Thursday, January 22, 2009
Acacemy Mucking Up for 82 years
Wow. The academy has totally messed it up again. They even contradict themselves this year with their nominations. The nominations came out this morning and once again they proved that all you have to do to get nominated for best picture is make a political or holocaustal movie. The curious case of benjamin button rightfully leads the pack with 13 nominations. As i have said before it is the best movie of the year and deserves every last one of those. However, the second best movie of the year manages to not get nominated for best picture. Why? Because it is a 'super hero' movie and that is the only explanation. Seriously. And somehow Christopher Nolan (Batman director) didn't get nominated for best director. For me, these are the two biggest hollywood screw ups in a long long time. Let me explain. The Dark Knight got nominated for seven technical awards (not counting the acting awards here), yes i said SEVEN. So obviously the academy felt that it is a really well made film in all aspects of filmmaking. Oh yeah and everybody thought it was a good highly entertaining movie on top of that. Now Milk, which got a best picture nomination over The Dark Knight was nominated for three technical awards. Yes, i said THREE. Then Frost/Nixon and the Reader both only scored two technical nominations. Say it with me now. Yes, i said TWO. But what do all three of these movies have in common? They are all political or holocaustal. How on earth is something nominated for that many technical awards not even get nominated for best picture? Obviously it was more well made in five other categories. I am too angry to accurately articulate what i am thinking but i think you get the point. What a sham.
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I agree. All you need to do is make a movie that is.....I can't think of the word at the moment...... aaaahhhh....word, where are you.....
well, movies like 'Milk' or 'Beautiful Mind.' Those are the type of movies that always get nominated. Which is dumb.
I made this same arguement when it comes to songs that are on the top 100 or top 10 or top whatever list. At some point the total sales have to count for something! To me, if a movie or cd or whatever is the top most selling, or in this case, the second(or third) top most selling move of all time then that means the public has spoken with their wallets and claimed that movie as the best movie! Therfore, it is the best movie in that aspect of consideration. I think that aspect should be heavily considered when Oscar nominations are to be made.
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