My friends and I had an Oscar party. We’re all huge LotR fans, so, as you can imagine, it was a great night. 
I’d picked Bill Murray to win Best Actor, and would have liked Keisha Castle-Hughes to win Best Actress, but that was always a long shot.
And now, off to bed…
On the contrary, it was wonderful and well deserved.
I think this was referring to the awkward grammar in the OP’s original phrasing of the question, not the issue itself.
You’re right, which is why Sofia Coppola won it.
It DID deserve, and win, best Adapted Screenplay!
I’m on Cloud 9. I’ve tried to go to sleep several times and I’m still full of nervous energy. I cried and whoooped myself out last night. Never before has one of my favorite films won so many awards, and never Best Picture. I still like Fellowship best, but I do consider this BP a win for the entire trilogy.
I will never again be this happy watching an Oscar broadcast. I was 21/24 in my predictions (missing Documentary and shorts) and I predicted a clean sweep for ROTK, but I didn’t believe it in my heart. It was just wishful thinking. Sometimes wishes come true.
Wow.
Sorry. I knew it wasn’t the right term, but it was past my bedtime, and I couldn’t wake my brain cells up enough to pummel the right word out of them.
Total for all three is 17: FOTR got 4 (Cinematography, Visual Effects, Makeup, & Music) anf TT got 2 (Sound Editing & Visual Effects).
The previous record for a movie trilogy was 9 for the Godfather movies.
It’s about time we got some love, isn’t it?
Fanboys unite! We have nothing to lose except the respects of the mundanes!
Heavy emphasis on the word “adapted”. [sigh]
However, one can hardly quibble with the best director award, even if it does represent recognition for the Trilogy as a whole; it’s damn near impossible to imagine directing movies with the scope these had. And the siege of Minas Tirith, even if historically inaccurate in some aspects, was well filmed; gotta love the usage of medeival seige weaponry, especially with the perspective offered.
d all the nerds in the house go “WOO”! (Myself, of course, included). Well done, Jackson and Co.
Does anyone know what was with the blue lapel pins the LOTR folks were wearing? Was it just to show solidarity or was there some larger message?
Ah, my bad. Sorry.
How many of the voters were around in 1977 and maybe thus felt guilty that Star Wars didn’t win?
Historically inaccurate? Dude, you got Lord of the Rings out of the ‘history’ section at the bookstore? 
The pins come from theonering.net (TORN).
http://www.badalijewelry.com/oscarpins.htm
I’ve heard the term “craft” for Sound Editing, FX, make-up, etc.
brian
Since Andrew Lesnie won an Oscar for cinemenatography for FOTR (and I can’t believe he wasn’t nominated for ROTK), that means that pretty much everybody on the crew has a statue on their mantle. The Visual Effects guys got 3.
No love for the actors, though; only Ian McKellan was nominated (for FOTR), and got hosed.
Has that hilarious video that opened the awards (putting Billy Crystal into key scenes of movies) been posted anywhere online yet? It went by too fast and I want to see it again, especially the bit with Michael Moore!
Why are so many of you so extatic about this? I’m a big LOTR fan but it was just the Oscars. Sure it’s interesting that it won so many awards but remember so did Titanic and that was the biggest load of gash ever put on film.
I appreciate the film, it’s great, but the awards are merely a bit of light entertainment for me.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but here’s why I’m ecstatic: I feel like a proud parent, whose child has just won an award. I feel some weird kind of ownership over these films, and have ever since that day, 7 years ago, when I first saw a post on the Coming Attractions web site that some kind of Tolkien film was rumored to be in the works. I’ve been watching their progress, almost daily, ever since. Last night was the culmination of that.
I believe this is only the second time a sequel won Best Picture.
(First, The Godfather, Part II)
And, its the first time the third in a series won.
Hear, hear, jsc1953. Same for me. In the earliest days of the beginning of the filming, I felt like a lone and lonely geek, the only person I knew who was excited about the movies, and who checked online constantly for bits of news and spy pictures. Now the whole world knows about Peter Jackson and company and I feel a little like I was part of it all (although I know I wasn’t). But seeing the TORn “good luck” pin PJ was wearing last night contributed to that feeling, because I’m a rabid TORn reader.
Mercifully, The Great Nerd Riots of 2004 were successfully avoided last night.
Nerds everywhere put down their 20 sided dice and celebrated peacefully, the only notable disturbances coming from New Zealand webmasters hurriedly putting together “All Your Oscars Are Belong to Us” flash animations.