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Diablo Cody’s Post-Oscar Morning
Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on February 25, 2008
The always lovely and immensely cool Diablo Cody posted the above picture to her MySpace blog this morning. For those not paying attention, that is her Oscar won for Best Original Screenplay. It was the only win of the night for Juno, but easily its most deserving. Congrats Diablo — rest up.
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27 Comments
February 26th, 2008 at 5:05 am
I don’t like this…staged photo’s are nothing more than fiction. I clicked this link to take in the day after thought’s from perhaps the most general person in the history of mass publicised achievment awards. Instead I find, well…garbage. Take offence if you will…I mean none, but this is garbage. Maybe I’m just bored and disenchanted?
February 26th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Funny picture. Congrats.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Staged photo, staged life. If she were fat and ugly and wrote the exact same script, we wouldn’t care, and there’d be no awards.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:11 am
It’s the Oscar, not a paperweight. Do you honestly think Diablo Cody (who deserved to win) is even in the top ten of most “general” persons to have been awarded the statue? This thing has been going on for 80 years. Two winners did not even show up, and countless others have come out of nowhere to win when there is no way they could have conceived of it when they were making their respective films. Ever heard of Marty? Diablo Cody should be proud of her accomplishment, and I am glad she had a little fun by having this photo taken. She does not take herself too seriously. Don’t take the Oscars, Diablo, movies or yourself too seriously.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Fun Pic! Me Notu and Ramona, what did you do after you won your Oscar in the category of “Ridiculous Blogger”?
February 26th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Geez people… relax with the ‘’staged” picture. Its a funny pic. Congrats Diablo!
February 26th, 2008 at 9:05 am
wow ! incredible success story and my favourite winner of sunday’s oscars.
i liked how she cried at the end of her speech when she thanked her parents about accepting her just the way she is, so emotional ! i bet all the screenwriters working inside hollywood just hit the ceiling when she won the best original screenplay oscar, because 1)she has never been to film school 2) this is her first screenplay 3)she used to be an exotic dancer.it just reminds me of last year’s oscar winning performance by Jennifer hudson, btw i was just disgusted by the way Javier Bardem accepted his ocar from Jennifer, you could easily see that he is a racist.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Does anyone have a reaonable defence of her winning? Juno was weighted down by its too-clever script, and succeeded only because of its cast.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Staging a post-Oscar photo is nothing new, and this one is charming. Note she celebrates with cookies rather than booze. Obviously she has her head in the right place.
The most staged post-Oscar photo was Joan Crawford’s. She was a pro at PR. The night she was nominated for the Oscar (I’m fuzzy on the year), rather than be in the audience trying to be a good sport if she lost, she told them she had the flu and would not be coming. To her surprise, she won, and had them bring her Oscar to her home. A picture of her in bed with her Oscar appeared the next day in all the papers, eclipsing anyone else who won that night.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:35 am
1. There is nothing (read: NOTHING) wrong with it being a staged picture . The girl’s just having a little fun. She’s earned it.
2. Juno “was weighted down by its too-clever script”??? You are weighted down by being too much of a douchebag. That’s like saying Jessica Alba suffers from being too hot. Morons - you can never escape them, no matter how far out of the way you try to drive.
Congrats to Diablo!
February 26th, 2008 at 11:14 am
The best part of the photo on MySpace is the the line underneath it: “‘I’m finished!’- Daniel Plainview.” Of course the photo’s staged. It’s on a MySpace account a place full of 15-year-olds in g-strings and nerdy white boys throwing gangsta signs on their profile pictures, and you’re pissed because she pretends to be a asleep while holding her dream come true, what did you expect?
February 26th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
This is a link for the person who said that javier bardem is obviously a racist. http://www.filmmagic.com/ItemListing.aspx?cgl=305957&str=22086&styp=clbi&navtyp=gls
February 26th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Ok- there are some here that are taking out their high school rejection issues on Cody. Some small people just have a need to be unnecessarily contrary and negative because they are frustrated about their meaningless lives! What a great accomplishment for this young lady and anyone who is a true fan of cinematic arts can appreciate what this girl did! Congrats Cody! And I know I should let the “fat and ugly” comment go but geesh…the Coen brothers are not the best looking dudes and they won…so maybe things are not a superficial as the superficial would like everyone to believe.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
WOW what’s with the Diablo haters. I think she is an attractive smart and funny woman. Of course it staged but who cares, it cute.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Juno= Movie for People without humor.
You laugh about that? Sad
February 26th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I have been reading on this site and others,a lot of venom and jealous hate directed towards a woman who has succeeded by writing and selling a fantastic first screenplay.
What has she done to deserve all the trash talk? Who cares what she talks like,what she wore,who she dates or what she did before all this?
It’s a well deserved award, and I hope she can pay off her mortgage and put her kids through college with the money she makes from this in the future.
She is giving hope to many other prospective screenwriters with a good idea.
Good for her!
February 26th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
The other quick point I’d like to make is a lot of the ‘haters’ seem to be women…
Go figure.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
i really didn’t think she should’ve won. nancy olivers screenplay for lars and the real girl was
the best by far next to there will be blood. i think she only won because of all the hype, and
really it shouldn’t be based on that but quality. and the javier bardem racist comment is
totally not true, get real.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Wow, for a comment Policy that says no HATE SPEECH. These are some of the most bitter posters on the internet. Is it because most of you are just terrible writers with shatterred dreams. Or is it because you’re all lazy asses who think you have a shot. Diablo Cody may not have written a script that I thought was deserving of the Award, i was rooting for Ratatouille, but guess what she did, she worked her ass off to write the best movie she could. And people who decided to use venom against her to make up for their lack of creativity or success, should try to do the same.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
She’s expressing herself. What else are you supposed to do with a personal blog? Juno is well-written. It is funny and dramatic without really obvious melodramatic scenes and cliched gag scenes. Everybody can relate to it more because its not the usual redneck with a bastard child story.
February 26th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I happen to know it was not staged.
February 26th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
“the Coen brothers are not the best looking dudes and they won…so maybe things are not a superficial as the superficial would like everyone to believe.”
James Belushi and Kevin James are also highly unattractive, fat, slobbish men, and yet they have both starred on sitcom shows with hottie actresses playing their hottie wives. I see male beer bellies all over Hollywood, but I cannot remember the last time I saw a popular fat actress. And by fat I don’t mean “curvy” like Jennifer Hudson. I mean fat like Rosie O’Donnell. I think that cancels out your argument.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Wow Allie,
Expressing your personal angst? Your ridiculous counter-argument does not cancel out my point. First of all we are not talking about ACTORS we are talking about WRITERS. The object of discussion on the thread is Diablo Cody…not your zeal to turn this discussion into your “fat girls are worthy too” appeal.
Oh…I bet Cathryn Manheim, Nicky Blonsky, Queen Latifah and even the mighty Oprah would disagree with the fact that they are not popular.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Ooops - I meant Camryn Manheim.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
What a freakin’ tool!
February 26th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
This film, and its award, is less a tribute to Cody’s writing than it is to studio marketing. The script bears the trademark Sundance indie brand of occasional wit, over the top pretension and a young character that talks like a 30-something writer.
March 1st, 2008 at 8:09 am
kathy bates is fat and she won for “mysery”.