The Dark Knight

[andpuff]

If Jonathon and Christopher Nolan don't get a 'best original screenplay' nomination for The Dark Knight, I'm going to be very, very annoyed.  Not that the Academy will care but still...

Comments

[ashcomp]

Here's a very interesting commentary on that screenplay. I don't have anything like enough education to have an opinion on its validity, but I know and admire the writer.

http://twistedchick.insanejournal.com/29373.html

Note that this is not actually an LJ reference.

[andpuff]

Cool link! Thank you.

[allmightybecca]

I thought the movie was awesome, but the Academy doesn't usually honor anything I think is awesome. I got my ticket a few hours before the show and I don't think it completely sold out (but I saw it in a small theater in Maine so maybe that's not that surprising).

[andpuff]

Screenwriting isn't one of the perceived biggies (except among writers *g*) so there may be a better chance.

[andpuff]

Or at the VERY LEAST at nomination!

[avengangle]

I would love to see Heath Ledger at least get nominated for something for this role; it's possible that will happen, but it'll be a bit tainted by his death. Did he only get the nomination because he died? I mean, on a level, I don't care either way (since I think he deserves it), but still.

Also, I am not entirely sure he didn't drive himself crazy playing the Joker that way.

[watcher457]

i kind of agree. i don't think he drove himself crazy, per se, but i think the joker bothered him enough that he needed the pills he took in order to get any sleep and not have that persona haunt him. in a way, it's like the joker really did claim his victim. sad, but really hard to say.

[andpuff]

He went right from the Joker into a Terry Gilliam movie and that can't have been much lighter given Gilliam's love of the grotesque.

[jade_kadir]

The Academy doesn't give Posthumous Oscars very easily.

"Only one actor has won an Oscar after death, Peter Finch for 1976's Network." - Reference Source

I checked at the Oscar homepage and that statement is correct. Many more have been nominated for a Posthumous Oscar, but never won. Let's hope that Heath Ledger is oscar winner #2.

[losyark]

But does it count as an "original" if it's based on the DC books?

[andpuff]

Depends on how much actual material made it in. (there's a complex ruling thingie) But I'd be happy with a best adapted nomination.