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The Hurt Locker
pilsner:
--- Quote from: KvP on 04 Feb 2010, 16:54 ---Gawker put it best - most of the time, Best Picture is reserved for the movie Hollywood wants to pat itself on the back for (prestige films / war films / austere dramas / movies with "uglified" stars / biopics / movies fictionalizing the plight of minorities / whatever Harvey Weinstein wants to win. Or in Jimmy Cameron's case, movies that make unethical amounts of money) whereas Best Director goes to the movie everyone thinks is actually the best.
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I wish I lived in a world where this was true. Unfortunately, I don't believe that it is. In 1998, for instance, Titanic won Best Picture against As Good As It Gets and L.A. Confidential, and Cameron won Best Director for Titanic against Gus Van Sant for Good Will Hunting and Curtis Hanson for L.A. Confidential.
Fuck Oscars.
pilsner:
Metacritic has an excellent article on why Avatar is most likely to win. It looks for correlations between Best Picture winners over the years and a variety of possible indicators. Not surprisingly, having the highest metascore or the most awards among the nominees is shown to be meaningless, whereas being the highest grossing film pre-nomination is a virtual lock.
Ptommydski:
Apparently Avatar ends with a bunch of soldiers being massacred by the smurfs and its supposed to be the pay off. Between that, the story behind The Hurt Locker and Andrea refusing to blow that dude from the forces in the Relationship Thread, it's a tough year for the services.
knives:
--- Quote from: pilsner on 09 Feb 2010, 13:41 ---Metacritic has an excellent article on why Avatar is most likely to win. It looks for correlations between Best Picture winners over the years and a variety of possible indicators. Not surprisingly, having the highest metascore or the most awards among the nominees is shown to be meaningless, whereas being the highest grossing film pre-nomination is a virtual lock.
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While BO is a major thing the game has changed drastically because of the ten nominees and new counting method.
sean:
im pretty sure that if there is a satan that james cameron sold him his soul
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