The Association of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Los Angeles-based organisation that hands out the Academy Awards also known as the Oscars™, has in an urgent press release clarified that there is no truth, no truth at all, no truth whatsoever in the cruel rumours floating around in Hyderabad that the entire Oscar ceremony held on Sunday night (US time), Monday morning (Indian Standard Time), has been cancelled, and that all the eight awards given to Slumdog Millionaire have been summarily withdrawn, because other contendors sought a recount of the votes when they heard that the votes had been counted by Price Waterhouse Coopers.
AFAIR one needs just 19 votes to win an Oscar (pardon me, out of how many, I don’t know) so how difficult is it to count 19 votes? and why would one need an auditing firm to do that?
For a moment, I thought I was reading ‘Sanje VaaNi’ in English. The timing of the post also matches.
By the by, it doesn’t really matter even if all the ‘Asker’ awards and ‘No Bell’ awards given to all Indian citizens, both living and dead, are recalled. The only problem is some idiots stole the ‘No Bell’ award given to Rabindranath Tagore.
Unrelated – but technically most ‘Indians’ who won the Nobel prize till now wont count technically as Nobel prizes for India.
Rabindranath Tagore, CV Raman and Rudyard Kipling did most of their work in India, but did it before independence i.e. in British India. Hargobind Khorana, S Chandrashekar, Amartya Sen and VS Naipaul did most of their Nobel prize winning work abroad. That leaves out Mother Theresa, though I dont know if she was a citizen of India.
Everything becomes Indian and of India’s, once famous.
Sindhu madam,lol, its not just about counting votes!! its a serious business of confidentiality, impartiality and secrecy till they are actually announced..even the auditors do not the results till they are annouced afaik, fyi.
now, PWC doing that!! I dont know the answer to that, however maybe the Oscars are as corrupt as Satyam and Maytas?
BRUSH with DEATH!
His double win at the Oscars has been celebrated and talked about. But not many know that A R Rahman had a close shave while rehearsing for his performance at the Academy Awards – a chandelier came crashing down seconds after the music maestro moved away from the spot.
“I really don’t know what happened. Two days before the Oscars we were rehearsing at one of the theatres for the Oscars, the Jay Leno Show and the Oprah Winfrey Show when a massive chandelier, covering a portion of the ceiling, crashed to the spot just a split second after I moved away,” said Rahman told, recalling the nerve-wracking experience.
“If I hadn’t moved way I’d have become history in no time at all. The chandelier crashed exactly at the spot I was standing just seconds before. It left me shaken but not terrified. I guess it was god’s warning not to take any of the good things that are happening to me too seriously,” he said.
The musician, who won two Oscars for his work in British filmmaker Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, said the accident could have proved to be catastrophic.
“I think the love and prayers of all those who love me saved me. As I walked from the left side of the stage to the right I could feel (something) heavy drop from the air, like water rushing down from a height of 30 to 40 feet. So with the good came the rude reminder of how quickly it can all be snatched away,” Rahman said in hindsight.
“When I did Oprah Winfrey’s show for the Oscars she asked me what Jai ho meant. I said it meant, ‘May victory be yours’. She wished the same back for me and I could see she meant it. It’s the best wishes from the world over that saved my life that day,” he added.
Rahman said he isn’t scared of death as it is inevitable.
“What has to happen will happen. I believe one is constantly walking hand-in-hand with death. Death is like a constant companion. But let’s not go into dark spaces right now,” he said.
Rahman won two golden statuettes for Slumdog Millionaire for best original score and best original song for Jai Ho. They were among the eight Academy Awards bagged by rags-to-riches story set in Mumbai