[OT] Peter Jackson Snubbed

[Darius101]

Gollum is worth a nod of some kind did he get any nods for CGI animation or anything at all?
That was the best use of CGI ever....

 

[Mistwell]

I don't think it's so much that the Academy doesn't want a Kiwi to win so much as Jackson was a victim of numbers and other Academy politics.

The Academy wanted to nominate Spanish director Pedro Almodovar as a makeup for his film "Talk to Her" -- which received lots of critical acclaim as one of the year's best films -- not being nominated for best foreign language film.

Why was it not nominated? Because his home country submitted another movie for consideration instead. Each country is allowed to submit the name of only one foreign-language movie for considertation in the category. Spain wanted another movie to be nominated because Almodovar has already won an Oscar in this category, just two or three years ago.

So Almodovar was snubbed by his own country. So the Academy, which likes Almodovar and his movies, made it up to him by nominating him for best director and best screenplay. He won't win either category, but the Academy wanted to at least have him nominated for something.

To make room for Almodovar in the best director category, someone had to go. All the other nominees were directors of best picture nominees. Jackson was the only director who's film was nominated for best picture this year who was also nominated for best director last year. And everyone is basically saying the award is Jackson's to win next year once RotK is released, unless he botches the job terribly.

So the Academy decided Almodovar would be nominated rather than Jackson.

And you are right -- the Academy does want Scorsese to win this year, as a makeup for all the better films he made (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, GoodFellas) in past years and never won the best director Oscar.

Thanks for the explination Shadowdancer. I was wondering how that movie got into the best director slot - makes perfect sense now.

 

[Mistwell]

Gollum is worth a nod of some kind did he get any nods for CGI animation or anything at all?
That was the best use of CGI ever....

Is that a category, CGI animation? (I don't remember it being one, but I certainly could be wrong). Wouldn't the studio have to put the movie up in an animation category for it even to be considered for a nomination?

 

[Celtavian]

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Peter Jackson is a very good visual director. He is a very poor performance director.

TTT, and I loved the movie, was not extraordinarily well-acted, more due to the writing than the actors themselves.

There were many non-sensical parts. I wish someone would have hit Peter Jackson in the head to stop him from making stupid changes to the movie.

One part I utterly felt was foolish was when Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas started striking people down in Theoden's hall. That was utterly unnecessary. It made the acting between Theoden and Gandalf more comical rather than allowing just the two actors to build the drama of the scene.

As much as I loved TTT, I am glad PJ is not nominated as Best Director. He deviated too far from the story and it showed poorly in the scenes that could have been the strength of TTT.

He added action where he should have added drama too many times. Glad the critics could see this.

Best Picture I can kind of understand since the movie does raise the bar on Special Effects and Fantasy movies in general.

 

[Fast Learner]

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Peter Jackson is a very good visual director. He is a very poor performance director.

I strongly disagree. Have you seen Heavenly Creatures?

That said, he's over-focused on the visual in the LOTR films, so some of the acting does indeed come off badly.

 

[Dinkeldog]

Is that a category, CGI animation? (I don't remember it being one, but I certainly could be wrong). Wouldn't the studio have to put the movie up in an animation category for it even to be considered for a nomination?

Special effects.

 

[Dinkeldog]

The film got snubbed. Serkis deserved a nomination for Gollum. Christopher Lee probably should have gotten one for Saruman. Not the score, though, as it was pretty fiercely derivative (and RotK likely the same.) PJ should have been up for director.

Once more, thanks to all the gods that intervened that PJ fixed Faramir. And Gimli, Aragorn and Legolas were fighting during that scene between Gandalf and Theoden? I couldn't tell, since I was paying attention to Gandalf and Theoden rather than looking for excuses to be disappointed.

 

[Sagan Darkside]

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One part I utterly felt was foolish was when Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas started striking people down in Theoden's hall

IIRC - Err.. weren't they defending themselves from Grima's thugs?

SD

 

[John Crichton]

I didn't think Jackson got snubbed. TTT was great, but I dug it mostly because of the battles and the like. For a comparison, Fellowship was better. If he was to win, it would have been for that. I'm going to have to agree with others saying that RotK should be his best shot.

 

[Spatula]

The film got snubbed. Serkis deserved a nomination for Gollum. Christopher Lee probably should have gotten one for Saruman.

Saruman was barely in the movie, though. Serkis did deserve something, but giving an oscar for a voice-over is very unlikely, I think.

EDIT: Oh, and Peter Jackson was nominated for the DGA's director of the year award (as he was last year), so he didn't get totally snubbed.