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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."
With 11 Oscars, RotK ties with Ben Hur, and Titanic as the only movies to have won 11 Oscars. So it was a double victory for PJ and crew.
Jason Lotito
No, they won in all eleven. Even Steven Spielberg said "It's a clean sweep!", and they tied Titanic and Ben-Hur for movie with the most Oscars at 11.
libertarianswag.com
not everyone did... Check out this list of deviations.
He sure wasn't nominated this year:
Alec Baldwin, The Cooler
Benicio Del Toro, 21 Grams
Djimon Hounsou, In America
Tim Robbins, Mystic River
Ken Watanabe, The Last Samurai.
It's best Foriegn Language Film. The Canadian film was in French. That said, there was enough non-english spoken for me :).
The previous record for a film winning all its nominations was nine, set by "Gigi" (1958) and "The Last Emperor" (1988).
"Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King" tied both "Ben-Hur" (1959) and "Titanic" (1997) with its 11 awards, the record for most Oscars in a single year.
"Rings" is also the first fantasy film to win the top award.
Aside from best picture, the awards "Return of the King" won were: director (Peter Jackson), adapted screenplay (Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens), song ("Into the West"), score (Howard Shore), visual effects, art direction, costume design, makeup, sound mixing and film editing.
Peter Jackson has the encouragement and the studio backing to do the Hobbit. What he does not have is the legal right to film an adaptation of the book. Those strings, I believe are still held by the Tolkein Estate. And judging from the fact that Christopher Tolkien disowned his own son for supporting Peter Jackson's efforts w/ LOTR, I don't see him giving a green light to do the Hobbit any time soon.
Xenon, where's my money? -Borno
Doesn't the author's son's opinion count in your minds?
No, especially since Christopher Tolkien has explicitly stated he holds no ill-will toward the filmmakers or the films.
He didn't disown his son, he removed him from any control over the Tolkien Estate over the fact that his son wanted official involvement with the movies.
Next time you regurgitate rumor memes, research them a little. Hell, J.R.R. Tolkien himself is the one who signed over the movie rights and even suggested in one of his letters cutting Helm's Deep. He said it was "unnecessary."
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.
Which is why Jackson won best adapted screenplay. Also Ian McKellen gave a big shout out to Tolkien when introing a LOTR clip at the beginning of the award show.
However, as a counterpoint in support of the original point, I remember and have Watched "Wings" because it was the first best picture winner.
And strictly off the top of my head, in 1904 the first Vanderbilt Cup auto race would be held under the auspices of the AAA, and the Japanese attacked Russia at Port Arthur, which event would have repurcussions throughout the first half of the 20th century.
KFG
Take it to the next step:
Rank Title Total Box Office
1 Titanic (1997) $600,743,440
2 Star Wars (1977) $460,935,655 10
3 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $434,949,459 242
4 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) $431,065,444 -
5 Spider-Man (2002) $403,706,375 -
6 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) $361,118,934 4
7 Jurassic Park (1993) $356,763,175 -
8 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) $340,478,898 5
9 Finding Nemo (2003) $339,714,367 88
10 Forrest Gump (1994) $329,452,287 120
11 Lion King, The (1994) $328,423,001 -
12 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) $317,557,891 -
13 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) $313,837,577 7
14 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) $310,675,583 -
15 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) $309,064,373 130
16 Independence Day (1996) $306,200,000 -
17 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) $305,411,224 224
18 Sixth Sense, The (1999) $293,501,675 87
19 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) $290,158,751 15
20 Home Alone (1990) $285,761,243 -
21 Matrix Reloaded, The (2003) $281,492,479 -
22 Shrek (2001) $267,652,016 128
23 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) $261,970,615 -
24 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) $260,031,035 -
25 Jaws (1975) $260,000,000 79
Using my own judgement, the geeks have 15 of the Top 25. This is just US box office. International box office is more slanted towards sci fi / fantasy, with 18 of the top 25 spots...
US Box Office
World Wide Box Office
What's amazing is that no other film has won 11 oscars ever.
Untrue. Both "Titanic" and "Ben-Hur" achieved this. Neither of them managed to win in all the categories they were nominated in, though. (Which actually suggests they may have been "better" since they were nominated in 12 or more categories)
Anyway, nice try, but you lose.
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It was a joke, not a message. After checking his camera, he found the One Ring in his Crackerjack box, put it on, and was teleported into a bunch of movies. The highlight was probably seeing Michael Moore squashed by one of the Mumakil. Later he cracked a joke about Johnny Depp's "slightly gay pirate" in Pirates of the Caribbean being Jack Valenti's worst nightmare.
Off the top of my head? Einstein publishes his first paper on special relativity, James Joyce meets Nora Barnacle (setting the date later used for the events of Ulysses), and Aleister Crowley pens The Book of the Law . Quite a year, 1904.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
lets make it more interesting
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Top 50, adjusted for inflation
LOTR is doing real well there, infact nothing in the top 10, from the last decade except titanic.
#1 is still Gone With the Wind, which grossed 198 million in 1939 dollars.
1 Gone With the Wind MGM $1,218,328,752 $198,655,278 1939
49 The Return of the King NL $361,940,947 $361,940,947 2003
Hopefully not all of them, though. I'm looking forward to seeing how the CS Lewis films turn out.
For anyone who doesn't know, they're already in pre-production, starting with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. They're being produced in New Zealand again, although this time the production is centred in Auckland rather than Wellington.
What is it about that article that suggests that quantum entanglement can be used for FTL communication? All it is really saying is that the experiment has provided more evidence that entanglement is maintained over longer distances.
The way I read it is thus: Photon A has a known engergy level. It is then split into photons B and C, each with an unknown energy level. But, due to the law of conservation of energy, we know that B's energy plus C's energy equals A's original energy. Therefore, B and C are entangled -- if you measure one's energy level and subtract it from A's, then you have determined the other's energy. The trick is, you have determined it instantaneously over a significant distance. That is "spooky action at a distance".
In order for this to be usable for communication, you would have to be able to somehow force B's measurement to a desired result and have that result thereby influence C's result at a distance. And that (as a certain South Park attorney might say) does not make sense.
"...the majority of the physics of the spinning cylinder we're correct..."
The word "we're" is an abbreviation of "we are." The word "were" is the past tense form of "be."
I wouldn't have mentioned it, but you made the mistake not once, not twice, but THREE times. This denotes an actual misunderstanding, as opposed to a simple lapse of grammatical analitiy (if I may be allowed to coin a word).
Grammar: it's your friend.
Rot-13 my address to e-mail me.
"So I hurry back to little earth / For another life another birth"
Harvard is offering a course this semester under Anthropology called "Humans, Aliens, and Future Home Worlds: An Anthropologist Looks at Science Fiction."
Of course, I jumped on it, and so far it has been very interesting. We read Wells' War of the Worlds; Butler's Wild Seed; Clarke's Childhood's End; LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness; and Haldeman's The Forever War. There's also a bunch of books about scifi in general, for example why Star Trek is such a success.
A lot of people were incredulous that this class was being offered, but I think it points to a growing respect for the sci-fi genre.
In a related note, courses on mythology, including stuff about goblins, trolls, dragons, etc, have been offered for some time. But the focus is mythology, and not really modern fantasy.
Earliest science fiction I know of is Lucian's Vera Historia, which includes a moon travel tale, from AD 160 (there's no missing zero there, folks, that's 2nd century). For fantasy, there's the Odyssey (which is fantasy at least as much as it is mythology), 700 BC (yes, BC). Oh, and it's spelled Aristophanes. And Greek tragedy at least was taken very seriously in Athens: there were competitions for best lead actor (protagonist) and second actor (deuteragonist) and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best trilogy (and only three trilogies were presented: sometimes they were real trilogies, especially early on in Aeschylus' day, but usually they were only thematically related, if that), and there were reserved seats for the VIPs, including the priest of Dionysos, the god to whom the productions were dedicated. And by the way, a lot of stuff has survived from classical times that isn't "just respected because of its age" - ever hear of Lycophron? No? You know why? Because he sucks. Has survived at least 1900 years, probably 2100.