Michael Moore is one of the most commercially successful documentary filmmakers of the past decade, certainly. Frankly? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts isn’t impressed. They don’t care that Moore’s latest accomplishment, Capitalism: A Love Story, made $14M at the box office which is a huge amount for a documentary.
The short list of films is determined by a committee of members of the academy’s documentary branch. They watch all eligible contenders and vote for their favorites by secret ballot. The top vote-getters make the short list of potential nominees.
The selections this year are “The Beaches of Agnes,” “Burma VJ,” “The Cove,” “Every Little Step,” “Facing Ali,” “Food, Inc.,” “Garbage Dreams,” “Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders,” “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers,” “Mugabe and the White African,” “Sergio,” “Soundtrack for a Revolution,” “Under Our Skin,” “Valentino The Last Emperor” and “Which Way Home.”
Aw, Michael. It look like you were just a bit too controversial and now the little designer raisin better known as Valentino is going to snag the coveted award that shoulda been yours.
HYPO-CRITE!
refers to someone who gives a false appearance of virtue or truth., revealed. Thrown under the bus! Tin roof.. rusted! haha
Yeah, but boy does he get love from a Big Mac.
Oh, the irony of an overweight man producing and directing a movie about the downside of America’s health care system. Now here he goes again. At $14 million, documentary or no documentary, it shows that nobody really cared to go see a movie about the so-called evils of capitalism and the greed it instills. This is a tired and old issue, and everybody who reads the local paper or watches any one of the gazillion cable news channels has pretty much established their opinion on this subject, and there’s nothing new that he can provide to this audience. Please go away, Michael Moore, and take your lame-assed Marxist agenda with you.
Loco you ain’t! Right on dude!!!
The Valentino movie was greatly entertaining. The Michael Moore movie sucked becausea lot of stuff he passed off as “facts” were just more of Moore’s spewing the same garbage.
How many of these films did you actually see, Wendie? Do you ever go out of your way to do any actual research on the crap you spew out here?
I’ve never been interested enough in Michael Moore to watch more than a few segments from his “documentaries” but from what I can tell, he just runs around (well…. probably not runs) shouting things into his bullhorn and harassing people.
He lost me when he had to pick a fight with an old actor with Alzheimers (Charlton Heston) who could not defend himself, the fat bully who was most likely bullied all those years got his revenge I imagine. Mr. Heston most likely asked him to haul ass but Moore knew he was too lazy to make two trips to haul that “thing”…….he could have been something had he maintained an even approach to exposing issues….like GM, he is now a cartoon character.
He didn’t “pick a fight” with him, he asked him a legitimate question, namely, why did you feel it was appropriate to hold a “Woohoo guns!” rally in a town that had just lost so many – mostly their CHILDREN – to gun violence. Fair question, one that never did get much of an answer from Heston. You don’t get to avoid tough questions just for being old. Personally I’d still love to know how he justified that disgusting display in Columbine.
Just for clarification, the NRA rally was held in Denver, not Columbine, which is where the massacre took place. The two events has absolutely nothing to do with each other. And when did a display of support for one of the ten amendments all of a sudden become something disgusting? Perhaps you would also like to ban the 1st amendment so that people like Heston can be prevented from expressing their rights as an American citizen. Moore notoriously edits his recorded footage and then presents it in a biased manner that quite often distorts the facts. None of his films should ever be considered as anything more than parody and satire.
Senor Loco–yes, everything you just said. Yes. Thank you.
Charlton Heston can suck my dick in hell, and by the way, I’m all over the right to bear arms. I just want him to suck my dick in hell.
A bunch of documentaries get snubbed every year because the nomination rules are very weird. Can’t remember the specifics – but Roger Ebert has been ranting about it for decades.
I think Moore’s best film was “Sicko’ – because it skewered both parties and a (health care) system that is in dire need of repair. Some scenes were very moving and effective.
Say what you want about him – but after “Sicko” – we’re talking health care and about a year after Fahrenheit 911 – Bush’s approval tanked.
He’s certainly a more “real” guy than Rush Limbaugh.
i wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that his movie was “snubbed” because it’s too controversial (and actually i’m not completely sure what wendie’s tone was in saying that) – maybe it’s just not that good. i started out as a huge fan maybe five years ago when i first saw one of michael moore’s films, but now i just find him grating, self-absorbed and otherwise obnoxious. he seems to spend much more time and energy having fun annoying people and hoping to catch them looking stupid than actually getting a point across. i even agree with him on a lot of political issues, so it’s been a disappointment to me to become so sick of him, to the point that i end up sympathizing with many of the people he’s attempting to skewer.