Golden Globes Turn Down The Temp On Fahrenheit 9/11

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Getting a thumbs up from Usama bin Laden probably didn’t help the film’s chances at the Oscars, either.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

5 thoughts on “Golden Globes Turn Down The Temp On Fahrenheit 9/11”

  1. Darn. I was actually hoping that Hollywood would accelerate its own self-destruction by picking F/911 for best picture.

  2. I can just imagine – the Passion receiving the award while Susan Sarandon, her husband/mate -what’s his name and others boo or sit while others give a standing ovation. Can you imagine, booing Christ. Classic Hollywood.

  3. I can just imagine – the Passion receiving the award while Susan Sarandon, her husband/mate -what’s his name and others boo or sit while others give a standing ovation. Can you imagine, booing Christ. Classic Hollywood.

    Sounds like the Elia Kazan controversy all over again. I still remember feeling disgusted at the churlishness of certain actors who could not bear to give Kazan a standing ovation for his filmmaking achievements. Probably the same people who were unconcerned during the Roman Polanski controversy a few years later.

  4. Darn. I was actually hoping that Hollywood would accelerate its own self-destruction by picking F/911 for best picture.

    No Way. Technically, [i]F 9/11[/i] could still be nominated for Best Picture in the OSCAR race (as opposed to the Golden Globes), but now that Bush has won reelection with a popular majority as well as an electoral majority, Moore’s chances are zip. If the election this year had been a big fat hairy contested deal like last year and everyone was all in an activist muck sweat, Moore might have had a chance. As it is, Hollywood will want to pretend the whole thing never happened.

  5. I caught one fact error in the story — that Aramaic is not a spoken language. There are Arab (or Arabised) Christians in Syria and Iraq who continue to speak Aramaic as a second language, and they use it in their liturgies. They are, as you might imagine, absurdly proud of the fact that Jesus spoke Aramaic.

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