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Oscar Nominations (LotR, Spirited Away, and more)
An anonymous reader noted that the
Oscar Nominees
are now online. The Two Towers is nominated for Best Picture, and Miyazaki's Spirited Away is nominated for Best Animated Picture (someday an Anime will be nominated Best Picture). Road to Perdition, Spider-Man, and even Star Wars have random nominations throughout the list. Even Eminem's got a nomination now ;)
There's tons of other good movies in there too (Adaptation, Chicago) and a bunch of movies I've never seen. Anyway, talk amongst yourselves ;)
someday an Anime will be nominated Best Picture
This is going to insult some Anime fans, but...
The fact of the matter is that Anime, while definitely a cut above standard American children's fare, is only good compared to that standard. Compared to epic films like LOTR, it simply is not that good. Most of Anime appeals to only a very narrow segment of the population, mostly geek personality types. In short, they're films by geeks for geeks.
For an Anime to win Best Picture, it needs to break out of the adolescent fantasy genres and actually produce serious, adult plots. And I just don't see it happening. For that to happen, you need to have directors and writers that are not stuck in adolescent personalities. All the "real" writers and directors generally move to film, so Anime gets the leftovers.
This is not to say that there isn't some entertaining Anime, just like there are entertaining comic books. But I don't expect a comic book to win the Nobel prize in Literature.
Anime wins awards all the time. Fetish film awards, that is.
The American Psychological Association lists Anime as an officially recognized sexual fetish, treatable with medication and cognitive therapy.
Get off it, Rob. Nobody here cares about your obsession with big-eyed pumpkin headed screamers.
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
Popular though the movies are with the geek crowd, they don't hold mass appeal. How much did Akira even make?
I mean seriously, can you imagine your grandmother watching and loving an anime movie? Without having anyone explain the references to her? Well, that's your voting membership of the Academy - a bunch of old farts.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
i thought just the opposite. the video footage of columbine itself was gripping, of course, but the interviews and other parts of the movie were haphazardly strung together. moore made no meaningful points about anything.
the tirade against k-mart was hypocritical; he forced an innocent company's hand by leveraging the wrath of the media, and in the same breath talked about how the media was always picking sides with its stories and creating an atmosphere of fear.
he gets a kick out of putting celebrities on the spot, making them want to end the interview, and then stands there looking meaningful as they drive away (dick clark) or shoo him out (heston). the scene of moore with his "won't somebody think of the CHILDREN?!" victim picture and leaving it on heston's doorstep was utterly without value. that sort of "poignancy" appeals only to bleeding-hearts who see the issues only as far as the tears in their eyes.
Umm, had he actually been on-screen I would say sure. But (and this is a big but), he didn't! Too bad, so sad. He had nothing more to do with the performance than many other actors who have provided voices for animated characters.
Frequently in Disney's classics, the voice talent actually performed the scenes on film so that the animators could use their mannerisms in the feature. Why wouldn't Robert Patrick also qualify, since he walked around in a Speedo while painted with dots ONSITE for T2?
Also, had Golum actually looked like something other than a CG character I might understand people's motivation on this issue, but it didn't look any better than any other CG character I've seen. I just chalk this up to the JRR Tolkein/Stephen King style sycophantic fan base.
* As is generally the case, my opinions do not reflect those of my employer.
...what makes awards relevant or even interesting.
Anyone have any ideas?