Bradley Cooper says awards shows are “utterly meaningless”

Says the stupid cunt who attended every single awards show when he was nominated, desperately hoping to win an award.

He is such a goddamned phony, I can't stand looking at his rat face.

Closet case freak!

I mean he's right. I've been saying this for years. Awards are meaningless. They're subjective, not based on facts.

There's no factual metric to measure who's a better actor. For singing, well we know plenty of award winners are not good singers and a lot of amazing singers never get nominated

it's a popularity contest, sometimes with the public and sometimes within the industry

winning or not winning an award does not make someone more or less talented

the problem is the entertainment business attracts and creates an environment for highly insecure people who constantly seek validation. They want to be the most famous, the most popular, the highest paid and given the most awards. None of those things are enough to fill the void within them and so some of them even venture into more satisfying ventures such as charity and politics

Sour grapes

Of course they're meaningless, R2!

But the real problem here is that he's a bitter hypocrite.

The only reason he's slamming awards ceremonies, is because he didn't - and will never - win one.

Considering he campaigned his ass off for A Star Is Born, you can't take him seriously.

My company has awards r2, my industry has awards. Its everywhere, not just in the entertainment industry.

Eight Oscar nominations without a win? For the record that is even one more than G.

Covid will pretty much kill off the awards industry. No crowds. No flying all over to pick them up.

I doubt it, R7, particularly if they come up with an effective vaccine over the next couple of years. Until then, however, they'll just have to do without the large in-person ceremonies.

But he has Hollywood Walk of Fame star

Now you can win Oscars for streaming content.

I had Mamie film me getting the mail yesterday. This could be #4.

I'll never forgive him for glorifying that murderous pig Chris Kyle, in "American Sniper."

Cooper is a disgusting closet case who promotes right-wing assholes, movies, and directors (Clint Eastwood).

Fuck him. Gay people should cancel his ass.

I like his point about the team work aspect of film making.

But he still comes across as a creep.

Sorry to go off topic but did the theatre gossip thread #401 disappear for anyone else? I can no longer find it.

R1, Right? Katharine Hepburn, with 12 Oscar nominations and 4 wins, never attended an Oscars ceremony except to present a Thalberg Award to Lawrence Weingarten. "Prizes are nothing," she once said. Cooper is saying the same thing, but he wouldn't miss an opportunity to show up.

R5 sure many fields have awards but most people outside of the entertainment industry don't go into those jobs seeking them.

How often do you hear doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects talking about that stuff?

but on the other hand you hear countless actors and singers saying "it's my dream to win an oscar/grammy/emmy/tony" etc. It's because they never feel good enough no matter how pretty, rich, famous or popular they are. Their work is all about vanity which is worthless. In many other jobs you get satisfaction helping people in some way

Didn't one of the major awards just eliminate the "actress" category so that male and female actors will all compete together? I think Cate Blanchett may have been involved. Saw something on the news about it the other day. If so, do you think this will begin a trend with all the major awards?

It was some minor critic's group award r16.

I doubt the others will follow. They want stars to turn up. As many as possible.

Cooper even showed up at the Oscars this year when he was nominated for producing Joker.

1. No one knew he produced it. Yet there he was.

2. It didn't stand a chance of winning.

He wants an Oscar.

It’s easy to say awards are meaningless when you haven’t won any. He is very annoying. Thirsty but acts like he is above it. Closet cases are the worst.

I think he was clearly stung by all of the losses for "A Star Is Born" given how heavily favored it had been in certain categories. Perhaps it was that experience -- realizing after losing just how badly he wanted to win -- that made him see how "meaningless" these things are (though I'm sure it won't stop him from showing up the next time).

A clip of G's reaction when she lost #7. Some people take losing very hard.

Bradley Cooper is such a basic bitch.

If he gets nominated again you can believe he'll show up. They always show up, with very rare exceptions.

[quote]"It's not why you sacrifice everything to create art"

What 'art' has he 'sacrificed everything' to make? Pretentious douche.

I'm with you r11. I also hated that American Sniper movie and the way he glorified that scumbag. I just thought it was totally irresponsible and inappropriate.

R14 but Hepburn later admitted to a biographer that she loved getting awards, and she introduced herself at her only appearance at the Oscars by saying something like, “I’m living proof that it can take someone decades to stop being selfish.”

I saw in a documentary that Hepburn liked winning the Oscars but also enjoyed not showing up to accept them. The theory was that she had a big non-conformist streak in her due to how her father was treated like an outsider when she was a kid.

Any chance she got to buck the system she liked to take. And not showing up at the Oscars was part of that so the people in the documentary theorized.

Plus there is that story of how when she won her fourth Jane Fonda called and Hepburn said to two time winner Fonda....you'll never catch me now!!!!

Wasn't he out in college?

The Dangerous Liaisons clip fits Bradley Cooper. I bet he went into meltdown mode when he got home from the Oscars.

[quote]Plus there is that story of how when she won her fourth Jane Fonda called and Hepburn said to two time winner Fonda....you'll never catch me now!!!!

What a cunt.

Offhand, Katharine Hepburn is the only star I can think of who truly didn't give a fuck about attending the Oscars when she was nominated, and ended up winning.

Yes I know Marlon Brando didn't show up the year he won either, but he was clinically insane.

He's just jealous because I won over him.

Woody Allen never showed up either.

Joan Crawford never showed up either, even though it's now well known that she wanted that Academy Award more than anything.

Bradley Cooper is just like her. Except that he shows up. He wouldn't miss a chance for the camera to shine on his rat face.

Crawford was terrified of losing in front of all of Hollywood's A-List - it wasn't a guarantee she would win - so she faked being sick and stayed home.

I have never seen the appeal of this guy. I don't think he's attractive, he has an unpleasant smarmy personality and seems that he has a lot of issues that he hides, and he's not a great actor. He doesn't suck and he's not untalented, but he's not especially great either.

I just don't get why he got to be such a big star.

[quote] I just don't get why he got to be such a big star.

There used to be a ton of threads here that talked about how he got fucked and sucked his way to stardom.

Not sure what happened to them, but apparently he was the Queen of the casting couch.

Even more so than Jennifer Lawrence.

I can believe it r36. He's a passably decent actor, but nothing extraordinary. And imho he's not an attractive man, he's borderline homely.

I don't think there is anything necessarily hypocritical about wanting an award and also realizing that they are in some important way meaningless. Actors, directors, screenwriters, singers, etc are, for all intents and purposes, independent contractors. Winning awards can translate into future employment. It's entertainment [italic]business[/italic].

The awards may not necessarily imply artistic excellence, but they [italic]can[/italic] play a role in advancing someone's career, and that's also important.

I read it was the same with Hepburn as Crawford, she was terrified of sitting there as a loser, that's the main reason she never went.

And the way Fonda describes that phobecall, Hepburn wasn't being nasty, just exposing how much she kept track and how much bring the record-holder meant to her.

I agree Bradley wouldn't be so derogatory about awards if he had one.

[quote] Bradley Cooper says awards shows are “utterly meaningless”

Sure, Jan.

So he's...artistic.

Sour grapes.

Sorry if anyone else said it first.

I would like to sample his moist pungent non award winning hole.

The stars are IN VENICE now. COVID hasn't killed off glittering star-gathering rat fucks.

R38, I really like the way you said that and I agree.

I forget who the guy was but someone who accepted one of Hepburn's Oscars in the sixties stayed at her house while he was there in LA. (I think he was British)

He brought the Oscar home put it in a paper bag and put it in her coat closet. Something like 20 years later he went to the Oscars again for something and she let him stay at her house again. He opened the coat closet and the Oscar was still there in the bag never touched.

r44 I think only nominees are allowed in. As it showed be. Why let non-nominees in? One time I had to sit next to J-Lo. I kept finding body glitter in my hair for days afterwards.

That M and G shit has never been funny.

[quote]Considering he campaigned his ass off for A Star Is Born, you can't take him seriously.

Some people lose the taste for it after the dog and pony show. Eons ago after being nominated for THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, John Lithgow said he would never campaign again and I believe Michael Fassbender said the same after 12 YEARS A SLAVE.

his ass aint meaningless

is treasured by many ruff tops worldwide !!!

[quote]Bradley Cooper says awards shows are “utterly meaningless”

You better PREACH IT sister

R11, but that’s what actors do, they make films playing people they aren’t in real life. Some of them are so good, they win an AA, for Best Actor, like Forrest Whittaker, in The Last King of Scotland.

IMHO, Whittaker ,deserved that nom and win, and he’s the far better actor. Yet none of these thing make Cooper ineligible for playing a part be’s offered and cast in, nor do any of his statements about the bullshit of awards season, make his participation in award campaigns and shows, make what he said invalid or untrue about how he feels in regards to the whole process.

This man works in Hollywood. In case you’re not sure or have forgotten, it is the most competitive and cutthroat industry out there. Even the most epic ball game doesn’t come close to the shit these people have to run through repeatedly, or the hoops they have to clear, in order to continue working and stay relevant. There is literally nothing else like it, and anyone who thinks running for office comes close, it does not because even the laziest of folks can become POTUS, after Hollywood tells him it’s time to move on.

This dude is what, in his 40s? You expect him to climb down from whatever pinnacle or plateau he’s currently reached, because you disapprove of his contracts and casting pursuits?

That’s not how this shit works. Sometimes you have to take a lot of shit to continue making money. The minute you stop bowing out due to “personal politics” and “principles”, is the minute you start down the road to irrelevance.

Cooper’s doing something called, “shifting the narrative”. It’s done when you are able to throw some of your weight around, to change something, or negotiate for something you want.

Nothing is said by mistake or reckless blathering when you get to his spot. And he got there by making movies you don’t like.

[Quote]That M and G shit has never been funny.

When done well, and sparingly, it can be amusing. Same as the Patsy Ramsey posts. Unfortunately, some idiots like to flog a dead horse and run a good joke into the ground.

Yeah, just like coming to a gay gossip board and calling Cooper a closeted Queen, 10X over.

Give it a rest! We all know all of the stories and we all know exactly who lives in the closet, coming out to play when they think no one’s watching, and guess what?

No one gives a shit - nor will they.

Haven’t you learned, Closet Troll, sometimes you really can shoot someone on 5th Avenue!

R33 Joan showed up for her two other Oscar noms after her Mildred Pierce win. Plus she presented a few times in the 60s. I think her insecurity got the better of her in 1946. She had said she thought Ingrid Bergman was going to win again. Plus she had an issue with stage fright when asked to present best actor the year after so she skipped it again.

R46 Anthony Harvey the director of the Lion In Winter was the one who brought Hepburn her Oscar. Kate had won two at that point, so I can see her not really caring too much and fawning over it. She enjoyed winning, but didn’t care for the ass kissing aspect of it.

Cooper I think is smart enough to know this is a mechanism of Hollywood. Nowadays, everyone shows up. Gone are the days when Hepburn didn’t show up, or George C Scott and Marlon Brando shit all over them. An Oscar means more money and more work for the recipient. That will always be the bottom line.

GO fuk ur momma

this is DL....we diss and miss and hiss and give hell.

cooper is the only closet queen here, mary hartman

So many guys have come forward bout fucking Cooper its ridic

Really r57? I'm not doubting you, I'd just like to know where some of those stories are.

I've heard that when Cooper was at Georgetown in the 90s he was basically out and everybody on campus knew.

He was a slut on campus Fun toy boy

[quote]Nowadays, everyone shows up. Gone are the days when Hepburn didn’t show up, or George C Scott and Marlon Brando shit all over them.

IIRC, Streep has not always been present for all her nominations.

Actually Streep only missed attending for Postcards from the Edge because she was very pregnant. Every other time she went.

Are you sure, R61? I thought she also missed for that movie in which she played Renee Zellweger's mother, though I could be wrong.

This year actually had two no shows among the actors: Joe Pesci and Anthony Hopkins.

In recent years the only other absentees I can remember were Judi Dench because she was in India filming and Natalie Portman was a last minute no show for Jackie because she went into labor.

no r62 she was there that year (I think Gwyneth fawned over her in her speech and she looked embarrassed)

[quote]I thought she also missed for that movie in which she played Renee Zellweger's mother

That movie was such a piece of shit.

yeah here it is: Gwyneth says she's undeserving to be in Meryl's presence. She was right.

What is odd about Streep was that she didn't go to accept her first Emmy for Holocaust. She was an unknown actress and that would have been a lot of exposure. Don't know why she didn't go. It was her first national recognition.

Thanks, R64/R66. I hereby rescind my comment.

Then remove your name from consideration instead of showing up at every awards show around desperately hoping to hear your name called.

Dustin Hoffman used to say this too. Then he won for Kramer Versus Kramer and after that he loved them and even would say he hoped to win. He later admitted his criticism of the academy (which he references in his Kramer speech) was due to hurt feelings because he didn't get nominated for Pappillon or Little Big Man when he expected to. (and he lost to John Wayne for Midnight Cowboy.)

I don't think Henry Fonda was a fan of the Oscars either, saying something to the effect that "you can't take five different actors who played five different roles and pull one out of the pack and say he was the best." But even so, he did accept his Best Actor Oscar in 1981 for "On Golden Pond." (I don't think he was there; I believe Jane picked it up for him.)

Yes, award shows suck.

[quote] This dude is what, in his 40s? You expect him to climb down from whatever pinnacle or plateau he’s currently reached, because you disapprove of his contracts and casting pursuits?

[quote] That’s not how this shit works. Sometimes you have to take a lot of shit to continue making money.

It's called integrity. And clearly, Bradley Cooper has none.

There's acting, and taking on a role that is completely out of character. That's fine. But that's not what we're talking about here.

That Chris Kyle portrayal was a complete and total lie. And Bradley Cooper not only went along with it, he relished it. Hoping for an Oscar, of course.

Cooper has no integrity. Not in his work, nor in his personal life.

So I guess the Chris Kyle role was perfect for him. He's a liar in real life, so he might as well be a liar on screen, as well.

R2, totally agreed. People will think it is sour grapes because he has not won, and maybe it is, but he is right.

I remember being on Twitter with the whole Me, Too was happening and some of the most vocal advocates of the movement were still turning up to the events like The Golden Globes and wearing Times Up pins like that solves anything. Somebody asked why they did not boycott it that year if they felt so strongly about it and Rosanna Arquette replied: "We deserve to be recognised for our work". So do a lot of professions, Rosanna. We all know it's self-congratulatory nonsense and it looked very hypocritical to me, but that's Hollywood for you.

Good point when it comes to Hopkins and Pesci. I think since they’ve won before and slowly winding down their careers (Hopkins still acts, but I get the feeling he’s gonna probably call it a day soon and Pesci I think is retired after the Irishman), they are over the Hollywood clusterfuck.

R67 There was a clip of her winning online recently. The presenters said she was busy filming Kramer. But it’s no secret she disliked Holocaust. I think she only did it to for the money and to keep busy after Cazale died.

Hopkins is 83 and Pesci is 77, they're obviously slowing down.

r75 I think she made Holocaust while Cazale was still alive for the money. She was supposedly just going through the motions of it and not really that into the show.

I don't know why she doesn't like it. It is a pretty powerful mini-series and groundbreaking.

Maybe the trauma of Cazale brings up a bad association for her.