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Academy Awards, Any Film Awards
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Uhhhh. Didn't RoTK do one better? Didn't it sweep all nominated categories. I don't think Titanic did that nor did Ben Hur.
Anyway, my sense of the Oscars, and other awards, including Cannes and other European ones, is that it is an insiders game. The rest of us don't really matter (except to shell out the shekels to see the flicks). Don't know if that makes it a sham but the politicking and lobbying that goes on for the Oscars, at least, is rather shameless. And the only reason why they are not pumping out digital copies of the movies to impress the Academy's voters this year is because of all the bootlegging that happened with those "free" copies in previous few years.
Excellence is part of it, otherwise I would imagine RoTK didn't have a prayer but I think studio lobbying is a big part of it too.
Edited by - Indy11 on 3/1/2004 5:01:02 PM
Anyway, my sense of the Oscars, and other awards, including Cannes and other European ones, is that it is an insiders game. The rest of us don't really matter (except to shell out the shekels to see the flicks). Don't know if that makes it a sham but the politicking and lobbying that goes on for the Oscars, at least, is rather shameless. And the only reason why they are not pumping out digital copies of the movies to impress the Academy's voters this year is because of all the bootlegging that happened with those "free" copies in previous few years.
Excellence is part of it, otherwise I would imagine RoTK didn't have a prayer but I think studio lobbying is a big part of it too.
Edited by - Indy11 on 3/1/2004 5:01:02 PM
I bow to the correction of my original comment. I guess my point is that RoTK didn't LOSE a single nomination so it sort of makes it one of a kind so far.
Elsewhere, I put up a thread about Jury Duty, which I am on. Here, though I thought would post a question that was asked of us to consider. It was posited by the prosecution by referring to the tv show. We were asked whether we watched the show and whether we remember who the MC was for it. I thought that was a silly question because, although I did not watch it, I'd read the following day's paper (while sitting around waiting to be called) and it reported.... on the front page () who won the biggies, commented on RoTK and evaluated Billy Crystal's performance.
Anyway, I was amazed at how pervasive this Award show permeates into real life.
Edited by - Indy11 on 3/2/2004 7:52:54 PM
Elsewhere, I put up a thread about Jury Duty, which I am on. Here, though I thought would post a question that was asked of us to consider. It was posited by the prosecution by referring to the tv show. We were asked whether we watched the show and whether we remember who the MC was for it. I thought that was a silly question because, although I did not watch it, I'd read the following day's paper (while sitting around waiting to be called) and it reported.... on the front page () who won the biggies, commented on RoTK and evaluated Billy Crystal's performance.
Anyway, I was amazed at how pervasive this Award show permeates into real life.
Edited by - Indy11 on 3/2/2004 7:52:54 PM
Oh.
The question was put to us whether we remembered everything we saw that night. I didn't remember anything because I didn't watch.
BUT, the prosecutor was angling to see whether we would disbelieve someone who didn't remember every detail of what he saw the night of the crime .... as it happened almost a year ago. I thought the prosecutor was a real dingleberry for even
trying to develop that line of jury questioning but... I guess it is all part of watching the "tools" of justice at work.
The question was put to us whether we remembered everything we saw that night. I didn't remember anything because I didn't watch.
BUT, the prosecutor was angling to see whether we would disbelieve someone who didn't remember every detail of what he saw the night of the crime .... as it happened almost a year ago. I thought the prosecutor was a real dingleberry for even
trying to develop that line of jury questioning but... I guess it is all part of watching the "tools" of justice at work.
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