Nominations are out. What does everybody think?
While I thought that a couple of films were overlooked by the Academy, seeing the list of nominations made me realize what I overlooked this year...
1. Children of Men. From what I hear, this one should have been in the Best Picture/Director categories. Fortunately, it's still playing and I definitely want to see it before the Oscars.
2. "Royal Films" - I saw Marie Antoinette, but not The Last King of Scotland or The Queen.
3. Little Children I know nothing about.
4. Volver, The Devil Wears Prada, Half Nelson, Letters from Iwo Jima - The latter is still playing at Highland now, and the others are in my Netflix queue... There's now way I'll see them all anytime soon.
My Beef(s) with the Academy?
- To nominate the big tickets - Superman, Pirates, and Poseiden - for something like Best Visual Effects... just to get their names in the mix? When really The Fountain offers at least as much... no, more because of the unique, personal look the relatively small scale effects produce...
- Also, I'm not sure Little Miss Sunshine belongs in the Best Picture category. I hate to say that I think so just because it's a comedy, but maybe that's all it is. To me, Little Miss Sunshine doesn't carry enough weight to stick in the category, at least not this year. Could any comedy? I guess Fargo did it. Often in this category it seems like we're comparing apples and oranges.
- And it seems like the Academy felt bad for not nominating Dreamgirls for Best Picture and instead gave it spots in every other available category... The academy knew Dreamgirls wasn't Oscar worthy, I think this is their way of acknowledging the hype. But what other films had their nominations sacrificed for that to happen?
- Also overlooked? Besides what I heard about Children of Men, for Best Picture... Who Killed the Electric Car, and maybe Dave Chapelle's Block Party for Best Documentary. Aaron Eckhardt, Thank You for Smoking, but that was crowded territory.... The Fountain! for [at least] Cinematography, Score. Was Everything is Illuminated out in time for last year?
What else?
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Yeah, I've seen about 2 movies this year, Marie Antoinette and The Good Shepherd, neither of which were nominated for much at all, yet I'm still disappointed. I was excited that Ryan Gosling got nominated for Half Nelson, I saw play an amazingly sympathetic neo nazi in The Believer a few years ago. I was surprised that Clive Owen wasn't nominated for Children of Men because he is pretty excellent in just about anything and that movie looked especially good. Also Marie Antoinette, no nomination for art direction? about 75% of that movie was art direction, the other 25% being costumes. All in all, eh.
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