Cracker: In Which Damian Grouches about the Oscars
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Oh... and as to "watching each of the nominees, and voting for the best in each category"...
Yes, that IS how its supposed to work... but frequently doesnt.
Often, "The Academy" takes on a Borg-like collective intelligence and votes for a winner that doesnt actually deserve it on this years effort, but was denied one earlier when they should have got it...
Examples... If Scorcese wins this year...
Russel Crowe's Oscar says "Gladiator 2000" but many think he got it for the acting in "The Insider 1999"
Bigger film geeks than me could probably name a dozen off the top of thier heads?
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Bigger film geeks than me could probably name a dozen off the top of thier heads?
Well, I'm probably going to be charged with treason for saying this... but I suspect Peter Jackson's director gong (and the whole Return of the King juggernaut) was rewarding a spectacularly successful trilogy, as much as any qualities in the film itself. It was just their turn.
It also doesn't hurt that Jackson is a consummate player when it comes to PR, and working the endless round of award season events - and I'm not being entirely bitchy or cynical. Nobody could seriously argue that Alfred Hitchcock was a great film-maker, and an enormously successful one over the span of a very long career. But I don't think it was any coincidence that his lack of Oscar success coincided with a *ahem* intensely private, blackly humourous and not always politic demeanour.
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