MSNBC - Michael Moore wants best picture Oscar

MSNBC - Michael Moore wants best picture Oscar: "Michael Moore says he won’t submit “Fahrenheit 9/11” for consideration as best documentary at this year’s Academy Awards. Instead, he’s going for the bigger prize of best picture.

“For me the real Oscar would be Bush’s defeat on Nov. 2,” Moore told The Associated Press during a phone interview Monday from New York.

“It’s not that I want to be disrespectful and say I don’t ever want to win a (documentary) Oscar again,” Moore said. “This just seems like the right thing to do...I don’t want to take away from the other nominees and the attention that they richly deserve.”

Moore also hinted in a recent interview in Rolling Stone he would like the movie to play on television before the presidential election.

With the movie coming out on DVD Oct. 5, it’s not clear whether the TV deal would happen.


Associated Press