i bet this guy is just kicking himself right about now… co-producer of the academy-award nominated film the hurt locker took a fairly unconventional approach to garnering support for his film. nicolas chartier sent out a mass email to beg for votes!
umm, can we say against the rules?! take a look at chartier’s desperate email below…
i hope all is well with you. i just wanted to write you and say i hope you liked hurt locker and if you did and want us to win, please tell (name deleted) and your friends who vote for the Oscars, tell actors, directors, crew members, art directors, special effects people, if everyone tells one or two of their friends, we will win and not a $500M film, we need independent movies to win like the movies you and i do, so if you believe the hurt locker is the best movie of 2010, help us! i’m sure you know plenty of people you’ve worked with who are academy members whether a publicist, a writer, a sound engineer, please take 5 minutes and contact them. please call one or two persons, everything will help!
what the heck was he thinking? and did you catch that dig at favored best picture winner avatar? even though he quickly realized his HUGE mistake and wrote an apology letter, the damage had already been done.
deemed an “ethical lapse” by the academy executive commitee, they have ruled to bar the hurt locker producer from the awards ceremony. it’s truly sad, because the movie was actually pretty darn good. did he ruin the hurt locker‘s chances for picking up the best picture award? i guess we’ll see!
i was immediately aware of my age for the first time ever last night, & the MTV movie awards were the culprit. since when did being 23 mean you were out of the MTV generation? it was quite a sight – girls screaming, dumb jokes & hype over soon-to-be-released tweenie flicks. this display served as a distraction to how horrible the award show actually was, but that’s another topic.
