The film is ... different and I can very much see how someone would not like it. The strange thing is if the same film were made of, say, a fictional Communist in a Nazi death camp, it would have been a runaway choice, I think. It was an artistic film, as another poster said, and -- had it been unsuccessful in America, particularly "red" America -- would have been a popular Oscar choice. Award winning films do not have to be entertaining, they just have to have superior artistic merit. It should do something different.
We'll see. If Passion gets snubbed for all awards, even technical ones, I think we can chalk it up to bias. I'm sure that the Academy probably tends to want to avoid controversy after having Hollywood hit so hard this past year. We'll see how M. Moore does.
I don't know about. People have compared the Gibson film to something like 'Schindler's List' but seem to be forgetting that the latter really wasn't very violent...it was disturbing artful suggeston most of the time. I don't think a 2 hour gorefest would get a nomination regardless of who it was about.
I'd be surprised if Moore gets anything. As I've said before he is not a Hollywood elite but an outsider who they have found mildly amusing but are now surely sick of. You never see people like George Clooney or Steven Spielberg hanging around with him. We'll see on 1/25 when the nominations are announced.