'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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There are a lot of Oscars that boil down to "Oops, you did great work last year (or even years ago), so here's the statue retroactively."
As ecstatic as I was over all the Oscars dumped on Return of the King, I also feel like giving them all the statues they were nominated for was more a reward for the effort of the whole project, rather than awards for the merits of RotK itself.
I'm also wondering if Swank might win again. On the one hand, I think she's too young to deserve a second Oscar, and I can't believe the voters wouldn't feel the same, especially since she didn't do much interesting work between "Boys Don't Cry" and now. On the other, her part is the type most likely to win an Oscar (overcoming obstacles, no glamorous makeup, etc.)
I think that might be the main thing against her, because the Academy voters do seem to think that way sometimes. But I wouldn't be surprised if she won.
Has Laura Linney ever won?
more a reward for the effort of the whole project, rather than awards for the merits of RotK itself.
Perhaps. But I think that the LotR movies were something of a special case. In a sense it's one really, really, really long movie subdivided for the sake of people's butts.
As ecstatic as I was over all the Oscars dumped on Return of the King, I also feel like giving them all the statues they were nominated for was more a reward for the effort of the whole project, rather than awards for the merits of RotK itself.
Absolutely. (I mean, I was glad to see the trilogy win, but I thought RotK was by far the weakest film of the three.)
I also feel like giving them all the statues they were nominated for was more a reward for the effort of the whole project, rather than awards for the merits of RotK itself.
It saved them having to give PJ awards in more than one year. And although it's not the point of the Oscars, LotR was very much a cumulative work, released in instalments. So I'm good with it.
Or -- "Fickle Academy!"
t /Bill Murray
(I mean, I was glad to see the trilogy win, but I thought RotK was by far the weakest film of the three.)
Yep, yep, yep!
In a sense it's one really, really, really long movie subdivided for the sake of people's butts.
And don't think my butt isn't grateful.
So I'm good with it.
Oh, I was all kinds of good with it too. But that was one of their many recent cases of awarding Oscars for reasons that go beyond the piece actually receiving the nomination.
I think the LotR was a more organic extension of the award to past works, though. It wasn't as unrelated as an actor's good body of work.