The Oscar nominees are announced!

Chris Nolan got snubbed by the Oscar, again. Seriously, what is Academy's beef with Nolan, anyway? I'm also disappointed that Noomi Rapace (from Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) did not get any nomination.

Why the hell do people care about these boring award shows anyway? Though I guess they make good sleep aids

FieryRed said:

Chris Nolan got snubbed by the Oscar, again. Seriously, what is Academy's beef with Nolan, anyway? I'm also disappointed that Noomi Rapace (from Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) did not get any nomination.

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I don't think they have a beef with him. They just thought five other directors were better.

Having only five Best Director nominations with ten Best Picture nominations is such a problem, though. It's like there are five "real" nominations and five "pander to the viewing audience so our ratings stop sucking" nominations. :redface2:

Keep in mind that a lot of who gets nominated and who doesn't also comes down in big part to studio politics and momentum and who is willing to "campaign."

The Oscars can make for a good "recommended movies" list and it's a good way to give the spotlight to movies that would otherwise get overlooked. But it's such a political game, it's not worth getting worked up about who wins and loses.

FieryRed said:

Chris Nolan got snubbed by the Oscar, again. Seriously, what is Academy's beef with Nolan, anyway? I'm also disappointed that Noomi Rapace (from Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) did not get any nomination.

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He made a super hero movie. That's all it really takes. The oscars mean dick to me.

KouAidou said:

I don't think they have a beef with him. They just thought five other directors were better.

Having only five Best Director nominations with ten Best Picture nominations is such a problem, though. It's like there are five "real" nominations and five "pander to the viewing audience so our ratings stop sucking" nominations. :redface2:

Keep in mind that a lot of who gets nominated and who doesn't also comes down in big part to studio politics and momentum and who is willing to "campaign."

The Oscars can make for a good "recommended movies" list and it's a good way to give the spotlight to movies that would otherwise get overlooked. But it's such a political game, it's not worth getting worked up about who wins and loses.

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The reason Oscar now go with 10 BP noms instead of the traditional 5 is because of the snub they did to TDK and Wall-E a few years ago. That created a backlash and the Oscars handlers thought that by expanding the noms to 10, they won't leave any fan-favorites out. It is probably also a scheme to help the rating since they believe many fans of the BP noms will tune in to see if their favorite film will win the big one, although I think it will probably be awarded to either The Social Network or The King's Speech. Unfortunately, Inception has a long shot to win this one.

FieryRed said:

The reason Oscar now go with 10 BP noms instead of the traditional 5 is because of the snub they did to TDK and Wall-E a few years ago. That created a backlash and the Oscars handlers thought that by expanding the noms to 10, they won't leave any fan-favorites out. It is probably also a scheme to help the rating since they believe many fans of the BP noms will tune in to see if their favorite film will win the big one, although I think it will probably be awarded to either The Social Network or The King's Speech. Unfortunately, Inception has a long shot to win this one.

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The social network was one of the most boring movies ever made. I could give two shits about how facebook came into being.

FieryRed said:

The reason Oscar now go with 10 BP noms instead of the traditional 5 is because of the snub they did to TDK and Wall-E a few years ago. That created a backlash and the Oscars handlers thought that by expanding the noms to 10, they won't leave any fan-favorites out. It is probably also a scheme to help the rating since they believe many fans of the BP noms will tune in to see if their favorite film will win the big one, although I think it will probably be awarded to either The Social Network or The King's Speech. Unfortunately, Inception has a long shot to win this one.

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Pretty much. Ratings do have a lot to do with it-- there's a proven correlation between the ratings of the awards show and the box office gross of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

The highest-rated award show in recent memory was the one where Return of the King took Best Picture. Prior to that, the highest-rated ceremony of the last 30 years was the one where Titanic won. When the five nominees are all small indie pictures grossing under $100 million BO, ratings notably lag.

Last year's experiment with the 10-Pictures idea yielded the ceremony's highest ratings in five years, so it seems to be working for them.

As I said, personally, I like to use the awards more as a way to find out about smaller movies that don't get a lot of publicity, so when it comes to Best Picture, I don't especially care about seeing the movie I like best win. Inception made a billion dollars and Nolan is one of the most powerful directors in Hollywood. Neither needs an award to legitimize their accomplishments.