Was Mickey Rourke robbed of an Oscar?

[D'wards]

last time I looked, day before the Oscars, Penn was 1/2 and Rourke 3/1

Really? Where was that? On betfair it was pretty much tghe other way round

 

[belboid]

whole bunch on oddschecker, nearly all of them had Penn as favourite. I had a fiver on Frank Langella slipping through the middle

 

[Pie 1]

Richard Jenkins

He's the father in 6ft Under isn't he?
He rocks.

 

[Pieman]

Has anyone considered that Penn won because of Guilt votes/ gay sympathy after the defeat of Prop 8?

 

[belboid]

that almost certainly helped Milk win the screenplay award. Wont have done Penn any harm either

 

[felixthecat]

Has anyone considered that Penn won because of Guilt votes/ gay sympathy after the defeat of Prop 8?

Has anyone considered that he won it because he put in a simply stunning performance?

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I'm glad Milk didn't win the editing award....it could have been a little bit shorter.

 

[belboid]

Has anyone considered that he won it because he put in a simply stunning performance?

do you really think everyone votes n the basis of the actual performance??

I remember seeing Tracey Ullman interviewed on who she voted for the year Dead Man Walking came out. She said she'd voted Penn 'because of his hair'

 

[ska invita]

Aren't we all forgetting that every year the Oscars are essentially a load of self-congratulatory nonsense

...as an aside, this years really was a wank circle:

that said i really enjoy watching the oscars, though havent seen it since it got stolen off the beeb by murdoch. pay per view? what a cunt

 

[purplex]

though havent seen it since it got stolen off the beeb by murdoch. pay per view? what a cunt

Yep a fucking disgrace.