Baka’s Corner

It really ticked me off yesterday while watching the Oscars.

When an award winner is announced and the winner walks from their seat onto the stage, there is a background announcer (perhaps for TV only) that provides some extra info regarding the film and the winner.

As they were announcing the winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay and William Monahan winning for The Departed, the female background announcer said that the film was adapted from a JAPANESE film, Infernal Affairs!!??

WTF!? A JAPANESE film?

Everyone knows that Infernal Affairs is a Hong Kong film.

That was so full of BULL****!!!!

And here you think that it is the Oscars after all and they would be well organized and get all the facts straight.

Did they dig up the info from Rotten Tomatoes’ Infernal Affairs 2’s about page??

Even the IMDB site had the Country origin being Hong Kong.

They better apologize to the Hong Kong people and the Hong Kong cinema for their mistake.

It seems these background announcement was for TV only. William Monahan was oblivious to the mistake and did not correct it on stage. But at least when Martin Scorsese won Best Director, he did mention his appreciation for the Hong Kong film.