The Ultimate Oscar Snub

Imagine a talented young man who appeared in several Hollywood movies, often alongside Oscar-winning actors, has died from an accidental drug overdose at the tender age of 25. Now imagine that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences claims they couldn't find 10 seconds in a memorial montage that featured PR execs and studio bigwigs that the general public has never heard of to remember this talented man who has died tragically young. Well, that's exactly what happened in the case of this man:


Brad Renfro was left out of the memorial montage honouring film personalities from both in onscreen and behind the scenes, either intentionally because "it is simply not possible to include everyone" (unless, of course you are a PR agent...then naturally they have room for you!), or perhaps it was because he was not deemed worthy because of his personal problems.

Brad Renfro Snubbed

However, you'd think if the Academy were so concerned about actors with less-than stellar personal lives, they wouldn't have invited this notoriously drunken lout to the ceremony:


Drunken Lout Attacks Jennifer Garner on Red Carpet

Busey's behaviour before the show was embarassing to all who beheld it, even to those of us so far removed from Hollywood that the closest we get to the Oscars is watching from home while stuffing our faces with ketchup chips and beer, basically because everything we really want to watch was either preempted by the Oscars or in reruns because of the writers' strike. Whether we're watching because we want to or because we have to, we usually don't watch the Oscars to see a train wreck. That's what TMZ.com is for.

Nevertheless, a train wreck is what the Oscars have become, apparently. This was the all-time lowest rated Oscars. After seeing what I saw (and what I didn't see) while tuning in and out over the course of the evening, whoever wasn't watching didn't miss anything worth seeing.