Mr. Potter
Professor
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Here are the nominees!!Great nominees in my opinion. Keisha Castle Hughes: youngest actress to receive a leading role nomination A Mighty Wind: nominated for best original song!! (Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy performing live at the Ooscars) Return of the King: 11 nominations Cold Mountain: Major SNUB! No Picture, Director, Actress and Screenplay.
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User_names_suck
Professor
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If return of the king doesn't win best picture I'll eat my hat (my special edible hat I keep for such occasions)
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Mr. Potter
Professor
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Here's an interesting fact with this year's nominees in Best Picture: ROTK, Master and Commander, and Seabiscuit have technical nomination but don't have acting nominations. Mystic River and Lost in Translation have acting nominations but don't have technical nominations.
That said, the last time a film won Best Picture without acting nominations was Braveheart 8 years ago, and before that, The Last Emperor 16 years ago. The last time a film won without technical nomination was Ordinary People 25 years ago, and before that, Annie Hall 27 years ago. So, it appears that is more comomn for a movie to win without acting noms, than to win with not even a Best Editing nom.
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Mr.MastodonFarm
Urban Legend
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« Reply #93 on: 01-28-2004 14:55 »
« Last Edit on: 01-28-2004 14:55 »
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I'll just talk about the big awards...
I'd like to see LOTR win Best Picture... the only nominee there I haven't seen is Mystic River, and I have my doubts it culd be better than all the other four. I'm not a huge LOTR fan, but it's a great movie and probably the best of the year. Still, my favorites are Lost in Translation, American Splendor and The Station Agent.
Speaking of Station Agent and American Splendor, I feel they were slighted. Paul Giamatti was easily better as Harvey Pekar than Jude Law was as Inman. All Law did was lower his voice attempting to sound like a Southerner. As for Station Agent's Peter Dinklage, I think he was as good or better than Jude Law, but Giamatti is the most deserving actor left out.
Best Actress is hard to argue, I've only seen In America. As long as Nicole Kidman wasn't nominated I'm okay... but I do think Scarlett Johansson was worthy of a nod, or maybe Hope Davis in American Splendor or The Secret Lives of Dentists.
When it comes to supporting actor I'm mostly satisfied. Watanabe and Alec Balwin deserve their spots. The only other one I'd seen was In America, which I loved, but there is no reason Djimon Hounsou should be there rather than Sean Astin. Astin or Baldwin were my picks for this award.
...supporting actress. The only one I've seen here is Renee Zellweger. Patricia Clarkson was good in That Station Agent, so it's good just that she's nominated for something.
Nothing else to add. I've run on too long... who/what do you folks think should have been nominated, but wasn't?
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Mr. Potter
Professor
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Originally posted by Sweetmelly: I have seen City of God today and I must say the ensemble acting in this movie belongs to the best which i have seen in the last years. And what makes it more amazing is that there are no real actors in the movie.
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Mr. Potter
Professor
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Maybe this will cheer you up: The Station Agent won Best Original Screenplay yesterday.
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Mr. Potter
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I haven't seen it. We usually don't get that kind of low-budget independent movies here. But I hope to see it on DVD. Everybody praises that movie.
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SlaytanicMaggot
Professor
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From the quick clips I've seen of Mystic River, I'd just like to say that, to me, it seems the whole thing was extremely overacted. It might be a good movie, yes, but I think the fact that Clint Eastwood directed it is the reason for it's buzz.
That being said, let's move on to movies no one cared about:
While I can understand Matrix Reloaded & Revolutions not getting any acting noms, at least give Revolutions a nomination for best special effects! It might not win, but if anyone saw those swarms of squiddies and the speed at which they moved, not to mention the Machine City, they'd have to at least admit that it looked spectacular! I mean, c'mon, Even Star Wars Episode II got a nomination for best effects. How many people said that sucked balls? Hmm...A lot!
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Juliet
DOOP Secretary
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Does The Brits Awards count? Yay! I am so glad that The Darkness has won Best British Group, Best British Rock, and Best British Album! Yay I got the album!!! Nice to see them perform with two songs. Well done guys. Busted beat them for Best Breakthrough Artist. Busted Fucking sucks. ------------------ My Photos And Arts Site
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Mr. Potter
Professor
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From the quick clips I've seen of Mystic River, I'd just like to say that, to me, it seems the whole thing was extremely overacted. It might be a good movie, yes, but I think the fact that Clint Eastwood directed it is the reason for it's buzz. I've seen the movie and I agree with you completely. I don't know what people see in this overacted piece of crap. It's supposed to give suspense.I didn't feel suspense. It's suposed to have great performances. Well, obviously when every actor in the movie, except Kevin Bacon, overacts to the limit, soe people might see "great" performances. Anyways, I think it's highly overrated. Busted beat them for Best Breakthrough Artist. Busted Fucking sucks. So, the Best British Group with the Best British Rock and the Best British Album isn't the Best Breaktrough Artist? Yeah, sure.
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