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Post by Willing Sniper on Feb 20, 2014 9:37:42 GMT -8
Meryl Streep thanked more often than God in Oscar acceptance speeches
Academy awards winners have namechecked Streep, God and Sidney Poitier – in that order
Ben Child theguardian.com, Thursday 20 February 2014 06.53 EST
84th Annual Academy Awards, Press Room, Los Angeles, America - 26 Feb 2012
Golden lady … Meryl Streep at the Academy Awards ceremony in 2006, where she won her third Oscar. Photograph: Startraks/Rex Features
She may be the queen of the Oscars, with a staggering 18 nominations and three wins over a 35-year period, but Meryl Streep might be surprised to hear that she is also unsurpassed when it comes to being mentioned in acceptance speeches at the ceremony. A new survey by Slate magazine suggests that winners over the past dozen years have namechecked the star more times than they have thanked God. Streep topped the list of individual luminaries named during acceptance speeches, ahead of God, Sidney Poitier and Oprah Winfrey. She was thanked by four out of the 47 individual Oscar-winners since 2002, compared with three for the Almighty and two each for Poitier and Winfrey. Not surprisingly, the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is high up on the list of those thanked, with 32 mentions. Directors are even more popular, with 42 mentions, while agents, producers and co-stars are also highly likely to get thank yous, with family members falling in just behind. Spouses (25 mentions), children (21) and writers (19) are the next most likely to be thanked. Surprisingly, fellow nominees have only been thanked 17 times by the past 47 winners. Slate notes that early influences – whether grandparents, former directors or producers – are increasingly popular. Female stars tend to have a longer list of people to thank, and one best supporting actor winner failed to thanked anyone at all: George Clooney, picking up the 2006 prize for Syriana, joked that he would now not be winning best director for that year's Good Night and Good Luck. He went on to praise the Academy for its progressiveness, and promptly walked off stage without namechecking anyone. This year's Academy Awards ceremony, the 86th, will be held on 2 March at the Dolby theatre in Los Angeles. Source
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2014 9:44:19 GMT -8
I don't get why celebrities are treated like God like figures. I mean what have they done exactly to merit such adoration? They have money, fame (and sometimes) good looks, and maybe a talent in acting. Big deal! I feel the same way about the Royal family. Jeez where is our self-esteem, I mean do we (as a public) think so little of ourselves that we can look up to them for all they have. And in the mean-time most of us struggle to make a better life for ourselves with the small amount of opportunities and resources we can gather up. Life's a struggle and I guess idolizing money and fame gives us an outlet to our own mundane lives. And when ever I dare to say anything against the immense, and unfairly accumulated wealth of the Royal family I am berated. Oh well so be it. Let us eat cake then! I second that, deyana. Nice post! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2014 9:47:13 GMT -8
During Shakespears time and before. Actors and actresses were on the same social level as prostitutes, thieves and beggars.
My, how the times have changed.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2014 10:28:26 GMT -8
During Shakespears time and before. Actors and actresses were on the same social level as prostitutes, thieves and beggars. My, how the times have changed. No doubt! Perhaps this idolizing took hold during the Great Depression when people really had nothing to look up to and no source of escape. Just a thought. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2014 10:49:17 GMT -8
Of course it is.
How many of us wouldn't play the game if were to be given the chance of Hollywood stardom, eh ?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2014 10:53:47 GMT -8
During Shakespears time and before. Actors and actresses were on the same social level as prostitutes, thieves and beggars. My, how the times have changed. No doubt! Perhaps this idolizing took hold during the Great Depression when people really had nothing to look up to and no source of escape. Just a thought. Ordinary people had heroes before the film and pop stars. T.E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) fame was idolized. We had mainly war heroes before. |
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