Star Wars not nominated for best picture of the year.

[Asita]

What in the holy fuck? Is someone seriously advocating for this? No, just no. Why don't we start nominating Marvel movies while we're at it?

...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?

OT: In all honesty, as many others have said, Star Wars isn't really Oscar material, none of the movies really have ever been anything Oscar worthy.

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).

 

[Souplex]

If the Oscars were about quality, they would acknowledge that action and comedy were things, and they would take all the awards they gave to Titanic, and give them to Men in Black.

Oof. Men in Black?

Sir, we're going to have to ask you to leave.

Men in Black isn't my favorite movie ever, (That honor goes to Pacific Rim) it is merely the objective best movie ever.
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.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Men in Black isn't my favorite movie ever, (That honor goes to Pacific Rim) it is merely the objective best movie ever.

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.

I'll...I'll prepare the dueling pistols. It's supposed to be misty tomorrow morning so we might have to wait until Sunday.

 

[Vigormortis]

I agree with the academy awards, The Force Awakens is not close to being among the best pictures of the year, and if we were to start handing awards based on audience enjoyment then Michael Bay would be rolling in oscar statuettes

And yet Mad Max: Fury Road is worthy of a Best Picture nomination based on more than audience enjoyment?

Edit: to be clear, I'll agree that SW probably didn't deserve the nomination (let alone winning the category)...but the fact that Mad Max got a nomination while Star Wars didn't is what makes me call bullshit.

I agree. Frankly, neither of them deserve as many noms as they've received.

Fanboy love is a force[footnote]ba dum tish[/footnote] to be reckoned with, I 'spose.

 

[Squilookle]

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.

 

[RealRT]

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A bit of interesting wording here. Thoughts?

How is this news? Of course The Force Awakens is not going to get The Best Picture award - it doesn't deserve it by any stretch of imagination.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

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.

 

[Souplex]

Men in Black isn't my favorite movie ever, (That honor goes to Pacific Rim) it is merely the objective best movie ever.

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.

I'll...I'll prepare the dueling pistols. It's supposed to be misty tomorrow morning so we might have to wait until Sunday.

...Pistols?
*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.

 

[Glongpre]

...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?

What's wrong with those movies?

OT:

TFA should be nowhere near that category.

The awards have been a joke for me ever since Shakespeare in Love won best picture over Saving Private Ryan. I mean what the hell.

 

[Seanfall]

The Oscars are bullshit anyways.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

The awards have been a joke for me ever since Shakespeare in Love won best picture over Saving Private Ryan. I mean what the hell.

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.

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.

 

[Don Incognito]

If the Oscars were about quality, they would acknowledge that action and comedy were things, and they would take all the awards they gave to Titanic, and give them to Men in Black.

Oof. Men in Black?

Sir, we're going to have to ask you to leave.

mmmhmmm.

There's an LA Confidential, like, right there.

 

[Asita]

...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?

What's wrong with those movies?

OT:

TFA should be nowhere near that category.

The awards have been a joke for me ever since Shakespeare in Love won best picture over Saving Private Ryan. I mean what the hell.

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.

 

[Saltyk]

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.

 

[Asita]

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 Nominees for the 50th Academy Awards (April 3, 1978):

The Goodbye Girl
Julia
Star Wars
Annie Hall (Winner)
The Turning Point

It happens.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Considering some of the other stand out features of the year, Star Wars didn't stand a chance.

 

[mrdude2010]

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.

 

[Zontar]

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.

 

[lacktheknack]

By all accounts, once you remove the nerdgasming, it's a fine film that is not by any stretch "the best of the year". Oh well, I'm sure the producers can dry their tears from not getting nominated with their spare million-dollar bills.

Also apparently Matt Damon is nominated for Best Actor with The Martian, what the hell, he basically walked through that movie barely trying.

inb4 Matt Damon gets Leo's Oscar

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Why... Why does anyone question these sorts of things?

It's an award show put on by an industry that is basically a giant egotistical circle jerk and allow them to dilude themselves into thinking the movie business is about making art when all it is making money like anything else. That's what is, that's all it's ever been, winning an Oscar really shouldn't matter to anyone that's not in the film industry.