Oscar Nods are out
Feb. 11th, 2003 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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LOTR:Towers only got 6 this year, and aside from "Best Picture" (Jackson doesn't get a Best Director nod, b.t.w.) they're all in technical or art categories.
I'm not totally surprised. The trouble with a film series like LOTR is that once they've established a standard, especially such a high standard, the follow on films can only do their best to meet that standard. The cinematography and music awards are already won for the first film, and the second didn't really contribute anything new to what was already achieved in the first, because again much of the work was already all done at the same time. There wasn't a "we gotta make this better" possibility, because its already done, all to the same standard.
Ditto Director. Its possible that some within the Acadamy feel that most of the director's work is done behind the camera during principle photography and production, and so where last year Jackson was nominated for the work on LOTR, it was to them considered a nod for the whole project. This year they probably felt that just supervising post-production isn't enough to warrent a second nomination.
Shame on Gollum, though. LOTR's visual effects will probably win it, but it doesn't do them justice in the fact that it was 3 different efforts going on (Massive/battles, Ents, other character sequences, and Gollum himself). Gollum visually is a great achievement (as is CG-Yoda, which may move the win back to ILM should the voters feel sentimental about the past), but Gollum would mean nothing without Andy.
As for animated film, at least this year they're acknowledging that animated films mean more than 3d stuff. Ice Age will probably win it, unless Disney follows through on their promise of hyping the anime "Spirited Away". That at least still gets credit for the first Anime film to be nominated in the American Oscars. No anime even got to "best foreign film" before.
IMHO, Treasure Planet is the best, technically and artistically, but the flop-ness of its release probably is going to taint its prospects too much. It might have stood a chance, had Disney made plans to release its DVD before the voting ends. Like Atlantis, I can see TP having a much better video shelf-life than screen-life; its nice in the theater, but once @ home, like with Dark Crystal, its a watch-more-than-once kinda thing.
LOTR:Towers only got 6 this year, and aside from "Best Picture" (Jackson doesn't get a Best Director nod, b.t.w.) they're all in technical or art categories.
I'm not totally surprised. The trouble with a film series like LOTR is that once they've established a standard, especially such a high standard, the follow on films can only do their best to meet that standard. The cinematography and music awards are already won for the first film, and the second didn't really contribute anything new to what was already achieved in the first, because again much of the work was already all done at the same time. There wasn't a "we gotta make this better" possibility, because its already done, all to the same standard.
Ditto Director. Its possible that some within the Acadamy feel that most of the director's work is done behind the camera during principle photography and production, and so where last year Jackson was nominated for the work on LOTR, it was to them considered a nod for the whole project. This year they probably felt that just supervising post-production isn't enough to warrent a second nomination.
Shame on Gollum, though. LOTR's visual effects will probably win it, but it doesn't do them justice in the fact that it was 3 different efforts going on (Massive/battles, Ents, other character sequences, and Gollum himself). Gollum visually is a great achievement (as is CG-Yoda, which may move the win back to ILM should the voters feel sentimental about the past), but Gollum would mean nothing without Andy.
As for animated film, at least this year they're acknowledging that animated films mean more than 3d stuff. Ice Age will probably win it, unless Disney follows through on their promise of hyping the anime "Spirited Away". That at least still gets credit for the first Anime film to be nominated in the American Oscars. No anime even got to "best foreign film" before.
IMHO, Treasure Planet is the best, technically and artistically, but the flop-ness of its release probably is going to taint its prospects too much. It might have stood a chance, had Disney made plans to release its DVD before the voting ends. Like Atlantis, I can see TP having a much better video shelf-life than screen-life; its nice in the theater, but once @ home, like with Dark Crystal, its a watch-more-than-once kinda thing.
