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http://www.oscar.com/oscarnight/winners/win_32297.html

Click on the video footage too see what he had to say lastnight afterwords. This guy is DA! MAN
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His speech was the best thing for the whole ocsar evening!
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Aryan
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You should see the docu 'Bowling for Columbine' that he won the award for. Even better than the speech!
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Have you see his Bravo network show "The Awful Truth"? Its 2 seasons are available on DVD. I rented the first season, and it is funny stuff. He also had another show, "TV Nation."
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An excerpt of what he actually said up on stage on Sunday night:

"ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Michael Moore: Whoa. On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to — they're here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much." :nopity: :thumbs:
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Moore's next film: FAHRENHEIT 911 - The Temperature At Which Freedom Burns (brilliant title :laugh: )

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=200 ... 2440-7289r

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Mr_Khiladi wrote:
His speech was the best thing for the whole ocsar evening!

To me it was the worst.
Adrien Brody's was the best.
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this man (Michael Moore) is brilliant...he's got balls of steel...i always look forward to anything he's had his hands in; whether it be books, films, interviews, whatever, he always seems to outshine himself...



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mhafner wrote:
To me it was the worst.
Adrien Brody's was the best.

ah yes adrien brody...lucky b*****... :ffs:
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mhafner wrote:
Mr_Khiladi wrote:
His speech was the best thing for the whole ocsar evening!

To me it was the worst.
Adrien Brody's was the best.

Adrien Brody (IMO) gave the second best speech of the night. An excerpt from his speech:

"And you know my experiences of making this film made me very aware of the sadness and the dehumanization of people at times of war. And the repercussions of war. And whatever you believe in, if it's God or Allah, may he watch over you and let's pray for a peaceful and swift resolution. Thank you."
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I think that Michael Moore made a very honest and straight-to-the-point speech. He didn't beat around the bush (pun not intended) making congratulatory comments. Adrien Brody obviously had a new star image to maintain and for that he gave a rather politically correct speech - AFTER making the usual round of congratulations in which he wasted too much time and the orchestra started to play (Brody's cue to shut up already). He had the audacity to the shut the orchestra up to say nothing that I haven't heard from public figures before. It was the usual, let's hope the war ends quick speech. I mean, why is there a war in the first place?
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why is there a war in the first place?


Huh? what period of time when there was no war? Remember it all started with brother against brother from time immemorial. Your pun might have been unintended but he DID BEAT around the BUSH and rightly so.

Yes what a speech by Michael Moore, I had to pick my jaw off the floor!
Anyway lucky for him Mr Hoover is not around he would have been blacklisted for sure.
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mhafner wrote:
Mr_Khiladi wrote:
His speech was the best thing for the whole ocsar evening!

To me it was the worst.
Adrien Brody's was the best.

I found this year's Oscar ceremony to be very boring and maybe it's because of the war that it was so tame. I was actually switching channels to see if anything better was on which is not something I ususually do on oscar night. Adrian Brody's speech was good, but I think Michael Moore's speech made the evening. It's what most people would remember Oscars 2003 for mostly, then maybe Adrian Brody kidding Halle Berry.

Aryan, I did see Bowling from Columbine, it deserved it's win.
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Speaking of Bush -- Check out: Chiranjeevi's open letter to George W Bush!

An open letter to George W Bush!
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Dear Mr President,



Let me introduce myself.I live in Hyderabad.I am an actor by profession, but that’s beside the point. I am just one of those millions of people who have been glued to the TV in recent days watching the drama called ‘war’ that is being enacted in Iraq.

The provocation for this letter is a photograph of an Iraqi girl I saw in the newspapers. She had been hit by a splinter during a bombing raid and blood was oozing out of her eyes.

Mr President, I don’t know whether or not this war is justified. I am not even aware of the arguments and counter-arguments. But I refuse to believe that this little girl should suffer for no fault of hers.

My heart goes out to those innocent civilians in Iraq who are bearing the brunt of the attacks on their country.

Tell me, Mr President, isn’t the United States a ‘Superpower’, and therefore you, its president, a ‘Superman’?

As far as I know, Superman protects the world, he does not destroy it. But there’s only destruction happening in Iraq.

Sitting in Hyderabad, I cannot be indifferent to what is happening in that unfortunate country.A war, even if it starts in one country, can have repercussions all over the globe.

Many letters have been written appealing to you not to attack Iraq. I don’t know if you have read them. You may not have. If you did, it is obvious you ignored them just like you ignored the opinion of more than 70 per cent of people of your own country who have expressed themselves against this war.

You might ignore this letter too. But, don’t get me wrong, Mr Bush, when I say that my heart goes out to the people of Iraq just as it did to the people of your country when terrorists bombed the World Trade Center.

I have seen pictures of you playing with your puppies. Don’t you think the children of Iraq deserve your love too?.

You say you have a reason to deal with Saddam Hussein. But in this age, are bombs the only way to tackle him? A surgeon operates to heal. If Saddam Hussein is the disease, please remove him but do not destroy the healthy tissues in the body called Iraq.

Isn’t your technology good enough to trace out one man when your satellites can detect a tennis ball in my backyard?

Everyday I pray for peace in the world with this invocation from the Bhagvad Gita: Sarvejane sukhinobhavanthu.

Mr President, let peace prevail.

Yours sincerely,

Chiranjeevi
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Nice letter but lets not get into this! this is a dvd forum :bash:
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