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  1. Awards... by game+kid · · Score: 1 · on AIAS Award Winners Announced
    from the last-awards-show-for-a-while,-I-hope dept.

    Guess the Oscars are not too soon then.

    Interesting that a certain Half-Life 2 has won 9 of the 39 AIAS awards (for those not reading TFA). I played it but I got tired when my save states there were not working too well.

  2. Re:Finally!!! by M.+Baranczak · · Score: 2, Funny · on Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them

    Excellent point. People should take a look at the list of previous winners, it's really quite illuminating.

    1959?! What is up with that shit? "Ben-Hur" beat out "Plan 9 From Outer Space"? An outrage!

  3. Re:WETA by afidel · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them

    Uhh, this was the third year in a row that a LoTR movie won for best visual effects!!

  4. Oh no! by Dirtside · · Score: 1, Informative · on Oscar Screener Ban to be Revoked for Academy Members
    I'm guessing that at the least, Academy members are pleased to know they won't have to find a theatre to screen award nominees.
    God forbid the people voting on the pictures should have to see them in the environment they were intended to be viewed in. :) Yeah, I know that it's not feasible for every Academy member to see every movie that's nominated in every category... I suppose one solution would be that members would only vote on categories in which they HAD seen all the nominated films. Dunno how you'd enforce that, but I imagine that simply asking them to do so would probably work well enough (modulo members voting for movies that they had some interest in, worked on, really liked, etc.).

    Last year's Oscars had 52 nominated films. You can remove nineteen of those for the two short film categories (five films each), the foreign-language film category (five more films), the documentary feature category (five films), and the documentary short subject category (four films), leaving 33 films for the other categories. (Not to diminish the importance of these categories, but we have to start somewhere.) Most Academy voters will probably already have seen at least half of those 33 films before the nominations are even announced. So having to see another 17 films between the nomination announcement and the end of voting? What a tragedy! To be forced to go watch a bunch of Oscar-nominated films, in order to vote in a big popularity contest. :)

  5. I beg the submitter's pardon! by Kappelmeister · · Score: 4, Informative · on Yoda, Gollum Take MTV Awards

    The LOTR makers' work on Gollum was not snubbed by the academy. They did not make Serkis eligible for an Oscar, but they gave the Oscar for visual effects to the WETA team, and (IIRC) showed a Gollum clip as they were walking to the stage.

  6. Re:Never happen QWZX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Oscar Nominations (LotR, Spirited Away, and more)

    Anime will never be nominated because it's animated. Animated movie can't be nominated for the Best Picture category. That's why a Best Animated Feature category was introduced. For other rules and regs check out oscars.com.

  7. LOTR Best Picture by Roto-Rooter+Man · · Score: -1 · on Neverwinter Nights Coming in June

    The Oscars dragged on for much too long last night, so I went to bed before Best Picture was announced. This morning I wake up to find that Fellowship of the Ring has won best picture!

    It's awesome to see Hollywood finally support real art. Today is a glorious day for geeks everywhere!

  8. Song by Sir+Banana · · Score: 2 · on Oscar Wrapup (American Beauty and The Matrix win)

    Sad to see Blame Canada not win best song but I think that they should still win best dress of the evening ;)
    Matt Stone & Trey Parker

  9. The Red Pill by stx23 · · Score: 4 · on Oscar Wrapup (American Beauty and The Matrix win)

    The Matrix got 4 Oscars namely:- Editing, Sound, Sound FX & Visual FX. Better information here.

  10. Thats what a bleeper is for by Gleef · · Score: 4 · on Update on 'Blame Canada' and the Oscars

    ABC has a right to control what they broadcast. They can bleep out the offending part, they could even cut to commercials for the entire award that Blame Canada is up for. I doubt they have a right to tell the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences how they must conduct their awards ceremony. They certainly don't have a right to ask Trey & Marc to change their song.

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