar” best actor and actress. A reflection of this would be how easy critics predict the nominations and usually they’re right.
I have to agree with most people here, CCBB was a boring movie, but it was “oscar” material, so I don’t blame the directors, writers and definitely not Brad Pitt for making this movie.
You’re obviously entitled to your opinion as everyone is (including Matt Damon)-but the 11 Oscars and millions of people who seen the movie and contributed to the phenomenal worldwide box office success-don’t exactly agree with you.
Titanic turned Kate Winslet into a household name and her performance was good enough to be nominated for an Oscar. I know beauty AND chemistry is in the eye of the beholder, but majority rules again who thought Kate and Leo were a perfect casting together.
^^^^Yeah, I think so too. But what makes me furious about the Academy are the nominations, especially this year. You wanna know why they are wondering why the ratings have become crap? It’s because Hollywood has become a bunch of overstuffed vain sycophants slapping each other on the back for playing dressup in movies that people barely see. Christopher Nolan got snubbed. Yeah, TDK got billions in the box office. So what? That movie transcended comic book movies. It wasn’t a comic book movie. I was watching a psychological thriller with action, a detective movie. I keep wondering, if Ledger was alive, would he have gotten his Oscar? I think if he was alive, he would have picked up a couple of awards regardless, but do you think he would have gotten the Oscar? I don’t know, I really don’t know.
For starters, the nominated movies are the most boring of bores! Or have only been viewed by like, 6 people and of course, this so-called AMPAS members of about 6000 who are supposedly invited by what i think, a bunch of snotty old-crusty farts who think only intellectually-defined movies are worthy of any Academy nominations.
Who gives a shite about the Oscars? I only watch it for the fashion, the entertainment in between and who’s taking whom down the red carpet. And that Brad and Angelina nomies…what the fcuk!!!
Good thing, HJ did a fab job this year!
Matt Damon is right to an extent a movie’s lasting importance can only be determined only after time has passed. And I will even concede that the Academy more often gets it wrong more then it does right. But his idea that Oscars should be awarded ten years after the fact is with all due respect to him just goofy for a couple of reasons.
A) It would be patiently unfair to the current year’s films. Granted the argument could justifibily be made that the Oscars have never been about “fairness.” But stil great work done in film ever year and it deserves to be recognized for the year it’s done. Anyother way is a slap in a face to people who make the films.
B) Who would watch it? Over the past couple of years Oscar rating have been slipping (although this year was an improvement over last year). People aren’t going to watch a show rewarding movies many of which they most likely hardly remember from over decade ago.
Finally I think he’s still bitter about “Saving Private Ryan” losing to “Shakespeare in Love” ten years ago. I share his pain but I think that much like I have it’s time for Matt to let it go and move on. I have.
I put my trust in who or what the Academy rewards, period. Somewhere in the posts above, someone said whatever grosses highest at box office should get the awards…to which I say a resounding NO!!! That doesn’t determine quality, either. I watched the awards this year, which I don’t usually do, and it just sucked how Brad and Angelina acted and were treated like, some kind of royalty. I wanted to spew my Lucky Charms. I’m completely turned off by them, and don’t care if anybody ever interviews them on the carpet. They can walk on by with their noses in the air all they want to. Just spare me all your humanitarian PR bullsh!t, you self-righteous cows.
Sorry, rant over. I’ll part by saying, for a lot of the nominees, the Oscars are a way for them to be way more up their butt than usual, and that’s all.
Oops, meant to say “I DON’T put my trust in who or what the academy rewards.”
The Oscars an adult popularity contest, more often than not. It explains why people get snubbed when they say something politically incorrect during a year when they give an excellent performance, and it explains why someone who is “hot right now” gets a nomination for an average performance. He’s right, one way to objectively judge a film and its components is to look at it again when the novelty of it’s newness wears off.
I agree Karla Brangelina this award season were treated like royalty when they both are really bad actors and adulterers. Angelina did not deserve her nom for Changeling, she completely overacted. She’s not a gr8 actress and only does action films and don’t any of you bring up Girl, Interupted because she bascially played herself. The only preformance I’m pretty sure was the best of hers was A Mighty Heart. As for Brad, his emotionless preformance in The Curious Case of Forest Gump get nominated over Leonardo DiCaprio heart wrenching preformance in Revolutionary Road? Such a shame. Brad never has interested me as an actor and is only considered A-list because of his looks & presonal life. Though he was good in Jesse James. Screw Brangelina!
careful there; all the the brangelina fans just may come out and let you have it for attacking st angelina. however, i agree with you. thank god neither angelina nor brad won.
oh god.i totally like matt because he is honest and not afraid to say what he thinks.and he is always right.remember that comment on sarah palin.the man is far sighted.i agree with him.i mean i haven’t seen ben button but my friends have told me that it is awfully long.and angelina?come on the only roles she takes on are the great mother or the troubled girl(which she is good at because she is being herself) or the sexy dangerous girl.leonardo totally deserved a nomination this year.and by the way,i don’t get the oscar guys at all.anne hathaway deserved that oscar this year.don’t get me wrong she was more than great in the reader but anne has won all the critics awards.they are just following the golden globe trend and the popularity issue.if they didn’t know that people would attack them,they would have given the award to angelina jolie.but anne has to steal a man from his wife and adopt all the kids around the world to get an oscar.but i am not saying that kate winslet won because of her popularity.she was really good.and matt was snubbed more than three times in the last years.why wasn’t he nominated for the departed or the good shepherd?or the bourne ultimatum?if heath ledger can win for an action movie,why can’t matt get a nomination for his jason bourne role?i mean he was put among 100 greatest impersonations ever for jason bourne.the man is a walking genius when it comes to acting and global issues.
i cant say i agree with him that much but he makes a point
10 yrs back is a bit 2 long imo, more like a few years, 3-5
but i think that would be a drastic change tbh
I agree with Matt. First, I rarely agree with the Academy’s choices (although I was glad to see them skip over Benjamin Button and its actors this year). Secondly, I think they quite often give out awards for sentimental reasons rather than merit. Heath Ledger may have deserved his Oscar this year, but would he have gotten it if he was still alive? Probably not. And that left a lot of other good actors in that category that lost out unfairly. And sometimes the movies are about issues that are still to raw (like after 9/11) and we can’t judge them fairly because it’s just too soon.
I agree.. Especially this year, slumdog beating Benjamin Button come on?… Benjamin Button was a brilliant and lovely film! Should’ve won the best pic award
He’s right they should have never given him one for good will hunting.
yes…it’s not fair to have a commercial value movie over artfully created movie..
Tyler,
LMAO! Do I need to go to school learning about “acting” to perceive someone’s acting? Perception forms opinions which I think you have loads on other celebrities. My opinion of KW in that role is stated, and it is MY opinion.
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