Academy Award Nominations

[Kaodi]

While it should be theoretically possible to make a comedy that is hands down the best movie of the year, I think the problem lies in that making a comedy that says more and is more poignant than a drama is extremely difficult. Not undoable, but it would have to be truly exceptional.

 

[WayneLigon]

All I can tell is that this year proves again that each year the politics of the academy awards is going more and more into a certain direction that only certain movies of a certain type can even be considered for best picture...

If a movie is not a drama, it will never be considered for best picture. It's a sham. It's all political, nothing more. Of all those movies nomiated for best picture, only Juno deserves it, the rest were okay and good, but nothing compared to other movies that were released this year.

So why don't you sit down and discuss how Titanic (Romance), Shakespeare in Love (Romantic comedy), Chicago (Musical), American Beauty (at least partially a dark comedy), Gladiator, and Lord of the Rings are all 'a certain type of movie' since none of them are what I'd call 'dramas', at least wholly? That's just from the past 10 years.

I don't think anyone will argue that the Academy doesn't occassionally give awards to pictures just 'because it's time' for some actor or director to win (The Departed certainly falls into that catagory for me; I'm pretty sure it won simply because they felt it was time Scorsese won something, especially considering the pasting he took on Gangs of New York), but that's not their entire motivation. And Transformers? Please. I liked the movie but Oscar material it ain't.

 

[DM_Matt]

While it should be theoretically possible to make a comedy that is hands down the best movie of the year, I think the problem lies in that making a comedy that says more and is more poignant than a drama is extremely difficult. Not undoable, but it would have to be truly exceptional.

Juno is that movie.