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No Country For Old Men
Johnny C:
Bardem won Best Supporting Actor though.
This is the Academy, having its cake and eating it as well.
Inlander:
Bah, humbug. Tommy Lee Jones's performance in No Country was better than either Bardem's or Day-Lewis's.
Not that those two performances weren't great, but Jones's was just beautiful. The performance of an actor who's been around long enough to not have to prove anything.
Johnny C:
I wonder why he was nominated for Elah over No Country?
I mean, I assume they were the same calibre of performance. Shit, dude brought chops to Space Cowboys.
Inlander:
Producers and studios tend to put all their eggs in one basket when it comes to the Oscars. A specific performance gets targeted as the likeliest winner, then pushed to the Academy's voters, and pushed hard. The level of manipulation of the Oscars, or at least attempted manipulation, is by all reports incredibly high. And let's not forget that the studio behind No Country is Miramax, which had the worst reputation of all when it came to trying to influence and curry favour with Academy voters (at least when the Weinsteins were running the company).
Basically, what I'm saying is the Miramax will have decided to focus all their efforts on getting Bardem nominated because they believed he had a better chance of winning - which he probably did, seeing as how the Academy generally has no time for subtlety or nuance, the two qualities which more than any others define Jones's performance.
doombilly:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 23 Feb 2008, 16:07 ---I watched it tonight.
On one hand, the best film of the year.
On the other, not in the top five films the Coens have made.
--- End quote ---
Hmm. I dunno 'bout that.
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