{"id":7984,"date":"2010-03-09T20:35:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=7984"},"modified":"2010-03-09T20:38:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:38:59","slug":"nicolas-chartier-accepts-his-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/03\/09\/nicolas-chartier-accepts-his-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Chartier Accepts His Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Producer Nicolas Chartier<\/a><\/strong> should have been on stage at the Kodak Theatre<\/a> on Sunday night for producing The Hurt Locker<\/a>, but had to make other arrangements after being banned from the Oscars.<\/p>\n <\/a>As the race for Best Picture heated up Chartier broke Academy rules<\/a> by sending out a mass email urging members to vote for his film over a certain sci-fi epic with blue aliens<\/a>, saying:<\/p>\n “If everyone tells one or two of their friends, we will win and not a $500M film.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Once AMPAS caught on they flipped out and demanded he send an apology to the entire Academy, which he duly did, before also banning him from the ceremony<\/a>.<\/p>\n So as his fellow producers Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal and Greg Shapiro walked up to collect their Oscars for Best Picture, what was Chartier doing?<\/p>\n It turns out he was at a viewing party in Malibu which was organised by producers Lynette Howell<\/a>, Mike Fleiss<\/a> and WME Global chief Graham Taylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n They even had a poster of the producer with the word ‘banned’ designed in the colours of the French flag.<\/p>\n When Tom Hanks announced on the Oscar stage that The Hurt Locker had won Best Picture the place\u00a0erupted<\/a> and Chartier was given a replica Oscar, before making an alternative acceptance speech.<\/p>\n Someone was smart enough to film it and post the footage online:<\/p>\n\n