Friday, September 11, 2009

I Am Roger Corman's Oscar

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The man who directed -

The Wasp Woman
Little Shop of Horrors
Bucket of Blood
Pit and the Pendulum

- as well as 52 other classics
is getting an honorary fucking Oscar.

Mind blown. Yay Roger!!!
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3 comments:

John T said...

Unfortunately, none of us will ever get to see it with the new rules on Honorary Oscars. :(

Prospero said...

Who else deserves a Lifetime Achievement award? Corman's films may be cheap, but some of them are damned fine.

Joe Valdez said...

About &@^#! time. Without the AIP or New World Pictures "film schools", there might never have been Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Joe Dante, James Cameron or John Sayles, not to mention Jack Nicholson. Thanks for the heads-up, Jason.