Media Training Worldwide president TJ Walker says Best Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s speech “wasn’t awful,” but he’d still give him a C- grade because he had “way too many nervous ‘um’s’” and “for some inexplicable reason he held a piece of paper over his eyes and created a ‘Carnac the Magnificent’ – from Johnny Carson days – effect.”
Robert Altman fared slightly better with a C grade, but Walker says, “He started by referencing that he didn’t have much time to make his speech, which is always a boring, time-wasting thing to do.”
George Clooney was given a B and praised for NOT making “a tasteless joke about former uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff” like he did at the Golden Globes.
If anyone should be proud, it’s Best Actress Reese Witherspoon, who got an A+ from Walker. He notes, “Witherspoon had obviously given some real thought to her speech.”
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