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RallyMonkey:

--- Quote from: Jeans on 14 Mar 2010, 05:17 ---exactly the way it was when digital photography essentially took over in still image.

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I think that's really your main flaw there. This is not the difference between digital photography an film photography. I don't care if the winning film was shot on 35MM or an iPhone. This is like a 3D generated image winning a best photography award because they used a photograph as a reference image. I think most photographers would be angry about that.

And frankly, that's not even the biggest complaint I have. I wouldn't care if an almost completely CG movie won best cinematography if the individual frames of the movie were better than the individual frames of all other movies. Avatar isn't even in the same league as many other films that came out last year in that criteria.

RallyMonkey:
I don't think you understand how Academy voting works. Actors make up the largest voting block, but they only constitute 20 percent of academy membership. Only for best picture does every academy member get to vote. In all other categories, only the people who work in that field vote. So members of the academy who are directors vote for best director. Members of the academy who are actors vote for best actor. Members of the academy who are cinematographers vote for best cinematography. That is the main reason that the winner for best cinematography confounds me so much. Generally, I don't disagree with the winner for best cinematography, and usually, it's very tough competition. For instance, having Robert Elswit up against two Roger Deakins nominations. Though this year, I wasn't feeling the nominations, nor the winner.

scarred:
But but but what if they're wrong

David_Dovey:

--- Quote from: Jeans on 14 Mar 2010, 13:47 ---Look at this piece of shit. It's an award winning photograph.

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What the fuck surely they have awards for digital art/photomanipulation/whatever.

Like I mean I do not know if there is an award for whatever you would call what Avatar is (I guess it's a visual effects thing) but that is not photography but it is a whole other medium which is just as legitimate but it is not fucking photography argh what the shit

RallyMonkey:

--- Quote from: David_Dovey on 15 Mar 2010, 07:07 ---Like I mean I do not know if there is an award for whatever you would call what Avatar is (I guess it's a visual effects thing) but that is not photography but it is a whole other medium which is just as legitimate but it is not fucking photography argh what the shit

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That is one of my main points. I'm not trying to disparage all of the hard work that goes into a movie like Avatar, what I'm saying, is that they won the award that goes for all of that work, Visual Effects.

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