Official Oscar thread - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Marileangorifurnimaluim · 03-25-2002, 01:38 AM

Actually, there's such a thing as losing because of stiff competition, which was the case the adapted screenplay with "A Beautiful Mind." Also, there was little chance the FotR could win best picture. It could win for best third of a picture , but it wasn't complete. <P>Peter Jackson could have swept the Oscars in 2003 if he'd released all three movies six months apart in the same year. But it would not have given him the time to edit, the time to guage fans reactions to the first movie so he could fine-tune the next, and it would have caused at least one of the movies to miss a major holiday saturation and the ticket sales would not have been the same. <P>Peter Jackson scheduled the movie releases for the maximum quality and ticket sales, not awards. <P>So it's nice that he won what he did.<P>I predict Elijah Wood will win best supporting actor for the RotK though.

03-25-2002, 01:38 AM	#1
Marileangorifurnimaluim Eerie Forest Spectre Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Buried in scrolls of fanfiction Posts: 798	Actually, there's such a thing as losing because of stiff competition, which was the case the adapted screenplay with "A Beautiful Mind." Also, there was little chance the FotR could win best picture. It could win for best third of a picture , but it wasn't complete. <P>Peter Jackson could have swept the Oscars in 2003 if he'd released all three movies six months apart in the same year. But it would not have given him the time to edit, the time to guage fans reactions to the first movie so he could fine-tune the next, and it would have caused at least one of the movies to miss a major holiday saturation and the ticket sales would not have been the same. <P>Peter Jackson scheduled the movie releases for the maximum quality and ticket sales, not awards. <P>So it's nice that he won what he did.<P>I predict Elijah Wood will win best supporting actor for the RotK though. __________________ Deserves death! I daresay he does... And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them?