The only nominations the entire movie got? The artistic departments. If you did not work on Art Direction, Makeup, or Visual Effects, no Harry Potter DH2 Oscar nomination for you, period.

( Discussion as this relates to the scene known by book fandom as 'The Elder Wand' and to owners of the DVD or Blu-ray as 'Your Mother's Eyes' )

And if you haven't seen it... yeah, you aren't going to understand all that much of this, since most of it is about how The Scene That Ought To Get Rickman An Oscar compares to the book version.

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