I really want RotK to win best picture and Jackson to win for director. I don’t know why I care so much… its not like winning such an award will have any impact on the ability of people to keep making these kind of movies for me to enjoy (only the $$ it earns matters for that). I guess I’m tired of an entire genre, one I’m a huge fan of, constantly being written off as fluffy fun stuff and incapable of any kind of deep meaning. Buffy (back when the writing was superb and really deserved it) never got nominated for an Emmy.
Oh well. I’ll just have to make myself happy with the wild box office success and the ever expanding fan base scifi movies have.
I really want RotK to win best picture and Jackson to win for director. I don’t know why I care so much… its not like winning such an award will have any impact on the ability of people to keep making these kind of movies for me to enjoy (only the $$ it earns matters for that). I guess I’m tired of an entire genre, one I’m a huge fan of, constantly being written off as fluffy fun stuff and incapable of any kind of deep meaning. Buffy (back when the writing was superb and really deserved it) never got nominated for an Emmy.
Oh well. I’ll just have to make myself happy with the wild box office success and the ever expanding fan base scifi movies have.
I really want RotK to win best picture and Jackson to win for director. I don’t know why I care so much… its not like winning such an award will have any impact on the ability of people to keep making these kind of movies for me to enjoy (only the $$ it earns matters for that). I guess I’m tired of an entire genre, one I’m a huge fan of, constantly being written off as fluffy fun stuff and incapable of any kind of deep meaning. Buffy (back when the writing was superb and really deserved it) never got nominated for an Emmy.
Oh well. I’ll just have to make myself happy with the wild box office success and the ever expanding fan base scifi movies have.
They didn’t do it to Jackson last year; he was nominated for Best Director for “The Fellowship of the Ring.”
They DID do it to Baz Luhrmann, who was not nomited even though he directed “Moulin Rouge!” (which was nominated) and Todd Field, who was not nominated even though he directed “In The Bedroom,” which was. Nominated in their places were Ridley Scott, who directed “Black Hawk Down,” and David Lynch, who directed “Mulholland Drive.”
It happens every year:
2001:
Snubbed: Lasse Hallstrom for the Best-Picture-nominated “Chocolat”
Instead, They Picked: Stephen Daldry for “Billy Elliott”
2000:
Snubbed: Frank Darabont, for the Best-Picture-nominated “The Green Mile”
Instead, They Picked: Spike Jonze for “Being John Malkovich”
1999:
Snubbed: Shekhar Kapur for the BP-nominated “Elizabeth”
Instead, They Picked: Peter Weir for “the Truman Show”
Actually, MSNBC said as much today.
They predicted that Jackson will win Best Director and LOTR will win Best Film at next years Oscar. And baring some unforseen masterpiece (Shindler’s List - the Musical), I would agree.
To a certain extent, it is only fair…unlike the Godfather films that were 3 individual films, the LOTR trilogy is, in a sense, one huge 9+ hour film that has not been shown in its entirety yet. I think it is safe to say the Academy will not let this cinematic milestone go unhonored, even if they have to make up a new category to give it its due. The fact that the the Academy has nominated parts 1 & 2 shows there is a groundswell of support just waiting for the third film to unspool before they cast those final ballots.
As far as this year goes, yes Chicago is currently the front runner, but the film studio marketing departments have their marching orders as of today…stand back and watch the fur fly. There will be a few surprises in store after the backstabbing marketing campaigns finish.
Barry Fitzgerald was nominated in Actor AND Supporting actor for the exact same role, Father Fitzgibbon in Going My Way. He won actor but didn’t win Supporting Actor. The rules have since been changed of course.
I’m a little upset that Igby Goes Down didn’t get a single nomination. I think Susan Sarandon or Kieren Culkin should have got one. I liked it better than Gangs of New York and if I were the academy, I’d switch these pictures in the best picture category.
I’m generally satisfied with the nominations, however. I’ve seen all of the movies this year and the ones that got nominated are generally deserving. I’m not a big fan of musicals in general so for that reason, I’m not a huge Chicago fan.
What dio you mean? That’s the only song in 10 years non-Disney that is a virtual lock to win the award, that the masses know at least a little bit of it. We were all waiting for Eminem to put out a positive song, to see if he can. This is probably the easiest nomination the Academy had ever. No controversy at all.
From your lips to the Academy’s ears. The individual films are excellent, worthy of Oscar consideration. Taken as a whole–it’s mind-boggling what Peter Jackson has done.
What’s going to be interesting is if Michael Moore wins, because Charlton Heston is almost certain to be there (and as a former Best Actor Oscar winner he’s a guaranteed invite). I hope that if it happens, Charlton pulls out a Magnum .357, clips Moore in front of 1 billion viewers, and then says “Wha? I got Alzheimers. Now get out of my way, I’ve got to get ready for the Oscars tonight.”
Yeah, but it’s the only way the really good ones are going to get recognized as pseduo-art like the rest of the nominees as opposed to just children’s movies.
I gave up caring about the awards a long time ago, but they got me interested again with the animated feature category. Since there’s nothing like the inexplicably popular Shrek getting in the way (I still don’t understand how anyone could think that was superior to Monsters Inc) it’s obviously going to go to one of the Disney movies. Since the awards aren’t really a measure of quality anymore, if they ever were, I can’t tell if I want to root for Spirited Away or Lilo and Stitch.
Spirited Away is the obvious choice, because not only is it an outstanding movie, but it’s got plenty of spectacle, and it’s Japanese, and everybody knows that Japanese animation is “art” while American animation is cheap, crass entertainment and commercialism. (Note: that’s me being sarcastic there.) Plus, getting an academy award might finally convince Disney to get off their asses and do real releases of the rest of the Studio Ghibli movies they’ve been sitting on.
But I liked Lilo and Stitch so much more; in retrospect, either that or The Two Towers was my favorite movie of last year. And I’d like to see it get awarded so that Disney will finally be convinced that their formula movies are only going to take them so far. Lilo and Stitch is still very much a Disney movie, but without cheesy pop songs and huge musical numbers and wacky sidekicks voiced by aging comedians, and it also broke from the formula by having the two main characters be very dysfunctional bastards for most of the movie. An award (plus the fact that the formulaic, by-the-numbers Treasure Planet didn’t do well financially or critically) might finally convince them that, yes, The Little Mermaid was a great movie, but you can’t keep making the same movie over and over again for 20 years.
It would be funny if Treasure Planet won Best Animated Movie, it might re-release to recoup some money Disney put into this movie.
Richard Gere has got to be PISSED, after winning the Golden Globe and not get nominated for the Oscar.
Leonardo DiCaprio has got to be Pissed also for not getting nominated, got snubbed for Titanic and this year too, wonder if he’ll be a No-Show at the Academy Awards.
Foreign Film follows different rules than most of the other categories. Each country (or their film board/commitee) gets to pick one film they want to make eligible for the Foreign Film Oscar. Neither of these films were picked. Y Tu Mama Tambien would have been eligible last year, not this year, since it came out in Mexico on June 8th, 2001. So you missed your proper chance to complain. As far as Talk to Her, the Spanish Cinema Academy choose Mondays in the Sun as their nominee instead.
RE: Cinematography and Two Towers. Two Towers is a really different movie than Fellowship - at least regarding the cinematography. Much darker. Close shot and cut battle scenes. Plus, they had less need to play with the height thing (which was so astounding in Fellowship). Fellowship deserved its nominiation - I can see where Two Towers could not get a nomination/
I think LotRs as a whole should get a Special Acheivement Oscar. I doubt if RotK will win Best Picture - and no one knows - few have seen much of it, and fewer have seen it along with what its competition is likely to be.
If Best Picture and Best Director were the same thing, they would be one award, IMHO. PJ not getting nominated is more of a surprise because he did get a DGA nomination.
