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w/ hosts Lee Tistaert and Jason Kaplan
Guest: Jeremy

Oscars are coming up in just a matter of days. Who will win? Who doesn't stand a chance? What's over-rated? Is the Academy ever on the right track? LMI hosts Lee Tistaert and Jason Kaplan, with special guest Jeremy discuss such issues and more...

Jason: Let me start by professing my ignorance in the foreign film and short film department.

Jeremy: Foreign film is quite interesting this year since it lacks two excellent films that probably would have won the competition: Y Tu Mama Tambien and Talk to her

Jason: He got directing, though. And you know how much I didn't like it.

Jeremy: Those two would have been easy favorites but their own countries didn't nominate them.

Jason: That's a major problem in that category.

Jeremy: Yeah, the directing and writing awards for both films seem to imply that the Academy wants to recognize both films.

Jason: I don't know why a country would sabotage their own chances.

Jeremy: It's quite stupid that only one movie can be nominated for a country. Both films were sabotaged by politics.

Jason: Imagine if that applied to American films. It just doesn't make sense to have a quota system.

Jeremy: Absolutely, it's crazy to think that so many films can be produced in countries such as India, Mexico Spain, and China, yet only one film can be recognized.

Jason: Maybe incidents like this will make the Academy reform that system. They want to include as many countries as possible, but there's probably a better way to do it.

Jeremy: Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine is the obvious favorite.

Lee: I don't think there's any way Columbine won't win.

Jason: Yeah, I don't know what else would win.

Jeremy: However, the documentary award is always ripe for upset.

Jason: Although it's hard to say when we haven't seen the others.

Jeremy: This is one award where there are barely any conventional picks.

Lee: Yeah, but the critical and commercial success points it to the Oscar; what documentary has ever done $20 mil?

Jason: Bowling is incredibly funny, but it still has some major flaws.

Jeremy: Exactly, there is no hype behind the products so it's usually impossible to predict a winner.

Jeremy: Right now, Bowling seems like the clear favorite because of the hype.

Jason: He also accused Dick Clark of baseless points.

Jeremy: You’re right about Bowling's success; it really is unprecedented.

Jason: I think that's everyone's favorite at this point.

Lee: I usually don't like documentaries, but that totally had me.

Jeremy: Yeah, the Dick Clark aspect of the movie was a little too contrived; he seemed to try too hard to gain sympathy and to show the audience that he was a crusader of what is right.

Jason: "Calm down there…your point has been made" - to Moore. Moving on to Make Up, one of the most pointless categories…

Jeremy: Make up is a joke.

Jason: Frida or Time Machine? What were they thinking?

Lee: I really wonder what's going to win makeup (sarcastically speaking)...although, I've never seen Frida but with the awards it won't get, makeup should be pretty obvious.

Jeremy: Anyway, the make up should have more than two films.

Jason: The aging is pretty good in Frida. Time Machine should never ever win an Oscar.

Jeremy: I can't believe Time Machine is even considered.

Jason: I'd rather have Attack of the Clones win.

Jeremy: The Hours should have been nominated for makeup.

Lee: Gangs deserves makeup over Time Machine.

Jason: Yeah, a lot of movies do. Sound editing is another one - not as bad, though.

Lee: The academy just despises Lucas

Jason: Road to Perdition’s key moment is where there is no sound.

Jeremy: Perdition’s best sound is no sound.

Jason: Yeah, so that doesn't quite make sense. I stand by my Sign and AOTC nominations. Signs was one of the best movies in terms of sound I've seen in a long time.

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