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Post by gillianren on Dec 21, 2010 18:56:21 GMT -4
Hence the accolades for 2001. I'm certainly not getting into that debate. Ideally, of course, the Academy awards good movies that are well-made. I think this is often the case. On the other hand, I do think they tend to get caught up in fads. Hence (a greater shame to the Academy) 1997. They did dodge it last year. There's also the Academy's Great Shame, 1941. Oh, How Green Was My Valley is a fine movie. On the other hand, it will be known forever as "the movie that beat Citizen Kane for Best Picture." Yes, the technical awards tend to favour blockbusters, and that's as it should be. Heck, they even nominated Norbit--one of the worst movies of the year and possibly ever released by a major studio--for Best Makeup, which it arguably deserved. It's just that good blockbusters with special effects equal to Transformers are sadly underrepresented.
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Post by Jason on Dec 22, 2010 0:55:47 GMT -4
2001 only won a best effects Oscar. The best picture of the year: Oliver! 2001 is #85 on IMDB. Oliver isn't in the top 250.
The only blockbuster/big effects film that has won some of the other categories (like best film) that I know of is Return of the King, and I felt it was basically recognition for the whole trilogy rather than that film.
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