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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."
blah blah who gives a shit is an organization awards its own members a prize?
When do we get to vote?
Do they have a separate category for animation? Perhaps that's what he should have been in, after all the SFX.
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that Serkis wasn't nominated.
Providing expressions to a mesh is quite different than acting out the same expressions in person. It looks plausible acting on a digital creature, not on a real human.
Serkis' "acting" doesn't mean much by itself.
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...
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?
I've had better digital effects from the dick of a goat.
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.
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"
Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
Your original statement said that movies that are received well by the public (you made no mention of individual demographics - in fact, you stated male, female, 9 to 90 asshole) did not receive nominations. I then argued that plenty of movies that are enjoyed by the general public not only are nominated but win an Oscar. Your nonsense about "our community" is just that - nonsense. I pointed out how you were wrong. Now take your medicine, bitch.
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
Lord of the Rings was a pretty horrible movie (both of them). Yes they did the book justice but the problem is that the book sucks even more than the films do. The Two Towers film was absolutely horrible. Get over your elf fetish and you will see how trite and lame the Lord of the Rings plot really is.
Still the only film I have seen that uses death of a major character, and then their return, not once but TWICE as a cheap plot device. The first time it happens you feel cheated. The second time you can't help but laugh out loud at the screen in disgust.