02.24.09 ACADEMY SNUBS DON LAFONTAINE
One of the longest-running Oscar segments is “In Memoriam,” during which the Academy honors the movie people who died that year. Problem is, certain people always get left out (like Brad Renfro last year) and no one knows exactly why. Notable exclusions this year included: George Carlin (not really known for movies, so okay), Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner, Longshanks in Braveheart), Eartha Kitt (Catwoman), and voice of the movies Don LaFontaine. (You can see a list of those they did honor after the jump).
Out of all of these, how the f-ck do you forget Don LaFontaine? He did virtually every movie trailer for 30 years and was easily the most famous voice-over guy who ever lived (not to mention, you know, VOICE OF THE OSCARS). And right there in his will it said, “Please cremate me, give all my money to my family, and please, PLEASE make sure Queen Latifah sings a shitty song about me at the Oscars.” You’ve dishonored the man’s memory, you Slumdog-loving f-cks. I hope he haunts your dreams. And “memoriam”? What the hell does that even mean? Is that some kind of secret code? Screw you, hippies.
Note: Ledger was honored in last year’s ceremony.
Cyd Charisse
Bernie Mac
Bud Stone (executive)
Ollie Johnston (animator)
Van Johnson
J. Paul Huntsman (sound editor)
Michael Crichton (producer writer director)
Nina Foch
Pat Hingle
Harold Pinter (writer)
Charles H. Joffe (producer)
Kon Ichikawa (director)
Charles H. Schneer (producer)
Abby Mann (screenwriter)
Roy Scheider
David Watkin (director of photography)
Robert Mulligan (director)
Evelyn Keyes
Richard Widmark
Claude Berri (director)
Maila Nurmi (”Vampira”)
Isaac Hayes (actor musician)
Leonard Rosenman (composer)
Ricardo Montalban
Manny Farber (film critic)
Robert DoQui
Jules Dassin (director)
Paul Scofield
John Michael Hayes (screenwriter)
Warren Cowan (publicist)
Joseph M. Caracciolo (producer)
Stan Winston (special effects)
Ned Tanen (producer executive)
James Whitmore
Charlton Heston
Anthony Minghella (director producer)
Sydney Pollack (director producer actor)
Paul Newman
[hat tip to Nikki Finke]
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ACADEMY SNUBS DON LAFONTAINE
This year’s list was a who’s who of “who?”s
George Carlin’s exclusion is still most un-excellent, dudes.
Don LaFontaine haunting your dreams doesn’t sound too unpleasant unless you have some deep-seated fear about dreaming that you’re in a movie trailer.
Not to be excluded from next year’s list: Shia LeBeouf.
*polishes rifle*
In a world, where one man should never have been forgotten . . . he was.
Every time I see the name Cyd Charisse I hear it in my head like “KIIIIIIID CAPRICE!” And by every time I mean when I just looked at it for the first time ever.
Wow, Heston and Montalban in the same year. The world just got geometrically “wussier”. Dor sho gha indeed.
“memoriam” must mean “dead guy”. So, “In Memoriam” must mean somebody fucked all the people on the list. That’s why LaFontaine isn’t there; he was cremated.
No? Fine. You tell me then.
Roy Scheider’s last words were “You’re going to need a bigger list.”
It’s like the death notices in the newspaper. You have to pay to be included. Clearly George, Don, Eartha, and Patrick didn’t ante up before passing on. Whereas Nina Foch* did.
*hee hee, he said “Foch”
I still can’t believe they snubbed Corbin Bernsen.
Every year the academy has a tribute to the late Abe Vigoda, and every year they pull it from the show at the last minute when they realize he is actually still alive.
LaFontaine should have had a tribute video all for himself. These people don’t understand the power that guy had. With just a few words he could take a shitty movie that you wouldn’t wipe your ass with and make it interesting and wedged into your mind until you had to go see it. That’s why the movie tickets sales are slumping.
Hollywood, you suck balls.
I hear Dan Rosen’s family is planning to write a strongly worded letter over his snub.
you sure LaFontaine wasn’t in the trailer BEFORE the memoriam?
+1 nice guy eddie
“Van Johnson” is actually my porn name
I guess now that Ray Scheider’s dead we’ll have to put off that Seaquest DSV reunion episode huh?
Sooo…Longshanks = dead, Don LaFontaine = dead, Ricardo Montelban = dead, Paul Newman = dead, Bernie Mac = dead, Isaac hayes = dead
But Bill O’Reilly is still alive? WTF?
How do you snub don la-fucking fontaine? He WAS the movies. I will never arrive early for a movie again. And WHY did Issac Hayes have to die?
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