Re: the Oscars (was: Nazi sympathies soft-pedaled in The King's Speech?)

I was disappointed that Chris Nolan was snubbed for Inception - none of
those 8 nominations were for Best Director.

Johne Cook
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Peter T. Chattaway <
petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Lance McLain wrote:
>
>> Best Picture for The Social Network?  You're kidding?
>>
>
> It was actually considered the front-runner -- winning critics' awards
> left, right and centre -- until last Sunday, when the Producers Guild Award
> went to The King's Speech instead.  Granted, the PGA and the Oscars have
> only agreed about 2/3 of the time, but it still sent shockwaves through the
> ranks of Oscar punditry, and convinced everyone that this year's Oscars
> would be a genuine "race" and not just a coronation.
>
> And *then*, on Tuesday, the Oscar nominees were announced -- and The King's
> Speech had 12 nominations, while True Grit had 10 and The Social Network was
> tied with Inception for third-most nominations, i.e. 8.
>
> And if you follow the rule of thumb which says that the movie with the most
> nominations wins Best Picture, this would definitely seem to give The King's
> Speech the best shot at winning the top prize.
>
> The Social Network is still in the running, though.  Inception doesn't have
> a chance because it wasn't nominated for Best Director (the last film to
> overcome this hurdle was 1989's Driving Miss Daisy, which at least had the
> advantage of having the most nominations period), and True Grit doesn't
> stand a chance because it wasn't nominated for Best Film Editing (the last
> film to win without being nominated in that category was 1980's Ordinary
> People) and it also wasn't nominated for the Directors Guild Award (an award
> that has agreed with the Oscar for Best Director and/or Picture on all but a
> handful of occasions in its 60-ish-year history).
>
> Apart from The King's Speech and The Social Network, there are only two
> other Best Picture nominees that meet the nominated-for-DGA and
> nominated-for-Best-Film-Editing requirements, namely The Fighter and Black
> Swan.  But Black Swan is pretty much out of the running because it failed to
> get a nomination for its screenplay, and it's extremely rare for a film to
> win Best Picture without a screenplay nomination; the last time it happened
> was for 1997's Titanic (which, again, at least had the advantage of having
> more nominations period than any other film).
>
> So that leaves only The King's Speech, The Social Network and The Fighter
> as serious contenders.  And, yeah, huh, interesting: they're all "true
> stories" of one sort or another (and they all feature characters who are
> still alive today; in The King's Speech, we get a glimpse of the king's
> daughters, one of whom still sits on the throne as Queen Elizabeth II).
>
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