QUIZ: Who dissed Oscar?
Someone who could win an Academy Award this year once bashed the Oscars with the words below. Who? To see the answer, CLICK HERE!
ANSWER: Woody Allen said those words back in 1978. If he wins a screenplay Oscar for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," it'll be his first since "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and his fourth overall after best-picture champ "Annie Hall" (1977) earned him gold for writing and directing. But let's recall that Woody Allen didn't bother to show up to accept those honors. In 1978 (for the '77 awards), it was far more important to him to remain in New York to play his clarinet in the New Orleans Marching and Funeral Band at Michael's Pub.
Woody has done a flipflop in recent years, however, actually attending the ceremonies in 2002 (for the 2001 awards) and 2007 (for 2006 kudos). Voters may have been reluctant to embrace him with victory after he was tainted with a sex scandal, but they recently forgave Roman Polanski (best director, "The Pianist," 2002), who battled similar woes.
Photo: AMPAS
Tom, you also forgot that Woody's clarinet gig is on Mondays; back then, the Oscars were held that day as well. Now that the Oscars are on Sundays, he can collect his hardware one day, then fly back to NYC and show it off at Michael's the next.
(Oh, and I guessed Sean Penn too; he said something similar before he won his Oscar for "Mystic River".)
Posted by: RBBrittain | November 23, 2008 at 07:16 PM
Woody attended in 2002 to introduce a tribute to New York after 9/11. That is not flip-flopping, that is accepting an offer to pay tribute to the city you've made your life and work in, after a national tragedy took place there, and making a plea for people to continue to work there.
I'm sure if you asked him today what he thought of the awards he'd say the same thing.
Posted by: Cahiers | November 23, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Oh.. I was going to guess SEan Penn.
Posted by: Edward Douglas | November 23, 2008 at 06:31 AM