Re: the Oscars (was: Nazi sympathies soft-pedaled in The King's Speech?)
pcg <[email protected]>
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> FWIW, last year's winner -- The Hurt Locker -- elicited a similar reaction > from some people. *That* film actually premiered at the Toronto > International Film Festival in 2008 ... but it didn't have its regular > theatrical release until 2009, so it won Best Picture for *that* year ... > and a number of the people who saw it at TIFF in 2008 said they couldn't > remember there being any buzz around the film when it showed at the > festival, so they were surprised to see it win all these awards (critics' > awards, etc., plus the Oscar) after it played in regular theatres. I think that's a movie that gained a lot of sentimental momentum. It was a "Iraq movie" that didn't have an overbearing political message, a strong lead performance from a relative unknown, a much-admired but little-lauded female director (who happened to be divorced from one of the least sympathetic Oscar winners in recent memory); as such, I think people liked it more the more they thought about it and talked about it. Personally, I liked the movie, but was dumbstruck when it won. -- -pcg [email protected] -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot