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    3 Ways the Academy Needs To Fix the Foreign-Film Oscar

    'Waltz With Bashir' And 'The Class' Lead Oscars' Foreign Finalists

    Today in Awards Hell: 'WALL-E' Beaten Into Submission by Animated Israelis

    How the Academy Rigs the Animated Oscar for CGI Behemoths

    Today in Cannes Hell: Bush Billboards, Early Favorites and Sean Penn Being A Dick
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    Image of HwoodHills HwoodHills
    02/23/09

    In reply to 3 Ways the Academy Needs To Fix the Foreign-Film Oscar
    Here's the problem with your post:


    1. It uses logic.


    The End.

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    Image of logicalnoise logicalnoise
    02/23/09

    In reply to 3 Ways the Academy Needs To Fix the Foreign-Film Oscar
    this years BS, sweden didn't submit "let the right one in" because no one on sweden commitee wanted a vampire flick to represent sweden. Springsteen got DQ'd because he put "the wrestler" on his new cd. along with 3 blatant death list snubs(George carlin, peter monaghan, and dolemite himself!) the academy seems like a cold heartless place to me.
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    Image of happymisanthrope happymisanthrope
    02/23/09

    @logicalnoise: "Let the right one in" didn't qualify because it wasn't released in Sweden until after September 30th. It is eligible for the Oscar next year though, whether or not Sweden would submit it is another question.
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    Image of Mark Ebner Mark Ebner
    02/23/09

    In reply to 3 Ways the Academy Needs To Fix the Foreign-Film Oscar
    Where was GOMORRAH?
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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    02/23/09

    @Mark Ebner: The bargain bin.
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    Image of HoneyBearKelly HoneyBearKelly
    02/23/09

    In reply to 3 Ways the Academy Needs To Fix the Foreign-Film Oscar
    Can somebody explain why Gamorrah wasn't nominated?
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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    02/23/09

    @HoneyBearKelly: It is unwatchable.
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    Image of DaeSu DaeSu
    02/23/09

    In reply to 3 Ways the Academy Needs To Fix the Foreign-Film Oscar
    OK, so prohibitive favorites "The Class" and "Waltz with Bashir" lost. Is it possible, just possible, that "Departures" is a better film??
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    02/23/09

    @DaeSu: Took the words out of my mouth. I can't say I've seen any of these foreign language nominees this year, but it's hardly unheard-of for the Oscar "favorites" to be inferior to the supposed also-rans. And occasionally, the Academy surprises by getting it right.


    That said, I say we disband the blue ribbon commission and instead set up a blue riband commission. That'll keep them occupied for a while!

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    Image of Hooplehead Hooplehead
    02/23/09

    @DaeSu: Departures may be better than The Class, which didn't look that amazing. But Departures would have to be the movie of the year to be better than Waltz With Bashir. WWB was gripping and powerful and amazing, and it deserved the damn award.
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    Image of Colander Colander
    02/23/09

    In reply to 3 Ways the Academy Needs To Fix the Foreign-Film Oscar
    I'm sure they'll start fixing some of the more bullshit aspects if it seems like people will start caring enough to actually watch the show.
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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    11/12/08

    In reply to How the Academy Rigs the Animated Oscar for CGI Behemoths
    If they didn't have this category animation would get even LESS attention. If it was lumped in with everything else you would occasionally see a Pixar up for best picture and that's about it. Just FYI, there are the ANNIES, if you want a better idea of what's up each year in animation:


    [www.annieawards.org]

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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    11/12/08

    In reply to How the Academy Rigs the Animated Oscar for CGI Behemoths
    I suppose the option of ignoring the politics of Oscar noms is just too troublesome?
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    Image of Cosette Cosette
    11/11/08

    In reply to How the Academy Rigs the Animated Oscar for CGI Behemoths
    Waltz with Bashir's execution of such political issues..! Never has a film captured the sense of dissociation/depersonalization amongst soldiers/civilians in war time as did this work; namely, the recurring scene wherein the soldiers, zombie-like and listless, (re) emerge out of the water...(don't worry this spoils absolutely nothing)...


    I rarely speak effusively of films, but this particular work resonated with me for days.

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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/12/08

    @Cosette:


    I had to share that after reading your post, I would like to resonate with you for days too. That's all. Carry on.

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    Image of Cosette Cosette
    11/12/08

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming but are you as intricately wrought with equal parts pained/ambivalent opacity and haunting numbness? so amazing..
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/12/08

    @Cosette:


    Now I have to see the movie. Yes, that's me exactly.

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    11/11/08

    In reply to How the Academy Rigs the Animated Oscar for CGI Behemoths
    I'm hoping in the future the world will be nerdy enough for "Anime" to have its own category, although it will be difficult to classify what fits into that with the crossbreeding of American and Asian styles. Personally, few animated films have made me happier than Wall-E and The Iron Giant but I can't even effectively compare them mentally to feature Anime films.
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    Image of Mark 2000 Mark 2000
    11/11/08

    In reply to How the Academy Rigs the Animated Oscar for CGI Behemoths
    Down with Pixar, for goodness sake. I mean, their stuff is good, but Persepolis was so much better artistically and storywise than the cooking rat. The should just call the Animation oscar the Pixar Oscar at this rate.
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    11/11/08

    @Mark 2000: This brings up a question I haven't taken the time to look up the answer to and maybe you or someone else knows, is the Oscar for animated film supposed to be given to the best technical achievement in animation or the best overall artistic achievement rendered in animation or is it basically whatever the hell the academy voters think at the time?
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    Image of happymisanthrope happymisanthrope
    11/11/08

    @Mark 2000: really? I found Persepolis to be episodic. It was something I could enjoy but not really love. Ratatouille is a movie I fell in love with.


    And WALL*E takes chances, artistically speaking, and it doesn't talk down to audience the way most movies -- for children or adults -- do.

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    Image of franklinshepard franklinshepard
    11/11/08

    In reply to How the Academy Rigs the Animated Oscar for CGI Behemoths
    Question: that list isn't every animated film that came out this past year, right? Where's Space Chimps? Why would an animated movie come out that wasn't submitting for consideration for this award?
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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    11/12/08

    @franklinshepard: Maybe Space Chimps wasn't entered ecause it really sucked. Even my nephew didn't like it and he likes everything animated. They only need 16 entries to bump up to 5 nominees. It is up to the studios to submit. So the list does not reflect all the films that came out; it is those that qualified and were submitted.
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    Image of homoviper homoviper
    11/11/08

    In reply to How the Academy Rigs the Animated Oscar for CGI Behemoths
    For what it's worth, Bashir, I believe, is also being submitted for the foreign language film Oscar.
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    Image of Triborough Triborough
    11/11/08

    In reply to How the Academy Rigs the Animated Oscar for CGI Behemoths
    I stopped caring about the Oscars years ago. They are just a useless waste of time.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    11/11/08

    @Triborough: "I also don't care about politics, oh audience reading comments on a political post. And I want you to know."


    <3

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    Image of MercuryPDX MercuryPDX
    11/11/08

    In reply to How the Academy Rigs the Animated Oscar for CGI Behemoths
    the statue has only gone to a non-Hollywood production had something to once, when Japanese-bankrolled phenomenon Spirited Away nabbed the prize.


    I'm sure being affiliated with Buena Vista (aka Disney) didn't hurt its chances at either making the list or winning. ;)


    I fully agree that there shouldn't be a "cap". They can just lump it into the "Awards we gave out but you didn't see on TV" category if time constraints are the only reason.

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