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Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them
Suhas writes "The New Zealand Herald and many others such as Yahoo/AP are reporting that Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has swept the Oscars by winning in all the 11 categories it was nominated in. Good to see Peter Jackson finally got the Best Director award! The official Oscar site has a full list of the winners."
to rule them all!
Yessss, my precciiouusss. Your power cannot be denied, precious.
If by "They didn't win in one category they were in" you mean "They did win in every category they were in", you're absolutely correct.
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I feel a great disturbance in the force...as if thousands of fantasy geeks suddenly cried out...
Great job, PJ & Crew!
Ryan
Sam: What we need is a little bit of recognition.
Gollum: What's recognishin, precious? What's recognishin, eh?
Sam: Rec-og-ni-tion. Honors, awards, critics in a stew. Lovely big golden awards with a nice nameplate on the bottom.
Sam: Even you couldn't say no to that.
Gollum: Oh yes, we could. Spoilin' nice shinies. Give it to us raw and unfinished. You keep nasty awards.
Sam: You're hopeless.
Let the jokes about the pppppprrrrreeeeeecccciiiiiiiooooooouuuuuussssss Oscar statue commence!!
OK, I have been at /. too long. At first, I thought the reference to PJ was PJ at groklaw.net =)
They should have been nominated for best foreign film. I mean, there were at least 3 different languages besides English that they spoke in it! I'm sure there is a country out their who's population speaks Elvish or whatever it is people from Mordor speak!
Yes! I know he was mad at the Academy for overlooking Meet the Feebles and Dead Alive!
As a New Zelander I can say this is one of the most proudest moments of my life. Imk still in "awe" modd at the fact that we actually pulled this off. 11 out of 11. WOOHOO!!! I for one am proud to be a New Zelander.
Someone had to say it.
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
Quickly reading that, I thought it said Gigli, and that I had somehow ended up in Bizarro World.
-Look lively. LOOK LIVELY!!! --Mr. Shmallow
Don't bother.
Thanks,
The Mgmt.
The Audience needs entertainment...badly!
Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and DENNIS.
Guess we won't have to witness the Nerd Riots after all. And I had my D20 prepared and everything.
Never had more fun watching the Oscars. That said, by the end, I almost felt sad that so many other films weren't winning. Oh well, I'm sure it was an honor just to be nominated.
"the same point that got Michael Moore booed off the stage got applause"
That's because Michael Moore is annoying. He's annoying when he's wrong, and he's more annoying when he's right.
Why didn't RotK get nominated for the "Best Foreign Language film" award? Elvish is a foreign language, right?
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My source is somewhat suspect, but I'd say Dungeon Siege: the Movie would fall under that category.
-"It seems like you're trying to exploit a security hole. Would you like help?"
Does NZ now have the record for the most Oscars per-capita?
I suppose this was a joke, but it's Best Foreign Language Film, and Elvish doesn't count.
-twb
Criticizing someone for liking something? Crawl out of the dungeon, morlock, because "liking" Lord of the Rings doesn't mean that you sit with bated breath, pants around your ankles, desperately hoping that the notoriously fickle academy hands a statue to the Lord of the Rings. "Oh, thank you world! All of my likes have been validated! Now that my favourite movie won an Oscar, and my Britney album got that Grammy, my life is complete!".
Anyways, thanks for the reply 2674. That karma whore sheep-herding really was a thrill.
all your oscars are belong to us
LOTR is not just an epic, it is a... book!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Quickly reading that, I thought it said Gigli
Well technically, Gigli did win for all categories it was nominated.
I liked the part where the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award, for the Canadian movie, The Barbarian Invasions came up on stage and said something along the lines of,
:)
"Thank God LoTR was not nominated in this category"
That, in itself spoke volumes. Kudos to Peter Jackson!
And so the great Nerd Riots of 2004 were prevented, and Peter Jackson took the Oscar into the West.
--- Where's my car, and why are these grass stains on my pants?
Somebody please enlighten me as to what is so great about LOTR.
Yeah, because you sound so open-minded about wanting to know.
So you didn't like it. Move on with your life.
The word down here is that New Zealand has been unofficially nominated "Best Supporting Country in a Motion Picture"
Anyway, one thing I promise, you will NEVER see Peter Jackson produce anything even close to a 'crappy' movie. The guy is a true genius.
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There's a new Mel Gibson movie everyone's talking about (does mythology count?).
Liv Tyler was hot until one of my buddies pointed out the striking, eerie resemblance to Steven Tyler.
And then the vomiting began.
*sigh*
-fren
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
Any chance we can talk Peter Jackson's team into making the Star Wars Episodes VII, VIII, and IX, so that they don't suck?
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
...and shattered store windows will abound in geek-land tonight!
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
>>Anyway, one thing I promise, you will NEVER see Peter Jackson produce anything even close to a 'crappy' movie.
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Take your pick. Meet the Feebles springs to mind first.
(It's late, didn't feel like HTML'ing on this crap. Sue me or mod me down...just don't take my twinkies.)
Don't park drunk, accidents cause people.
As things like that illustrate, the amusing thing about Tolkien purists is that their beloved god Tolkien was more liberal about changes then they are.
The original creator of a story is not always the best one to edit it. I mean, have you never seen anyone create a revised edition of a story that was worse that their original?
(Lucas?)
Excellent point. People should take a look at the list of previous winners, it's really quite illuminating.
1959?! What is up with that shit? "Ben-Hur" beat out "Plan 9 From Outer Space"? An outrage!
Find a picture of her mother, Bebe Buell, and you'll start to feel a lot better. That would be the November, 1974 issue.
KFG
I liked Liv Tyler's "i wish I were lisa loeb and actually intelligent" glasses.
Sorry, film snob, this is Slashdot. You want Rotten Tomatoes. Two doors down on the right. Thanks for calling. Now leave us fanboys alone.
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is how it wasn't even nominated for the category of Documentary Feature I mean just look at the amazing footage they got of all the major figures and major events in the quest to destroy the ring. And how they convinced a camera crew to go along with Sam and Frodo on the trek to Mount Doom incredible. How they can ignore this stunning documentary of one of the most crutial events in the history of Middle Earth and...
why is everyone looking at me?
I stole this Sig
It did win all the awards it was nominated for elswhere though.
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Willow kicks ass.
Titanic had a slippery Kate Winslet. They also killed DiCaprio.
So it wasn't all bad.
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Thomas Covenant was the worst. I hated the character but I couldn't stop reading the books. I kept buying these books centered around a character that I loathed. I was so glad when he died. I could finally stop reading those books. Everytime you thought Thomas could go no lower, he would find a way. I felt like a spouse being beaten and always winding up going back for more. I am starting to feel sad for myself again. Gotta stop. Maybe read some more Thomas Covenant to take my mind off of it.
Sorry my bullshit sensor overloaded.
By this time next year, we'll be watching Gauntlet: The Movie.
Blue Wizard is Dying!
Pale Nerd needs Popcorn!
(quick cut to an army of ghosts flying out of a brown cube)
Only the select few heroes dare to tread in such dangerous grounds.
They are..... The Four Playable Characters!!
(Demi Moore, as the Valkyrie, holds a dying elven Richard Gere on the cold stone floor of Level 17...)
Gere: "green... elf... needs fo-od bad..ly....."
(random fast-cut action scenes, with a horn crescendo buildup....... duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUU --
COMING SUMMER 2005 -- DUN!!
Take your pick. Meet the Feebles springs to mind first.
Actually, Meet the Feebles is my favourite of his films. I'm guessing you've never actually seen it, because anyone who has seen a puppet trying to save the show by singing about sodomy, which is rhymed with, "you might incur the wrath of god on me", would agree that it is genius.
the kind with boobies
the kind with exhaust pipes
Hollywood's going to film Ulysses? Oh, you were talking about LOTR...
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
11 to the New Zealanders, who above all else, desire tourism.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Thank god Bill Murray told the truth and said he wanted to quit the film the first day because your precious Sophia didn't know what she was doing. Too bad he didn't tell the rest of the truth.
Those of us who didn't drink the "LiT" kool-aid recognize that the DP (director of photography) and the guy who did the score saved her ass from complete self destruction.
This movie should have been called "A Spoiled Rich Girl's Fantasy About What My Trip to Japan Would Have Been Like If I Met a Father Figure to Fall in Non-Sexual Love With" (instead of spending it being neglected by my hipster photographer husband and his more beautiful than me, but nowhere as smart as me, Hollywood starlet friend [who I transparently diss in my highbrow mood piece of a movie, but luckily all my apologists gloss over those sucky, self serving, meaningless, wouldn't-be-allowed-in-anyone-else's-movie parts of the movie])
Who can I get to play the female lead who is looks-wise and sexually non-threatening to me and illegally young looking - maybe SJ looked OK in other movies but in LiT she looks like a lumpy 12 year old.
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Well... You got to give "Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie that"... They did manage to ride the 'crappy movie' wave, BEFORE LOTR came out...
The only good thing about that movie...
(2004-03-01) -- Oscar-sweeping director Peter Jackson this morning said he would team up with Pixar Studios, which last night won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, to produce a rollicking adventure tentatively titled "Finding Smeagol." Read the rest...
Deserved it? I daresay he did. Many that win deserve to lose. And some that lose deserve to win. Can you give it to them, destine? Do not be too eager to deal out Oscars in judgement. Even the Academy cannot see all ends.
Oh come on, did you check out the way Frodo's sword glowed? A blatant light-sabre ripoff, to be sure.
I'm just glad that Jackson cut out the fighting Ewok-Hai at the last minute, that would have been way too obvious...
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Someone should make a book out of it.
Reading it, that is.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
That's one small step for fantasy, one giant leap for nerdy films getting their due respect! :)
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