RotK 11 Oscar Nominations!!!

[samati75]

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Sniff, sniff, so happy! Leading the pack, Master and Commander has 10. But I had heard rumours that Sean Astin might get a Supporting Actor nod. I guess not. ONE acting nom would have been nice, don't you think?

[stellar]

Sean Astin was a HUGE oversight.

I've heard a lot of good things about Lost In Translation, but to give Sofia Coppola a Director's Nomination is pure nepotism. Every criticism I've read listed the direction as the only flaw for that movie.

Yay for Johnny Depp.

[ChianaMuse]

:grr: :mad: :bawl: :boom: :evil: :headbang: :franky: :grabbounc :tonbricks :ballchain :trooper:

i am not happy with this. sean astin deserved to at LEAST be nominated. and i personally would have hoped he would have won. he deserves it.

[samati75]

Speaking of Johnny Depp, do you know where on the Pirates DVD the interview w/ Keith Richards is?

Also, have you read this?
http://www.flickfilosopher.com/flickfilos/articles/lotrdrinking.shtml
Funny. Very funny.

http://oscar.com/nominees/nomineelist.html

Yeah, Bill Murray! I haven't seen the movie yet, but I think the nom is deserving. No Nicole Kidman? Shocked. Not that I cared, but surprised. And thank Goodness Tom Cruise was not nominated!

[stellar]

I though a Sean Astin nom was a foregone conclusion. I cannot fathom why he was not. I too thought he was a shoe-in to win.

[NYPinTA]

11?! WOO HOO! :joy:

Yeah, it would have been nice if Sean Astin got a nomination.

(who was nominated?)

[samati75]

http://oscar.com/nominees/nomineelist.html

Click this link.

[NYPinTA]

You are the Queen of the Links! Thank you. :D

[samati75]

lol, only cause I don't have a DAMN thing to do. Actually, we got busy yesterday, and it's kinds spilling over to today.

[samati75]

But I wanted to share these links with you all:



This one is about Viggo and his politics (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20040112/cm_usatoday/actorspoliticspollutering)


One is Sean on his career: (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040119/film_nm/leisure_astin_dc_2)

[NYPinTA]

I just finished the article on Sean Astin and all I want to know is: what do they mean he isn't a star!! Hellooooo! "Goonies" anyone? Duh. :rollin:

[zap]

SEAN ASTIN WAS ROBBED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :whip: :grr: frellin oscar nominators are WEENIES :evil: :argue: :g2f:

[samati75]

Well, its a shame that in society, there is the FAMOUS people (Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, etc.) and "everyone else". I REALLY thought Sean would be nominated, and am ashamed that the Acadamy has become such a back-slap fest of popularity. "Oh, he just played a hobbit, instead of some fictious civil-war character." Nominating him, or anyone else from there, like Ian McKellen would have been admitting they were wrong (Like Miramax, who got a cut anyway) for not doing this WONDERFUL movie.

Oh, well, I guess we should be "grateful" that RotK is nominted and has a fairly good chance of winning.

[Bandana Girl]

Well I must say that he has quite a bit of competition within his own movie. Not that Sean Astin wasn't great but everyone was amazing. Elijah Wood made me cry on my 5th viewing of ROTK. That's something special.

[AyuRocks]

11 nominations is AMAZING, although I am super pissed none of the cast got nominated for anything. LOTR had probably the best cast out of any movie that I've seen, this is a HUGE oversight.

And Johnny Depp in Pirates... ::shakes head:: Am I the only one that thinks he wasn't all that great in it? He was good, but DEFINATELY not on an Oscar level.

Ashley

[generic_screenname]

Originally posted by AyuRocks


And Johnny Depp in Pirates... ::shakes head:: Am I the only one that thinks he wasn't all that great in it? He was good, but DEFINATELY not on an Oscar level.


I think it's great because that type of role usually doesn't get recognized. But I thought he was better in "Once Upon a Time in Mexico"

[vhsiv]

Agrguably, he was better in 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico', but whatever...

I still think 'Pirates' was overly long by 15-30 minutes. On art direction, it could possibly compete with ROTK, but the rest? ehhhh...

[samati75]

Joel Siegel's Oscar Predictions ABC.com (http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pub&dt=040127&cat=entertainment&st=entertainmentsiegel_oscar_picks_040126&src=abc)

This was posted online by Joel Seigel before the noms were announced. He says what he thinks is going to be picked, then chooses (marked by the asterisks) what he would have picked (but he didn't think the Acedemy would). Notice how he picked Sean, but wished Djimon Honsou would also. The reverse happened IRL! In fact, most of his "wishes" were nominted, in fact!

Sean Astin, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Alec Baldwin, The Cooler
Benicio del Toro, 21 Grams
Tim Robbins, Mystic River
Ken Watanabe, The Last Samurai
**Djimon Honsou, In America

Take a look at what else he "predicted".

[Saajak]

One of the guys on the local radio morning show went on a 15 minute rant about Sean Astin not being nominated for at least Best Supporting Actor. He wasn't happy about Johnny Depp's nomination, either. Myself, I think Sean definitely deserved a nom for Best Supporting actor.

[AnnieBW]

I'm bummed that neither Sean, Elijah, nor Andy Serkis got nominated, but I am happy that Keisha Castle-Hughes from "Whale Rider" got nominated. That little girl was frelling AMAZING! "Whale Rider" was the movie that Jonathan Hardy was talking about in Burbank, BTW. Several of the actors in the movie were in his theater company. If you haven't seen it yet, go out and rent it ASAP.

- Annie

[AyuRocks]

Didn't someone in the cast at Burbank say that the girl from whale rider deserved an Oscar? Might have been Raelee since she was on the panel with Jonathan.

I really need to rent that movie, I've only heard good things about it.

Ashley

[grinner]

I agree that Depp was much better in 'Once upon a time in Mexico' but I still like 'El Mariachi' better than either that or 'Desperado'

[stellar]

El Mariachi is definately the better film. Movies always turn out better when the hero isn't a bad ass immortal with an endless gun magazine. Haven't seen 1nce upon a time in mexico yet.

[NYPinTA]

Originally posted by stellar
El Mariachi is definately the better film. Movies always turn out better when the hero isn't a bad ass immortal with an endless gun magazine. Haven't seen 1nce upon a time in mexico yet.

I haven't seen El Mariachi but I liked Desperado. I thought it was funny. But then I was watching it with the idea that those gun fight scenes were supposed to be satiricle. I mean a rocket launcher in a guitar case?? Thats funny.

[Harvey'schurl]

that none of the actors got nominated from Lord of the Rings. I personally think Wood or Astin or both should have been since they were the meatier parts of the movie. It's hard to nominate Serkis since his character wasn't "real". But it's a fantasy movie the fact it got nominated for best picture & director may have nothing to do with the third movie being that good but in general (I thought it was but am biased towards action/fantasy/ epic movies) for making 3 movies which really is one "big" movie. More for the effort then the overall product.

So I can see them being overlooked.

I think it's nice that Johnny Depp got nominated since he did get a lot of buzz about it when the movie first came out. I personally loved the movie. So what if it was long in places. The Lord of the Rings movies wee really long in some places that I found boring but the overall product was worth the time for me.

Priates is one of my favorites. It's not oscar worthy. His performance was quirky enough I think to deserve a nomination (supporting). He made the movie along with Geoffrey Rush (little disappointed he hasn't gotten any recognition). It really wouldn't have been that good without the cast that was in it or how he & Rush played their characters. You don't have to do dramatic over the top performances to be a good actor or to make a part your own. He did a good job, something distinctive to his style. Although I'd make him more of a mix between Burt Lancasters Crimson pirate & yellowbeard with a Pepee Lepew.

Nominations for acting to me is to recognize the effort, the ability to make a part your own. Could you see someone else in that part and making it unique or noteworthy?

They did come up with some cool special effects that they developed something new for (I believe). So I have no problem with that nomination.

[ChianaMuse]

The thing about the LotR movies is that you have to take each movie seperately. Except maybe the music, but even that...And you can't nominate each actor for each movie in general. Take Ian McKellen for instance, his part and portayal of Gandalf in FotR was phenominal (I still think he should have won). But in TTT and RotK, his part isn't oscar nomination worthy. Nothing wrong with his acting, but the part doesn't call for what it did in the first movie.
Sean Astin, however, really deserved to be at least nominated for his Samwise in RotK. I don't think any sane person left the theatre without feeling that he was the strongest actor in that movie.

edited because i can't spell

[samati75]

Same girl who I posted before has funny comments on the noms:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mollyringwraith/

[NYPinTA]

Hey! I was just reading through some of the comments and they are playing the 'pants' game too! :rollin:

[akimbo]

Originally posted by samati75
Same girl who I posted before has funny comments on the noms:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mollyringwraith/

:rollin:

But overall the mood was one of mild disgust. As Lord Aragorn put it to reporters, "The day may come when the Academy is able to find their ass with a flashlight. But this is not that day."

:spew:


And I agree with stellar (a few pages back) about Sophia Coppola's direction. I thought the movie made its point very quickly and then I almost fell asleep.

[AnnieBW]

Yeah! Molly J. Ringwraith RULES!!! :D

[AyuRocks]

Just watched Whale Rider... I hope Keisha wins!!!!

Ashley