Oscars!

[Rollo Tomassi]

The Academy Awards are my SuperBowl, so I am super excited. Here are the nominations this year:

Supporting Actress
Jennifer Connely - Beautiful Mind
Helen Mirren - Gosfrod park
Maggie Smith - Gosford Park
Marisa Tomei - In the Bedroom
Kate Winslet - Iris

Supporting Actor
Jim Broadbent - iris
Ethan Hawke - Training Day
Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
Ian McKellan - LOTR
Jon Voight - Ali

Actress
Halle Berry - Monster's Ball
Judi Dench - Iris
Nicole Kidman - Moulin Rouge
Sissy Spacek - In the Bedroom
Rene Zellweger - Bridget Jones

Actor
Russell Crowe - Beautiful Mind
Sean Penn - I am Sam
Wil Smith - Ali
Denzel - Training Day
Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom

Original Screenplay
Amelie
Gosford park
Memento
Monster's ball
Royal Tenenbaums

Adapted Screenplay
Beautiful Mind
Ghostworld
In the Bedroom
LOTR
Shrek

Director
Ron Howard - Beautiful Mind
Ridley Scott - Black hawk Down
Robert Altman - Gosford park
Peter Jackson - LOTR
David Lynch - Mulholland Drive

Picture
Beautiful Mind
Gosford park
In the Bedroom
LOTR
Moulin Rouge


My big beef is Memento getting shafted pretty much all around the board. I'll wait to tell you what I thing is going to win until I hear your thoughts. I'll also post the smaller awards as they become availible.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Some more noms:

Makeup
Beautiful Mind
LOTR
Moulin Rouge

Art Direction
Amelie
Gosford Park
Harry Potter
LOTR
Moulin Rouge

Cinematography
Amelie
Black Hawk Down
LOTR
Man who Wasn't there
Moulin Rouge

Costume
Affair of the Necklace
Gosford park
Harry Potter
LOTR

Music Score
A.I.
Beautiful Mind
Harry Potter
LOTR

Music Song
Kate & Leopold
LOTR
Monster's Inc
Pearl Harbor
Vanilla Sky

Sound
Amelie
Black Hawk Down
LOTR
Moulin Rouge
Pearl Harbor

Sound Editing
Monster's Inc
Pearl Harbor

Visual Effects
A.I.
LOTR
Pearl Harbor

Editing
Beautiful Mind
Black Hawk Down
LOTR
Memento
Moulin Rouge



Who cares about short films, documentaries, and foreign films? Not me. Discuss!

[Rollo Tomassi]

Lord of the Rings has the most nominations with a whopping 13!

Beautiful Mind - 8
Moulin Rouge - 7
Gosford Park - 7
Amelie - 5 (including foreign film)
In the Bedroom - 5
Blak Hawk Down - 4

Monster's Inc - 3
Pearl Harbor - 3
Harry Potter - 3
Iris - 3

Shrek - 2
Ali - 2
A.I. - 2
Training Day - 2
Monster's Ball - 2
Memento - 2


Sexy Beast, Mullholland Drive, I am Sam, Bridget Jone's Diary, Affair of the Necklace, Man Who Wasn't There, Kate & leopold, Ghost World, and Vanilla Sky each got one nom.

[JediTricks]

Watched the nom announcements on Fox 11 news just a little while ago. It was funny to hear someone yelp when David Lynch's name was mentioned in "Best Director". Everybody has been talking about "Monster's Ball", so it's surprising to see it get almost NO nominations at all. LOTR grabbing 13 nominations was shocking, no matter how good the movie is, Sci-Fi/Fantasy always gets shafted (see 1977 for the perfect example, it's 25 years later and we're STILL saying "Annie Hall?!? Annie ****ing HALL?!?"). I feel a bit weird about this, of the list of nods, I have seen ZERO of those films, not even LOTR or Shrek. Upon reflection, I stopped seeing new movies right after Episode I - there is clearly a subconcious connection.

[derek]

jeditricks,

it's funny you haven't been to the movies in a while after hoping episode 2 wouldn't be released on home video so soon after it's theatrical release. i used to see about 3 movies a week, but people are getting so rude and theatres sound systems are horribly under-used that the movie going experience has become
a very unpleasant experience.

have you experienced something like this?

i was watching fox news when the announcements were announced, and the 3 hosts hadn't seen any of the films except shrek and LOTR. i have not heard of most of them either. memento and guy pierce got robbed. i like russel crow, but my goodness, is he going to win every year? :happy:

[JediTricks]

For me, it's like this: Before Ep 1, movies were often good and had allure for me; after Ep 1, movies sorta lost their luster, their allure avoiding me. 2000 and 2001, I can't remember which movies I saw, I can't remember if I actually saw any movies at all. Perhaps my outlook on movies changed from Ep 1, or perhaps Hollywood changed to be more like Ep 1 (at least in their trailers and PR) - I can't be sure, but 3 years between excitement for movies is a bad sign for me, I used to go to movies ALL the time.

As for the quality of theaters, I live in LA where we have a LOT of good theaters (so long as you avoid mall theaters, they're terrible) and I rarely have bad theater experiences. Another thing, I love movie trailers in the theater, but I hate them on DVD/VHS!

I'm still shocked that David Lynch got a nod for a film he did originally as a pilot for ABC. That's wild!

[Wolfwood319]

Memento got shafted, and LOTR will get shafted, it won't win squat because its a big blockbuster fantasy.

I know what you mean about how not a lot of people have seen the majority of movies nominated this year. I've only seen

LOTR
Monsters Inc.
Shrek
Memento

I also know what you mean about how movies don't really seem very good anymore for the most part. I see about a movie a week, and very few stand out as really good.

I very rarely care who wins oscars and who doesn't. Its all opinions, its not like God is picking these winners, just people like you and me, people with their own opinions. Who cares!

[El Chuxter]

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Monsters, Inc
Shrek

WTH?!? Jimmy Neutron? Jimmy Freakin' Neutron? I'll admit I didn't watch it and it could be great, but the reason I didn't watch it was because it looked stupid and childish, and the animation wasn't nearly good enough to make up for it.

Monsters Inc and Shrek I agree with, but did these sons of motherless goats even see Atlantis: The Lost Empire? They must not have, because if they had, it would've been there. Excellent story, top notch animation, perfectly-cast voice-overs. I saw it once in the theater, twice so far on DVD (and am going to see it again with my niece this weekend), and it has yet to get old.

Did the Oscar committee not want two Disney movies in the running? Or did they take the typical view of animation, thinking it was only a bunch of lame kids' cartoons and therefore no one would care, since kids don't watch awards shows?

This just gives me even more justification in my belief that all awards shows are nothing more than pathetic jokes. Remember, this is the show in which John Williams' score for SW:E1:TPM didn't get a single nomination. And in which The Matrix beat TPM for Best Special Effects.

Or my favorite all-time Oscar nomination: Babe for best special effects over Mortal Kombat.

[Wolfwood319]

Actually, I think the SFX in Matrix were better than E1. E1 was just a bunch of cgi creatures running around for the most part, or actors in front of a blue screen. Matrix had some pretty cool stuff going on, just watch the behind the scenes on the DVD.

Atlantis was pretty good, but regardless, Shrek is still not only the best animated film of the year, but of any year, its also one of the best movies of the year, too, IMO.

[JediTricks]

I was really surprised to see Jimmy Neutron nominated too, that was totally off the wall.