Chances at the Oscar's?

[Gorwingel]

This is one thing that makes me Mad! I personally think that it is getting clearer and clearer that TTT is going to be nominated for best picture and many of the other catagories that is was nominated in last year. But this is one thing that the Academy is very stupid about, they cannot just warm up to these films. <BR>I really want them to honor the LOTR's films because they are so amazing, and they are going to go down in history, unlike other movies like "A Beautiful Mind" (I saw this movie and enjoyed it but it just did not impress me, I personally think that many people have to think hard to remember what movie won Best Picture in 2002) I think if FOTR would have come out just a year earlier the Academy would have given Best Picture to it over a movie Like "Gladiator" (Sorry to anyone who liked that movie, I just didn't think it deserved such an honor). Like everyone knows that Star Wars was nominated for best picture, but does anyone know what film beat it?<P>With my personal opinion I doubt TTT will win best picture just because. Though I really hope that if TTT doesen't win, that they finally decide to give ROTK what it deserves, Best picture, best director, all the major awards that FOTR missed out on in the past!<P>Also another thing about the Academy (I have always been a very big fan of the Oscars, and it is one of my favorite things to talk about) they tend to go in cycles, one year they give the Best Picture award to a movie like "Titanic" and then the next year they give it to a smaller movie like "American Beauty" (Actually the year after "Titanic" won, "Shakesphere in Love" took home the big prize, but that was still a small movie), so this really increases our chances that a LOTR film will win the big awards. One reason that I think that FOTR did not win last year was because in 2001 the winner of Best Picture was "Gladiator". So the academy thought it was time to give the award to a smaller "acting" film. FOTR was similar to "Gladiator" that it was a big budget movie that used alot of special effects. I hope that this year or in 2004, that the Academy is finally ready to give the big award to a big film. They usually vote in a pattern like this <BR> <P>[ December 30, 2002: Message edited by: Gorwingel ]<p>[ December 31, 2002: Message edited by: Gorwingel ]