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Pixar's Up Gets Honored and Screwed by the Academy Awards

posted 14 years ago by HelloTherex
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http://ohnotheydidn.blogspot.com/2010/02/pixars-up-gets-honored-and-sc rewed-by.html

Their opinion that Up would have made the final 5 best picture nominees is actually wrong. They say Precious wouldn't have been in the best 5, but Up would. It's pretty much a fact that Precious was indeed in the top 5, while Up wasn't. That's probably unfair, but there you go.

[–] Brian11 14 years ago

You are not ethically correct, but factually probable. The Academy is quite frankly garbage only doesn't care about talent over political issues. (Sean Penn winning over Mickey Rourke's superior performance) Thus the nominations for the subpar direction of The Hurt Locker and for Precious.
If they cared about how "good" a movie is or the talent in the field it's nominated for (ie. directing) then the outcome of the last many many years of the Academy Awards would have been a lot different.

[–] fortean2 14 years ago

Spot on there, it's far too political - then again, it always has been. Movies, etc should be based on quality, not on whoever is 'next in line' for some kind of award.

[–] DeadlySinner 14 years ago

The direction of the Hurt Locker was actually amazing. In fact, I wouldn't mind it being left off of Best Picture, but the Direction Oscar is well deserved. And if you are going to argue politics, then the Hurt Locker is the wrong choice. There was no real political message, other than the general "war is bad," but no war movie really supports war. No, the better choice would be Avatar, with its uber environmentalist, anti-technology fetish.

But the Academy is many different people with many different opinions, so I doubt their primary motivation is politics. I think it's whatever is the flavor of the month. Remember, over 5,500 people nominate the films, so it is essentially a popularity contest. I see no other reason why Avatar and the Blind Side got nominations.

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[–] otter68 14 years ago

After Out of Africa beat out Brazil for best art direction in 1986, I kind of realized that the Oscars is much a popularity contest.

Consider this: Eminem and 35 Mafia each have the same number of Oscars as Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorcese! Kubrick's only Oscar came for special fx! He never even got a life time achievement award but Warren Beatty did.

Consider this too: a couple of years ago, the Academy said that there was no better movie produced that year than Chicago! Chicago!

"Leeches suck!"

[–] ajay81 14 years ago

What? Are your serious? Stanley Kubrick never got an Oscar apart from stupid special fx? I didn't know that. The man made 2001, Shining, Clockwork Orange, just to name a few for christ's sake. These are all major influences of our entertainment today. let's say they overlooked the films when they were released, but what's their excuse for not giving him an honorary award? i mean it's not like he died a couple of months after the movies' success or something, they had freaking DECADES to show him some respect.
that's not cool!

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