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 Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:05 am Moore to Pursue Best Picture Oscar |
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Moore to Pursue Best Picture Oscar
By ANTHONY BREZNICAN
AP Entertainment Writer
Filmmaker Michael Moore gestures as Sen. John McCain R-Ariz., addresses delegates at Madison Square Garden during the Republican National Convention in New York, Monday, Aug. 30, 2004. Moore says he won't submit his film "Fahrenheit 9/11" for consideration as best documentary at this year's Academy Awards. Instead, he's going for the bigger prize of best picture. Moore's critically acclaimed film slams President Bush's war on terror as ill-advised and corrupt. The movie has cheered Democrats but enraged the president's supporters, who booed Moore when he visited the Republican National Convention last week. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Moore says he won't submit "Fahrenheit 9/11" for consideration as best documentary at this year's Academy Awards. Instead, he's going for the bigger prize of best picture.
Moore's critically acclaimed film slams President Bush's war on terror as ill-advised and corrupt. The movie has cheered Democrats but enraged the president's supporters, who booed Moore when he visited the Republican National Convention last week.
"For me the real Oscar would be Bush's defeat on Nov. 2," Moore told The Associated Press during a phone interview Monday from New York.
The $6 million film has become a sensation that collected $117.3 million in the United States this summer, despite an early roadblock when the Walt Disney Co. banned its Miramax Films division from distributing the political hot-potato.
In the midst of the presidential campaign, Moore's announcement is a strategic move for his Oscar campaign. Documentaries and animated films have their own categories, but the conventional wisdom in Hollywood is that those niche awards can limit a film's appeal in the overall best picture class.
Moore said he and his producing partner, Harvey Weinstein, agreed "Fahrenheit 9/11" would stand a better chance if they focused solely on the top Oscar.
He also said he wanted to be "supportive of my teammates in nonfiction film."
So many documentaries - such as the gonzo fast-food satire "Super Size Me" and the sober look at Arab television news in "Control Room" - have made the rounds in theaters recently that Moore, who won the best documentary Oscar for "Bowling for Columbine," said he wanted to give others a chance.
"It's not that I want to be disrespectful and say I don't ever want to win a (documentary) Oscar again," Moore said. "This just seems like the right thing to do. ... I don't want to take away from the other nominees and the attention that they richly deserve."
Moore also hinted in a recent interview in Rolling Stone he would like the movie to play on television before the presidential election. According to the rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, playing on TV would invalidate its contention in the documentary category, but not for best picture. With the movie coming out on DVD Oct. 5, it's not clear whether the TV deal would happen.
Nominations for the Academy Awards are scheduled to be announced in January.
Regardless of who wins the election, Moore said the movie's presence at the Academy Awards in February will provide another forum for Americans to think about its message.
"The issues in the film - terrorism, the war on terrorism, the Iraq war - will be with us five months from now, sadly," Moore said. "The issues that the film raises will be no less relevant, in the new year."
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I hope he gets it everyone should get what they work for.
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Theresa
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:09 am |
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He got booed off the stage... Moron.
And everyone should get what they work for? So you'll be happy when Bush takes office again.
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Jeff Miller
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:17 am |
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meh I won't throw a fit but I would be really happy if Kerry takes office  Let me ask you one question if he made a movie that critized Clinton or Kerry would you be so apt to call him a moron?
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Theresa
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:19 am |
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When a person makes a movie according to his own "facts", he's a moron. Not because of the subject of the film. Do you understand that?
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Jeff Miller
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:21 am |
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I understand but you didn't answer my question would you still critize him if it was Clinton or Kerry he was going after?
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Theresa
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:25 am |
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No, obviously you do not understand, or you would see that your question had been answered.
So much for being better than 99.975% of all the people you know, eh?
YES. Slander is slander, Jeff, regardless of whom it's directed at.
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Jeff Miller
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:28 am |
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just because I say I'm better doesn't neccerly (SP) mean it and I didn't know your answers could be alittle complex sometimes.  thanks for answering it again though.
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Theresa
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:32 am |
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Complex? You asked if I would say he was a moron if the movie were directed at Kerry or Clinton. I said that regardless of whom it was directed at, making a movie using your own "facts" makes you a moron.
Maybe it wasn't a "yes" or a "no", but I figured you'd ask for my reasoning next, so I decided to skip a step. Look how that ended up.
Moore is stupid. Hell, he looks half stoned in that pic.
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:52 am |
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Stupid enough to sway the vote in the American elections anyway. Send him to the special school people, and then steal all that money he made on Farenheit.
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Theresa
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:55 am |
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Pffft, people are sheep. They'd rather beleive an interesting lie than the boring truth. Anything else requires a bit of work, and we can't have that, now can we? Anyone w/ the money Moore has could have done the same thing.
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 12:08 pm |
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Moore seems kinda arrogant. Im pulling F/911 out of the Oscars so my friends will have a chance of winning? Get over yourself you fat.....
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| Wed Sep 08, 2004 4:52 pm |
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| Founder wrote: | | Moore seems kinda arrogant. Im pulling F/911 out of the Oscars so my friends will have a chance of winning? Get over yourself you fat..... |
YES!
No, he does not deserve this award--He should get the Propaganda Award.
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| Thu Sep 09, 2004 5:08 pm |
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Go Moore!! He will easily win. Hollywood is a liberal place .
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| Thu Sep 09, 2004 5:10 pm |
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| charmed88 wrote: | | Go Moore!! He will easily win. Hollywood is a liberal place . |
Yeah, sure. I HOPE NOT. He BETTER NOT.
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| Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:00 pm |
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| charmed88 wrote: | | Go Moore!! He will easily win. Hollywood is a liberal place . |
No offense but your more gullable than I thought. 
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| Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:17 am |
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Moore is silly. He's making a fool of himself, and what's worse is; he doesn't even know it.
He does have some interesting points, but there's also lots of nonsense. Believing in anything wholeheartedly is foolish; there is no such thing as solid truth in these cases.
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