Lord of the Oscars

[Kichwas]

So I'm watching the Academy Awards, and while Lord of the Rings was great and deserves some awards - they seem to be overdoing it to make up for not giving it anything in the past years...

Anyway, it's won just about everything it got nominated for.

 

[Napftor]

A shame there isn't a Best Ending category. RotK sure as hell wouldn't have won that!

 

[RangerWickett]

A shame there isn't a Best Ending category. RotK sure as hell wouldn't have won that!

I dunno. If they had that category, people would accuse LotR for cheating by entering multiple times.

 

[talinthas]

*edit- never mind*

 

[reiella]

So I'm watching the Academy Awards, and while Lord of the Rings was great and deserves some awards - they seem to be overdoing it to make up for not giving it anything in the past years...

Anyway, it's won just about everything it got nominated for.

Frustrating me a bit, as alot of the awards were categories that they were nominated for in the past, and very little in the ways of the major technical awards actually was 'different' from the prior two movies. Especially since they were all filmed and edited at the same time to begin with. Oh well, pet peeve rambled over me for this year's awards I guess.

 

[Piratecat]

And a shift to the correct forum!

 

[Darrin Drader]

Frustrating me a bit, as alot of the awards were categories that they were nominated for in the past, and very little in the ways of the major technical awards actually was 'different' from the prior two movies. Especially since they were all filmed and edited at the same time to begin with. Oh well, pet peeve rambled over me for this year's awards I guess.

My thoughts exactly. Of course up until now the academy has been reluctant to give awarsd to fantasy or scifi movies. I think they finally realized that they can't turn a blind eye to movies in these genres, and the best thing they can possibly do is to recognize the good ones in an effort to help guide these movies towards excellence rather than leaving them in Hollywood's basement.

 

[CRGreathouse]

I thought Sean Astin really deserved a Supporting Actor nomination. Oh well.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Eleven ocsars! A sweep!

 

[Bloodstone Mage]

"Lord of the Rings" now ties with "Ben Hur" and "Titanic" for most Oscars won.

Another sign that nerds rule.