I’ve still got plenty of feelings about what happened at the Oscars, especially in the Best Actor category. Michael Keaton was my candidate of choice. He and Eddie Redmayne both won Globes, and the category became a dead heat between two worthy competitors. As everyone knows, Eddie Redmayne snagged the SAG and the BAFTA and ended up winning the Oscar. Earlier in the weekend, Keaton nabbed an Independent Spirit Award, which must have been a big confidence booster. So his loss was sad even though Eddie’s speech was adorable.
I debated whether to cover this story, but it’s all over the place, so why not? Keaton had his speech prepared (as one does) and in hand when the envelope opened. As Eddie bounded up to the stage, Keaton casually attempted to tuck his notecard into his inner suit pocket. Now that moment is an internet meme. Get ready for your heart to burst open and fly away in a bird formation with this Vine video:
Yeah, this sucks, but we’re only speculating here. Maybe Keaton was tucking a handkerchief or his ever present pack of gum away. No? Let’s get real then. Keaton isn’t into “false humility“ and wanted to win. He promised an amazing speech with “weeping, gushing, phony, and obnoxious” qualities. The speech is still floating around out there. This outcome is typical of what would happen in Birdman, isn’t it?
I do feel awful for adding to Keaton’s humiliation, but the way I see it, Keaton wins no matter what. He carried Birdman, which won multiple categories. He’s led a career full of blockbusters and indies. He often takes time away from Hollywood. He only works when he wants to. Basically, he’s living the dream. And he’s Batman. (No disrespect to Ben Affleck!)
Anyway Keaton was an excellent sport despite losing his most coveted honor. He hugged all over David Oyelowo and posed with Alejandro Inarritu. Keaton went on to attend the Vanity Fair party after the ceremony. If I was him, moping would have taken priority over partying with co-stars.
Photos courtesy of WENN
I love him so much!
Me too!
Me three!
When the picture you’re the main lead of wins best picture, you have as much recognition from your peers as you could want. He can hold his head as high as he wants given he has won a slew of awards this season. Besides, as Glenn Close one said, given the number of good movies made any given year, just being one of the nominees means you have already won
He’s always energetic and kinetic; I think he just had it IN CASE they called him.
Cause he’s not the type to amble up looking distracted — he’s prepared.
It’s so great to have his energy back — I’m tired of tousled, manboy actors who don’t have any enthusiasm.
Yeah, he’s a class act all the way, and he is living a great life. Good for him!!
Unfair and in bad taste.
Exactly IA
Totally agree
What’s unfair and in bad taste?
I am so excited to be the first one commenting! He is a class act all the way IMO. And he has gotten more handsome with age!
He is far more beautiful than I remember him being. Of course it doesn’t hurt that he just seems like a cool person, too…but, yeah, he is really handsome.
Have you seen him in Multiplicity years ago? He plays like 6 different characters & is hilarious. He was handsome then but so HOT now!!! Usually i like the younger guys but i’d climb him like a tree in a second!!!
Ooooh gonna have to check that one out…thanks! As far as I knew he wasn’t making movies anymore. Such a pleasant surprise that he’s resurfaced.
That this is even a “story” boggles the mind. There is no humiliation in his pocketing his speech. He came prepared with a speech in case he won. He didn’t win. Period.
Agreed. There is no story here.
Agreed. And why shouldn’t this tasteful behavior be expected of an actor?
I agree. I feel that the media is trying to make an event happen, where no event did. He had a speech on hand in case he won, he didn’t win, he pocketed the speech. That is what any moderately intelligent person would do. His behavior at the Academies was classy.
Agreed. There is no story here. He acted like a gentleman. It wasn’t like Eddie Murphy who got up and left when he lost.
Also Keaton has had an iconic career.
He was Mr. Mom, BeetleJuice, and Batman
This. It was between him and Eddie anyway. There’s nothing pathetic about it.
+1 too. I feel bad that this is “a thing”. People are actually reaching to pile on. After a brilliant performance and he carried himself so well through the whole lead up, this is what they do to him? Disgrace. Leave the poor guy alone.
So glad he got a wee word in when Birdman won Best Picture.
I don’t understand why he, or anyone, would have their speech in their hand before they walk up and get presented with the Oscar. How do you look graceful while juggling your speech, the Oscar, and shaking hands with the people on stage? It would be much easier to take it out of his pocket after he was at the podium.
because you get too nervous and flustered , so you spend your first minutes at the mic digging into your pockets hunting for your speech, while telling the audience to wait moment while you get your speech.
And it might have been something else , he was chewing gum. Maybe it was a keenex to dispose of his gum , case he won .
Yes to all this. Michael and Eddie were both worthy — both are class acts too. To come prepared to give a speech and put it away isn’t newsworthy. Some just want to create some sort of bad blood between the two men and there’s no evidence of it at all.
Michael is well respected for his work to date and he’ll continue to work when he want to. Losing to Eddie doesn’t change that. I for one am excited that he’ll be working with JK Simmons and Tom Hiddleston on Skull Island later this year. I’ll be there opening night for the dongfest.
It was so unnecessary to circulate this video-i bet lots of nominees hove their speeches out just in case.I was torn between Keating and Redmayne.One performance was technically brilliant and the other was an exciting gut rendering performance.
@MteRunner -i would love to be a fly on the wall watching the dynamics between Keating, JK and Tom.They just feel like very different people but dedicated and professional as well.
Yes. Ugh, why call attention to it? Anyone, even a famous actor, would have been nervous about having their name called and want to be prepared in that event.
Exactly. How rude to post memes and harp on this. Keaton was my choice for Oscar winner as well. He’s a wonderful actor and quite a good sport.
It’s definitely a non-story.
Aw, come on. Stuff like this makes me dislike the Internet.
Me too. 🙁
Yeah, give the guy a break.
Me too.
Let’s be honest. There were no sure bets. Some said Redmayne. Some said Keaton. No one but the price waterhouse people knew for sure. No reason to be surprised that Mr. Keaton was thinking “Well, maybe, why the hell not?”. He was just prepared.
When I’m really nervous, I like to have everything “ready.” It calms my nerves. I can totally see taking it out just in case. I don’t think he was necessarily assuming he would win.
Right. And they put him in the front row so he wasn’t the only one who thought it possible.
That’s how I read it.
Prepared, and just trying to subtly and gracefully slip his speech away and move on before the Interwebs had to meme-ify the moment.
Me too. I feel like it’s picking on a guy who did nothing wrong. It’s not like he stood up and started walking towards the stage, he was prepared in case he won, and then he didn’t win. Big whoop.
Me three…four? No, five.
I love Keaton. He sure can wear the hell out of a suit.
I am pissed that someone would be so vindictive towards Keaton.
He is brilliant, sexy as hell, professional and prepared.
I have been obsessed with Michael since Multiplicity. He played 4 different characters – Keaton was incredibly funny and sexy.
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Why kick the guy when he’s down (obviously his being “down” is relative here)
Agree sometimes the Internet sucks.
Same here. People are trying to make a story out of nothing. Who cares if he had his speech out and then had to put it back? Maybe he was nervous if he won that he’d forget someone and didn’t want to waste time pulling out of his pocket when he got up there. Who cares that he put it back in his pocket?
I do think Michael deserved the Oscar over Eddie, no disrespect to Eddie, but Michael did some of the best acting I’ve seen in Birdman.
It sounds like he took the loss well and seemed to enjoy himself afterwards and probably was very happy that the movie he was in took home a few of the big Oscars.
I know right. what a gentleman
Yeah, me too.
Pffft. No way that was Keaton’s speech being tucked away. It was totally a hand-written offer from Universal to replace Dornan as the new Christian Grey. Or Lupita slipped him her phone number.
Lolz Abot
I haven’t read the books or seen the first movie, but I would watch the hell out of Michael Keaton as Christian Grey! 😉
mmmmmmmmmm
You and me both!
We all wish!
I really wish this hadn’t been caught on camera (and I know commenting on it is adding to it)
He was joint favourite with Redmayne so I don’t get why it’s a big deal he had something prepared.
He had just as good a chance as Redmayne. No humiliation whatsoever. Love Michael Keaton. Definitely the classiest guy this awards season. He and David Oyelowo.
People just like to make big deal out of nothing. I am sure he is a good sport and anyway, The Birdman won the best picture! that shows achievement in a whole package!
I am happy he didn’t win. I don’t understand what was spectacular about his performance in Birdman. The movie was a total snoozefest. Eddie Redmayne’s performance was far superior.
I’ll tell you what was so spectacular about Keaton’s performance. Birdman was like watching Riggan’s reality, his life. It didn’t seem as if Keaton was acting, it looked and felt real as if there were cameras filming Riggan’s life. Eddie was good but at times I only saw the actor, acting if you understand what I mean.
I think the internet is making a big deal out of him tucking the note because he was caught on camera doing it. Most nominees will keep their speeches tucked away until their names are called as the winner . Then they will pull out the speech while on stage or as they’re walking to the stage. I’ve been a fan of Keaton for years and I think his performance was a better performance than Redmayne’s; though I liked both.
It’s the opposite for me. When I watched Birdman, I saw Michael Keaton, not Riggan. It just seemed like Michael was playing a dark version of himself. I guess I didn’t get it. When I watched TTOE, I saw Stephen Hawking. I saw a person suffering from ALS. (My mom passed from ALS, and Eddie’s interpretation is spot on accurate). I never once felt like it was Eddie up there acting.
Oscar or not I still do him. Is it me or he just got better with age?
I’m still weeping he lost but I’m glad he’s back on the spotlight because he is a great actor and he needs to be in more films
THIS.
I think he was blindsided and stunned. He looked like a deer in headlights onstage. I haven’t heard about him being a douchenozzle, so who thought posting this gif was a good comeuppance or opportunity to humiliate? He hasn’t been a famewhore, so this seems incredibly mean-spirited. to me.
Yeah, way to kick a man when he’s down. I finally watched Birdman last night and I loved it.
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¡Hi Kidóa!
The whole thing gives me a contact sad.
Yo también. Let’s go play with My Little Ponies and get happy.
I am still in mourning…
Agree. He handled the situation as best he could. Why take pleasure in his disappointment? Mean.
And you know what really irks me?
No one has leaked the apparently existing footage of Bradley Cooper discretely tucking his beige booty shorts back into his pocket.
It’s a conspiracy man!
Oh, I heard Fake Baby was his guest?
Such a double standard, dammit!
Actually Kiddo, fake girlfriend- better known as Suki Waterhouse- was his guest… seated next to his mother of course. He must have stuffed his extra pair of shorts in his pocket, because I heard he was wearing the original booty shorts under his tux.
I feel bad for him, but you don’t take your speech out of your pocket until AFTER you’ve won.
Thank you. If that was his speech, why take it out before his name was called? The whole thing just seems odd, but not sad like the internet keeps saying. I also don’t get why folks say he was humiliated. Stuff happens.
Tight race or not Very presumptuous of him.
Personally, I would have worried about where my speech was unless it was in my hands. As I get older, more and more I need to touch the things I want to remember, especially if my nerves are janked, which his most assuredly were. That’s my take on why he had it out.
Right? Obviously he’d have a speech prepared, it was a 50/50 chance, but that he had it out and ready before the winner was even announced means he 100% thought that Oscar was his. Even the nominee’s who are definitely, no doubt about it going to win don’t pull their speech out before they’ve actually, you know, won. Given it was a tight race that was going Eddie’s way in the end, it was a bold move.
It also meant that while everyone else was clapping, he was fiddling with a piece of paper. Which isn’t great, and is a big part of the reason why it’s dumb to have a speech in your hands before you know whether you need it. That again suggests Keaton really didn’t entertain the possibility he’d have to clap for someone else.
I love the guy’s acting (Beetlejuice is everything), but this moment and his weirdness up on stage after losing confirmed his reputation for being a bit…difficult.
I disagree. He could have been nervous (needing something in his hands) or afraid taking it out on the way to the stage would look stupid onscreen. Maybe it wasn’t even his speech.
Well, that’s what I thought, too.
It was a tight race. He has a sense of humor, he’ll laugh at this. Maybe Beyonce prepared for an acceptance speech too and practiced her winning face but then Beck was called.
If Beck didn’t win it would have been Sam Smith’s , that’s why he won every other major award that night
A artist that has that many producers and writers will never win the Grammy’s for Album of the Year, especially for a pop/R&B album besides her last 4 albums sound exactly the same .
I like him, but why not leave your speech in your pocket until you’re on the stand? What was it doing being out? Seems like he jinxed it, to me.
Because you barely get anytime at all and he probably had a lot to say. May as well be as ready as you can.
to not stand there for a minute trying to get it out of his pocket with shaky hands. it makes sense. you can see it as arrogance but also simply as being prepared.
So stash it up your sleeve a little so it’s right there in your hand when you need it, like a lot of winners do. Or pull it out when you walk up the stairs.
The other winners seem to manage ok, so I’m sure a seasoned pro like Keaton could have figured it out.
I don’t see much of a difference between stashing it up your sleeve and holding it in your hands. Both would be fine for me. And again, it does not have to be his speech.
I strongly object – Christian Bale is BATMAN😡
Lots of nominees come with a speech prepared just in case they won and might forget to thank someone. I see no problem with it.
I want Michael Keaton in a movie directed by David Fincher – that would be a brilliant combination.
Nah, sorry, Keaton is batman. Those baby blues are devastating.
Take that back before I use my krav maga skills👊
Bring it!
And also, Pierce Brosnan is James Bond. That is all.
You have been warned – the original Catwoman Michelle Pfeiffer will come after you tonight….
Pierce Brosnan is indeed James Bond – after Sean Connery of course..
Julie Newmar is the only Catwoman! Michelle was great, but still couldn’t hold a candle to Julie!
Its not that he had a speech prepared, nobody can fault that.
Its just that he looked certain that he was gonna win, which is why some see it like it was sad and others like it was arrogant(?)
He could have waited to take it out after his name was called, but nobody knows what was going through his head.
Christian is the best dark, gritty, rilll Batman.. but Keaton is the best comic style Batman. Sorry Adam West 🙁
Agreed that this is no big deal, and I’m not sure why other sites are carrying on like it was some huge gaffe.
It’s not a big gaffe, but that someone made a point of highlighting it, and that it has gone viral, seems to have the intention of humiliating.
Fellow Keaton fans, I’d like to think it was a note he flashed to Redmayne on his way up to the stage and simply said-
“You are a Fargin Icehole, Samabeach!”
HAHA! I love it.
Still kinda sad he didn’t win. It’s like the Super Bowl Blues all over again…
What are these “Super Bowl Blues” you speak of?
It’s like a thundersnow?
YAY! for mia girl.
LOL Johnny Dangerously. You are the sunshine of my life mia girl!
Lol! Yes!
I loved that movie when I was a kid. Joe Piscipo and all!
Hahaha. That would have made my life.
David Oyelowo looks so cool in that red suit!
David looks amazing. I never thought I would say that about a man wearing a red suit!
I wish they gave him his own red carpet fashion post! We need to see more pictures of him in that suit!
He sure does. Swoon.
Yes! I would never expect to like a red suit like that. He is wearing the hell out of that ! I have to say I’m really digging his whole vibe. The way he carries himself is so sexy.
Every person nominated really wanted to win. They all prepared speeches just in case. So what if he held the paper in his hand instead in his pocket? Also, him perhaps thinking it was a sure deal was not that unexpected: he was the frontrunner all along. Consequently he’s most likely also more disappointed than the other three.
Unrelated, but similar topic: I also really don’t get why the public gets so worked-up if an artist shows disappointment for a second when their name isn’t called before they gather themselves, put on a smile and start clapping. It’s a completely human thing to do.
And I have huge respect for people like Bill Murray and Samuel L. Jackson for not bothering even with the nice fake smiles and clapping. They come off as douchebags but that takes guts.
Agree with everything you wrote.
Oh MK, you save it until you’re walking up to the stage not before they announce the name! 🙁
This gif basically sums up Leonardo DiCaprio’s life. :/
I prefer Redmayne’s performance but I like Keaton so I was glad Birdman won Best Picture and he got to go onstage. Not a huge fan of Birdman but to me it was definitely a more inspired piece of filmmaking than Boyhood.
And when the crew went onstage for the Best Picture win, I was practically shouting at Inarritu over my telly to stop hogging the mic and let Michael speak.
But Hollywood/ the academy IS all about false humility.
You could tell that Keaton was on the verge of an anxiety attack the entire night with the incessant gum chewing and fumbling around with what appeared to be an acceptance speech.
You’d think that after being in the industry for so long that he would be accustomed to the pressure, but he most likely realised that Birdman was the best shot at winning that he’ll probably ever get.
So what if that was his speech. He was gracious.
Please read the story before commenting.
Agree.
Didn’t James McAvoy say in an interview that nominees know who the winners are before the ceremony starts? If that’s the case, maybe someone told Keaton he was the winner.
I thought this when I watched it. I thought someone told him that he was the winner so he wanted to be fully prepared when taking the stage. A**hole move if something like that happened.
Obviously they don’t
I LOL why not take out your speech when your name is called or after you get to the stage?
According to an article I read a week ago only 2 people know: the ones who counted the votes and processed the envelopes. Even the Academy members don’t know the final result until it’s called out on stage.
I don’t think there’s only one person responsible for counting the votes.
This article is from 2014 but I doubt much has changed since last year:
http://time.com/10318/oscars-pricewaterhousecoopers/
And if you don’t want to klick or read the whole thing:
“A small team of people (about six people, not including Rosas and Cullinan) split up the ballots so that nobody is counting an entire category, which means nobody knows how the different entries stack up. Those subtotals are added up by Rosas and Cullinan. By Friday evening, the two accountants will know all the winners.”
And a bit later:
“The Academy provides triplicates of cards listing each movie in every category. Rosas and Cullinan put the winning cards in the envelopes; the losing cards and extras are destroyed.”
So while they don’t literally count alone, they are the only people who know the final result. Which is what I was talking about, if that wasn’t clear. (So that no, the actors are not told about it in advance.)
Thank you for that link, it’s pretty interesting. That method would have been my guess, too (even though I would have expected more people to be checking it), I thought you meant something else (:
I hate that this story is out there all over the place. It’s a lack of respect for Michael Keaton. I wish he would have won, but no need to humiliate him.
It’s a cautionary tale to all nominees. All eyes (cameras) are on you at all times.
I like Redmayne, but i wish keaton had won. Like Julianne Moore he was due.
If it’s truly about the best performance in a given year then I don’t think that being due enhances a nominee’s chances of winning, or at least it shouldn’t.
Better actors than Keaton, such as Peter O’Toole, Cary Grant, Richard Burton and Robert Mitchum, were all nominated numerous times but never won.
I was commenting on the fact that most people don’t think that was Julianne Moore best performance but that she was due. Much like Jeff bridges a couple of years ago.
I know its supposed to be the best performance no other considerations, i don’t think thats how it works in reality though. Politics, campaigning etc all comes into play.
Omg, for some reasons this makes me really sad..
Yep! Looks like he put the note back and also took out chewing gum out of his mouth just before too. I think he was expecting to win. Sad for him but Eddie deserved it this year, no doubt.
Thiis is NO BIG DEAL!!!! Besides. if MK had won the Oscar, how in the world would he have topped his GG speech about his son….that speech made me cry, and love MK all the more…the best acceptance speech of awards season!!
I don’t see anything remotely embarrassing about this. He is a professional and he came prepared. There was a good chance he would win, and if he had, he wouldn’t have been wasting everyone’s time looking for a crinkled piece of paper or fumbling from memory.
I agree.
I don’t know for sure what that item was, but if it was The Speech, then I think all he was thinking was that he had to be prepared. I think he got nervous and just started acting out on impulse rather than on how it might have looked to some people. I think he wanted to do his speech well like the professional he is and, again if it was The Speech, then he wanted to do it right and give a good performance when up there speaking at the podium.
Anyhoo, at least if he won, he wouldn’t have made a mockery out of it like Kristen Stewart did in France.
Awww. This post gave me the sads. 🙁 🙁
Not going to click on the vine because I disagree that it’s ‘sad.’ Michael Keaton is awesome and doesn’t need anyone’s pity.
I don’t know why everyone thinks this vine is innapropriate or a none story or poking fun at Keaton?
To me we rarely get to see people vulnerabilities on show especially Actors, he obviously felt confident going into the run down of the contenders – enough to have his speech out and it was just crushing to watch him politely put it away and start clapping for Redmayne.
It just made me adore him even more!
Michel Keaton will forever be my Batman 🙂
So he lost the Oscar. That’s alright. It’s not the be-all and end-all. He did an amazing job In Birdman, and hopefully he gets a chance to work on many other great productions.
Whatever…he should have won anyway, so if that is really his speech, good that he was prepared and probably not intending to play the false humble kind of Oscar winner. He did an amazing performance in Birdman and he is the immortalized Batman from Tim Burton (the best ever!) and Beetlejuice. He will live forever in the history of cinema…but of course, that wasn’t enough for the Academy to decide that he already deserved an Oscar. I gave up on caring about Oscar winners long time ago…doesn’t really mean much most of the times, it’s maybe 10% fairness 90% interests.
Oh come on. I’m sure he was happy for Eddie, and that he’ll have another shot at it in the future.
Michael Keaton was a total gentlemen and this is a just a trumped-up tempest in a teacup (or fart in a windstorm as my dad used to say) by media weasels who have nothing better to do than stir up controversy where none exists.
A side note on Michael Keaton’s style — he’s looking very good, by the way — specifically his hairstyle. Probably the best I’ve seen on a guy with receding hair — Wish Travolta and Willy Wales would take notice and follow.
Speaking of hair, I was a bit surprised at how much hair Tim McGraw had. Either he had something done or I’m just not used to him without his hat on.
I came across an interesting Michael Keaton gossip tidbit in one of the weekly tabloid magazines. It claimed Michael Keaton has had an ongoing feud with Kevin Costner because Kevin stole Courtney Cox away from him. The story claimed that right after Kevin divorced his first wife in 1995 he briefly stole Courtney away from Michael Keaton and dated her, only to drop her for his next lady of the minute. Don’t know if it is true, but I did know Courtney and Michael dated for a long time. Never heard about her and Kevin Costner though. I always thought she wanted to marry Michael but he wasn’t ready and she didn’t want to wait forever.
I knew he dated Courtney but I never heard that about Kevin Costner. Well they seem like such a well-matched couple in terms of likability and attractiveness. Kevin Costner is OK but Michael Keaton was always more attractive to me. Too bad it didn’t work out with Keaton and Cox but then he wouldn’t have his son today and she wouldn’t have her daughter.
Keaton was brilliant in Birdman as a Pirandellesque character. Vastly underappreciated and highly deserving of an ever rewarding career. Bravo Michael Keaton. A class act through and through.
My gut says it was a handkerchief. Stressful night, lots of sweat to dab. Common for a guy in a tux to carry one…IMO.
Plus, why not just slide the speech out of your pocket on your way up. I don’t think he’d be holding it during his category like a fifth grader waiting to present to his class. Just my gut. But even if it was, so what?
No story here. Leave it alone. MK was gracious on stage & is a fine actor..
For ungracious loser, I’ll never forget the shot of Joaquin Phoenix scowling & swearing when he didn’t win for The Master. This guy rarely shows up at award ceremonies & he expressed his disappointment real clearly – ugh – nothing graceful there.
No shame in having prepared something….but the likely “gotcha” was no doubt pulling it out a tad prematurely. But he is largely loved here on Celebitchy (could me in the fandom)….so no one is really wanting to rag on him about the “not so quick there” moment. But alas if Bradley Cooper was caught in the same activity, no doubt this board would be lit up with comments around fake babies, Murica, and beige booty shorts. Just sayin’…….and I’m right in that.
PS–I’m a fan of BC too.
DM – If the race were that tight between BC and someone else, I think many would give him the same benefit of the doubt… but yes, after making jokes about the shorts and the fake-baby. H*ll, I made one upthread – but for me the joke is all to do with the shorts, not really the actor. But now I feel kinda bad cause you like him.
But come on, that fake-baby is totally joke worthy – if Birdman had a fake baby I’d make fun of it too. And I suspect I’d make fun of any actor (even James McAvoy, and that is saying ALOT for me) if he were wearing those beige booty shorts.
Heck I think all nominees likely had speeches prepared–and candidly they should have. They are professionals and professionals prepare. So I’m sure Bradly Cooper had one in his pocket as well.
My point is simply this…..if BC had been caught taking it out and then having to slyly repocket it….he’d be a laughingstock on this board. You know I’m right about it. But if it happens to Michael Keaton ….its a “non story” and we are all wincing a bit.
And the fake baby WAS terrible. I’ve laughed about that too on other threads. I don’t know what eff Clint was thinking there……
But Cooper’s performance was phenomenally good and he deserved that Oscar nomination.
Well, I can only speak for me: If the race between BC adn Eddie would have been that tight, I would not critize Cooper for taking out his notes. Not at all. And to be honest, I think the majority on here would react the same.
Some would say he seems full of it, but some are saying that about Keaton, too.
I’m a Keaton fan for life and ditto Cooper. Redmayne’s performance seemed phenomenal and yes I’ll go for the trite “they are all winners” sentiment despite the Oscars and other awards being about picking just one. And I don’t want to rag on any of them, and won’t. I don’t think preparing a speech is anything but professional….but pulling it out before the announcement is jumping the gun and hence why its an issue for some. I did wince over the story–its an ouch–but still love the guy. Its not like he pulled a Kanye and stormed the stage~
I’m going to join with others in not holding that against Keaton at all. It’s a small bit of body language from someone who was visibly nervous. He handled his campaign professionally and his loss gracefully, and I don’t know what else we could ask of him.
What really sucks is no more hot son Sean on the award circuit. What, I cannot be the only one thinking it.
The fact he prepared to win is a plus to me…. and I personally think he should’ve won! What else was he supposed to do with it??? Hand it over to Eddie???
I was pretty gutted Keaton didn’t get it. Eddie was good but I felt like he peaked too soon.
He’s conducted himself graciously throughout awards season and was a gracious “loser” as well. That he didn’t win BA was the only result that saddened me this year. Eddie turned in a stellar performance, but the flawed humanity and depth of Keaton’s work was a lot more interesting and resonant for me. I hope he puts himself out there again soon. He’s one of the finest and most underrated actors of his generation, IMHO.
Humiliating? What on earth are you talking about? He prepared notes, had them at the ready in case he won, and when Eddie won, he put them away, unneeded. What did you expect him to do? Michael then went on to be a gracious nominee for the rest of the evening.
Geeze, give a non-story a rest, will you?
Love Keaton. He has been excellent in so many movies. It’s nice to see him back. 😀