The Oscars

The Oscar and all the Oscar stuff are controlled by the Motion Picture Academy either by copyright or trademark. They can't be used without the permission of the academy and they are very protective of their use. You would think that the Academy would be eager to allow motion pictures to use their materials, but they protect the image from being used friviolously. One of the few times they actively supported the use of the Oscar in a movie was in THE OSCAR, and it turned out to be a pretty bad film. Filmmakers can use the Oscar statue as a prop and talk about the Academy Awards, but rarely is actual Oscar telecast footage allowed to be used in a movie. I think they used Oscar film clips in CHAPLIN and the Academy allowed Maggie Smith and Michael Caine to be filmmed arriving at the Oscars for use in the film CALIFORNIA SUITE. I'm surprised that the recreation of the Oscar show in IN & OUT looked as good as it did. They actually show two large statues of Oscar on the stage, but they are behind some decorative screens so you can't real tell how accurate they are as reproductions.

Also, a factor is how many stars they can actually get to put in a cameo. I&O only had Glenn Close and Debbie Reynolds was the only one in THE BODYGUARD. The Oscar show used in NAKED GUN 33 1/3 was terribly unrealistic, but at least they got a whole bunch of stars to put in appearances; James Earl Jones, Raquel Welch, Pia Zadora, etc.

i always thought they were mocking the oscar ceremony by doing that ridiculousy hilarious fake oscars. i thought it was pretty obvious because they made it so funny! i mean dan hedaya saying "is this your copy of beaches?"

cmon! that was so funny... they were making a joke out of the oscars, why am i the only one who got it?? what kind of oscars would show the ending to the movie?? of course it was just a joke and mockery of the whole thing!

do you know who was nominated along with the fictional Cameron Drake, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood and Michael Douglas? Steven Seagal! Ironically he got three noms including Actor and Director (won for the latter) in the same year as the 68th Academy Awards were held (like it's said in the film) - but it was at the Razzie Awards - now tell me that's not supposed to be a joke ;)

"Cate Blanchetts scream in 'The Missing' has written Oscar all over it" Diogo Felipe a.k.a. VSW

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Probably because the Oscars are such crap to begin with! What always gets me is when the audience is laughing at the jokes. Do these actors really think the stuff is funny? Half the time I'm thinking they must be on drugs, which they probably are.

I thought the way they depicted the Oscars was so strange, but that was the point. Why does Glenn Close just present one actor? And act like the other nominees don't exist? Why do they show a five minute clip of the film?!

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