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There has been talk that RoTK will be nominated for Best Picture.

As much as I would thrill to that news, IMHO, it cannot be.

For ROTK cannot stand alone as a complete story without the other 2 films. I hope I'm wrong and this film captivates the voting members as much as it did me.

The movie industry has become too political. In decades past, a movie could win for being a good movie. Now, the only things that seem to win are obscure movies with political messages. It has eased up, to a certain extent. However, rarely does anything in the scifi/fantasy genre win anything other than technical awards. I say that RotK will be nominated for Best Picture, but will not win, which is okay, given that it would be passed over by an organization that gave an award to Michael Moore.

I am not ashamed to tell you that the charge of the Rohirrim brought tears to my eyes. Not only was that one of the best filmed scenes I have ever seen, but it was the most emotionally front loaded scene in the movie.

Big lump in the throat...and I did something I've never done in a movie theater before, I cheered.

Then again, so did about half the people in there with me.

There has been talk that RoTK will be nominated for Best Picture. As much as I would thrill to that news, IMHO, it cannot be.

Oh it will be definately be nominated, as the other two were. And Peter Jackson will be nominated for Best Director.

I forgave the first two movies being passed over for the ~winning~ of those awards... because I understood that they would not want to set a precedent for the films dominating awards three years running, or award the early film and not the last. I fully hope and expect for the academy to award Best Film and Best Director for this one as a way of acknowledging all three.

I think it deserves it, and I think the actors will want to award the studio and the Director for going to the sheer dollars, attention and effort these guys went to just to give actors a grand environment to act in. Sure, they have already been rewarded with money... but I think they will always want the accolades of their peers, and Hollywood will want to encourage other studios to spend big money on "big" epic movies.

That's my theory anyway, and why I will have my fingers crossed.