Tenuous Irish-Related Tip for Oscars
It being Oscar Sunday. let’s look forward a few hours. While Peter OToole is the most obviously Irish chance for an Oscar, my tip for an Irish-related Oscar is Thelma Schoonmaker in Film Editing.
No she’s not Irish but The Departed is an Irish-American story. Well okay it’s a Hong Kong story, but once you put Matt Damon’s Boston accent in there, it’s as Irish as walking through an iceberg into a museum in Missouri. And the way the soundtrack uses the Dropkick Murphys is pulsating and menacing. Is there any other way to use Shipping Up To Boston?
I know when I walked out of the AMC Cinema on Ward Parkway last year after watching The Departed, I wasn’t wondering if that was Van Morrison singing Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb; no, I was thinking, hey that’s great editing, the best I’ve seen all year, Oscar winning material even.
Oh and since we’re on this Irish-American gem, the most fun of the cinematic year was watching Mark Wahlberg’s character, Dignam, who’s in the Best Supporting Actor category. And I suppose if the Academy prefer The Departed to Babel Scorsese himself just might win.
UPDATE: As predicted, Schoonmaker wins. Irish KC, for the inside slant on film editing.
Less tenuous is the film about an Irish priest, Deliver Us From Evil, in the Documentary category.
Other Movie Stuff:
• Ireland as England as seen on TV
• Three Kids Movies - Three Irish Actors
• Irish Movie “Once” Wins At Sundance Film Festival
• The Wind That Shakes The Barley in Kansas City, MO
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