Mr. Potter
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Originally posted by Mr.MastodonFarm: Eh, I wouldn't give The Darkness best album or band... not that I think they're bad, but not great. I never expected anyone to bring back hair metal... I didn't know it was missed... I'm not saying they deserved it, I'm just pointing out that if the Brit Awards thought they were the Best British Band, it's natural that they give The Darkness the Best Breakthrough Award.
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Gorky
DOOP Secretary
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I watch them, but I start channel surfing when they have long, intricate, boring musical numbers and such. Who do you want to win?
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SlaytanicMaggot
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« Reply #124 on: 02-29-2004 19:44 »
« Last Edit on: 02-29-2004 19:44 »
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But, the odd-on favorite is still Nemo!!!
I don't know about that. Triplets got huge critical reviews in the USA for proving 2-D animation is still an aliv and kicking genre. Don't count on the oscars to make expected choices except in some categories. ------------------ Please edit your sig to 120 pixel height max. [This message has been edited by Administrator [-mArc-]
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Melllvar
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I think they're giving ROTK the nods as a package dealie for all three movies, for which it fully deserves its plaudits.
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Nixorbo
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BOO RENEE ZELLWEGER
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M Jackson
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I can't believe peole are trying to take this honour away from The Return of the King! If it hadn't won best picture there would have been rioting in the streets! (well, not quite). It deserves everything it got, as much as I loved the other films nominated, nothing could have justifyably beat TROTK this year. It will now go down in history (along with the whole trilogy) as a landmark in filmmaking. It deserves every bit of praise it gets.
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Nefnar
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Originally posted by Action Jacktion: Originally posted by Nixorbo: BOO RENEE ZELLWEGER I think that could be a consolation Oscar, since she was nominated both last year and the year before, but didn't win either time. Similarly, Russell Crowe won for Gladiator, but people said he got it because he didn't win the previous year for The Insider. (I guess no one knew he'd be nominated yet again the next year.) Maybe, but remember many people can vote in the academy. Examples: Angelina Jolie, Eminem, Queen Latifah, Cher so it's almost like if you or me were the ones voting. Maybe they just heard Renee's name everywhere so that made them vote for her. Also, Peter O'toole never got any consolation award, just life achievement. Alfred Hitcock never got an Oscar for directing. Stanley Kubrick, also never got an oscar for directing. And many more who deserved an oscar, never got one.
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Action Jacktion
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« Reply #143 on: 03-01-2004 11:14 »
« Last Edit on: 06-07-2004 00:00 »
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Originally posted by Nefnar: Also, Peter O'toole never got any consolation award, just life achievement. Alfred Hitcock never got an Oscar for directing. Stanley Kubrick, also never got an oscar for directing.
And many more who deserved an oscar, never got one. It's been more than twenty years since Peter O'Toole was nominated for anything. But if Troy is a big hit, he might get something for that. Stanley Kubrick never won for directing but he did win, for the special effects in 2001 (yes, he personally did the special effects). Charlie Chaplin only won once, for music. Some people put Orson Welles on lists of people who never won Oscars, though he won for writing Citizen Kane. Hitchcock was nominated six times but always lost. Other famous dead people to never win Oscars include Richard Burton, Cary Grant (who was only nominated twice, for movies that aren't very well remembered), Akira Kurosawa, and Federico Fellini ( twelve nominations, but I think he's overrated anyway). Originally posted by Gocad: also, many who didn't deserve an oscar got one...
::waves at julia roberts, etc. :: Julia Roberts was just guaranteed to get an Oscar. She would have won even if Katharine Hepburn, Jennifer Jones, Olivia de Havilland, and Joan Fontaine had all made movies that year. The same goes for Nicole Kidman last year.
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Mr. Potter
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Well, what can I say? It was great for those like me who think that LOTR deserved all the awards it got ,except for Best Original Song. That should have gone to A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow (memorable performance!).
I'm also sad for Bill Murray. He was so close to that damn thing and he lost agains the, in my opinion, undeserved Sean Penn.
Pretty predictable night but I still enjoyed it very much. Now we'll just have to wait for the next Oscar race that should begin earlier this year.
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LAN.gnome
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Originally posted by ~FazeShift~: I loved Billy Crystals in the parody's and his singin, and Blake Edwards award giving, that was awesome! Most awesomest were Jack Black and Will Ferrell as presenters. "Performing a song from Cold Mountain, the incomparable, Oscar-nominated... Sting!" The breathless way he said "Sting" made even Jack Black crack a smile, and he's usually pretty solid. "You're boriiiiing!"
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SlaytanicMaggot
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« Reply #149 on: 03-01-2004 21:26 »
« Last Edit on: 03-01-2004 21:26 »
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Originally posted by LAN.gnome: Considering that the bulk of ROTK's awards were technical (sound mixing, film editing, art direction, make up, etc.), I don't think it compares to smaller-scale films like "Lost in Translation". Notice that it got not a single nod for acting. That's because it was an ensemble cast and no one actor or actress stood out in particular i.e., everyone gave an outstanding performance. I'm still glad that 'Cold Mountain' got only one award associated with it. That movie was more overhyped than Matrix Reloaded
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SlaytanicMaggot
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you know, I wonder- will there ever be a day when WETA Digital and ILM combine their visual effects efforts on one film? It'd be interesting to see what they could do.
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Nixorbo
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There was strong support for Sean Astin for Best Supporting Actor, but NOOOOOOO. Stupid Mystic River.
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Nixorbo
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But only if afterwards they showed the "Your love for the hobbit's pipe-weed has clearly slowed your mind" clip directly afterwards.
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Mr. Potter
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Barrie Osborne, Fran and Peter received Oscars for Best Picture of the Year.
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bendy
Crustacean
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Frankly, I think it was awful for Johnny Depp NOT to get the Oscar for Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Mr. Potter
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Personally, I think it was awful for Sean Penn to get the Oscar for Mystic River.
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