LOTR Earns 13 Academy Award Nominations!!!

[GTaudiophile]

A record?

Details here.

 

[Pastore]

and they deserve to win them all

 

[SpongeBob]

Wow, yeah I just looked at what LOTR was nominated for and I really can't think of any other films that should win in any of those categories.

 

[sciencetoy]

Cool, it really deserves all those visual awards. It did such a great job of creating a real, believable world with real, believable characters. And it did that within the context of the book, and managed to satisfy a whole lot of fanatics, like me.

Hope it wins a bunch!

 

[Czar]

WOW, way to go

I dont think any other movie has a chance of beating LOTR in all those catagories except maybe supporting role, acting in lotr wasnt exceptional but good enough for me not to complain.

 

[Nemesis77]

Certain:

Actor in supporting role (Ian McKellen)
Costume design
Makeup
Music (score)
Visual Effects
Sound
Art Direction

Propable:

Best picture
Directing
Cinematography

Well, they might win them all .

EDIT: LOTR shares some nominations with Amelie? Ouch, that's going to be tough! Amelie is an AWESOME movie!

 

[SpecialEd]

those are appropreiate nominations. I think is has good chance at most of those.. however i don't think it will win:

art direction
supporting actor
directing
best picture
writing


The rest of those catagories, LOTR has a great chance!
Visual Effects in practically garunteed... the only other nominations were AI and Pearl Harbor.
I hope it wins costumes!! I thought they were very good in this movie.


I also hope Ameile wins art direction and original screen play! It will probably win foriegn film. that movie was kick a$$!

 

[GasX]

<< and they deserve to win them all >>

Are we a fanboy or what?

Actor in a Supporting Role (Ian McKellen) - pretty good chance here
Art Direction - might be a tough one
Cinematography - I have to go with Black Hawk Down
Costume Design - who cares
Directing - another tough one
Film Editing - Memento probably takes it
Makeup - another probable
Music (Score) - <snore>
Music (Song) - <snore>
Best Picture - Watch out for Beautiful Mind
Sound - Might be Pearl Harbors only chance
Visual Effects - another probable
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - doubtful if not definite no


That makes my prediction 5 oscars. Not too shabby.

 

[DougyDanger]

<< Certain:

Actor in supporting role (Ian McKellen)
Costume design
Makeup
Music (score)
Visual Effects
Sound
Art Direction

Propable:

Best picture
Directing
Cinematography

Well, they might win them all .

EDIT: LOTR shares some nominations with Amelie? Ouch, that's going to be tough! Amelie is an AWESOME movie! >>



Makeup is a big suprise to me. What happened to Planet of the Apes? Not even a nomination? Odd...

My predictions:
Actor- Denzel Washington (Crowe should get it but #3 is not easy)
Actor, Supporting - Ian McKellen
Actress- Sissy Spacek
Actress, supporting- Jennifer Connelly
Animated- Shrek
Art Direction- Moulon Rouge (stupid art flick!)
Cinematography-LOTR (moulon can take this too)
Makeup-LOTR
Music-AI (williams and speilburg...again)
Song-Vanilla Sky
Picture-A Beautiful Mind (In the Bedroom?)
Costume-LOTR (again, MR could be a spoiler)
Director-LOTR
Editing-LOTR
Sound-Black Hawk Down
Sound Editing-Monsters Inc.
Visual Effects-Duh, LOTR
Adapted Screenplay-LOTR
Original Screenplay-MEMENTO!!!! great film!


OK, I'm on the record now.

 

[DougyDanger]

<< acting in lotr wasnt exceptional but good enough for me not to complain. >>



What kind of crack were you smoking when you saw it?

Personally I thought it was great. McKellen (gandalf), Mortenson (Aragorn), Bean(Boromir...he NAILED it), and Lee (Sauruman) were all great. Wood and the other HObbits were good, but nothing spectacular. The script really limited just how good these performances could be. I'm sure as the story progresses these guys will get more nominations. I'm just disappointed Bean is out, too bad he didn't take the role of Aragorn (Mortenson was #3, Bean requested Boromir).

 

[Optimus]

Woohoo! Take that Tolkein-snobs!!!

(Note: I love LOTR, books and movie. I understand people who just didn't like either 'cause its not their bag of tea. But the hardcore Tolkien fans who didn't like the movie are nitpicking snobs. IMHO of course. )

 

[bcterps]

LotR will probably will the most Oscars, but it will be shut out in the big categories, namely Best Picture and Best Director. Although I am less sure of the Best Director award, Peter Jackson has done a remarkable job in bringing the book to the screen. A Beautiful Mind is probably gonna win Best Picture.

--Ben

 

[diamondgoat53]

not to make anyone mad here, but by all accounts Ben Kingsley will win supporting actor. and he should. what he did in Sexy Beast was un-farking-believeable. did you all even see any other movies? should win most of them? i agree, it was a fantastic movie, but do you really think the same people who nominated Moulin Rouge will vote for LOTR? remember, this is your grandma and grandpa voting here.

 

[GasX]

<< not to make anyone mad here, but by all accounts Ben Kingsley will win supporting actor. and he should. what he did in Sexy Beast was un-farking-believeable. did you all even see any other movies? should win most of them? i agree, it was a fantastic movie, but do you really think the same people who nominated Moulin Rouge will vote for LOTR? remember, this is your grandma and grandpa voting here. >>

you will fall on deaf ears here. The fanboys don't recognize that not only were there some fine movies other than LOTR released this year, but that the Academy will be giving the majority of awards to those movies.

 

[prontospyder]

Yay! I hope LOTR wins them all.

And hopefully, this Oscar buzz will help contribute to LOTR's box office receipts.

 

[yellowperil]

Surprised to see Ewan McGregor wasn't nominated for Best Actor. Haven't seen LOTR *gets noose* but I think it will take all the visual awards. I think Best Picture will go to either Moulin Rouge or A Beautiful Mind. Best Editing to Memento, hands down. Cinematography is hard to say, either LOTR, Black Hawk Down, or Moulin Rouge.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Is Russell Crowe going for his 3rd Oscar in a row??? If so, that will be hard for him, although I think he deserves it. If not, Denzel should win for Best Actor.

Amelie was probably my favorite movie of the year, though. It MUST win Best Foreign Language Film at the very least.

 

[SaltBoy]

I don't get the music nominations for Monsters, Inc. Great movie, but the music was just adequate. Randy Newman must be somebody's best friend over there...

Thank GOODNESS A.I. was nominated for best Visual Effects. Planet of the Apes didn't get nominated for best makeup, though. That surprised me.

 

[joohang]

One movie to rule them all.

There is only one Lord in the Oscars, and he does not share power.

 

[Farbio]

i'm pretty sure it won't take best picture or cinematography, you have to give black hawk down that one

 

[Jzero]

This isn't the people's choice awards, it's the Academy awards. As in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The "popular" movie is rarely the big winner at the Oscars. The people voting on these awards are people who evaluate movies from an artistic bent that borders on snobbishness. That being said, while I like LOTR, you have to be realistic when there were better, more artsy-fartsy flicks out there:
A Beautiful Mind and Moulin Rouge, for example.
Expect LOTR to take a few technical awards. Maybe McCellan will win his award.
But it won't run away...sorry.

 

[GTaudiophile]

<< I don't get the music nominations for Monsters, Inc. Great movie, but the music was just adequate. Randy Newman must be somebody's best friend over there... >>



I think John Williams manages to get nominated twice in the same category every year! Neither AI nor Harry Potter had a spectacular soundtrack. Of those nominated, I only like LOTR's soundtrack. Black Hawk Down and Amelie should have been in that mix.

LOTR will not break Titanic's/Ben Hur's record of 11 Oscars. I think A Beautiful Mind will be the big upsetting factor.

 

[SaltBoy]

<< I think John Williams manages to get nominated twice in the same category every year! Neither AI nor Harry Potter had a spectacular soundtrack. Of those nominated, I only like LOTR's soundtrack. Black Hawk Down and Amelie should have been nominated. >>



Personally, I thought A.I. had the best score of the year. Harry Potter was good, too, but really didn't deserve the nomination. Zimmer's Black Hawk Down score was definitely interesting, but I haven't heard Amelie.

Also, despite the fact that there was NO chance for it being nominated, Goldenthal's score for Final Fantasy should have been nominated.

 

[hoihtah]

i saw the movie ...
sat through its 3 painful hours.

perhaps it's because i'm not a fan of the novel...
but i don't see any redeeming value of the movie.

i've mentioned earlier...
but the only part that i really liked was the walk up the tree.
the camera movement to shoot that was very smooth and interesting.
it's an old camera trick, but i've never seen it done in a spiral formation.

that was really about it.

while i'm at it...
did you guys watch gosford park?
now... anyone that saw the movie with some sort of clarity in judgement....
should agree with me,
that this is not a 4 star movie.

this is not a best movie nominee.

that's a bs. perhaps, i need to have a british heritage to understand the movie...
but unlike LOTR, which had one redeeming factor... this movie had none.

another boring, climaxless 2 hours.

my vote goes to moulin rouge.

 

[Nemesis77]

<< i'm pretty sure it won't take best picture or cinematography, you have to give black hawk down that one >>



Well I'll reserve my opinions on Blackhawn Down, since I haven't seen it yet. Looking forward to it though ! But best picture? Movie by Jerry Bruckheimer? That'll be the day!