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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Ben Button was too much of Forest Gump to win best picture. i mean it’s visually amazing but overall okay/pretty good. Cate Blanchett and Tarajie P. Henson along with Tilda Swinton made the movie, to #43 like I care what the stalker fans think.
Matt hasn’t been nominated for an Oscar in 10-11 years now, he should stop getting snubbed. And he’s right the academy definitley got it wrong this year.
-Meryl Streep should’ve won Best Actress or Melissa Leo. Don’t get me wrong, I love Kate Winslet but she should’ve won back in 2005 for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind not Hilary Swank!
-Best Actor should’ve went to Mickey Rourke hands down, his preformance was heartwarming.
-Best supporting Actress should’ve went to Viola Davis, even with her few little scenes, she was ah-mazing in Doubt
-Best picture was right but there should have been more love for Frost/Nixon and Milk
and well there’s more issues!
And to #50,
I kind of agree with you on KW’s acting in Titanic. I love Titanic but that’s probably because I’m a sucker for romantics and yes it’s really long but oh well, the visuals were amazing. But I felt the only Oscar worthy person in it was Gloria Stuart a.k.a. old Rose.(Who did get nominated for it and she should’ve won! btw, she’s 98 now!) While I thought Kate did good she wasn’t memorable to me and I even thought Leo did better than her. She shouldn’t have gotten nominated that year because all she really did was cry and whine to me. I love her accent though and she looked really pretty in her red-head days!
Absolutely, he’s right!
I could cite dozens of times they got it wrong. Most recently with “Juno,” a somewhat entertaining film where the praise (and hype) just got out of hand. Another movie “The Savages” was far superior and worthy, but lacked the same crazy attention and was soon forgotten. It’s a huge bummer that Academy voters are suspect to the same kind of delirium as the media is. Cooler heads and brains ought to prevail.
i think he shouldn’t start every sentence with “i think”
K.G,
I love romantic movies too but there are a few movies I could not finish and one of them is Titanic. I did not buy KW as a 17 year-old and Leo who at the time looked really young with his teenager built and face was too young for her thus their coupling was not believable to me. Her body was definitely not a 17 year-old body; it looked to have been pleasured by many Jacks before Leo’s :) in an era where most proper girls of that age were virgins. I tried to watch it a few times because a friend of mine loved the movie, but the same feeling came up every time. Every thing else was good. Loved the opulence and grace of the era which was reflected realistically.
#55
I think Kate and Leonardo had great chemistry on screen in Titanic, though. But Kate did not look like a 17 year oldat all but if you believe Kate and Leo didn’t have good chemistry in Titanic go watch their new movie Revolutionary Road which stars both of them and now they both look the same age so the chemistry totally shows.
Revolutionary Road:
http://fataculture.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/revolutionary-road.jpg
Titanic:
http://blogs.nypost.com/movies/photos/titanic.jpeg
Boy for once I agree with him.
I have to agree with Matt on this one. The worst oversight the Academy made was giving Tommy Lee Jones an Oscar for best Supporting Actor for his role in “The Fugitive when it should have gone to Leonardo Dicaprio for his role in “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” I honestly thought Leo was a retarded kid when I first saw that movie! I watch “The Fugitive” now and I scratch my head at Tommy Lee Jones’ over-the-top acting in it.
Some very wise comments here-any many of them are why I no long watch these Award Shows. It is no long about talent but how popular someone is this year or how much money they brought to the box office. Go see the movies you want and forget all the rest of the garbage that is put out about the movie industry by the studios.
Wow. I mean, come on, most of the films/cast/crew that won this year totally deserved it. Just because ppl are hating on the winners this year DOESN’T mean that the academy does it wrong. The Academy and other awards don’t only judge the nominees, and other films/cast/crew on ONLY how good they were. Everything also ties with the production companies of the films and if they nominate them to become potential nominees at the award shows.
And Matt, come on. Just ’cause you’ve never won an academy award doesn’t mean other people don’t deserve it. I love you Matt, but I’m not gonna side with you on this one.
I agree with Matt! :D I’m not allowed to give my opinion because it keeps going into moderation, even though there is absolutely nothing offenisive in my post.
He’s right.. A good movie also is a movie you want to see years from now… There are some movies I like from the 80’s and 90’s that probably never won awards and are great movies…
lol I thought I was the only one who wasn’t allowed to post my opinions because it keeps going into mod as well lol..
Careful, Matt. Your own oscar might be revoked if they follow your advice!
i have to agree with all the comments about kate winslet in titanic.she was great but she certainly didn’t look 17.on the other hand,leo should have really won over tommy lee.it has been years and it is still many people’s favourite performance of leo depite his other great roles.and the academy should start recognizing other actirs like matt and viola davis.and why didn’t they nominate sam mendes for best director for rev. road.it was great movie.
I agree with Matt except the time element of 10 years in judging a film after it’s released. Two or three years is reasonable enough.
I agree..Benjamin Button should have won more awards. Also, I don’t agree with how one movie can get like a billion awards, it’s just not fair!
@xuxx:
Are you insane ? Box office has nothing to do with quality. If they gave Oscars for box office then Transformers and Saw would be up for best picture and true films that are smart and well made would get nothing.
@Patty: Sorry kiddo but the academy knows much more about acting than you or Damon. If they say something is a great performance than it is, end of story. Get over it.
@{cher}: 10 bucks says you don’t even watch most Oscar films and have no idea what you are talking about.
@feebz: feebz, the Oscars is a show for artists, true artists. You are not an artist and thus will never understand the appeal of smart, well written films. Go back to your low brow transformers movies and leave the real cinema for the adults.
@Bunny: bunny, listen little girl, making money has nothing to do with oscars which is why most Oscar films are small indie’s that the mainstream has not seen. Your logic fails.
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