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 Not Appearing at the Oscars: Jean-Luc GodardPosted on Oct 25, 2010
How do you give out an Oscar to someone who doesn’t want to come and get it? That’s the quandary the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is facing, as Jean-Luc Godard, French New Wave auteur and one of this year’s honorary Academy Award recipients, has refused to make the trip across the ocean to receive his statuette at a ceremony next month. Godard’s choice appears to be more about preference than politics, according to his wife. So, the little gold prize will have to wing its way to the 79-year-old director’s abode in Switzerland. —KA
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By RGO, October 28, 2010 at 1:18 am Link to this comment
Good for Jean-Luc. Godard will be remembered for his films not the Oscar. He won’t be missed at the events. Every one of the recipients at the honorary and real Academy Awards will be too interested in themselves. It’s always kind of fun when someone tells the (ahem) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to stick it.
Report thisBy ClassAct, October 27, 2010 at 10:01 am Link to this comment
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Godard’s most memorable comment in an LA Times interview:
Report thisInterviewer asked how he felt, since his own films were made on a shoestring budget, about a film like “Apocalypse Now,” the first Hollywood film to reach a $100 million budget.
Godard replied that they should have spent $100 billion dollars on the movie.
The interviewer gagged out “What?”
Godard: “How could you reproduce the destruction rained on Vietnam for less than $100 billion?”
By SarcastiCanuck, October 26, 2010 at 11:24 am Link to this comment
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Maybe if the academy throws in a free order of Freedom Fries and an autographed picture of Roman Polanski,he will come.At 79 he probably appreciates a good dump and an erection more than an Oscar.Those damn French….
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