[hobbit punk]

It is true about the whole " a film shouldn't be nominated because it draws a crowd" thing because if that were true you might as well change the name of the Oscars to the MTV Movie Awards and have Crossroads win best picture. And I do agree that the academy does tend to ignore fantasy and sci-fi and chooses "overcoming adversity" and historical pictures. And many films deserve the awards they get but in recent years I have seen a draught in film making that seems to be tearing any integrity or creativity out of the business. All these comic book movies and sequels are evidence of this. The LOTR's movies are trying to break this and I think FOTR had a big chance of that and TTT as well but on a lesser scale. ROTK will decide the award's fate for these films and I can only hope that it will blow us all away. And I do agree with the statement that there haven't been too many good fantasy fims made. They might have been entertaining but certainly not Oscar calibre.