Last Night’s Dallas-Related Oscar Winner

Posted on February 23rd, 2009 12:57pm by Adam McGill
Filed under Entertainment

Online contributor and former People Newspaperman Peter Simek passes along this:

A big Dallas related Oscar winner last night: Megan Mylan for best documentary short. Her parents still live in Dallas and she grew up here (at least for part of her childhood). I can’t remember where she went to school, but I got to interview her a number of years back when her Lost Boys of Sudan movie came out and played at the Angelika. Some of those boys live here still. They go to a church in Richardson and work at Central Market.

The short was Smile Pinki. Congrats to Megan. And congrats to a different Megan for winning the Oscar pool last night. As she said of The Duchess, one of her many correct calls, “Never go against a period piece when it comes to Best Costume.”

12 comments

  1. Speaking of Oscars, I thought it was rude that the Academy awarded one to Heath Ledger and he didn’t bother to show up.

    @ 1:16 pm on February 23, 2009

  2. That said, Ledger should have won for Brokeback Mountain. But Hollywood shafted him that year.

    @ 1:23 pm on February 23, 2009

  3. The use of the word shaft in any reference to Brokeback Mountain is extremely uncomfortable.

    @ 1:29 pm on February 23, 2009

  4. I’m pretty sure that was intentional.

    @ 1:31 pm on February 23, 2009

  5. She went to Highland Park. I remember her.

    How come nobody is talking about the “Wardrobe Malfunction” with one of those Indian style dancers. Her left top thingy was almost coming out as the guy who won best original score was speaking after he sang the song he won for. If you rewind from the speech during the dance, there is some full top frontal going on.

    @ 1:37 pm on February 23, 2009

  6. I think the men in this group would like you to get a screen grab of that and post a link. They’re busy men, and can’t watch an entire Oscar speech.

    @ 1:40 pm on February 23, 2009

  7. I though of that but I’m not that tech savy with DVR and I figured it’d be on youtube or all over the news , ala Janet Jackson when I woke up today but surprisingly; no buzz. Believe me. Its there.

    @ 1:44 pm on February 23, 2009

  8. When Sean Penn won for Milk, it made me want to blow my brains out.

    @ 2:37 pm on February 23, 2009

  9. Ok, Trey’s was intentional. Was SB’s?

    @ 3:03 pm on February 23, 2009

  10. I’m just amazed that it’s managed to stay posted this long.

    @ 6:49 pm on February 23, 2009

  11. SB, What breed of dog are you?

    @ 6:52 am on February 24, 2009

  12. The kind that laughs at dead, irrelevant political figures.

    @ 9:21 am on February 24, 2009