OSCAR NOMINATIONS ARE OUT!! LOTR gets 11!

[diamondgoat53]

judging from the crappy competition, may even get a best picture win.

 

[Argo]

Movies like lord of the rings never win best picture. It's always the movies that make us "think", like mystic river or lost in translation. It doesn't matter that movie captured minds of millions. If it doesn't carry a "message" it usually won't win the oscar. This sucks, but it's true.

 

[iamme]

i hope Ken Watanabe wins Best Supporting Actor for The Last Samurai. i thought he was awesome in the movie.

 

[OulOat]

What is this "lost in translation?"

 

[waylman]

Originally posted by: OulOat
What is this "lost in translation?"

great flick. bill murray and some chick. sofia coppola directed.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Me thinks ROTK will win tons of technical awards (sound, editing, score, etc.) but will not win anything in the major categories. Best actor will go to either Sean Penn or Bill Murray. Best picture probably to Mystic River.

 

[new2AMD]

Originally posted by: waylman

Originally posted by: OulOat
What is this "lost in translation?"

great flick. bill murray and some chick. sofia coppola directed.

Scarlett Johansson...remeber her name...she is going to be huge.

I probably spelled it wrong.

 

[Konigin]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Me thinks ROTK will win tons of technical awards (sound, editing, score, etc.) but will not win anything in the major categories.

yeah, probably.

 

[arod]

IMO Andy Serkis deserved Supporting actor even though it wasnt really him, thats probably the toughest acting job ever and he pulled it off very well.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: arod
IMO Andy Serkis deserved Supporting actor even though it wasnt really him, thats probably the toughest acting job ever and he pulled it off very well.

I would have liked to have seen both him and Sean Astin nominated.

 

[CPA]

How the HELL does Geoffrey Rush NOT Get a nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He was brilliant in PotC.

 

[samgau]

LOTR all the way... woot

 

[MrBond]

I'm kind of curious about Lost in Translation. I keep hearing it's great, but I heard the same thing from people with 'About Schmidt'. At the end of about schmidt, I wanted to cut my wrists and gouge my eyes out. The single most depressing movie I've EVER seen. Plus the fact that Kathy Bates is topless in the movie (which if I live to be 100, is an image that is forever scortched on my retinas). Yet everyone raved about how great the movie was. It was two hours of pure bordem (with 30 seconds of sheer terror when Kathy Bates opened her bathrobe). I don't need stuff blowing up in movies to be entertained, but COME ON.

Sorry, I've been really bitter about that damn movie since seeing it, and I needed to vent.

Even if LOTR wins best picture, everyone's going to say it was just because of the effort involved to film it. PJ had better win best director though.

I kind of have the feeling we're going to see another Saving Private Ryan though, and it's going to get beat out by domr other film for best picture.

 

[conjur]

Doesn't really matter.

A movie is great in its own right if you enjoyed it. I don't need some panel of Hollywood producers to tell me what's great and what isn't.

 

[allisolm]

I keep hearing it's great, but I heard the same thing from people with 'About Schmidt'. At the end of about schmidt, I wanted to cut my wrists and gouge my eyes out.

LOL
Both my husband and I had the same reaction to "About Schmidt." Sadly, we can never get those two hours back.

 

[BDawg]

I think it's great that Keisha Castle-Hughes got a nomination for Whale Rider. I hope she get's best actress.

 

[TranceNation]

11 nominations?
what were they like....
Best homo acting
Best drawn out film that should've ended an hour earlier
etc

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: Argo
Movies like lord of the rings never win best picture. It's always the movies that make us "think", like mystic river or lost in translation. It doesn't matter that movie captured minds of millions. If it doesn't carry a "message" it usually won't win the oscar. This sucks, but it's true.

That's the funniest thing I've read all morning.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Lord of the Rings WILL win best picture. Part 1 deserved to win, but couldn't because there were two more parts coming along. If 2 and 3 were better than 1 and 1 got the Oscar, the Academy would have either been locked into voting for them too or looking stupid for snubbing them. Part 3 will get the Oscar partially because it deserves it on it's own, but mostly as payback for the other 2 parts being overlooked.

Andy Serkis didn't deserve one and no CGI "actor" is ever going to get nominated. That's a slippery slope that scares the Academy. Even though the character of Gollum was amazingly done, nominating him for it would have been one small step away from nominating a cartoon character. Nobody wants to see the 2007 Oscars come down to Mickey Mouse vs Bugs Bunny for Best Actor. Sean Astin got royally hosed though, he deserved at least a nomination.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: TranceNation
11 nominations?
what were they like....
Best homo acting
Best drawn out film that should've ended an hour earlier
etc

Did you read my mind?

Those were my EXACT thoughts about the movie (well, my two main thoughts besides all the other stuff that annoyed me).

 

[melly]

Originally posted by: TranceNation
11 nominations?
what were they like....
Best homo acting
Best drawn out film that should've ended an hour earlier
etc

Don't forget

Best prancing around

 

[rockyct]

Originally posted by: Argo
Movies like lord of the rings never win best picture. It's always the movies that make us "think", like mystic river or lost in translation. It doesn't matter that movie captured minds of millions. If it doesn't carry a "message" it usually won't win the oscar. This sucks, but it's true.

Gladiator did win over Crotching Tiger, Hidden Dragon though.

 

[abaez]

GO CITY OF GOD woooooooooo best movie this year by FAR. It won't win best director, but it should win everything else it was nominated for, especially editing.

 

[xboxist]

Originally posted by: Argo
Movies like lord of the rings never win best picture. It's always the movies that make us "think", like mystic river or lost in translation. It doesn't matter that movie captured minds of millions. If it doesn't carry a "message" it usually won't win the oscar. This sucks, but it's true.

So true and so sad. Screw you, Academy.

To them: fantasy/sci-fi = not as good as "people" movies.

 

[xboxist]

Originally posted by: rockyct

Originally posted by: Argo
Movies like lord of the rings never win best picture. It's always the movies that make us "think", like mystic river or lost in translation. It doesn't matter that movie captured minds of millions. If it doesn't carry a "message" it usually won't win the oscar. This sucks, but it's true.

Gladiator did win over Crotching Tiger, Hidden Dragon though.

Hehe... if I didn't do it, someone else would. *ponders what a Crotching Tiger is* ... *gets scared*