As much as I loved the movie it does have problems, so I think not being nominated for best picture is fair. It got nominated for visual effects which I feel is deserved, it's going to have tough competition in that category though.
Star Wars not nominated for best picture of the year.
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No, no, no. The academy awards are about artistic merit, not popularity, or even success. The Force Awakens was the Big Mac and fries of cinema. You may enjoy it, but let's not pretend it's something special. I would be disgusted if it had gotten nominated. Frankly, I don't even think it deserved the technical nominations it received. We shouldn't award mediocrity.
...Why not? I mean I'm not sure that any of them to date have been Oscar Material, but if Django Unchained and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon can be nominated for Best Picture, and Return of the King and Gladiator can win it why should the idea of a Marvel movie getting a nomination seem outlandish?bartholen said:
Actually, the original Star Wars (now Episode IV) was one of the biggest winners during the 50th Academy Awards with six wins (Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound and Best Visual Effects), and was nominated for several more, including Best Picture (which it lost to Annie Hall).KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:
Men in Black isn't my favorite movie ever, (That honor goes to Pacific Rim) it is merely the objective best movie ever.BloatedGuppy said:
As such, you have forced me to do this.
*Revokes BloatedGuppy's opinion license*
You can have this back when you've demonstrated enough responsibility to use it properly.
Pacific Rim? Pacific Rim was terrible! I was SO disappointed.Souplex said:
I'll...I'll prepare the dueling pistols. It's supposed to be misty tomorrow morning so we might have to wait until Sunday.
I agree. Frankly, neither of them deserve as many noms as they've received.RJ 17 said:
Fanboy love is a force[footnote]ba dum tish[/footnote] to be reckoned with, I 'spose.
When I see that Mad Max has 10 Oscar nominations when it clearly didn't give a flying f#$% about winning awards...
THAT makes me think the Oscars are more in touch than ever, actually.
THAT makes me think the Oscars are more in touch than ever, actually.
I quite enjoyed TFA, but it was not Best Picture material. That doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy it more than some Best Pictures I've seen (not naming movies), but I enjoyed it on a different level than, say, Schindler's List.
What I find is a travesty is Jurassic World not getting a nod for Best Visual Effects.
What I find is a travesty is Jurassic World not getting a nod for Best Visual Effects.
...Pistols?BloatedGuppy said:
*Slaps with gauntlet*
Gentleman duel with swords, on horseback with lances, or with their fists!
We will meet on the Brooklyn-side arch of the Brooklyn Bridge at 4:30 (Sunset duels in the most beautiful place in the world are nice) on Sunday!
Even if you do by some miracle defeat me, you will still not have earned the right to an opinion.
That was a travesty (bought and paid for as it was) but I didn't even think Saving Private Ryan deserved it. Of the years two huge World War 2 films, I thought Malick's Thin Red Line was the more essential. It's certainly a far more daring movie.Glongpre said:
And both of those aside, the most iconic film of that year might very well have turned out to be The Big Lebowski, which wasn't even nominated.
And holy shit, don't even get me started on the following year. American Beauty. Pah. PAH. That was the point where my enthusiasm for the Academy Awards was unraveling in earnest.
Nothing. In fact I'm quite fond of most of them. My listing them there wasn't meant to be a mark against them or a 'how far the oscars have fallen' jab. I was just saying that broadly speaking you could lump them in the same category as - for instance - Age of Ultron. My intended point was that there's no reason that a Marvel movie couldn't be as worthy of the Academy Awards, not that Marvel movies were more worthy.Glongpre said:
Even if Star Wars was the best movie of the year, it wouldn't get nominated. They never nominate movies like Star Wars for best picture. I was surprised that Lord of the Rings was even nominated.
Best Picture tends to go to movies that are... not likely to gain public attention. It's only by being nominated or winning a Best Picture award that Jon Q Public even cares about them. Star Wars doesn't need that push. People were going to see it. It'll get Best Special Effects and be happy to get that. If it's lucky, it might be nominated and even win some other awards.
Best Picture tends to go to movies that are... not likely to gain public attention. It's only by being nominated or winning a Best Picture award that Jon Q Public even cares about them. Star Wars doesn't need that push. People were going to see it. It'll get Best Special Effects and be happy to get that. If it's lucky, it might be nominated and even win some other awards.
Well, for one, the Academy Awards are meaningless. They're not exactly the best judges of movie quality.
For another, while I liked Star Wars, I can see why it wouldn't be nominated for best picture. "Making a lot of money" and "being popular" don't automatically denote quality. Sometimes, a mediocre film can sneak in to the nominations a la "American Sniper," but not always.
For another, while I liked Star Wars, I can see why it wouldn't be nominated for best picture. "Making a lot of money" and "being popular" don't automatically denote quality. Sometimes, a mediocre film can sneak in to the nominations a la "American Sniper," but not always.
Guys, you do all realize that MoviePilot is a user-submitted site right? I myself have made two (admittedly pretty shit quality) articles for the site on my free time. It's a site where people mostly write down random things with no quality control at all, I'd say it's a glorified public submission blog but I don't think it really even goes that far.