LoTR Takes 4 Oscars

E1ven writes "The Lord of The Rings: The fellowship of the ring won four awards, including Cinematography, Makeup, Music (Score), and Visual Effects. " At least they have 2 more chances for Best Picture or Best Director. They definitely deserved the ones they got.

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Re:yay

[Requiem]

You also need a mental enema, it seems. I'll get the concrete.

LOTR will never get best picture

[Hairy_Potter]

for fantasy films are never considered serious enough by the academy for people to vote for, all the voters want to show how important and meaningful Hollywood is by choosing the film that's serious and has a meaningful message. So, forgot about a fantasy film, a sci-fi film or a comedy ever getting best picture,it's always going to be a dreary mainstream serious film.

Plus, what person would be so insensitive to vote for the best picture for a film entitled The Two Towers in this post 9-11 age? I hope Peter Jackson shows a little sensitivity and changes the name.

The Real Winners Were...

[-=OmegaMan=-]

Uma Thurman's breasts. Yowza! Where's she been hiding those???

*Note: I realize that she just had a child and that they are artificially milk-inflated, to which I state: Who cares? Yowza, again!

Re:awards?

[nochops]

Careful... I hope you have Karma to waste.

I get modded down every time i post one of these:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=29927& cid=3214 388

Re:How many do you think Two Towers is going to wi

[celfie]

many of the critics claim that the fellowship of the rings lacks a strong central character which is why it is not deserving of an oscar. obviously these critics have never read the trilogy for in the book there is no one central character. Just when we think that Frodo is the most important fellow, Sam shines through. The same thing will occur in the two towers, there will be no one central character, and the idiots will bitch. But who cares, Peter Jackson accomplished exactly what he had set out to do and I must say that it couldnt really have been any better, short of extending it by another 2hours as to include the book in its entirety. The two towers will be fantastic, there is no doubt about that. I cant wait to see Shelob, I am willing to bet that she will put the Balrog to shame. But oscar? I dont think so. Lets not forget that the Academy voters are probably the ones who think that AOL is the internet and that Windows 98 is their processor. It's ok for us to be elitist, we are much smarter afterall.

Re:Screenplay adaptation?!

[Boronx]

Hobbits are a desease, an infestation...

Re:Screenplay adaptation?!

[Rogerborg]

• I can't believe they didn't win for best screenplay adaptation

Quite, but I can't understand why it won anything but screenplay and visual effects.

Cinematography? I only saw up-the-nose shots or helicopter flybys. OK, there were a few midrange shots, but the strobe editing managed to disguise that nicely. OK, cinematography also covers location selection, but given that many of the locations were heavily CGI'd, that's a pretty spurious award.

Makeup? Most of it was CGI, and the stuff that wasn't was pretty much Xena level. Of the main characters, only Gimli had serious makeup, and that was mostly wasted because he didn't have a part other than comic relief. Perhaps it was a token award because John Rhys-Davies was allergic to the makeup, and got half his face burned off, or more likely it was just an award on the quantity of makeup used.

Music? Are you kidding? OK, the score itself was appropriate, but the application of it was simply appalling. I have never got so sick of a score so fast, nor sighed with relief at the few moments where they just shut up and let Middle Earth get a few words in. And Enya? I nearly puked. Perhaps "Music (Score)" means "best revenue generating album", but that's hardly good comment on the movie.

Visual effects, fair enough. This was pretty much a CGI film with a few live action actors filling in the blanks.

Speaking of the actors, there really should be awards for "most effective" rather than just "best". I mean, given how little screen time each actor got, it's amazing that they even registered on our consciousness. Consider: Ian McKellen plays a bumbling buffoon who gets everything wrong and then falls down a hole, and yet we still cared, because he was Gandalf. Liv Tyler had a part that barely deserved a credit, and yet she played it to perfection, surprised me greatly in fact, and gave the role a depth that it really didn't deserve for the time it was allowed.

All in all, FotR really deserves an award for "Film that screwed up the least, given that it had everything going against it." I still don't think it was actually anything like enjoyable cinema (although the full director's cut might at least show all of half the sub-plots rather than half of some of the sub-plots), and clearly the academy didn't either, given that it won the "And moving quickly on..." awards.