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Lord of the Oscars
- Thread starter Kichwas
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Chain Lightning
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I am so glad LotR won all those Oscars. Like many of you I'm sure, being a big fan of the fantasy genre and seeing it disregarded and treated poorly, I'm so glad to see a fantasy film get recognition. And positive publicity.
However, I do admit....and this is going to sound disloyal, but I don't agree with the "best editing" win. Although the editing was pretty good....but in RotK, I thought it was the poorest of the three editing jobs. IMHO.
I am happy to say that "Best Picture" is one of the most important nods, but I'm also really glad LotR won for "Best Costume" too. Sci-Fi/Fantasy hardly wins in this category as well. If they didn't win best costume I was really going to be upset. If something less creative won like they did in the last two years.....for instance. I was almost sure "Cold Mountain" was going to win.
The care, creativity, craftmanship, etc...that went into those costumes for LotR was monumental. I'm so happy for the costume/art department.
Normally I'll moan about traffic being the worst in L.A. and all that. But thankfully I live in this town so I didn't have far to travel to go see the nominees on display downtown at the FIDM building. Got to see the LotR costumes up close. Man 'o man.......they do look awesome on screen. However, they look friggin amazing in real life! I can't even begin to discribe how gorgeous these things were.
Eowyn's dress at the ending of the film (only seen for a mere second or two) is amazingly beautiful. As is Galadriel's outfit that she wore at the Grayhavens scene. The King of the undead had a sweet get-up too. You saw it in transparent green...but it was really cool in regular light too. Okay, it'll take to long to describe how cool everything was....but damn, I'm glad they won!
Now I hope Hollywood knows that fantasy movies are worth putting talented people on. They don't have to be cheap and crappy b-movies. And I hope they greenlight more fantasy films.
Although I get this feeling they may think things like Bruckheimer's "historically realistic" King Arthur count as contributing to that genre.
Ugh.
No, no, no......we know what we want. We want fantasy movies that gives more inspiration to play even more D&D!
However, I do admit....and this is going to sound disloyal, but I don't agree with the "best editing" win. Although the editing was pretty good....but in RotK, I thought it was the poorest of the three editing jobs. IMHO.
I am happy to say that "Best Picture" is one of the most important nods, but I'm also really glad LotR won for "Best Costume" too. Sci-Fi/Fantasy hardly wins in this category as well. If they didn't win best costume I was really going to be upset. If something less creative won like they did in the last two years.....for instance. I was almost sure "Cold Mountain" was going to win.
The care, creativity, craftmanship, etc...that went into those costumes for LotR was monumental. I'm so happy for the costume/art department.
Normally I'll moan about traffic being the worst in L.A. and all that. But thankfully I live in this town so I didn't have far to travel to go see the nominees on display downtown at the FIDM building. Got to see the LotR costumes up close. Man 'o man.......they do look awesome on screen. However, they look friggin amazing in real life! I can't even begin to discribe how gorgeous these things were.
Eowyn's dress at the ending of the film (only seen for a mere second or two) is amazingly beautiful. As is Galadriel's outfit that she wore at the Grayhavens scene. The King of the undead had a sweet get-up too. You saw it in transparent green...but it was really cool in regular light too. Okay, it'll take to long to describe how cool everything was....but damn, I'm glad they won!
Now I hope Hollywood knows that fantasy movies are worth putting talented people on. They don't have to be cheap and crappy b-movies. And I hope they greenlight more fantasy films.
Although I get this feeling they may think things like Bruckheimer's "historically realistic" King Arthur count as contributing to that genre.
Ugh.No, no, no......we know what we want. We want fantasy movies that gives more inspiration to play even more D&D!
Bran Blackbyrd
Explorer
"It was an honor just to be dominated." - What I'm sure anyone that went up against RoTK for an award is saying now.
RangerWickett
Legend
What awards, if any, did Lost in Translation get? I thought it was a better movie itself than Return of the King, though the whole Trilogy deserved to win at least one best picture.
jester47
First Post
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: BEST. MOVIE. EVER.
Well, if you count FotR, TTT, and RotK as one effort,
you get 17 oscars! BEST MOVIE EVER!
Or you could do it for category over the three movies-
The two Two Towers oscars and two of the four Fellowship oscars overlap with two from RotK. Makeup for Fellowship overlaps with RotK, so the only one that Fellowship got that the other two did not was cinematography-
So that puts the whole series at winning 12 catagories. If considering this and looking at the three as a whole - you get a movie with 12 awards. A record!
so its either 17 or 12 depending on how you look at it.
Cheers! and WOOOT!
Aaron.
Well, if you count FotR, TTT, and RotK as one effort,
you get 17 oscars! BEST MOVIE EVER!
Or you could do it for category over the three movies-
The two Two Towers oscars and two of the four Fellowship oscars overlap with two from RotK. Makeup for Fellowship overlaps with RotK, so the only one that Fellowship got that the other two did not was cinematography-
So that puts the whole series at winning 12 catagories. If considering this and looking at the three as a whole - you get a movie with 12 awards. A record!
so its either 17 or 12 depending on how you look at it.
Cheers! and WOOOT!
Aaron.
Shadowdancer
First Post
The Academy instituted a rule awhile back (I believe when the second and third Back to the Future films were shot simultaneously) that if the nominating committee feels that nominated work for films that were shot at the same time but released in different years was not substantially or significantly different from each other, then it could chose not to nominate the work after the first time.Kai Lord said:
I believe that is why TTT and RotK were not nominated for cinematography after FotR won, and why TTT wasn't nominated for original score.
Deathstroke
First Post
Well personally...like Peter Said in the acceptance speech...Fantasy finally got its due. Geek of the world unite in joy for we got recognized! 
Now if only someone can come along and make a few more good fantasy films were all set...Maybe a new D & D moive sans Jermey "DAMODAR!!!! GIVE ME THE ROD!!!" Irons and no blue lip stick wearing baddies.
The list of good Fantasy vs Bad Fantasy is so one sided...
Now if only someone can come along and make a few more good fantasy films were all set...Maybe a new D & D moive sans Jermey "DAMODAR!!!! GIVE ME THE ROD!!!" Irons and no blue lip stick wearing baddies.
The list of good Fantasy vs Bad Fantasy is so one sided...
null_boundry
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Strange it was the only film nominated I feel asleep watching yet it wins the mosts oscars. I guess I'll just give up awards then.
