Posted on 01/25/2005 5:53:22 AM PST by Borges
The Academy's Rule 14 says a Best Foreign Film entry's "dialogue track must be predominantly in a language of the country of origin except when the story mandates that an additional non-English language be predominant."
Works for me.
Years ago, almost in Shalespeares time, we had an English expert at our High School.
Turns out an awful lot of what he wrote isn't even understandable today. Various literal, social, and political references. Some of what he wrote would be almost x-rated now.
She's also completely foolish and ignorant of the damage she does which is shown. The Pro life position is given as good a hearing in that film as any I've ever seen.
Strange that the Passion gets nominated for make-up, since the "critics" main complaint was:
The blood, the (bloody bodysuit on Christ was obvious).
And the way the Jews in the flim faces were made to look creepy.
Shaving Ryan's Privates - blech!!!! Spielberg is vastly over rated.
X rated is right. He invented the modern idea of secular entertainment. Love's Labours Lost is virtually incomprehensible these days because of all the topical references.
The only people that voted on the best makeup nomination for Passion were movie makeup artists. No critics were involved.
Either have I.
I would much rather watch Old Re-Runs of the Dick Van Dyke SHow and Andy Griffith than the Movies Hollywood Puts Out!
Jim Cavizel films the entire movie with a separated and cracked collar bone....portrays Christ like never before...and gets zero in the way of recognition from his fellow Hollywood elite.
Mel Gibson creates one of the most moving films of all time not to mention one of the highest grossing films of all time and....gets zero in the way of recognition from his fellow Hollywood elite.
Same thing goes for the woman who played Mary...zero respect.
This is really criminal. If they didn't want to give it the nod for Best Picture they could have given the nod to it in the Best Foreign Film category but no..they couldn't even do that.
They could have loaded up on the minor awards at the very least like adding in Best Art Direction,Sound Mixing,Costume Design,and Film Editing along with the other 3 to give it more than a 3 nomination bit.
I am so over this crap. The out and out nerve to deny what may very well become the best made movie of our time its day in the sun.
I hope Gibson sticks it to them and makes another smash in this genre and takes home another billion dollars.
I heard years ago that the Redgrave family and by connection Liam Neesom who is married to the daughter of one of the Redgrave's are blacklisted from the academy awards because they used to make anti Israel and pro communist comments, or something like that. I noticed Neesom wasn't nominated for Kinsey, not that I approve of the movie, but I wonder if he's being snubbed. He was snubbed in Schindler's List as well.
I'll eat my hat if Mike Leigh is pro life. However, it is the sign of a good artist when they can show the other side of an argument while still having their side win in an oh so subtle way.
Personally, if it were me, I'd consider that a compliment.
And, FWIW, I think the phrase Hollywood elite is an oxymoron :)
So I figured that "VD" was the pro-abortion infomercial this year. "Million-Dollar Baby" is the euthanasia film. Usually there's an anti-capital punishment flick too; don't know that there's one this year.
The only new movies I saw last year were (ranked in order of how I liked them):
1. National Treasure
2. The Incredibles
3. Spider-Man 2
4. Shrek 2
5. The Polar Express
(I'll probably end up seeing the Harry Potter movie, too. I have a nine-year-old daughter.)
How is "Sideways"? Of the films I haven't seen, that one sounds like it might be the most interesting. I will see an "R"-rated film if it's good overall and any immoral values don't overpower the rest of the film.
Cases in point: I liked "Under the Tuscan Sun," even though they could have changed two things (totaling just a few minutes) and made those parts less offensive, because the rest of the film had so much going for it that I liked. But I absolutely despised "American Beauty," the most repugnant "acclaimed" film I have ever seen.
The subcategories are only voted on by people that actually have those jobs in film.
The only thing the whole academy votes on is best film.
The academy isn't some tiny panel where there are political negotiations on what to "snub."
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