I hate to go back to the BIG story of the day. But, when was the last time a film received a nomination from the PGA, DGA, WGA, Cinematographers guild and Oscar nominations for cinematography and editing, but failed to get a best picture nomination? (BTW, This isn't a trick question).
January 22, 2009
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I guess Into the Wild or Dreamgirls. I pretty much don't even want to talk about it anymore, it pisses me off too much. In fact, I doubt that I will watch much of the ceremony at all, aside from occasionally tuning in when TDK is up for something, and for Best Actor. This year's race has within seconds become boring and infuriating. I'm done with this. I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I just want to forget about this tragedy. And I want Harvey Weinstein to burn in hell.
ReplyDeleteP.S. Not to beat a dead horse, but TWO factions were responsible for this outrage. WB has just as much blame as the AMPAS. They were so complacent with their campaigning, and effectively abandoned the TDK campaign at the crucial moment in favor of pushing Gran Torino.
I think it was Into the Wild.
ReplyDeleteOkay I want to reply to Kevin. You need to calm down. The Dark Knight never had much of a chance to be nominated for the big prize so I don't know why you're burning the academy at the stake for not nominating it. When you think about it the Academy in the past few years didn't award or even nominate what should have been Best Picture (Dreamgirls, Cold Mountain, Into the Wild...) so it's hardly a surprize that this happened again. Also, Harvey Weinstein is so rich I seriously doubt he would care if you wanted him to burn in hell. In fact, he wouldprobably see that, buy hell and then make you burn in it.
And another thing, WB could have done alot worse when it came to advertising for TDK, remember, they DID have alot of great movies to promote this year and I seriously doubt that their #1 priority was TDK, what with Gran Torino AND The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (which had a grand total of THIRTEEN nominations). TDK was arguably the most promoted oscarfilm of the year next to Ben Button, Revolutionary Road and maybe Milk, so I don't think WB deserves to be railed on like it did.