So, that British guy won a bunch of awards for the boring film about poor brown children being exploited.
Yawn, right? But there were two highlights this weekend during the Academy Awards and Spirit Awards that will stand out for at least the next few weeks.
First, at The Spirit Awards, which are basically like the Oscar’s nerdier, Proust-reading sister who is totally deep, Mickey Rourke got the award for Best Male Lead due to The Wrestler. And then this:
[via MCN]
Not to be outdone, the Academy Awards were all, “wtf. What kind of crazy-ass shit do we do to top that? Make that Stiller guy wear a beard? Pretend Anne Hathaway is the old dude from the Ron Howard movie?” And then someone stood up and they said, “No. We let the Japanese guy who refused to do press–true story–for weeks leading up to the Award Show get on stage, blow everyone else away and talk in engrish.”
The room broke into applause.
