You big silly - NARNIA didn't appeal to the elite group of critics who nominate the films. If C.S. Lewis had written about children coming of age sexually and exploring their homo-erotic notions in an allegorical world - then it would have got the big awards. But as it is, the film was just too decent and it told too nice of a story (the kind where evil loses) for the bath-house boys to appreciate.
Writers of bbm, short story writer included, dont even compare to CS Lewis.
Maybe if Sir Thomnas had tried to mate with the beaver and the fox at the same time, they could have won something.
Narnia was a great movie.
I don't want to defend Hollywood here, but they did award Return of the King a couple years ago, and Tolkien clearly was a Christian author. I didn't believe Narnia was nearly as good as the Lord of the Rings movies (it was kind of Lord of the Rings and Passion of the Christ lite), though it was a decent kid's film. I can't help feeling a lot of people feel this movie should win primarily because of its Christian allegorical component. That's not any different from liberals wanting Brokeback Mountain to win because of the pro-gay message. In other words, people are responding as much to the messages as the inherent quality of the films. Nothing new there.
As for the whole gay thing, gay films really haven't done that well at the Oscars. Hanks got an award for playing an AIDS sufferer, ridiculously beating Liam Neeson in Schindler's List and Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day, but that was something like twelve years ago. Obviously Brokeback Mountain is going to win best picture, but the PR guys for the film really played their hand perfectly. They did what Million Dollar Baby did last year, building up a lot of press buzz and expanding along with the awards shows.
Also, it's funny about the woman playing the preop transexual winning, but that's froma movie practically nobody has seen and she'll lose at the Oscar to Reese Witherspoon, for playing June Carter--not exactly liberal! And the guy playing Capote probably will win, but that movie did not make him really sympathetic--just the opposite, they were quite critical of him. Capote is a small movie, but an interesting one that conservatives can enjoy.