The Oscar Buzz Thread! (Oscar Nominees Announced!)

[Spatula]

2000 Gladiator. We are back to box office. This beats out Crouching Tiger, Hiden Dragon? I guess once again the accademy shows that if your film is not in English you can forget it.

CTHD won Best Foreign Language Film, so it seems unlikely it would have gotten Best Picture as well (has that ever happened?). The other nominees were not so hot IMO.

1996 English Patient. Best picture IMO was Trainspottoing which was not even nominated.

Huh, I could have sworn Fargo won that one for some reason.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

CTHD won Best Foreign Language Film, so it seems unlikely it would have gotten Best Picture as well (has that ever happened?).

No. It's rare for foreign films to get nominations in the "major" categories.

The other nominees were not so hot IMO.Huh, I could have sworn Fargo won that one for some reason.

Nope; Fargo won Best Actress (Francis McDormand) and one of the Screenplay awards. The English Patient won Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress (Juliette Binoche). I think Geoffrey Rush won Best Actor that year for Shine.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Having just seen RotK last night not only does it stand alone as a great movie but it makes up for TT. Definitely the best of the three even holding up better than FotREE (Can't wait for RotKEE). Unless politics conspires RotK could easily win Best Picture and Best Director on its own merits. I definitely see Best Actor and Actress going elsewhere. Not that the cast wasn't stellar but probably not best of the year. Andy Serkis is already getting media buzz for a Best Supporting Actor nomination at least. Jackson includes an opening sequence of Smeagol and Deagol giving Serkis the non-cgi footage he needs. While I would like to see Miranda Otto nominated for Supporting Actress it is hard to judge without having seen the competition (Supporting Actresss nominations often go to smaller films).

 

[Brown Jenkin]

CTHD won Best Foreign Language Film, so it seems unlikely it would have gotten Best Picture as well (has that ever happened?).

This is the mindset problem with the academy. Both CTHD and Il Postino were deserving films but the academy seems to feel that they can give them Foreign Language honors and this makes up for denying them best picture. Why is it so hard for the academy to get it that something other than an English Language film may be the best picture in a given year.

 

[theburningman]

While I think it would be great if RotK won Best Picture, I would still rather see an special Oscar for Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking for the entire Lord of the Rings movie.

That would be the kind of accolade this movie deserves.

 

[Endur]

Braveheart was better than any of the other 1995 films.

As Good as it Gets got the acting awards that it deserved. I don't think it qualifies as a Best Picture. LA Confidential, on the other hand, was an awesome movie that should have been a Best Picture.

The director's cut of Gladiator probably does inch out over Crouching Tiger, but I agree that the theatre version didn't deserve to win (although Russell Crow certainly deserved the oscar).

FOTR should have won 2001. I'm certain ROTK will win 2003.

1995 Bravehart won over Apollo 13, Babe, Il Postoino and Sense and Sensebility. Any of the other nominees were a better choice.

1997 Titanic beats As Good as it Gets. Here is where I lost all respect. Somehow the movie that wins Best Actor and Best Actress, as well as having IMO the Best Supporting Actor is dissed in favor of $600 million in box office. This is the worst Oscar rip off in decades.

2000 Gladiator. We are back to box office. This beats out Crouching Tiger, Hiden Dragon? I guess once again the accademy shows that if your film is not in English you can forget it.

2001 A Beatiful Mind. Not sure here but FotR was far better, but was its loss because it was fantasy or part 1 of a trilogy I'm not sure. Maybe it was once again trying to make up for the previous years choice.

2003? We shall see.

 

[Sirius_Black]

If memory serves, the Golden Globes are announced tomorrow. Those nominations should give a clue as to how the wind is blowing for the Oscar's this year.

 

[Sirius_Black]

Golden Globe Nominations

I'm curious to hear others comment. So far, I've only seen two of the films nomainted for Best Drama (Seabiscuit and Master and Commander). But, both were very good and I'm glad to see they were not overlooked.

 

[TiQuinn]

ACK! No Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Caribbean!

But I don't even have a hat to EAT!

Oh, the humanity!

EDIT: OOOPS! Nevermind! He's in the Best Comedy Actor category. My Oscar hopes of seeing him nominated are still alive!

 

[Storminator]

The director's cut of Gladiator probably does inch out over Crouching Tiger, but I agree that the theatre version didn't deserve to win (although Russell Crow certainly deserved the oscar).

I must be in the minority, but I thought Gladiator was boring. About 2/3 of the way thru I turned it off. I later forced myself to watch the end (couldn't stand to start over from the beginning), but I was thoroughly unimpressed.

PS