As long as someone pays to see it in December, it’s counted. The reasoning behind limited releases like this is that just being nominated will attract more paying customers, even more so if it wins something. That’s also why you see re-releases after the awards.
BTW: I just checked Big Fish on the IMDB and it lists a limited release two weeks after Toronto, LA, and NYC but prior to that nationwide release in January
Also so they’d be fresh in the memories of those in the Academy.
YIKES! You’re not kiddin’. That is an unattractive list.
I may be in the minority, but I thought that De-Lovely was well-scripted, well-filmed, and well-acted, and I’d like to see Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, and whoever did the costumes for that one get nominations.
It’s too bad about this year - the last three years LOTR Oscar-hogged, when there were really good films that didn’t get some of the recognition they deserved, and now there’s not a whole lot going now that it’s wide open.
I haven’t seen The Incredibles, but it would be nice to see Eternal Sunshine. I’ve heard a lot about Ray and Kinsey - biopics are always good for the Academy.
Sideways is rock solid with great performances all around. It’s got a shot at best picture, I really enjoyed it.
Ray will get an acting nomination but I don’t figure it’ll get a best picture nod.
Finding Neverland will get an acting Nod or so I hear. I haven’t seen it yet so I can’t speak for the best picture category.
I’d like to see Nicole Kidman for Dogville and the sublime Virginia Madsen for Sideways get nominations.
Though they’re longshots because of their genres, I’d also love to see Takeshi Kitano for Zatoichi and Chan Wook Park for Oldboy get nominations in the Best Foreign Language Picture category, though I think Maria Full of Grace will get that award.
I really hope the major award categories aren’t dominated by big Hollywood movies like Troy, Alexander, and The Aviator.
And count me in among those who are pulling for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
I liked this movie too, and thought Kevin Kline was wonderful (as always) – but Ashley Judd was so profoundly miscast that I can’t root for her to win an acting award.
Annette Bening was astounding in Being Julia, and she should get something just for being a 46 year old woman playing 45 with no plastic surgery! Wrinkles, lines, hot sexy and beautiful!
[slight hijack]Don’t get your hopes up. A couple of my friends saw an advance screening and had nothing but bad things to say. Apparently there are a few MST3K moments, but those are spread few and far between terrible, dull, pseudo-philosophical speeches.[/sh]
Looking at the list ftg linked to, I have to think Passion of the Christ is going to win Best Picture.
Oh Jesus!
Which is why the fact that “Silence of the Lambs” won so many awards—it was released in February of 1991, a full year before the Oscars in March of '92.
Has that happened to any other movie (i.e. released incredibly early and still won top awards at the Oscars)? Besides, of course, “Passion of the Christ” if it wins Oscars.
Meant to say ''Which is why the fact that ‘Silence of the Lambs’ won so many awards was incredible…"
Whoops!
Wasn’t there some brew ha ha about The Passion being a foriegn film because of the subtitles and it didn’t get nominated for Golden Globes or one of the lesser Masterbatory Award Shows?
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A writing nom for Before Sunset would be wonderful, and I wouldn’t be disappointed with one for Napoleon Dynamite, either.
For best actress, it may be a longshot, but I’d still bet that Catalino Sandino Moreno will get a nod for Maria Full of Grace. What a harrowing movie.
Yes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globes) decided that the film will not be eligible for Best Drama because it is not in English, but that it will be eligible for Best Foreign Film. This is however the complete opposite of how the Oscars work.
For the Academy Awards, a film can only be in the running for Best Foreign Language Film if it is submitted by its country of origin. Just having subtitles doesn’t mean anything. And each country can only submit one film, which is why sometimes films that are very well-received here don’t get a nomination. What country could submit The Passion? No one speaks Aramaic anymore and it was financed by Mel Gibson and starred mostly English speaking actors.
In case anyone’s interested, here is a list of the submitted Foreign Language films for this years Oscars, of which 5 will be nominated:
Afghanistan, “Earth and Ashes,” Atiq Rahimi, director;
Argentina, “A Lost Embrace,” Daniel Burman, director;
Austria, “Antares,” G?tz Spielmann, director;
Belgium, “The Alzheimer Case,” Erik Van Looy, director;
Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Days and Hours,” Pjer Žalica, director;
Brazil, “Olga,” Jayme Monjardim, director;
Bulgaria, “Mila from Mars,” Zornitsa Sophia, director;
Canada, “Far Side of the Moon,” Robert Lapage, director;
Chile, “Machuca,” Andrés Wood, director;
China, “House of Flying Daggers,” Zhang Yimou, director;
Croatia, “Long Dark Night,” Antun Vrdoljak, director;
Czech Republic, “Up and Down,” Jan H?ebejk, director;
Denmark, “The Five Obstructions,” Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier, directors;
Ecuador, “Chronicles,” Sebastián Cordero, director;
Egypt, “I Love Cinema,” Osama Fawzy, director;
Estonia, “Revolution of Pigs,” Karlo Funk, director;
Finland, “Producing Adults,” Aleksi Salmenperä, director;
France, “The Chorus,” Christophe Barratier, director;
Germany, “Downfall,” Bernd Eichinger, director;
Greece, “A Touch of Spice,” Tassos Boulmetis, director;
Hungary, “Kontroll,” Nimród Antal, director;
Iceland, “Cold Light,” Hilmar Oddsson, director;
India, “Shwaas,” Sandeep Sawant, director;
Iran, “Turtles Can Fly,” Bahman Ghobadi, director;
Israel, “Campfire,” Marek Rozenbaum, director;
Italy, “The House Keys,” Gianni Amelio, director;
Japan, “Nobody Knows,” Hirokazu Kore-eda, director;
Korea, “Tae Guk Gi,” Kang Je-gyu, director;
Macedonia, “The Great Water,” Ivo Trajikov, director;
Malaysia, “A Legendary Love,” Saw Teong Hin, director;
Mexico, “Innocent Voices,” Luis Mandoki, director;
The Netherlands, “Simon,” Eddy Terstall, director;
Norway, “Hawaii, Oslo,” Erik Poppe, director;
Palestine, “The Olive Harvest,” Hanna Elias, director;
Philippines, “Crying Ladies,” Mark Meily, director;
Poland, “The Welts,” Magdalena Piekorz, director;
Portugal, “The Miracle According to Salomé,” Mário Barroso, director;
Romania, “Orient-Express,” Sergiu Nicolaescu, director;
Russia, “Night Watch,” Timolir Bekmambetov, director;
Serbia and Montenegro, “Goose Feather,” Ljubiša Samardži?, director;
Slovenia, “Beneath Her Window,” Metod Pevec, director;
South Africa, “Yesterday,” Darrell Roodt, director;
Spain, “The Sea Inside,” Alejandro Amenabar, director;
Sweden, “As in Heaven,” Kay Pollak, director;
Switzerland, “Mein Name Ist Bach,” Dominique de Rivaz, director;
Taiwan, “20 : 30 : 40,” Sylvia Chang, director;
Thailand, “The Overture,” Itthisoontorn Vichailak, director;
Uruguay, “Whisky,” Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll, directors;
Venezuela, “Punto y Raya,” Elia Schneider, director.
Thanks for that list Eyebrows. I wonder why France didn’t nominate “A Very Long Engagement” ? That’s the movie I’m most looking forward to in the rest of the year but as you say it can’t get a foreign film nod if it’s not on that list.
I would love to see *Team America * get some nominations for songs.
I’m so ronry…
America! Fuck Yeah!
What, no Fahrenheit 911? (Not that I’ve seen it. I’m just expecting it to get nomimated and win at least one award. )
Ray was damn good, as was Eternal Sunshine. I’d pick Jamie Foxx for best actor over Carrey, though it would be a difficult choice.