9:00 Black Swan and 127 Hours and Kings Speech jokes. oh my. My television is a time machine. Or MTV is. Jason Sudeikis made a joke about the set being Lady Gaga's bedroom. But I think... no... this is more like how I imagine Spider-Man Turn off the Dark set to look like.
Eva Mendes has been Teem Edward the whole time.
9:12 They've already told four Team Jacob / Team Edward jokes? That's like one every 3 minutes.
"My heart says Jacob. But my weiner says Edward. My balls are indifferent."
9:13 Best Male Performance goes to Robert Pattinson who doesn't even do a good job of acting "indifferently cool / bemused". Jesse Eisenberg could act that while acting 7 other emotions simultaneously with an undercurrent of self loathing. These awards are always stupid.
9:27 Three people we like at once on MTV. It's kind of a rare occurence!
Crazy Stupid Indifference To This Awards ShowSteve Carell made a joke about horny dolphins. Emma and Ryan are both so naturally funny that
Whenever I hate on the Oscars and their very limited range of movie-love, I have only to glance at the annual MTV Awards to remind myself that some groups have an even teensier worldview. Once again the MTV nominations are a weird mix of movies that are actually good (Black Swan, The Social Network) movies that are super popular despite themselves (The Twilight Saga) movies that whether or not they're good or bad or better than usual or worst than usual it would never matter (Harry Potter) and movies that are deemed acceptable by virtue of either hipness, mainstream popularity, youth appeal or household name ubiquity of its stars (Kick-Ass, Easy A, Inception, Just Go With It) or movies that the MTV viewers didn't see but they like the star so it's okay to nominate him or her (Ryan Reynolds in Buried) and still look sufficiently populist and not like some stuffy film blogger. Mix and match!
Y'all know I approve of weird awards since i do pages of them myself each year so I've always been happy that the awards existed. I just wish they were more discerning. Take Inception. Makes total sense in all ways of looking at it that it would get a ton of nominations with MTV. But the KISS between JGL and Ellen Page? That was ice-water on a scale of hot, like a brother/sister makeout. Nomination that made me the happiest: Amy Adams vs. The Sisters in The Fighter for Best Fight. Maybe it's protecting their own -- SHE'S AN MTV GIRL -- but it's still a perfect decision as nominations go.
Canada's Genie Awards were held this week and Incendies, which you'll remember was up for the Foreign Film Oscar, was the big winner. The "runner up" as it were, the movie that did very well for itself that didn't win the big one, was Barney's Version which was just Rosamund Pike short of sweeping all the acting trophies. Curiously, if you trust photos from the big event the Barney's Version team was curiously absent. That's so uncool when you win that many awards!
Melissa Etheridge performed (anyone know what song?) and here's a photo of presenters Mia Kirshner(more on her in a bit) and Rossif Sutherland. Yes, he's another spawn of Donald Sutherland -- I didn't know there was a post Kiefer! -- he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for a film called High Life. Perhaps he can co-star with Armie Hammer at some point since he appears to be the only other 6'5" actor in their age bracket.
Xavier Dolan's Heartbeats went home empty-handed but at least it won nominations for Pic/Director, Cinematography and Supporting Actress.
Best Picture INCENDIES Best Director Denis Villeneuve for INCENDIES Best Actor Paul Giamatti in BARNEY'S VERSION Best Actress Lubna Azabal for INCENDIES Best Supporting Actor Dustin Hoffman in BARNEY'S VERSION Best Supporting Actress Minnie Driver in BARNEY'S VERSION Original Screenplay Jacob Tierney for THE TROTSKY Adapated Screenplay Denis Villeneuve for INCENDIES Editing INCENDIES Cinematography INCENDIES Art Direction: BARNEY'S VERSION Costume Design: BARNEY'S VERSION Make Up: BARNEY'S VERSION Original Score: BARNEY'S VERSION Original Song: "Already Gone" from THE TROTSKY (below. I liked this movie. Did any of you see it?)
Sound: INCENDIES Sound Editing: INCENDIES Documentary: LAST TRAIN HOME Live Action Short: SAVAGE Animated Short: LIPSETT DIARIES
Special Prizes The Claude Jutra (this is a debut film prize) Jephte Bastien for SORTIE 67 (Honorable Mention: Peter Stebbings for DEFENDOR) Golden Reel: (this is a prize for the highest grossing Canadian film) RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE
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Mia Kirschner is a dark beauty but I can never ever decide what I think of her acting. I loved the Atom Egoyan film Exotica (the first thing I saw of hers) but I didn't feel fannish until I caught her as a dominatrix in Love and Human Remains. So I thought I was "yes!" on Mia until The "L" Word (hated her on that) so I was blown away by her inchoate despair and haunting of The Black Dahlia (film bitch supporting actress nomination). It seems that my reaction to her is completely dependent on the role/movie which is not something that usually affects me to that degree... i.e. I usually know whether or not I like an actor's work independent of which projects house them. Anyone have any strong feelings one way or the other on Mia?
I can't be the only one who gets freaked out when creepy child stars grew up. Look at Cameron Bright (Birth), now 18, and Jodelle Ferland (Tideland), 16. Yikers. (No, they're not together. I just enjoy my photoshop.) Yes, I know Cameron Bright is in the Twilight movies but I haven't seen them since the first one bored me to tears so to me he's still that creepy boy who tried to seduce Nicole Kidman.
"You're a little liar aren't you?"
I would die to see Sassy Gay Friend take on Birth (2004) but it's too obscure to get that treatment.
Finally there's Best Actress winner Lubna Azabal(who I keep hearing great things about but who is evaded my eyeballs up till now) from Incendies wielding her Genie. The Genie looks like the most dangerous prize this side of Emmy's 'careful or you'll lose an eye' winged she-demon. Oh and Rachel LeFevre she of the booted from Twilight fame.
Acidemic recommends some girly gloomy Twilight ancestors. Fascinating. The Carpetbagger the financial value of the Oscar bump. Interesting but I always find these figures suspect because so many films that get nominated are just starting their runs around Oscar time so it's tough to say WHY people are seeing them exactly and what they would have done financially had they been snubbed. Shortlist Funny profanity-laced Paul Rudd interview. Is there any other kind?
Q: So, what’s the nastiest, baddest thing you’ve ever done? A: I killed a man. With my bare hands. And my mind. I hurt him, I really punished him with my bare hands, but I wound up killing him with my mind.
The Beast the 50 Most Loathsome Americans In Contention Ruffalo finally gets the Oscar nod. An appreciation The Best Picture Project have you seen this blog? Alyson is watching every Best Picture nominee and writing about them.
One more as you pirouette outta here...
Lipstick Eater interesting piece about Black Swan's text of femininity but more specifically about Natalie Portman's feet. I love this bit.
After she retches, Nina flushes the toilet by stomping on the handle with one foot.This is one of my favorite moments in the movie.Kick-flushing the toilet is such a punk rock gesture, so there is a weird thrill in seeing the stomping foot covered in dirty pink satin rather than black Doc Martens: the pink doesn’t at all dampen the violence of the gesture.
Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 9:14PM 
Eva Mendes has been Teem Edward the whole time.
Crazy Stupid Indifference To This Awards ShowSteve Carell made a joke about horny dolphins. Emma and Ryan are both so naturally funny that
