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MICHAEL FASSBENDER’S LAFCA AWARDS PRESENTATION AND ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Michael is presented with and accepts his ‘ACTOR OF THE YEAR’ Award at the 37th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Ceremony on January 13th, 2012.
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Michael is presented with and accepts his ‘ACTOR OF THE YEAR’ Award at the 37th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Ceremony on January 13th, 2012.
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Thanks for posting. Did manage to watch. Michael looked so sincere and I love his reaction when he got his lap time...classic!! but so adorable
Good job with the leather jacket and stubble, the rough bad boy look, think he's either got better at styling or has better help, yes yes its working!
I like the new leather jacket. He must have lots of them now.
I don't know about you guys, but I thought he looked better with the helmet on in the car, than with his dodgy hair in the studio.
I hope he can grow it out.
Yep, Fassbender gives good helmut guffawwwwwww
Was all happy with this look, adore leather jackets, and then I linked onto the LA Flim Assoc. Awards and its two steps back in style.
Wanted New Lounge Lizard Act: Needing a confident yet not pitch-perfect singer to enthusiastically reprise the cheesiest hits of the 60's, 70's and 80's. Must have tight hips, dangling cigarette, shiniest tightest brown suit possible. Slither on down, Fassbender!
guffawwwwwwwWas all happy with this look, adore leather jackets, and then I linked onto the LA Flim Assoc. Awards and its two steps back in style.
Wanted New Lounge Lizard Act: Needing a confident yet not pitch-perfect singer to enthusiastically reprise the cheesiest hits of the 60's, 70's and 80's. Must have tight hips, dangling cigarette, shiniest tightest brown suit possible. Slither on down, Fassbender!
That may be the reason why he is snubbed, also the film 'Shame'.:true:
A Los Angeles Times study found that academy voters are markedly less diverse than the moviegoing public, and even more monolithic than many in the film industry may suspect. Oscar voters are nearly 94% Caucasian and 77% male, The Times found. Blacks are about 2% of the academy, and Latinos are less than 2%. Oscar voters have a median age of 62, the study showed. People younger than 50 constitute just 14% of the membership.
Age and gender have also prompted questions. Sony Pictures executives said last year that they believed their Facebook film "The Social Network" lost the best picture race to "The King's Speech" because older Oscar voters didn't relate to the Internet story. This year, some believe that Stephen Daldry's 9/11 drama "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" made the best picture shortlist because it appealed to middle-aged men. "The film is about men trying to be good fathers, sons trying to be good sons," said Terry Press, a member of the public relations branch who for years has helped mount Oscar campaigns for filmmakers. "It's about unfulfilled conversations with your father and that's an extremely middle-aged man thing. It's like 'Field of Dreams.'"
African American actress and academy member Alfre Woodard, 59, cited the sexually explicit "Shame," which got no nominations, as an example of a film whose Oscar hopes may have been doomed by the academy's demographics. "Maybe if the median age was 45 to 50, a film like 'Shame' might show up, which I thought was a brilliantly rendered piece but a subject matter that you don't expect a certain older demographic would flock to see," she said.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...scar-academy-project-html,0,6763063.htmlstory
A Los Angeles Times study found that academy voters are markedly less diverse than the moviegoing public, and even more monolithic than many in the film industry may suspect. Oscar voters are nearly 94% Caucasian and 77% male, The Times found. Blacks are about 2% of the academy, and Latinos are less than 2%. Oscar voters have a median age of 62, the study showed. People younger than 50 constitute just 14% of the membership.
Age and gender have also prompted questions. Sony Pictures executives said last year that they believed their Facebook film "The Social Network" lost the best picture race to "The King's Speech" because older Oscar voters didn't relate to the Internet story. This year, some believe that Stephen Daldry's 9/11 drama "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" made the best picture shortlist because it appealed to middle-aged men. "The film is about men trying to be good fathers, sons trying to be good sons," said Terry Press, a member of the public relations branch who for years has helped mount Oscar campaigns for filmmakers. "It's about unfulfilled conversations with your father and that's an extremely middle-aged man thing. It's like 'Field of Dreams.'"
African American actress and academy member Alfre Woodard, 59, cited the sexually explicit "Shame," which got no nominations, as an example of a film whose Oscar hopes may have been doomed by the academy's demographics. "Maybe if the median age was 45 to 50, a film like 'Shame' might show up, which I thought was a brilliantly rendered piece but a subject matter that you don't expect a certain older demographic would flock to see," she said.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...scar-academy-project-html,0,6763063.htmlstory
Haha. I speak English and was raised Catholic and I still don't get it. Maybe because nuns are chaste and celibate, and so if they were cornered...?
It just cracked me up, the way he said it. I bet after a day spent with him, people's faces hurt from smiling and laughing so much.
^^ Yeah I've never heard that phrase before. This is an insane statistic... no wonder Spike Lee goes apesh*t from time to time.
Yes, its so perfectly evocative but yet so goddam inappropriate
Such a dodgy thing to say from a catholic altar boy ...pure gold! Just waded through that article and its soooooooo depressing. Ya kinda know the information already because its all well documented and happens every year but to just see the stats again about how white and male and old the voters are, well, dang!
I don't mind the idea of a elitist voting block, hell, I work in a very elitist industry...and I f*king love it
...but the problem is that the Oscars seems on a perpetual downward spiral. An Oscar nomination means more money and attention for that film, Oscar format is still considered 'quality' and so nominations lead to large marketing gains. Yet if they keep on retreading the same monocultural, old-swaying, conservative films (see Moneyball, The Descendants blah blah etc) than it just ends up making more people turn away from cinema. I mean when you have cable, the net and all the diversity of choices and platforms for many audience types they're just squeezing the life out of a changing industry. Rant over, sorry rant ova for now 
Happy face again
I read a brief article about Steve McQueen today where he discussed the Oscar snub. If the academy is primarily composed of older, white males then the snub makes sense.
While dropping trou in "Shame" got Michael Fassbender a few infamous mentions (George Clooney comparing the actor's penis to a golf club, for instance), it might have been a bit too scandalous for the Academy's taste.
Fassbender and "Shame" did not light up 2012's nominations, contrary to the critical acclaim the film received. The reason for this, according to "Shame" director Steve McQueen, was as plain as day: the Fassboner.
"In America they're too scared of sex, that's why he wasn't nominated. If you look at the best actor list you're saying, 'Michael Fassbender is not on that list?' It's kind of crazy. But that's how it is, it's an American award, let them have it."
The great Fassbender snub has not tarnished the director's view of his muse -- they have worked on two previous films together, with a third on the way -- but McQueen just wants you to know he's not like, married to the guy or anything.
"It's all about the script, if Michael's the right person for the character and if he likes the script. What I like about our relationship is it's not tied, it's not a marriage, it's friendship and it's done out of respect of each other's talents and each other's love of film."
Fassbender and "Shame" did not light up 2012's nominations, contrary to the critical acclaim the film received. The reason for this, according to "Shame" director Steve McQueen, was as plain as day: the Fassboner.
"In America they're too scared of sex, that's why he wasn't nominated. If you look at the best actor list you're saying, 'Michael Fassbender is not on that list?' It's kind of crazy. But that's how it is, it's an American award, let them have it."
The great Fassbender snub has not tarnished the director's view of his muse -- they have worked on two previous films together, with a third on the way -- but McQueen just wants you to know he's not like, married to the guy or anything.
"It's all about the script, if Michael's the right person for the character and if he likes the script. What I like about our relationship is it's not tied, it's not a marriage, it's friendship and it's done out of respect of each other's talents and each other's love of film."
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