Don’t Buy: Oscar’s Best Picture Nominations
Oscar nominations just came out, and I have to say, you could not find a more Oscar-y crop if you tried. Of the five Best Picture Nominees:
-three are adaptations of novels or short stories
-one is an adaptation of a play
-two are biopics
-four are period pieces
-three are directed by men who have previously been nominated for Best Director
-three have stars who have previously been nominated for Best Actor/Actress
-three end with a main character dying
-one is about the Holocaust
The only way these awards could be more stereotypical would be if “The Reader” was nominated five times in every category.
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I feel the same way, but then again I can’t really think of other films that are more deserving. The Dark Knight was great, but has a bunch of plotholes and too much of Christian Bale’s growly-Batman-voice. Vicky Cristina Barcelona sounds great but I haven’t actually seen it yet. It was kind of surprising that Revolutionary Road wasn’t nominated for more, but it’s the exact same kind of Oscar-bait that the rest of these are. I do think 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days should have been nominated for Best Foreign, but I haven’t seen any of the others. I think 2008 was just a shitty year for movies.
I agree about The Dark Knight, but how about: (just to go by my staff’s list) Rachel Getting Married, The Wrestler, In Bruges, Gran Torino or Vicky Christina? Or how about getting rid of the consolation prize Animated Film category and letting WALL-E compete with ‘real’ movies?
I haven’t seen any of those so I can’t really say. I’m not going to go around making hypothetical Oscar noms all willy nilly now, y’hear!?
They should have just let WALL-E compete for BP…Beauty and the Beast did…and WALL-E is apparently the second coming in animated robot form, so why not.
i think the nominations are too depressing to talk about.
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