22-March-1999 [Artur Marques]
Today [22:30]: #1) Oscars 1999; #2) Poor PORN & a NEW REVOLUTION!; #3) The usual picture of the day.
Push of the day: Allez AURIOL! [Portuguese Rally, day 1]
OSCAR
1999 Awards
DIRECTING: SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
Steven Spielberg
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
SCREENPLAY - ADAPTION: GODS AND MONSTERS
Written for the screen by Bill Condon
ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE: GWYNETH PALTROW
as Viola in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
CINEMATOGRAPHY: SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
Janusz Kaminski
ORIGINAL SONG: THE PRINCE OF EGYPT
"When You Believe"
Music and Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
COSTUME DESIGN: SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Sandy Powell
HONORARY OSCAR: ELIA KAZAN
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: THE LAST DAYS
James Moll and Ken Lipper
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT: THE PERSONALS: IMPROVISATIONS
ON ROMANCE IN THE GOLDEN YEARS
Keiko Ibi
ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE: ROBERTO BENIGNI
as Guido in LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
VISUAL EFFECTS: WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks, Stuart Robertson and Kevin Mack
THALBERG AWARD: NORMAN JEWISON
FILM EDITING: SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
Michael Kahn
ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
Nicola Piovani
ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE: SHAKESPEARE
IN LOVE
Stephen Warbeck
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
Italy
SOUND: SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Ronald Judkins
SOUND EFFECTS EDITING: SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: JUDI
DENCH
as Queen Elizabeth I in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
SHORT FILM - ANIMATED: BUNNY
Chris Wedge
SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION: ELECTION NIGHT (Valgaften)
Kim Magnusson and Anders Thomas Jensen
MAKEUP: ELIZABETH
Jenny Shircore
ART DIRECTION: SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Martin Childs:Jill Quertier
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: JAMES
COBURN
as Glen in AFFLICTION
On-line pornographic activities are under fire in Australia and Japan. The Australian government is asking people to complain about porn sites, to the Australian Broadcasting Authority, who will then notify the Internet Service Providers to REMOVE and even DISABLE access to those websites.
In Japan, a man was convicted for posting porn content, for almost one year, although it is VERY ARGUABLE that that was a legal thing to do, according to many. Atushi was indeed posting porn material, but FROM an USA server, meaning that he should have NOT been judged by Japanese law.
My opinion:
Many academics and scientists are finding TREMENDOUS similarities between the rise of the Internet and the rise of periods like the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. During those periods, there was an EXPLOSION of new ideas and attitudes, and some persecutions to some leaders. There are many people currently having a hard time with the POWER of the FREEDOM of the INTERNET!, and they are driving all their conventional resources against this freedom. These people are sometimes GOVERNMENTS, and I think that the Australian government is just one EXAMPLE. I mean: by disabling access to porn, you are not solving a problem, IF that is a problem at all - you are only making it harder to manifest, on your tiny portion of the world.
I think that there should be ZERO restrictions in the Internet. TOTAL FREEDOM, to ALL THE CONTENTS, no matter how shocking, no matter nothing! Only by facing ALL THE CHANCES, we will, some day, evolve to a state where the legitimate options have survived! It's a kind of a natural selection.
FREEDOM, as Braveheart once screamed! What are your ideas on this one?
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The 1999 Best Picture and big winner of the Oscars' night was "Shakespeare In Love". On the stage, receiving the most important award, were Donna Gigliotti, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick and Marck Normal. I would say it was a too much italian night, with stupid W. Goldberg insisting that 1999 was the last year of the XX century! I wonder how they will turn that around, next year... |