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Congratulations, Michael Bay

post #1 of 4
2/27/08 at 2:54pm
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From the Onion: CGI Team Creates Realistic Oscar for Michael Bay

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LOS ANGELES—A leading team of CGI experts hand-selected by blockbuster producer and director Michael Bay has pushed the limits of what can be accomplished with special effects and digital imaging by creating a computer- generated best-director Oscar for the 43-year-old filmmaker.

The $125 million project, funded entirely by Bay, has been called one of the most ambitious CGI undertakings to date, dwarfing even Bay's most ambitious efforts in his 2007 robot-action film, Transformers. A crew of nearly 200 technicians working for nine months on a 15,000-square-foot soundstage was required to realize the director's wildly imaginative fantasy world.

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I wonder what our real Michael Bay has to say about this.
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post #2 of 4
2/27/08 at 3:37pm
It's about time. I'm just surprised he also won for Best Original Screenplay.
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post #3 of 4
2/28/08 at 12:21am
Under the circumstances this story made me feel a little sad. Well not really, I laughed my head off.
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post #4 of 4
3/3/08 at 5:30pm
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"There is no way this would have been possible five years ago," Krajcsik said, later admitting that CGI technology is still decades away from making an Academy Award win for Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner look plausible.
You know they couldn't let this joke go unsaid.
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