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[neverwhere]

Absolutely furious about Oscar nominations. Or rather, THE LACK THEREOF.

Can't even talk right now, am so angry, and utterly, utterly disappointed.

Sigh.

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[trukkle.livejournal.com]

Grrr, why can't they take it seriously.
*beats the oscar judges round the head for being so bleedin' stupid*

[winterswitchery.livejournal.com]

Oscar time always destroys my admiration for the film industry.

Because they have so very little taste.

[meretia]

Fsh. I never watch the Oscars. It's nothing but a bunch of elitist morons patting their friends on the back and being bloody dull while doing it.

But any of the Supporting Actors--with the exception of Ed Harris, who is awesome--being nominated over ma cher Andy makes me want to break some thumbs.

[ladynemo.livejournal.com]

Wow. Can you imagine the sheer amount of people who worked their asses off for this movie? *sigh* They're such snobs, and I can stand anything but a snob.
I wonder how much damage one of those statuettes would do. Not that I plan on doing anything, but... *whistles innocently as evil grin spreads across her face*

[mlfoley.livejournal.com]

Exactly what movie are you talking about? Lord of the Rings is up for 4 nominations, including best picture. While I agree that the actors should be given a lot of credit, 4 nominations is still nothing to sneeze at. And ultimately, no one cares who wins an Oscar (at least I don't). People will still love the movie, despite the lack of awards.

[bcgphoenix]

I know :(

Strangely enough, I'm less bewildered by the lack of a directing nomination (though that still pisses me off) than by the lack of a makeup nomination. For the love of Pete, how is a unibrow more impressive than the painstaking recreation of a half-dozen fantasy races? *growls*

Stupid Academy. Well, at least I won't have to bother sitting through the whole ceremony this year...there's no point.

[purplepiano.livejournal.com]

5 nominations by my count, including techy stuff, sounds all right to me but *shrug*. My bet is that they're saving up the extravagant praise for the third one, so they can reward the whole lot in one go, as it were.

[sillypants.livejournal.com]

They suck, completely. I am so, so angry and disapointed -- however, the Academy Awards are nothing but blow jobs between friends. I don't know why I give a shit (except for the fact that it might have been nice if they at least made a pretence of being merit-based, rather than industry politics-based).

[akira114.livejournal.com]

I was so furious I nearly had a meltdown!! Sons of bitches don't know a good movie when they see it! And LOTR is more than a good movie, it's the good movie! The best!! Among all the awards it didn't get nominated for -ex. all of them- I was particularly pissed to see that Peter Jackson didn't get Best Director, and Howard Shore didn't get best score. And it really chesses me that "Gollum's Song" wasn't nominated, which, in my opinion, is the best lyrical song written specifically for a movie.

GOD!!! The Academy pisses me off!

Who wants to go to LA with me and go Treebeard on their ass!!!

*hugs* to everyone who loves Lord Of The Rings

Akira

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

grrrrr.

I think that the various small film industries around the world should gang up with the Lord of the Rings, a few over-looked British and US art films, and all take over Hollywood together. Then they could have an awards ceremony for art films, films-in-languages-other-than-English and fantasy/sci-fi films, and ignore the rest of the rubbish. Damn it, I'd pay money to watch that!! Maybe they could even set up a tv section, and finally give Buffy the plaudits it deserves...

The fact that the Oscars have the patronising "Best Foreign Film" award when the US is only the second biggest film producing country in the world anyway, and when the best cinema at the moment is apparently being made in Iran, is some indication of how silly things are. Peter Jackson's in *very* good company being ignored like this, which I hope is some comfort.

And in addition, I imagine that they're only doing it so that they don't have to be repeating themselves when they shower RotK with plaudits next year.

Nevertheless.... grrrrrr! And *huggggss* to you!

*cuddles*

Ellyyyyy

[marp2003.livejournal.com]

I don't get it. How could PJ not be nominated for Best Director? And what happened to Best Costumes? I know it took a lot of work to make all of those costumes in the movie.

The Academy Committee pisses me off. If ROTK doesn't win big next year, I'ma start busting some chops on their asses.

And if Viggo Mortensen dosen't get nominated for Best Actor or Supporting Actor next year, oooohhhh, Malie's gonna knock somebody out...lol...

[eyre-lasgalen.livejournal.com]

Screw the academy. It's just another wonderful money-making machine of the American movie making industry.

Can we all say, "cash cow"? Although it is my nasty little pleasure to watch the ceremony and gawk at the gowns. I would NEVER spend the money they spend (even if I had it) but I do so enjoy looking.

I also agree that next year will be the REAL year for LotR. If it doesn't win something serious next year, then I swear that I will never watch the Oscars again. The tradition will die next year if RoTK doesn't get a win for actor, director or film.

You are my witness!

Don't shoot me but...

[queeniefox.livejournal.com]

I do understand the decision about the acting nominations. There's several performances in TTT that I think are equally good, but I wouldn't single out one performer who I thought was excpetionally better than everyone else. Also, the film is not really an 'actor's piece' like the Hours. However I do think it should have got a nomination for best director and definatly best score.

Re: Andy Serkis. I seem to be the only one who thought that Gollum was an appauling cartoon character. I couldn't take notice of the voice, the appearence was so bad. I also see to be the only one who thinks that Andy Sekis could have played that part himself and forget about the CGI. I realise I may be insane but that's my view.

[mrs-puppethead.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that The Pianist was nominated for quite a few things, because it really deserves the recognition.

What bothers me most is that TTT wasn't nominated for Best Original Score.