[JenB]

Robbed? ITA. Lousy anti-"fantasy" weirdoes - what's ABM, anyway, if not a fantasy? LotR should have won at least five of the awards it did not win, especially best adapted screenplay. I don't know why I'm so mad about that one - yes I do. It's because in dissing LotR for ABM there too, they somehow imply that Tolkien's epic story, the greatest fictional work of the 20th century, is less signifigant to them than some biography about an insane mathematician.

ABM, cast and crew, should be hit with an ICBM. Or sent to Siberia. Especially Russell Crowe.

[Penny1]

LOL, I am so with you, Jen.

I KNEW that we wouldn't take best adapted screenplay, but it still was one of the ones that made me angriest. Not only does it slam Tolkien himself, since the movie was so faithful to his work, but it slams the idea of being faithful to one's source material. After all, if the screenplay that most deviates from the original material is ALWAYS the one that gets the awards, that means that obviously Hollywood is much, much better at telling a story than the writers are.

Bah! I hate the academy. In weird sort of way, I'm getting some satisfaction that because of them snubbing LOTR I can continue to despise the academy-even moreso than I did before.

[HairOfTheDog]

There are other forces at work beside the will of evil, Jen. We were meant to lose Best Picture... and Best Adapted Screenplay... and Best Director... And that is an encouraging thought.

Don't worry Frodo, I didn't feel better when Gandalf tried this line of reasoning either.