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For the First Time, a Video Game Trailer Is Eligible To Be Nominated For an Academy Award (eurogamer.net)

Posted by msmash on from the about-time dept.

For the first time in 90-year Oscar history, a video game is eligible for an Academy Award, specifically the recently-released game Everything. From a report: The 11-minute trailer for philosophical pontificating simulator Everything is eligible for an Academy Award -- a first for a video game promotion, boasted game developer David OReilly. The marketing material in question is included under the Academy's category "[best] animated short film," which it became eligible for after winning the Jury Prize for animation at the VIS Vienna Shorts film festival. Everything's lengthy trailer focuses on the correlation between the universe's smallest, biggest, and most remote entities, all while being narrated by the late British philosopher Alan Watts.

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  1. Misleading headline: It is not nominated. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The video has not been nominated for an Oscar.
    However, it *is* eligible to be nominated, which is a first for a video game trailer.

  2. Questionable Philosopher by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Calling Watts a philosopher is questionable at best. He read and wrote spiritualism, mysticism, and how profound an experience it was to get high.

    Nothing he wrote was on any serious philosophy topic nor was what he did write meaningful to religious studies. He was largely popular for being eccentric, pro-psychedelics, and one of the first educated British men to write about eastern mysticism.

    Rather clever though for ensuring his daughters own most of his copyrights. They will likely stand for over 150 years if the law does not extend copyright futher. In the running for the longest held in history.

  3. I propose a different name by freeze128 · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about: Tumble-bears

  4. WTF? by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So the only requirement for a game trailer to be in the running for an academy award is that he was tripping on acid when he came up with the idea for his game. I'm going to put that trailer firmly in the "WTF did I just watch" pile.

  5. Doesn't deserve it by kuzb · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you want to see a trailer that does deserve nomination, you should look at the trailer for Crawl. Excellent voice acting and writing, and it describes the game really well.

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    BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.