SpongeMike NoAwardPants?
I gotta admit, this one has me a wee bit o’ the confused.
Two days after being snubbed when the Oscar nominations were announced, Michael Moore was left off the list Thursday when the Writers Guild of America unveiled nominees for its first documentary writing award for a feature film.
The six nominated pictures are “The Hunting of the President,” which alleges a campaign against Bill Clinton from his early days in Arkansas through his impeachment; “Control Room,” an inside view of the Arab television network Al Jazeera during the war in Iraq; “Bright Leaves,” a reflection on Big Tobacco by the great-grandson of a tobacco baron; “Home of the Brave,” a study of murdered civil-rights activist Viola Liuzzo; “In the Realm of the Unreal,” which follows artist, novelist and janitor Henry Darger; and “Super Size Me,” a first-person take on the perils of overeating fast food.
Of those films, only Morgan Spurlock’s “Super Size Me” has been nominated for a best documentary Academy Award.
WGA officials said Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” was eligible but Moore elected not to submit it. Moore’s “Bowling for Columbine” won the WGA Award for best original screenplay in 2003, the first time that a documentary had ever been nominated in that category.
“Fahrenheit 9/11” also failed to earn an Academy Award nomination this week. In that case, however, he had declined to submit “Fahrenheit” in the documentary category because he planned a TV airing before the Nov. 2 election—and that disqualified the documentary under Academy rules. “Fahrenheit” was eligible in other categories, and Moore unsuccessfully campaigned for a best picture nomination.
The winner of the WGA Documentary Screenplay Award will be named at a reception for documentary filmmakers Feb. 15 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.
OK, it says that Moore was “left off” the list. But then it says Moore never submitted the screenplay in the first place. So how exactly does one get left off a list that one never tried to get on? What is with these reporters who can’t get a simple story and tell it without creating drama? And why on earth am I defending Mikey a-friggin-gain?
Anyway, If I’m reading between the lines correctly, this is just saying Moore did not submit F911 to the WGA and so he is not under consideration for the new screenplay award, which is similar to the one that he won for BFC. Am I misreading it?
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