#OSCARS BEST PICTURE MONTAGE 2011 MOVIE#
I think we started it, definitely back in the MTV Movie Awards days, but Billy made it huge. But now, it’s on the People’s Choice Awards, the MTV Movie Awards does it regularly and I don’t even direct all those. It was really his pace, his jokes really made it.
It was pioneered in “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” with Carl Reiner and Steve Martin, but Billy brought it to the forefront. It was definitely odd doing it without Billy Crystal. The idea of cutting the host into the nominated movies seems to have really taken hold as an opener. You give it all to them and they make it all work out. We use a green screen and this company, Gunslinger Digital Effects. It’s more about finding the coverage that you can crosscut. You get enough of a response from the film clip, we can just keep riffing and keep adding more jokes. It’s more about trying to get a good film scene, like in “True Grit,” Jordan Rubin and I found these great shots that we could intercut Anne and James in a two shot. Nowadays, with digital, it’s a lot easier than it used to be. We did the Brady Bunch doing “A Few Good Men.” That led to Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo, where I intercut them into “Twister” and “Jurassic Park.” You find tricks for matching eyelines and the film footage. I’ve done it years before for the MTV Movie Awards too, back in the day. Do you have it down to a fine science by now? This is the sixth one you’ve done for the Oscars. In the opening “Inception” gag with the explosions, we had a lot of really funny jokes and set pieces that could have gone in there, but with timing, there were a lot of films we couldn’t cover, like “Toy Story 3” and “Winter’s Bone” and other things that were in early drafts. Besides the logical joke of being stuck under a rock, I think it just got away from us with all the other films.
Because it’s such a great movie and James was in it. It was part of it and I kind of regret that we didn’t do it.
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