Most twittered comment about the female VoiceOver for the Oscars Sunday night:
“She just said ‘pitcher’ again, instead of ‘picture’.”
Second most twittered comment about the female VoiceOver for the Oscars Sunday night:
“Did she really say ‘Barber’ Streisand?” (she did)
That female voiceover for the Oscars, BTW is Gina Tuttle. I had not heard of her, but thought she did a pretty good job with nice energy.
HERE is a link with more about Gina.
And didja hear about the SNAFU Jeff Bridges got himself into with one of his best voiceover clients? Hyundai was all set to run a rash of spots on the Oscars, but was turned-down for a conflict-of-interest. Read HERE and HERE all the details. Hyundai ran the ads anyway, but used several other celebs as substitutes for Bridges. Hey, Hyundai…how ’bout trying out some PROFESSIONAL voice-actors??? Hmmm?
Finally, did you notice for the first time in over 20 years presenters were allowed to say: “…and the WINNER is…” instead of that contrived phrase: “…the Oscar goes to…”
I’m so glad they made that change. If you happened to have missed the Oscars, what’s the first question you ask. Uh-huh….”Who WON”?
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How about this: the girls introducing the Horror tribute pronounced Horror as ‘hoar”‘. That was ‘hoarible’!
Well, some words are very ‘hoard’ to ‘pronouns’, especially after having ‘rehoarsed’ it a couple of times.
But we should probably cut them some slack. Announcing these things isn’t easy, is it, especially when you don’t have to memorize any lines.
And there are still people who wonder why voice-over actors get paid for what they do… And does anybody ever present us with a nice gift basket?
I was thoroughly disappointed in the quality of the nominated songs. However, the ballet set to the movie scores was absolutely sensational. And how about Steve and Alec? Weren’t they terrific?!
Voice over Oscars, who knew!