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Ha!  Check out this funny or die clip for why Piranha 3D deserves to be nominated for Oscars.Kelly Brook and Jerry O’Connell make a few valid points, no? Check it out above.-Dr.FB

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With the latest news about Sandra Bullock's husband, Jesse James, allegedly cheating on her; and the recent revelation that Kate Winslet is splitting from her husband, director Sam Mendes; one can ...

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This is a catchy sentence designed to make you read the following article. it will be followed by something slightly off-putting, like “Want to watch a video that features a special-needs child with a trendy, topical disease?” No need to be offended, though, for this next sentence explains the off-putting remark, and that special-needs child is one of the stereotypical movie characters featured in A Trailer for Every Academy Award–Winning Movie ever Made — a Cracked.com video produced by the comedy duo Britanick.

Next comes the paragraph full of necessary background information: Britanick consists of Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher, two NYU graduates “wasting their degrees” by making funny videos and posting them online. You’ll learn that they’re from Atlanta, that they majored in film and drama and that they have been working together since 2004, when Kocher helped McElhaney with his freshman-year film project. A Trailer for Every Academy Award–Winning Movie ever Made is their latest, and most successful, endeavor. Britanick earned $1,000 for the skit, which Kocher says they spent mostly on food.

In this paragraph you’ll learn that the video is a trailer for a fictional movie featuring an affluent white man, his female love interest, his special-needs brother (now does the first sentence make sense?), a Latin-American teenager who needs help believing in himself, and a wrongfully convicted black man. Basically, everything you need to win the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards.

“We love the Oscars, but they do have a specific type of film they pick,” says Kocher, in a succinct quote that I have provided for your benefit — and to help me transition into this next paragraph, in which I talk about the video’s cultural relevance (the Oscars). Then I’ll point out that the trailer’s formulaic script, in which the characters satirize the genre by describing themselves in relation to the film, has been done before. I’ll provide a few examples, such as British broadcaster Charlie Booker’s “How to Report the News” segment and The Onion‘s fake story “Some Bulls___ Happening somewhere.”

Now comes the part of the article that discusses the specific inspirations for Britanick’s trailer:

Rain Man

Good Will Hunting

The Shawshank Redemption

Forrest Gump

And of course A beautiful Mind, which McElhaney says gave them the initial idea.

Some writers might explain the obvious similarities between these films and the fictional trailer (such as how A beautiful Mind and Good Will Hunting inspired the giant math equation), but you’re a smart reader and can probably make the connections yourself. so we’ll move along to the next phase: proof of the video’s popularity. (Comment on this story.)

Since it was posted online March 5, A Trailer for Every Academy Award–Winning Movie ever Made has been viewed more than 600,000 times on Cracked.com and an additional 250,000 times on YouTube. This fact tells you that the video is popular and that you should watch it if you want to be cool.

And that’s pretty much it. The last paragraph of this generic article about a popular Internet video just summarizes what you already know and ends with a witty observation that makes me, the writer, seem hip. maybe I’ll point out that the movie would never win an Oscar for one simple reason.

It forgot to mention the Holocaust.

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  The fashion this year at the Academy Awards was filled with dresses in muted colors with a few blues and reds thrown in and a few who need to employ a new stylist! THE WORST DIANE KRUGER Oh, ...

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Elizabeth Taylor has taken to her Twitter.com blog to defend pal Kathy Ireland from critics who accused the former model of drunken behavior on the red carpet at the Oscars on Sunday. The reclusiv…

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5:47pm UK, Thursday March 11, 2010

Matt Smith, entertainment correspondent

DVD sales of bomb disposal drama hurt Locker have soared since the low-budget film won a surprise six Oscars.

The film played to moderate audiences following its September release

The dramatic story of a US team in Iraq eclipsed Avatar at the event, picking up the two biggest awards of the night – best picture and best director for Kathryn Bigelow.

HMV said sales of the low-budget film on DVD have tripled since last week and the movie is now the store’s biggest seller.

Rudy Osorio from HMV told Sky News Online: “Because the movie was one of the lowest-grossing best picture winners of all time there are clearly a huge amount of people that haven’t seen it and now want to catch up.”

The film is also selling well online. On Amazon.co.uk, one of the UK’s biggest DVD retailers, the film is currently topping the format’s sales chart.

Sky Movies also reports a “significant increase” in demand to watch the film on its Sky Box Office pay-per-view service, since Sunday’s awards.

Director of Sky Box Office, Ian Lewis said: “The buzz prior to the Oscars has helped boost viewing figures to exceed our expectations.

“Now given its awards success, we anticipate a further increase in buys from now into April.”

The trend for a film to do well after Oscar success is well known and called ‘Oscar bounce’.

It normally breathes new life into a film’s cinema run.

But because the hurt Locker was released in the UK in September last year its cinema run is largely over, so instead that bounce is being felt on DVD.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The executive director of the film academy said Tuesday that Farrah Fawcett wasn't included in the Academy Awards' In Memoriam segment because the actress was better known ...

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Check out all five of this year's Oscar Nominees for Best Short Film (Animated), including Oscar Winner "Logorama". During his award acceptance speech, the film's producer, Nicolas Schmerkin, said,...

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Jeff Bridges fought back tears backstage at Sunday's Academy Awards as he paid tribute to his late father, after winning the Oscar for Best Actor. Bridges took home his first Oscar for his role as...

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The gardenia Mo'Nique wore in her hair at the Oscars on Sunday was a very special gift from a close friend of "Gone With The Wind" star Hattie McDaniels' family. The actress/comedienne started thi...

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