Julian Schnabel most recently directed The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, but before that, he was an artist who did stuff like paint a gigantic version of a painting he found in a junk yard and charge $6 million for it. If that’s not enough to know he’s a pompous douche, he also wears yellow glasses, and at the Director’s Guild awards this year, he was giving an acceptance speech and going “Uhhh… Ummm…. Hmmm…” when Sean Young shouted “Get on with it!”, which was what everyone else was thinking. At which point he got all hurt and stormed off the stage like a little girl. Similarly, during this recent 60 Minutes profile, Morley Safer asks him about a critic (video after the jump):

“Your old nemesis, Robert Hughes once said of your work, you are to painting what Stallone is to acting.”

At which point Schnabel gets pissed and refuses to answer any more questions. That’s right, he’s indignant about being compared to cinema’s most prolific killer of villainous Asians. He’ll copy a painting he found in the trash and charge $6 million for it, but if anyone questions him about it, they’re just being big meanies. I will give him this: Julian Schnabel is the Babe Ruth of hipster dickweeds. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday I brought you the story of Sean Young’s outburst at the Director’s Guild Award.  Today, some kind folks at Gold Rush were nice enough to bring you video.

Sean Young’s a little hard to hear in the background, but here’s a play by play from the source:

…A clearly moved Schnabel on stage trying to make a speech when in the background you hear, "Get on with it!" 

And then Lieutenant Cockblocker of the No Fun Police tells her to have another cocktail and pretends he’s gonna take his ball and go home.  Whatever.  Someone needed to say it.  Don’t come to an award show where you know you have to give a speech and spend five minutes pretending to be humble.  Guh, artists.  No one’s done anything cool since Roberto Benigni stepped on everyone’s heads like Crocodile Dundee or Adrian Brody forcefully made out with Halle Berry.  

The important thing is that we give Sean Young’s words their proper due.  So once again:

"It was degrading," she said in an Entertainment Weekly article last year. "But when you have nothing to lose, it’s really not that big of a deal."