I think these Jean Dujardin posters are really eye-catching and interesting. [LaineyGossip]
This ice-skater fashion gallery is hilarious! [Go Fug Yourself]
Kristen Stewart wishes we would just freeze to death. [Dlisted]
OH HELLO JAMES BOND. [Pop Sugar]
Ryan Kwanten is guesting on The New Girl! I love their guest stars. [Celebuzz]
Garrett Hedlund & Kiki Dunst are unemployed. [A Socialite Life]
Vanessa Hudgens in yellow. Meh. [The Blemish]
I‘m embarrassed for LL Cool J. [Evil Beet]
More reasons why This Means War is going to be awful. [Pajiba]
This is seriously In Touch Weekly‘s cover this week. [IDLITW]
Michelle Williams plans an ironic RV trip. [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
Lady Gaga‘s parents open an awful restaurant. [CDAN]
The Mullet is writing a memoir, Hillbilly Heart. Or, The Mullet Speaks. Or The Mullet Comes Alive! Or Mullets & Miley: A True Story. [ICYDK]
Dear Demi Lovato: Just stop. [Yeeeah]
The Susan G. Komen Foundation is in the middle of a self-created sh-tstorm. [Jezebel]
Review of The Woman In Black. [Moe Jackson]
The Asparagus Whisperer. [The Frisky]
I think it’s going to take a lot more than a bunch of racy posters to keep him out of the running for Best Actor (of which he’s definitely the dark horse).
I think it’s hilarious!!!
BTW, Les infidèles means Cheaters. So the poster is quite à propos 😉
It reads “I”m going into a meeting”
@normades, the Title at the bottom of the poster says Les Infidèles: means Cheaters.
Yes, I see it now, the top says I’m going into a meeting. Funny!
The insinuation might be better said as “entering a meeting”. 😉
@Wendy – good one!! you are so wright, you should translate the poster for the studio 🙂
I can read French (just not speak it or write it) but it takes a little while for the switch to take effect. Seeing that in English it looks like “THE INFIDELS!” Which really made me laugh. Then I laughed at myself.
Seriously, that poster is nothing. It’s “racy” like someone said but it’s not overt in any sense.
@Wendy yes, in English mode I thought “I’m reentering the reunion” which in it’s pigeon French way is much funnier.
It does NOT mean PLAYERS. That’s how it seems they are going to title this movie upon it’s American/Anglophone release. It actually does mean CHEATERS, and the topic of the film is about CHEATING and INFIDELITY not just being a “player”!!!
Dujardin = Winning
Dujardin is a stone cold fox.
He is so delicious.
OMG! When I read the headline I thought he had cut-up pigs in his hands or something. This poster is hilarious and I don’t think it will hurt his campaign in the slightest. Those shots of George Clooney at home, followed by interview should count as hurting a campaign. Unless your Acadamy Award can cook, clean and rub your back after a long day of famewhoring you shouldn’t be campaigning this hard, George!
… I mean, jeeez, it’s like he gets a hard on just thinking about the thing. That’s what Stacy is for, ya big goof!
That was a blatant Clooney “I’ll see the dog and raise you a house” Oscar poker move.
Those posters will do nothing to hurt his chances. Everyone already thinks that Frenchman are constantly having sex anyways.
I really hope Dujardin or Oldman win… I’m so sick of the blatant campainging by the others. Especially Clooney.
Well usually between two contenders the third (and unexpected) one wins. I hope so, and Dujardin totally deserves that award.
the others are campaigning just as hard. clooney/brad are just getting more coverage because they are tabloid gold.
And don’t forget Dujardin is backed by Harvey Weinstein. His oscar campaigns are very aggressive, very visible and very obvious. Why the hell do you think that dog is in LA? It’s The Artist and Dujardin’s equivalent of clooney ‘at home’ interviews and brad family ‘titbits’. Michelle is in her knickers on the cover of some men’s magazine, talking about her Ledger/Mathilda pain. again. Please, she is just as obvious as brad/clooney. Meryl might be more dignified, but it’s no coincidence or Wintour thaw, that she was on the cover of Vogue, in December….Her film is also backed by Weinstein.
Even Gary Oldman is rumoured to be doing audience participation all over LA to select audiences – what is the betting the ‘select’ audiences are oscar voters??!!
Please it’s a race to the finish.
It’s the first time in years when it could be anyone’s for the taking, and all we can do is buy the popcorn and enjoy the show.
Frankly given all their aggressive campaigns, it will be an upset if Demain Birchir wins because he doesn’t seem hungry for it.
If this was a talent contest, the list would look very different, and we probably wouldn’t hear so much about it.
For reference, it’s “tidbit”, not titbit.
Yeah, I know that both Oldman and Dujardin are campaigning too. It’s part of the game.
(Don’t get me started on Michell Williams. ugh)
But…The Oldman/Dujardin campaign style I can handle.
The in your face BS style Clooney/Pitt are using (esp Clooney) is having the opposite affect on me… good thing Im not a bend-over-and-take-it-like-you-like-it academy voter! 😉
For reference, “titbit” is perfectly correct. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/titbit
@wendy – in UK we say titbits. same language, slightly different spellings.
If ever there was a country that doesn’t have a bit of tits, it’s the UK. I don’t know what they feed you girls here growing up, but it’s darned effective.
Wendy, i’m american and teach English as a second language and love the subtle difference between UK and US communications – just to let you know that our version of “tits” and their version of “tits” is much different. Ours tends to stick to the LA version, as in boobs, jugs, etc.; while in UK, tit has a more varied definition, as in “twit,” or “tit for tat.” And, i’ll just leave it at that. 🙂
I’m actually Canadian and generally we spell the same as the Brits, although obviously not in this case. Even between Canada and the US, “soda” means something completely different as does “pissed” and a whole bunch of other words.
I’m pretty sure Jean will win no matter what he does (and he deserves to.)
I still haven’t had a chance to see the Artist, but I’m kind of hoping he or Gary Oldman win. It would give this guy a huge boost or would reward Oldman for a fabulous career.
I was so mad about SGK yesterday! That could have left so many low-income or no insurance women without breast cancer screening. Glad they took a lot of heat and are reversing their decision, plus PP raised a LOT of money in a breast cancer screening fund which will help even more people.
I don’t see how this could hurt. The posters are provocative and sexy, not cringe worthy like those Melissa Leo Glamor shot ads.
I hit him for sure :p, and i hope he wins that blodie oscar,or maybe Oldman,im so fed up with Clooney and Pitt.
I’m all about Dujardin and Oldman this year.
Thankyou so much for the link to the ice-skater gallery!! I am a seriously obsessed figure skating fan who doesn’t know any other figure skating fans, so I never get to discuss that stuff with anyone. Please don’t judge–I love football and hockey and other ‘real’ sports, too! But figure skating is my weakness–kinda like WWE is for some guys.
he seems very charming, i haven’t seen the artist yet, but i plan to, i don’t think the poster will hurt his chance, i still hope brad wins, he is so deserving of it, brad had a sensational year, in front of the camera and behind it, he is not the only one campaigning if he is, not only for best actor, his projects are getting notice, Gary oldman would be nice also to win. it’s up for anyone at this point.
I think he is too much of a newcomer to win Best Actor. I was leaning against Pitt and Clooney, too. Maybe Oldman, and now I have rethought Clooney, so maybe Clooney.
Agree
Objectifying women much?
You could argue David Beckham’s underwear posters are objectifying men, or the Chippendales are, or anything else. Nobody’s being objectified, we’re sexual beings and to deny that or read something sinister into any sexualisation (especially when it comes to advertising) is either a hiding to nothing or says more about how you interpret things. Speaking as a woman myself, I don’t feel any more objectified than a man would by the aforementioned examples, and if anything am more than a little tired of the bleating that happens as soon as a woman appears on advertising.
Yeah, but I think there’s a distinct difference between, say, a poster showcasing a woman–a whole woman, with all her body parts–who is a sexual being (and celebrating that sexuality rather than just exploiting it), and this poster, where you have disembodied female legs serving as some kind of prop for the guy. I really am sick of that–of the body parts as tools/props/instruments. To me, that *is* objectifying.
I want to drown in Jean’s forehead wrinkles. Now that’s what a man is supposed to look like. I hate botox.
I want to drown in Jean’s forehead wrinkles. Now that’s what a man is supposed to look like. I hate botox.
This is not going to hurt. This film is not opening in America and given the subject manner it is not that surprising. I did see The Artist and all the other actor/actress nominated films. My take is between him and Oldman. But I think that if he academy split the vote it will go to Clooney (whyyyyyyyyyy!!!!). But my personal opinion, Jean owns this bitch!!!
Just got back from The Descendants. I have no idea how Clooney got a nomination for that when Fassbender didn’t get one for Shame. Very good film, but not because anyone did an outstanding performance, they just had some excellent material to work with. No comment on Oldman, since I make a point of not seeing films for which I’ve read the book (the film is never as good). Also no comment on Pitt, haven’t seen his film and won’t.
Should have been Fassy, then Dujardin (even though I’ve been rooting for Dujardin from the start). Clooney was nowhere near either, and generally IMO Pitt isn’t as effective an actor as Clooney so I have a hard time imagining that’s changed recently.
Wendy, I saw Moneyball (I love baseball). It was a very good movie, I enjoyed it a lot. However, Pitt’s performance is NOT Oscar Nomination worthy. And I saw it way before the major nominations so I don’t think I was biased at that point.
I can’t say one way or another. The problem I have with Pitt is that when I see the guy on screen, I think “oh, it’s Pitt pretending to be… (name the character)”. Usually, the only films of his I’ll bother to see is when he’s in something with Clooney because the two of them together equal far more than they do seperately. But even then, you read an interview where Jolie comments (as she did for Burn After Reading) that for the first time, she found Pitt undesireable when she saw him like that, and the minute you see him onscreen, you’re thinking about Pitt looking like an undesireable dork instead of just enjoying the character he played because it’s become yet again “Pitt pretending to be…” .
Hmmm, Hazanavicious also directed this one. Dujardin had the original idea and was one of the scriptwriters and One of the producers. Plus Marion Cotillard’s guy is in it as is Jean’s wife.
they just ruled in the berry v. aubry custody battle. tmz says he can keep custody during the investigation but shit has to change.
go jean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy Crap he looks like Jen Anistons Boyfriend…ahhh justin or something or other! Seriously he does!
Okay. I just have ONE thing to say. I am SHOCKED that The Lion King 3D wasn’t nominated for anything. I just got back from watching it and I am traumatized! It was like Mufasa fell ON me… *shudder*. Lion King for the win!
I’m not sure what the fuss is…I mean these posters make me chuckle more than clutch my pearls…I don’t know. You would think the French wouldn’t be so sensitive as to pull the ads.
He looks like he smelled a fart in the second poster.
Haha!!
These posters were up in public spaces in Paris and were — quite rightly — removed. As a parent, I’d be very upset if my young children saw them and asked questions. The Daily Mail has a copy of an even more lewd poster.
I am french and i live in Paris.
posters of the film were shown on the street.
and in the street, they are children.
the posters are perhaps not shocking for adults.
but show pictures with sexual content to children ….
MERCI 007 – i am getting sick and tired of the use of sex as bait for ticket sales and ratings boosters. I am also getting tired of being barraged by sexual images by the time i leave my house in the morning for work, random times throughout the day, and then on my way home from work, and then again on TV when i relax…what is the media doing? Have they completely lost all originality and imagination? NO ONE is thinking about the kids, but i’ll tell you what – at my kids int’l school here in Nice, the 12 year old boys’ idea of a cool party idea is to “hire strippers!” Yesterday i was having lunch with my kids and the huge TV screen in the restaurant (why did they start doing this, too?) was playing the raunchy Rhianna video “You da One,” and my kids were shocked, and so was i! My son said, just wait, in 50 years, they’ll be naked. They’ll have strippers as waitresses…” It used to be shocking when Madonna mimed auto-pleasure at a private concert, now we have Rhianna doing it as “art” in one of her videos in the middle of the day with young kids eating their happy meals, i’m freaking sick of it and really do wonder how it will be in the future. I AM SO PROUD OF FRANCE!!! I hope it’s just the beginning. If the freaking advertizing agencies don’t start thinking about the kids, the kids will start thinking like them.
in the grandscheme of things weather Mr Dujardin wins the best actor oscar doesn’t mean anything. he seems like a guy that cares more about his craft than the award shows that come after a film like this all awards are good for is glad handing an ego boost and getting drunk
These are kind of similar to the posters put out for Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
Why are there “Oscar campaigns” anyway? It turns me off, that whole process. The voting is supposed to be about best performances.
I want Dujardin to win. I have seen Clooney’s acting performance in The Descendants…one word: overrated.
Dujardin was much better in The Artist than Clooney was in The Descendants. Clooney was good, but I can easily imagine a half a dozen actors who would have brought more to the table in that role. Hard to imagine anyone else in Dujardin’s place.
I do hope The Descendants gets the Adapted Screenplay Oscar though.
I just believe that it’s pretty shameful that no one ever mentions demian bichir performance.
I probably would if I had seen it.
Hey Wendy !!!
I’m in the middle and i’m the sexiest one in the bunch !!!!
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/e5Wvd3lj7xf/84th+Academy+Awards+Nominations+Luncheon+Inside/vp6V5fxNmtB
This guy out-Clooneys Clooney. Charming, twinkle in the eye, serious about acting but doesn’t take himself too seriously… yes, Clooney could take some tips.
The Artist was an awesome movie. I think the dog needs to win Best Actor though. He totally stole every scene he was in. 😀
I have no idea who this man is.
He did more with “no words” then the other actors did with fully fleshed out worded scripts. The Artist will probably win Best Picture and Dujardin will probably Win Best Actor. The Artist makes a beautiful statement about thee origins of Hollywood Film and brings the viewer back to the basics. The Academy loves art.
AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…?
Clooney(AKA I stole Gosdong’s nomination ha!) = Really? you must be kidding!
He’s overrated like his friend
Brad(AKA I stole Fassy’s nomination!!!) = SCANDALOUS!!!
Dujardin = He’s a successful Comedian but not a serious actor in his country.
The poster above sums it all and like Paloma said he’s too much of a newcomer to win.
Don’t get it twisted,he wants this oscar badly.
They all do!
Oldman(The Underdog) = A Respected Actor who deserves to win.
DEMIAN BICHIR(AKA WHO!) = I HOPE HE PULLS AN UPSET AND WINS THAT BLOODY OSCAR.
JUST TO SEE THAT CONSTIPATED LOOK ON THEIR FACE WHEN HE WINS.
PRICELESS!