All Oscar Nominees to receive a gift bag worth $200k

MilesMorales1

*Not all, but just the acting and directing nominees get the gift bag apparently.*

Oscar nominees in this year’s major categories will go home with a gift bag worth $200,000, featuring such essential items as a breast lift, sex toy and 15-day walking tour of Japan.

All acting and directing nominees will receive the luxury goodie bag from Los Angeles firm Distinctive Assets, which works with companies hoping to capitalise on the fame of Oscar hopefuls. The bag’s value this year is a record – last year it featured items worth a measly $125,000.

The most expensive inclusion for 2016 is a 10-day first class trip to Israel ($55,000), with that Japanese walking tour coming in at $45,000. The package also features a year’s worth of unlimited Audi car rentals, worth $45,000, and a lifetime supply of Lizora skin creams, worth $31,200. Female nominees will also receive a $250 “arouser” offering “gentle suction and stimulation”.



• A 10-day, first-class trip to Israel ($55,000)
• A year’s worth of unlimited Audi car rentals from Silvercar ($45,000)
• A 15-day walking tour of Japan ($45,000)
• 3 private training sessions with “celebrity wellness expert” and star of ABC’s My Diet Is Better Than Yours, Jay Cardiello ($1,400)
• Ultherapy—a laser skin-tightening procedure courtesy of 740 Park MD ($5,530)
• A Lifetime supply of skin creams from Lizora ($31,200)
• A Fit Club TV “Ultimate Fitness Package” in a private villa ($6,250)
• A Haze Dual V3 Vaporizer valued at $249.99 (At least Leonardo DiCaprio will be happy)

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The most bizarre item on the list clocks in at $1,900 and is something we are apparently referring to as a “Vampire Breast Lift.” What is a Vampire Breast Lift, you ask?

Featured by Cosmopolitan, the new secret “must have” in Hollywood is the Vampire Breast Lift procedure which uses blood-derived growth factors to revive rounder cleavage without implants. Women can now also soften implant scars and irregularities (and restore sensation). Using technology used by plastic surgeons for years to help correct post-mastectomy scarring and to heal wounds, the Vampire Breast Lift procedure uses a woman’s own blood to improve appearance. Designed for zero downtime by Charles Runels, MD - the same physician who invented the Vampire Facelift.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/08/oscars-gift-bag-nominees-200k-breast-lift-sex-toy-japan-holiday



How strange. Like some of it kinda makes sense but how much are female celebs gonna go round advertising how great their sex toy was?

The_Valeyard

Id take the sex toy and forget about the trip to Israel.

Custardpi

Makes sense for the companies involved I suppose. Even excluding social media word of mouth endorsement of your product from A-list Hollywood stars can be worth a fair bit in terms of driving sales.

smash

OP did you not know that the more money you have, the more free stuff you get?

MilesMorales1

smash wrote: »

OP did you not know that the more money you have, the more free stuff you get?

I was aware of that vaguely, but some of them gifts still don't make sense.

kfallon

God be with the days when you got the Lucky Dip for 10p with sherbet and an ould lolly, they've come a long way since then!

Badly Drunk Boy

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

...but how much are female celebs gonna go round advertising how great their sex toy was?

By sex toy, are you referring to the Vampire Breast Lift? If so, I presume the "rounder cleavage without implants" would do the advertising.

dan1895

What happens when an A lister gets hit by a Palestinian rocket while in Israel?

Boom_Bap

dan1895 wrote: »

What happens when an A lister gets hit by a Palestinian rocket while in Israel?

Boom

rubadub

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

but some of them gifts still don't make sense.

What does not make sense, these firms are advertising, do you not get the concept of advertising? I would not expect tv adverts shown during the oscars broadcasts to have anything directly related to them either.

Baron Kurtz

Was Chrissy Moltisanti and his crew knocking about the place?:)

MilesMorales1

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

By sex toy, are you referring to the Vampire Breast Lift? If so, I presume the "rounder cleavage without implants" would do the advertising.

Female nominees will also receive a $250 “arouser” offering “gentle suction and stimulation”.

Referring to that.

Badly Drunk Boy

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Referring to that.

Sorry. Missed that.

(It still probably wouldn't stop some people talking about it, though.)

Caliden

LOL at the trip to Israel, if it already wasn't glaringly obvious who owns Hollywood that certainly lets you know.

Deise Vu

What part of Israel is worth paying $5.5K a day to see? Is that the cost of the security escort? How expensive is it to walk around Japan that makes it worth $3K a day?

I think I read somewhere that the IRS was taking an interest in the Oscar freebie bag. If that is the case, I know where I'd be telling them to stick their $100K worth of 25 day's holidays. (I would also be a tad cynical about all the free publicity that bringing celebs to these God-forsaken destinations would bring - $100K me hole).

maudgonner

I'd take this:

3 private training sessions with “celebrity wellness expert” and star of ABC’s My Diet Is Better Than Yours, Jay Cardiello ($1,400)

I'd make him meet me in McDonalds and watch me shovel fast food into my gob for an hour. The second session would be in an ice-cream shop. I doubt he'd turn up for the third session.

MilesMorales1

Caliden wrote: »

LOL at the trip to Israel, if it already wasn't glaringly obvious who owns Hollywood that certainly lets you know.

The ants?

Custardpi

Caliden wrote: »

LOL at the trip to Israel, if it already wasn't glaringly obvious who owns Hollywood that certainly lets you know.

Funny how you choose to focus on Israel rather than Japan, which also has a break included in the goodie bag. Do the Japanese "own" Hollywood? I would have thought that a country which "owns" an industry wouldn't have to spend more money promoting itself, they would just issue orders for the actors, directors etc to do their bidding.

Caliden

Custardpi wrote: »

Funny how you choose to focus on Israel rather than Japan, which also has a break included in the goodie bag. Do the Japanese "own" Hollywood? I would have thought that a country which "owns" an industry wouldn't have to spend more money promoting itself, they would just issue orders for the actors, directors etc to do their bidding.

It's the first bullet point. I've got a short attention span.

Stop harassing me.

fatknacker

Ugh. Burn the fcking rich.

AnonoBoy

Caliden wrote: »

LOL at the trip to Israel, if it already wasn't glaringly obvious who owns Hollywood that certainly lets you know.

Holiday companies?

Custardpi

Caliden wrote: »

It's the first bullet point. I've got a short attention span.

Stop harassing me.

So disagreeing with you counts as harrassment now? You must have a tough life.

Caliden

Custardpi wrote: »

So disagreeing with you counts as harrassment now? You must have a tough life.

Stop triggering my childhood issues. I've asked you nicely to stop harassing, next step is moderator intervention.

Trent Houseboat

I think most people don't pick up the gift bag and since most of the "gifts" are in voucher form they're never cashed in upon.
The whole thing is an exercise in advertising, because hey, there's an article on the guardian(and probably about 47 on the mail online) quoting the companies involved.

I'm sure the good people at Audi thank you for the free promotion OP.

BattleCorp

Deise Vu wrote: »

What part of Israel is worth paying $5.5K a day to see? Is that the cost of the security escort? How expensive is it to walk around Japan that makes it worth $3K a day?

Mere mortals like us would be able to have a holiday in Israel and Japan at a fraction of that cost.

Celebs on the other hand, they probably pay that for a feckin burger that has been organically made after being passed through the intestines of a Himalayan mountain yak.

Guy:Incognito

Caliden wrote: »

LOL at the trip to Israel, if it already wasn't glaringly obvious who owns Hollywood that certainly lets you know.

The japanese? Theres a free trip there too.

Or maybe the sex toy industry?

AnonoBoy

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

The japanese? Theres a free trip there too.

Or maybe the sex toy industry?

Whoever it is it's not black people we know that much for sure.

AnonoBoy

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Whoever it is it's not black people we know that much for sure.

They own the BET awards

AnonoBoy

Jake1 wrote: »

They own the BET awards

I thought the Jews owned them.

Or is that the BEY awards?

whiskeyman

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Id take the sex toy and forget about the trip to Israel.

I guess some may want to discover the Holy Lands...






















And a trip to Israel may interest some too!


:pac:

valoren

I stopped watching the Oscars when Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan to the Best Picture award.
When you can buy the biggest award on the night through an aggressive promotional campaign then that's your cue to exit.
It became nothing more than a popularity contest (it was on it's dying leg's when Titanic scooped 11 awards).

I can still remember the wry, cynical grin on Harrison Ford's face when he announced the winner.

AnonoBoy

valoren wrote: »

I stopped watching the Oscars when Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan to the Best Picture award.

God that was a sh*t film!

valoren

AnonoBoy wrote: »

God that was a sh*t film!

A delightful romp. Perhaps.
A Best Picture winner. GTFO.

:pac:

AnonoBoy

valoren wrote: »

A delightful romp. Perhaps.
A Best Picture winner. GTFO.

:pac:

Oh I despised it. Got dragged to the cinema to see it by a girlfriend - and even see hated it!

Oh wow, Shakespeare hears someone say something and *wink wink* it's one of his famous lines.

F*ck off! :mad:

Ally Dick

I'd say Sheeshaw Ronan is delighted with her goodies

MRnotlob606

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Boom

Orlando booooooom

Areyouwell

AnonoBoy wrote: »

God that was a sh*t film!

And that's even an understatement.

ArtSmart

Ally Dick wrote: »

I'd say Sheeshaw Ronan is delighted with her goodies

I'd say we're all delighted by her goodies...

Malari

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Ultherapy—a laser skin-tightening procedure courtesy of 740 Park MD ($5,530)

I actually thought this said skin-lightening procedure. I was thinking that it was mightily inappropriate considering the racist allegations...:pac:

Summer wind

They should have a charity auction where they auction off the contents of each bag for good causes. I'm sure there's loads of very rich ladies that wouldn't mind having a rummage through Matt Damon's:)

suicide_circus

If there's one thing millionaire celebrities need, its free stuff

melekalikimaka

the haze vaporizer is for weed FYI

jmayo

dan1895 wrote: »

What happens when an A lister gets hit by a Palestinian rocket while in Israel?

It's included in Taratino's next movie.

Deise Vu wrote: »

What part of Israel is worth paying $5.5K a day to see? Is that the cost of the security escort? How expensive is it to walk around Japan that makes it worth $3K a day?

The part that is furthest away from Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon.
BTW the security escort are female Israeli soldiers

Deise Vu wrote: »

....(I would also be a tad cynical about all the free publicity that bringing celebs to these God-forsaken destinations would bring - $100K me hole).

Haven't heard Japan described as that before.
Ok fair enough Israel could be titled God Forsaken.
He hasn't been there for nearly 2,000 years.

Caliden wrote: »

LOL at the trip to Israel, if it already wasn't glaringly obvious who owns Hollywood that certainly lets you know.

Ehh don't the Japanese own a chunk of Hollywood what with Sony ?

valoren

Don't they usually give these gifts to their personal assistants/agents?

Hammer89

You only get a walking holiday in Howth and a €10 voucher for Beschoffs at the IFTAs.

dan1895

Hammer89 wrote: »

You only get a walking holiday in Howth and a €10 voucher for Beschoffs at the IFTAs.

I'd take that over a trip to Israel.

wendell borton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HNO7ATCKP8