Academy Awards for "Avatar"

[Mark Chance]

I'm kind of glad Avatar didn't win. It sort of balances out movie karma for that utterly mediocre moneymaker Titanic getting the win. When the most entertaining thing about a movie is the shock of teenage girls when the ship sinks ("OMG! The boat sank! I like totally didn't see that coming!")....

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

The main question to ask is, "what makes a movie good enough to win Best Picture?" Story? Acting? Direction? Cinematography? They all have their own categories, so is the best picture the one that has the best combination of the other awards?

I just don't think there have been many sci-fi movies that would come close to making the cut, and Avatar was not one of them beyond its spectacular visuals.

 

[CleverNickName]

The main question to ask is, "what makes a movie good enough to win Best Picture?" Story? Acting? Direction? Cinematography? They all have their own categories, so is the best picture the one that has the best combination of the other awards?

I just don't think there have been many sci-fi movies that would come close to making the cut, and Avatar was not one of them beyond its spectacular visuals.

I wonder if the Academy has a certain style of movie in mind for Best Picture, and they won't deviate from it no matter how groundbreaking or visionary a film might be, or how well it does at the box office. "Well it's good," they seem to say, "but it's not Our Kind of movie."

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

I'm kind of glad Avatar didn't win. It sort of balances out movie karma for that utterly mediocre moneymaker Titanic getting the win. When the most entertaining thing about a movie is the shock of teenage girls when the ship sinks ("OMG! The boat sank! I like totally didn't see that coming!")....

See now, I see the karma balancing backwards from you. I hated Titanic and how much my (then pre-teen) sister and (mentally pre-teen) mother wouldn't shut up about it, and literally saw it ~40 times, bought loads of crappy merchandise, went to any of the Titanic exhibits that started springing up in droves ot further cash in...

That Avatar outsold titanic and yet didn't get the (clearly low standards) Best Picture award that it did just royally pisses me off. If you're going to have no credibility with your awards program, at least be consistent!

 

[Mark Chance]

That Avatar outsold titanic and yet didn't get the (clearly low standards) Best Picture award that it did just royally pisses me off. If you're going to have no credibility with your awards program, at least be consistent!

That would require Hollywood to abandon it's "If we didn't have double standards, we'd have no standards at all!" approach to life.

 

[megamania]

It was a great movie but NOT for its story, acting or directing. In fact, I feel storywise it was highly predictable and simplistic.

As Sci-Fi, District 9 was a better rounded movie than Avatar (though hardly Oscar best movie)

I do wish I saw Cameron's face. And considering the prior actions from the Hurt Locker folks I kinda wish it did poorly but hey.... its Hollywood. The most fake place in the world.