Salon on Gollum's Failed Oscar Nomination

Masem writes "Salon has an interesting commentary on the failure for Andy Serkis, the actor that used as the model and voice for Gollum in The Two Tower, to garnish an Oscar nomination despite the pressure that Peter Jackson and others placed on the Academy to get the nomination. They had previously pointed to John Hurt's Best Actor nomination in "The Elephant Man", in which the only visible feature of Hurt was his eyes after the elaborate makeup and costuming, but even then, Hurt did not win, he himself believing that it would be hard to connect the real actor to the role that he played. Salon suggests that the Academy needs to seriously consider how digital technology is affecting the way movies are being made and to be more open to non-traditional roles and films as potental Oscar material."

Comments

animation/oscars

[josephgrossberg]

Do they have a separate category for animation? Perhaps that's what he should have been in, after all the SFX.

P.S. FP.

And we care because.... ?

[kevlar]

Does anyone care? I know I don't. The "Academy" is just a bunch of agenda biased rich people, much like the Nobel prize committee. I have rarely felt that anyone winning an Oscar had actually earned it because they were particularly talented, versus luck of being on the receiving end of a publicity campaign...

What?

[Colossus]

You have to be kidding me. Did I watch the same movie? Gollumn was pathetic. It could only impress a child, I mean come on. You are nuts if you were blown away by him or his performance. Maybe the performance was terific and the rendering was to blame? I can't belive anyone would even consider that. Why not give an Oscar to Goku. What a joke. Please explain this to me? This is really a joke right?

Re:Gollum on Salon's failed business venture

[SuperMario666]

Because most of their talented, leftist-leaning, intellectual contributers and managers more or less despise the so-called "fly-over country" between the nation's coasts.

Not specifically speaking on Best Pic

[haplo21112]

I wasn't going after best picture specifically....I was going more gnerally on the movies that usually clean up at the awards shows...especially a it relates to our community..."News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters"