Oscar Nods!!! LOL

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Oscar Nominations Thoughts!
LOL, well at least the race is not boring anymore. I'm overall pretty happy with all the nominations; nothing I really dislike got nominated and there were some really AMAZING surprises (Javier! Dogtooth! Exit through the Gift Shop!). Suck about Nolan though. Oh well, I guess he'll just have to make a Holocaust movie or

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[zombie_boogie]

The Nolan snub is definitely surprising, but looking at the nominees list I can see how it happened. The Coens are always favoured by the Academy, and clearly True Grit was popular across the board. Same with The King's Speech and, to a lesser extent, The Fighter. Neither seem like "director's" movies, and therefore likely to miss out in that category if someone had to be snubbed, but apparently the films' popularity won out.

I'm so, so happy that HTTYD got a score nom. I thought I would end up being disappointed in the category after so many great scores were disqualified (namely Black Swan), but it's actually a good list.

I'm kind of hoping that TKS performance in the nominations is a good indication that it has the momentum to win best picture. I'm definitely feeling a director/picture split and I'd be more than OK with that (though I'd hate for TKS to be remembered as an unworthy winner or for people to be bitter that a traditional Oscar bait film beat out something hip and edgy. It's very deserving in my opinion).

I really need to see Winter's Bone me thinks.

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The director's branch usually goes for more interesting work though. Like, back when there were 5 nominees for Best Picture, they would routinely snub one of them for a really awesome lone director like Almodovar, Schnabel or Lynch. I think it's probably a sign of how strong The King's Speech really is that Tom Hooper was able to coast to a nomination, despite being the most boring director of the bunch (and his work in TKS was basically a total retread of The Damned United and his TV movies).

I'm pretty sure if TKS wins, it'll become one of those Shakespeare in Love wins. Which honestly is the case whenever the critics winner doesn't match the industry winner a la Crash, Gladiator, etc. Like I can pretty much guarantee that once the decade is over, not many critics will be putting The King's Speech on their Best of the Decade list. But if TSN loses the Oscar, I think it actually gains in status and gets one step closer to being the new Citizen Kane because people LOVE to rail against the stodgy Academy.

[zombie_boogie]

I totally agree with you with regards to how various wins would be interpreted, I just think it would be a little unfair to TKS since it's ten times better than some of those other winners you mentioned. TSN losing will probably be better for its "rep" in the long run.

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TKS is a really good movie; I don't think it would be any kind of travesty for it to win but it could definitely end up with that reputation. It just has the unfortunate luck of being in the same year as TSN. It would probably end up being similar to How Green Was My Valley, which is actually a really great movie and probably one of the best BP winners ever, but it was the same year as Citizen Kane (which is without a doubt the better film).