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Oscar Nominations
RedLion:
The Oscars are usually an exercise in rewarding mediocrity, but this year even moreso than in the last few years. Last year was an improvement, with masterpieces like No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood being recognized. This year is horribly depressing. Benjamin Button for best picture? Seriously? I don't know anyone--critic, or friend/family member who saw it--who thought it was anything better than middling.
I am especially pissed off that Springsteen's "The Wrestler" did not get nominated for best song (and that there are only three songs nominated!), particularly considering it won the Globe for it.
Tybalt:
If Slumdog Millionaire wins a single oscar I am going to boycott them. What's up with the nominations for weird crap? and how is sound mixing different from sound editing?
Synecdoche, NY was far better.
ImRonBurgundy?:
--- Quote from: Misconception on 23 Jan 2009, 07:11 ---Yeah but it has Kate Winslet.
I would go gay for Kate Winslet.
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There was another movie with Kate Winslet last year that was better, and got almost totally shut out.
--- Quote from: KvP on 22 Jan 2009, 18:18 ---Anne Hathaway was really, really good in Rachel Getting Married.
--- End quote ---
She shouldn't win, though. Not yet, anyway. She's extremely susceptible to the Cuba Gooding, Jr. Post-Oscar Curse™ at this point in her career. Do you really want to see Bride Wars 2: The Rebridening? I didn't think so.
Joseph:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 22 Jan 2009, 14:47 ---I haven't seen most of the films for Leading Actress, but isn't it about time the Academy came out of its English-language bunker?
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Didn't a French actress win this award last year, for La Vie En Rose?
Inlander:
Yeah, they throw the odd bone to the rest of the movie-making world (see also: Roberto Benigni winning for Life is Beautiful), but it's pretty tokenistic. Every country has their national film awards, and there's nothing wrong with that, and if the Oscars started being known as the American Film Awards or something I wouldn't mind - but I get a bit sick of the way they've have managed to position themselves as the be-all and end-all of film awards when they're generally so incredibly non-representational.
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