Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Oscar Round-Up
February 23, 2009 by Sherry
Whew. Is anyone else as tired as I am after last night’s Oscar awards? I love watching them but just once in my life I’d love to see them actually wrap up by 11 pm for a change!
Here’s a quick round-up of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the Oscars last night!
Over at Style Crunch are the fashion notes – as usual, Brad dressed in a Tom Ford tux (and looked really sexy if I may add!) and Angie’s strapless dress was by Elie Saab, a designer that she’s worn before.
The tabloids were ready to pounce with Jennifer Aniston presenting the animation award, and I’m sure they’ll find something to twist around, but as far as I was concerned, the whole thing was practically a non-event. Brad and Angie looked gorgeous, Jennifer looked gorgeous, she delivered her lines well (loved when she said they didn’t know why they had let Jack Black out of the house), she smiled at Brad and Angelina, and they were both laughing at the jokes. There was zero drama, I’m sure the triangle fans are disappointed.
Speaking of things for tabloids to jump on, People.com has a video clip up that will probably get people up in arms. In it, they asked Brad and Angelina what the six kids were doing at home while they were out on the red carpet. Brad replied, “Throwing spaghetti against the wall”.
How much do you want to bet that this will fuel outrage, with folks saying that the kids are out of control? Too bad not everyone recognizes Brad’s sense of humor and that he was probably joking or exaggerating that maybe some of the kids weren’t fond of their dinner that night.
And as we all predicted, even though neither won a major award (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button did win several technical awards, as I figured it would), the night for Brad and Angelina was more about having a good time than anything else – Angie said, “I like to think of it more as a date. We’re very comfortable tonight and just happy to be out and it’s a nice night.”
Keep reading, I have some video clips of Brad and Angelina at the Oscars below the cut!
On the red carpet – Angie definitely looked tired, but who wouldn’t be with her schedule lately?
I really enjoyed having prior winners come up to talk about each nominee, it was different and interesting. Here’s the presentation for Best Actress – Nicole Kidman introduces Angelina.
(Sorry for the poor quality, it was the only one I could find!)
And if I may, one of my favorite moments of the night was when Kate Winslet was giving her acceptance speech and didn’t know where her parents were sitting so she asked her father to whistle – and he did! It was like he was trying to hail a cab, it was so cute!
Along those same lines, here’s the Best Actor presentation, with Sir Anthony Hopkins introducing Brad Pitt – such nice words!
And of course, the much-talked-up animated film presentation – as I said, total non-event, drama-free.
Now let’s wait for the tabloids to turn it into something it wasn’t.
Image used with permission: Newscom
Very disappointed that CCBB lost Best Picture bid to Slumgdog (predicted). Seen both, liked both – Slumgdog is excellent entertainment, heart- warming but CCBB is awesome, truly perfect in every ways, superb performances from all leads, a script beautifully narrated by Pitt, subtance that lingers, touching intellectual contents….one of the best films I have seen for years…just too bad…..It will be a film that will be remembered for years whereas Slumgdog is more a thrill of an entertainment…..
didn’t watch the show but saw the RC pics…gorgeous as always!!!
Cook
Feb 24, 2009 at 10:19 pm
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Both my husband and I are ita with you. We love CCBB and were very diappointed that it didn’t win. We like to see HW make more movies like CCBB, not more of thrill of an entertainment types. Slumdog’s good movie, but it seems that many are caught up in some sort of a movement. Good night to you all.
phoebe, I couldn’t have said it better myself! I mean, if you had to go through a divorce, especially one riddled with such conterversy, with the ENTIRE world watching, and then had to constantly deal with interviewers asking you questions about that divorce, the “other woman”, once again knowing the entire world was watching (well, so to speak), you’d probably say/do some pretty silly things as well!
I also get the impression that JA is a person who has very low self-esteem and doesn’t have a lot of self-confidence, which probably makes it even harder for her.
I honestly believe that JA would have kept quiet if the media hadn’t hounded her with questions and basically pressured her to talk about it.
Well the bad mouthing of Angie and Brad has started. On Showbiz tonight, a lady wrote an article about Angie and Brad being snubs and not doing interviews. Hope nothing follows this.Showbiz tonight is good at this. On the bright side there was another lady on the show that said that Brad and Angie had the right to talk to whoever they want to. This is the first that I heard of negative comments about their appearance on the red carpet. Hope there is nothing to it. Of course we are use to this. First good articles then negative articles.
A Mighty Heart is on now on Showtime. Angie was really good in this movie. Award performance.
tl uncool J, obviously you don’t like JA, and that’s fine. However, this is Sherry’s blog and she has gone on record multiple times saying she is just as much a fan of JA as she is of Angie and Brad. I think that’s something that we need to respect. Does that mean you can’t say anything even remotely negative about JA? Of course not!
However, Sherry has made it clear that this may be a Brad and Angie fansite, but that doesn’t mean it’s also a Jen-bashing site!
Sarita, I’m pretty sure that Kim was referring more to us commentors than to Sherry.
Well said Jhoey27
I’m not good in giving so much comments like the others.
I just wish JA is happy with JM now and may she find happiness and love again.
gena, just try to ignore it. most opinions about them are in the extreme ends. as long as the woman didn’t say that angie should be conked on the head with an oscar—i read about that little dig from the view—then, it’s okay. brad and angie have been called a lot of rude names, and it just shouldn’t phase us anymore. it’s better that we dwell on happy news about the JPs and just filter out the ug noise.
^^^i meant to say “faze” not “phase”
If this was Jen’s way of telling the world that she has moved on, then it really was a miscalculation on hers and Huvane’s part. This only added more fuel to what she has called the “Bermuda Triangle.” If she really wanted to prove that she’s moved on, she should just live her life to the fullest and stop feeding the media something to use to rekindle this so called feud. I mean we never heard about Nicole vs. Penelope or Nicole vs. Kate. Probably because she handled her split amicably and with dignity. She did not play the victim, but the survivor and the victor. I think she just needs to surround herself with people who are positive and are purpose driven. First of all, she needs to fire her publicist– because he’s really done her wrong.
At any rate, I am so proud of AJ and BP especially how they handle their everyday lives. They are admirable and they are just a joy to watch. I mean, they’re just magic together…
Kim, I am ALL for this sending a message to whom
ever, that keeps bringing JA “up” when talking about the Jolie-Pitt’s. I just don’t think it has a place anymore and IT is not appropriate, especially with their kids.
jpfanatic: yep, i would have fainted up there i guess, even without my ex and his new one sitting down there…lol
Rana: agree about Huvane, he´s no good. but the deal with Nic/Penelope or Nic/Kate is totally different. Tom/Penelope and Tom/Kate weren´t the reason (or partly the reason) for the divorce and didn´t get a kid of their own while Tom was still married. Nic didn´t have to cope with so much as Jennifer. different situation=different reaction. while she was murning about a failed marriage (and her parents divorced too so i guess she wanted to make it right) her partner moved on without waiting a second…..i think thats very hard.
and btw i agree….Sherry mentionned Jennifer in the article so i don´t see anything wrong with talking about her. in any other article i don´t see that necessary either (only if someon else does and opens this discussion).
Why keep bringing Brad’s X to this site. I thought I would be free from the foolish triangle stuff and the haters at this site. Well I guess not.
Good news from Japan
Changeling was No.1 at box office. (Benjamin was the third after topped the chart for 2 weeks). Movie goer’s review has been very good (average 4.7/5)
Yesterday I got a magazine which has Angie on the cover and the caption was
‘ cooler than her husband ‘.
That magazine rarely gives covers to HW actors. Neither Brad nor Meryl Streep(she also came to Japan) got this treatment.
Angie’s work at UN is well anticipated in Japan since the former High Commissioner of UNHCR was a Japanese lady (during 1990-2000). She and our Emperor & Empress even watched Angie’s Tom Rader 2 to honor her contribution to UNHCR.
And she topped a movie magazine’s annual favorite HW actress list. She topped in 2002, 2004, 2006,2007, 2008) No.2 ? It’s always Audrey Hepburn. She had been the top for decades before Angie)
They are UNFORGETTABLE.
So many things are being said already that I just want to say that I thought Brad and Angie went through the awards season very well, and while I’m disappointed they didn’t win, in the end, they are still winners for me and I’m sure many JP fans. They are good actors and there will be other chances.
OT: Sorry about this, but this is the only way I know how to get in touch with Ligaya. I was just surfing along and saw this article which mentioned how good directors her son Ryan and Anna Boden are. Ligaya, you’ve probably seen this, but just in case:
http://www.ifc.com/news/2009/02/ten-performances-we-cant-wait.php?page=2
thanks for that article link isacutie.
i hope everything is well with Ligaya.
Audrey was my childhood’s idol. She and Angie are different people but they have deep deep maternal love in common. Audrey chose family over movie career. Angie or Reese Witherspoon are busy with their children while same age Penelope Cruz, Hiraly Swank, Charize Theron are focusing on their career and making 2 or 3 movies a year. They are honest about that and don’t deceive public with fake ‘I love having children. I will have one soon’
It is hard to place one above the others. Their priority is different but we can say they are all good actresses.
Glad the award season is over. Thought it was kinda underhanded the way the producer used the Jen and Angie meeting thing to get ratings. Did it work? Think it did.
Tom casted Penelope for his Vanila Sky after seeing her in original Spanish film. He wanted her in his movie. At that point I think he fell in love with her. Every men who co-stared with her fell in love with her and stay with her for a while. Matt Damon, Nicolas Cage and so on. Tom decided to divorce Nicole after shooting that movie. Nicole was pregnant with his baby when they anounced their break-up and got miscarridge later.
And I don’t think Tom had affairs with Penelope when they were shooting Vanila Sky. Falling in love and having affairs are two different things.
The reason why they divorced after 10 years marridge ? She said this several years later.
“I always refused movie offers which requires me apart from him more than 2 weeks. After I accepted an offer for a movie which required me in England more than 2 weeks, Tom wanted to divorce me.”
Tom wanted his wife to focus on her family and not films. This is difficult situation for an actress like Nicole who has more acting talent than him.
After divorce she made bunch of movies and got Oscar and became most sought after actress in HW.
I think Nicole has real talent and didn’t need to whine to promote her career.
At the Academy Ceremony did you hear HW people gave her the claps of admiration.
Those insider circle knows who is real and who is not.
isacutie
Did you watch the spirit awards on Sat night I caught some of it. Saw Ryan and partner on TV, I was trying to figure out if Ligaya was there too, and if she was on TV. Thank for the article.
Yeah, I miss Ligaya’s inputs.
but I guess she’s busy helping out her son.
Kim, unfortunately, they’ve never shown the spirit awards here in the Phils, so I’ve never been able to see it. Pretty much they just show the ‘major’ awards like Emmy, Grammy and Oscars, and every now and then maybe the other ones. In fact I’ve been trying to find Half Nelson DVD here, but haven’t found it yet. After all the things I’ve read about it, my interest is really piqued, and now Sugar seems to be getting good reviews as well, so it’s kind of a shame that we rarely get indie movies from the US over here.
Both Brad and Angie must be relieved that the award season is now over. The sad thing is that now all the rags will start to write about that infamous Jen-Brad-Angie drama. OK! has already begun. Although I don´t actually care about what those mags write that story really made me angry. It says that seeing Brad among the audience had rekindled all the old emotions for Jen. What a lot of BS. She´s now with John Mayer and Brad is very happy with Angie and their six kids. I´m sure Brad and Angie will be laughing at those stories if they ever read them! Soon they´ll settle down in NYC for the SALT shooting and Brad will take charge of the family while mum Angie works. WTG, whole JP clan! God bless you all!
when i look at the video of the best actor oscar i’m a little bit sad because when they said “and the oscar goes to…” you can see angie next to brad and you see that she wanted it so much for brad! i hope he’ll win next year (but i’m not sure that inglorious bastard’ll be the kind of movie to go to the oscars (i say it not in a negative way)
and :I LOVE ANGIE, I LOVE BRAD and I LOVE JEN: they are great!
I hadnt watched any of their movies until this weekend when I watched Wanted & changeling. Ang isnt the dominating actress she once was in the movie WANTED I expected a lot more from her. and in the changeling she semed so frail and i supose that was her charactures Status, but she just didnt bring her any of herself to either?
everett
Feb 24, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Cook
Feb 24, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Thks for the echo. My husband joined me to see CCBB (1st for him, 2nd for me). A rare movie goer but expert in dramatic analysis, thought the film was an excellent presentation in every sense, a rare exception of Hollywood, a flim more appealing, subtle and lingering like a European film. Perhaps, that’s why it is doing very well in the European markets, and Asia too where “age” is treasured… Don’t agree with some critics views the film as not emotional enough. Pitt’s cool, reserved, and subtle performance is just right for the theme……
isacutie
you can buy it on the net at amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Half-Nelson-Ryan-Gosling/dp/B000KX0IOK
I thought it was funny, that it says below that people who buy this dvd sometimes also buy Babel.
You should really buy it, it is a really good movie. I saw it a year ago or so, but I am tempted to watch it again now that I know (used this term loosely) the mother of the director. I am really looking forward to seeing Sugar.
Kim, thanks. I think I will order it at Amazon. I’m just going to wait a bit until when my relatives from MN or NY will come home for a visit. That way I can have it shipped to them and save on shipping charges (expensive if I get it shipped here, plus the post office here has a bit of a reputation for losing things).
phoebe, I mostly agree with your comment, but I need to point out that Brad and Angie didn’t have a kid (and for the record, Mad, Pax, and Zee are as much Angie and Brad’s “own” kids as Shi and the twins are!) while Brad was still married (assuming you’re talking about bio kids, that is. Obviously Angie adopted Zahara when Brad was still techincally married, and although Angie adopted as a single parent, it’s obvious that Brad was Zee’s daddy from day one).
If you do the math, Shiloh was most likely concieved in late August or early September of 2005. A judge signed off on Brad and JA’s divorce in early August of 2005. After that they just had to get through the mandatory two-month California waiting period (which, to me, basically means that it takes that long for divorces to be filed in offical records in California).
Therefore, the October “announcement” was really more of a formality than anything else. So techincally, Brad was already divorce when Shiloh was concieved.
Granted, she WAS still born less than a year after the divorce, whereas Tom and Penelope never had kids, and Tom and Nicole had already been divorced for six years by the time Suri was born, so I do see your point.
One other thing I disagree with is your saying that Angie getting together with Brad was the reason or even partly the reason for Brad and JA’s divorce. Brad and JA have both said that Angie was not the reason for the split (well, Brad has for sure. I can’t remember if JA has or not.), and that their marriage was basically doomed even before Angie came into the picture.
Sunny, cool! I wish the magazines would get it straight that Brad and Angie are NOT married, though! I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with Angie and Brad being married, or that they aren’t basically husband and wife but without the piece of paper.
I’m just afraid that magazines referring to them as husband and wife will start rumors that they really are married!
gena, how do you know the producer used the Angie and JA thing to get ratings? I mean, I highly doubt JA was forced to present! Oh, and to the people who have expressed concern, I’m sure Ligaya is fine. I’m guessing she’s probably just finally taking her sabbatical!
Oh, and Sunny, I could be wrong, but it sounds like you’re basically saying that JA DOESN’T have talant. Well, personally, I think she does! I recently saw Marley and Me, and I think she did a fantastic job in it (as did Owen!)!
joliepittfanatic,
“The Foolest Dog in The World ” is the title for Marly and Me. I saw the poster with the dog when I went to see Changeling. It will be released for spring school holidays in Japan. That means it is basically for kids and I will not see it. Most HW comedies are seen by young people.
Most adult people like HW romance or action or suspence rather than HW comedy(too silly).
About JA. I’m not interested in her.
Right now most talked about film in Japan is ‘The Departure’. It had been already critically and commercially big success in our country but now all media is putting it in the spotlight again after it got Oscar.
‘The Departure’ is about a man whose job is a funeral director. First I heard about this project
I reminded that job was the one teenager Angie
wanted to be.
The leading actor (Brad’s age) also produced it and it took 15 years to make. The movie has comedy touch but the story is about our life and death. That is how people lived their lives.
How we die is how we live while alive.
Angie has got that idea when she was very young. She sometimes says ” before I die I want to do this and that”
I want her see this movie.
Right now most talked about film in Japan is ‘The Departure’. It had been already critically and commercially big success in our country but now all media is putting it in the spotlight again after it got Oscar.
‘The Departure’ is about a man whose job is a funeral director. First I heard about this project
I reminded that job was the one teenager Angie
wanted to be.
The leading actor (Brad’s age) also produced it and it took 15 years to make. The movie has comedy touch but the story is about our life and death. That is how people lived their lives.
How we die is how we live while alive.
Angie has got that idea when she was very young. She sometimes says ” before I die I want to do this and that”
I want her see this movie.
hey jpfanatic:)
i want to see marley and me, but its not out yet:/
i only think that maybe Brad and Jen would have worked on their marriage more if Brad would not have fallen in love with Angie…..but thats just a feeling and totally regardless in the end:D and you´re right Brad and Jen said that Angie wasn´t the reason.
things are good like they´re now. so i´m gonna stop the Jentalk before someone is gonna rip my head off for talking so much about her….lol
thanks that you see my comments like they are and not in a negative light jpfanatic, its aways great “speaking” with you!
Cee, relax! Other PittWatchers have already explained it, but I will attempt to do so again:
Because Sherry mentioned JA in this post AND she’s relevent to this conversation, most of us feel like it’s okay to mention her in this instance.
In other posts where JA isn’t mentioned or revelant, most of us DO try not to mention her!
Now, showbiz tonight over at CNN is regurgitating the ugly print in the New York Post who “slammed” Brangelina and then proceeded to say THEY (Angie) was “smug”. This is what I mean on why I had hoped that pittwatch would be free of the Jen factor. Brad & Angelina were very gracious and this is how they get treated? They cannot win ( insert exasperated sigh) First it was the show down between them. When that didn’t happen; they claimed it was because “Jen was so brave”……Then, came the ultimate insult…”Angelina snubbed Seacrest again”. I don’t blame Angie for NOT talking to him, he asks the dumbest questions. Someone was going to TRY and bring up Jen and Angelina in the same room. But, the fact remains that it is STILL okay to slam Angie but NOT Jen. I find that SO unsettling. It makes ME not want to be a fan of JA at all. I believe Brad & Angie were the pinnacle of perfection at the oscar’s and to hear this makes me feel so bad for jolie-pitts.
kim, LOL! I think you mean Salt.
“another” Sherry, I hear you! “Someone was going to TRY and bring up Jen and Angelina in the same room.” That’s exactly what I was trying to say one of my previous posts.
I really think that may have been a huge part of the reason (or maybe even the entire reason) why Angie and Brad avoided being interviewed on the RC (well, Brad DID say a sentence or two to some of the interviewers, but I don’t call that an actual interview).
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Brad and Angie have anything against JA or feel super uncomfortable talking about her (both of those things seemed very obvious in Brad’s W interview. Brad even said that Angie vs. JA is tabloid and media created.). However, they must get sick and tired of constantly being asked about JA and the “triangle” (after all, going by Brad’s W interview, it sounds like they have moved on and are more than ready to leave the past in the past!) all the time.
The RC is also not the place to be asking questions like that (remember, Angie and Brad even seemed a little uncomfortable at the Golden Globes when everyone kept trying to ask them about their kids and personal lives instead of their work).
All of that said, at least one PittWatcher said that, to her, it looked like Angie and Brad were rushing a bit because they arrived late compared to most of the other nominees.
Getting back to the tabs and other media, I wish they would stop making JA sound like a helpless, defenseless little kid. I mean, they make it sound like the prospect of bumping into Angie is something that scares her to death!
I highly doubt that’s the case. Yes, running into Angie and Brad would probably be awkward for JA (and vice-versa). I mean, when ISN’T running into your ex or (especially) your partner’s ex awkward (unless the exes parted on good terms and are still friends, that is)?
However, I doubt JA is actually scared of running into them! I also don’t like how they make Angie sound like some sort of tigress (no pun intended!) who’s just waiting to sink her claws into JA, so to speak. I mean, come on! That is NOT the type of person Angie is!
The other thing that really annoys me is how they act like Brad wasn’t there, that there wasn’t a prospect of JA running into him as well.
joliepittfanatic–thanks for “hearing” me and responding (I was starting to think nobody was talking to me anymore) =)
Anyway, so here I am, I sign on to my aol account and they have this a picture of Brad & Jen, with Jen saying she isn’t going to comment anymore because it will get turned around. My point is; don’t respond at all. It really bothers me because of the kids and also why EVEN say that?
THAT in itself causes controversy. Everyone says Brad & Angie talk about it but I just haven’t read that myself. I do know that Angie talk about falling in love with Brad on MMS but he explained that the movie took over a year to film and he had already left Jen when she was talking about “couldn’t wait to get to work”. To me it was much ado about nothing.
“another” Sherry, Angie discussed it in an interview with Vogue magazine in early 2007 (that was the interview in which she made her comments about how she “couldn’t wait to get to work”). Then there was her comment this past Fall about being excited for the kids to see MMS.
However, it later became pretty clear that, when Angie talked about her kids getting to see the movie where their parents fell in love, she was referring to her and Brad’s CHARACTERS falling in love in the MOVIE, rather than her and Brad’s personal ife.
As for Brad, he dicussed it in his interview with W Magazine that came out back in (I believe, anyway. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong!) Janaury (it was the February issue, though. Like most monthlies, W puts out each month’s issue at the end of the previous month).
They asked him about JA’s vogue comments (i.e., Angie being “very uncool”), and he responded by calling JA a “sweetheart”, saying he thought she got sucked into that one by the media, and confiriming that they DO still talk to each other occasionally. He also reitirated what most of us have been saying from the beginning: There was no “dastardly affair”, and that MMS took over a year to film.
IMO, JA was basically doing the same thing in Vogue that Brad did in W. She was asked about Angie’s 2007 Vogue comments and responded. Personally, if people are going to get upset and say that she shouldn’t respond to questions about Brad and Angie and the comments they make, then I think Angie and Brad should be held to the same standards (i.e., they shouldn’t respond to questions about JA or her comments either).
I actually was very happy to see JA’s comments about not commenting anymore because it will get turned around. Some of us (myself included) have speculated that, just like with many of Angie’s comments, JA’s Vogue and GQ (particularly the GQ comments) may have gotten taken out of context, and that appears to have been the case.
What I was most glad to see, however, was JA saying the same thing Brad basically said in W, that there is no feud or “bad blood” between her and Angie/Brad. I loved the way she worded it, too (that there is no heroine or villian in this “triangle”). As for why she said that, I think it was her way of saying to the media, “Please stop asking me about it, becase I’m not going to respond to those questions anymore!”
That is what so many of us have been trying to say these past four years, but the tabs have been painting the opposite picture. I’m very happy that we now have BOTH Brad and JA on record stating that there is absolutly NO “bad blood” or feud among them (Angie’s alluded to that as well, but she’s never been as direct as Brad and JA).
All of that said, however, I do see your point. When Brad and Angie DO discuss what happened back in 2005, they virtually always do so in the context of their feelings for each other (in otherwords, they leave JA out of it), and they rarely directly address the “triangle”.
Also, each one of them has directly mentioned JA only once, and neither one did so in a negative way. Angie did so in the Vogue interview in 2007, saying that she’s perfectly fine with talking with JA if JA wants to do so.
Brad mentioned JA directly in his W interview, when he said that, “Jen’s a sweetheart”.