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13 Nominations to Rule Them All
PatSmarty was among the onslaught of people who noted that the Oscar Nominations have
been announced and that FotR has 13 of them. Beautiful Mind
and Moulin Rouge also in there too.
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I always stay on top of Slashdot so that not a single Oscar nomination passes me by. Does anyone know how Snow Dogs is doing in the Oscar race?
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It's wonderful of course that LOTR has so many nods, but it was expected.. What I wasn't expecting is how many nominations Moulin Rouge received. I personally find that fantastic. It's definitely a love/hate movie, but dude, few movies achieve its level of artistry.
Though, I think A Beautiful Mind should have gotten an effects nomination, since it takes damn near wizardry to make *math* look cool.
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In 1982, E.T. was nominated for 9 Oscars, including Best Picture, but it won just one, for Best Visual Effects.
Being nominated is fine and such, but the real test will be on oscar night.
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What percentage of these films were released in the past 3-4 months? What percentage in the first 3-4 months?
"Besides Crowe, who stars as Nash in ``A Beautiful Mind,'' the best actor nominees were Sean Penn as a retarded father seeking custody of his daughter in ``I Am Sam''; Will Smith as boxer Muhammad Ali in ``Ali''; Denzel Washington as a rakish bad cop in ``Training Day''; and Tom Wilkinson as a vigilante father in ``In the Bedroom.''
A Beautiful Mind: released 13 December 2001
I am Sam: released: 28 December 2001
Ali: released 25 December 2001
Training Day: released 5 October 2001
In the Bedroom: released 19 January 2001
Moulin Rouge: released 16 May 2001
Proof that Americans can't remember what happened in the entertainment industry for very long.
Why are most of the leading men portraying ... uh, dammaged characters. Besides Ali (who later in real life suffers problems) these seem to all be retarded/schitzo/rakish/problematic characters somehow.
Hollywood loves problematic characters, hates problematic people.
There is nothing so silly as other peoples traditions, and nothing so sacred as our own.
I guess I didn't pay enough attention to the previews when it came out. I thought it would be a musical with some original music. Most of it was just pop songs scored differently. bleh. Can't believe how long it was either. I had to stop myself from laughing because my finance was enjoying it and I knew if I wanted to have any hope of sex that night that I'd have to enjoy the movie too. ;)
They just had Jennifer Connelly on the Today show talking about her nomination. yum yum. She's been intelligent eye-candy in enough movies, it's about time she was nominated.
Of course you know LOTR won't win Best Picture. It doesn't have any mentally handicapped people or crazy people in it (unless you count Saruman? Maybe they should have promoted it as "Boromir: One mans journey through madness" or "The Dark Lord: He saw the world differently")
"HI THIS IS BOROMIR. GIVE ME THE RING"
"I think that's a little too enthusiastic Boromir"
"For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman
In Sean Penn's case, he wasn't even acting.
Those bastards at the MPAA want to destroy your civil rights! If they have their way, we will all be living in an Orwellian nightmare! The Slashdot community should fight them! Boycott! Boycott!
2 seconds later....
OOHH! Academy Awards? Cool! LOTR RULEZ! I saw it 34 times and gladly gave the MPAA hundreds of dollars! HOORAY FOR THE MPAA!
Come on, taking on the role of a mentally-retarded person has been the cheesy cliche thing to do for years in Hollywood. Actors pray for that role because it ALWAYS seems to bring critical acclaim. "A Beatiful Mind" I can deal with, even if it is sensationalized, at least it's about a real mathematician.
I'm the big fish in the big pond bitch.
IAAA (I am an actor), and I can tell you from experience that playing a character with a mental illness is a very challenging role to pull off convincingly. It is not just about "acting retarded" as another reply to this post stated, but rather it is about trying to understand a mental state that you have never experienced directly and then being able to convincingly portray it to an audience in such a way that they can really believe the character is real. I haven't yet had the chance to see "I am Sam" or "A Beautiful Mind" yet, but I don't doubt for a minute that Sean Penn and Russell Crowe deserve their nominations.
"If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for everyone else."
Personally, I can't stand most Hollywood films, so I haven't seen A Beautiful Mind, but you might check out Pi, another film that makes math look cool. The direction is aggressive and extremely indie, but it's worth checking out.
ceci n'est pas un sig.
Sorta makes me wonder whether too any people's sense of self-worth gets bolstered somehow if LOTR wins an Oscar or two - i.e. if you all like LOTR you must all like me....
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Of those, I reckon it'll go like this:
1. Best Picture - No way. The Academy is a bunch of rich old farts that wouldn't know high fantasy if it leaped up and bit them in their collective white asses. It'll go to "A Beautiful Mind", because the Academy loves actors portraying mentally ill people.
2. Supporting Actor - McKellen takes it. Ben Kingsley's already got his Oscar (IIRC, for Gandhi), and c'mon, not even the Academy would be so twisted as to give it to Jon Voight.
3. Director - Toss up. Since Jackson's a semi-unknown who isn't American, they'll either give it to him by a landslide or ignore him totally. I reckon it'll go to Jackson, though.
4. Screenplay - They'll say "No originality in LoTR" or something and give it to A Beautiful Mind.
5. Art direction - Moulin Rouge. Deserves it, too.
6. Cinematography - A nice safe category that no-one gives a fuck about, so it'll go to LoTR.
7. Sound - Who cares? But it'll probably go to Pearl Harbor or other such dreck.
8. Original score - God knows, but I sure hope it ain't A.I.
9. Pearl Harbor or Vanilla Sky.
10. Costume - Moulin Rouge, again deservedly.
11. Film editing - Black Hawk Down, because it's Ridley Scott, and we can't be unpatriotic or anything, can we? Fuck Ridley Scott.
12. Makeup - LoTR, definitely, just for the Uruk-Hai.
13. Visual effects - LoTR, again because no-one cares about this category.
I have in fact seen both movies, so I do actually know what I'm talking about.
... so you think a 3" tall Kylie Minogue singing in front of an OBVIOUSLY fake starlit sky (did you even SEE what symbols the stars showed?) is more natural than say - 4' hobbits hugging a 6'6" wizard? I sure as hell didn't. The special effects of MR are good, but nothing compared to LotR. The best effects of LotR are the ones you don't notice. The effects of MR can best be compared to the firework of Gandalf at the party, but even then, they aren't as good.
"The effects [of MR]were cleaner and more natural and more impressive all-around [than LotR]"
Hmm
The music (songs) of MR is better, hands down, but that's probably just because I could recognize words and sing along with many of the songs; since I can't speak elvish, this is impossible for me to do with the songs of LotR. Wether the score of MR is better than that of LotR I don't really know - I didn't much notice the scores of LotR or MR, and I usually only notice scores, when they suck the life out of a movie/scenes.
Hugo Weaving vs Nicole Kidman? Kidman is the better actor and aparently singer, and I know who I'd rather have sex with, be in a relationship with and marry (and since I'm a heterosexual man, that means Nicole Kidman - plus she's probably rich, so I could just sit at home and surf the net all day long). I personally believe that Hugo Weaving was a wrong choice for Elrond, as he can't quite shake the image of Agent Smith.
Is Moulin Rouge better than LotR? In my oppion - no, but oppinions are like assholes - everyone has one. In my oppinion "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0211915) is a better movie than Moulin Rouge all round, but Amélie is not as good a movie as LotR all round.
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
This review of "I am Sam" questions whether it is ethical to roll your eyes, laugh in a childlike way, slur your speech and call it a performance?. Another review notes that , the performance - showy and contrived - is all too obviously meant to get Oscar's attention.
I have avoided the film.
Yeah, I think we all want FOTR to do well. I feel the same way about ABM, although RH's vision may differ substantially from what SN had in mind. IIRC, GL overcame similar obstacles in TPM...
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Dude, I'm sure your post was really insightful and all. It's just that I am not sure how to read it.
"Luke Skywalker was a terrorist"
That's one of the most low-key, insightful commentaries on current events I've seen.
Also,
It was J.R.R. Tolkien himself who decided that, in the movie version of LotR, Tom Bombadil's part could (should?) be easily skiped.
So, he knew that it would become a movie. And P. Jackson is a Tolkien fan himself. As well as most of the artists in charge of wepons, CGI, costumes...
A whole bunch of Tolkien fanatics!
They even called P. Jackson "the Hobbit" during the film making.
BTW, I liked the books, I liked the movie.
And, as P. Jackson says, "the movie is just another way of telling the same history". Have in mind that Tolkien thought his work as a collection of poems, oral tradition, writtings, legends, songs.... telling a history. He was a Linguist, so this is why he took this approach. This is why it took so long to Christopher Tolkien to assemble a logical set of stories and compile The Silmarilion.
I remmeber reading that he submited the "drafts" of his work to sons and colleagues something like this:
"Hi Son,
"I just found this poem. Tell me what do you think.
"Love,
"JRRT
"Once upon a time, in a hole there was a Hobbit...."