Comments on: Snubs & Surprises Of The 2011 Academy Awards

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

I don\’t understand the praise being heaped on the Inception score. It\’s The Thin Red Line part 2.

By: Jan Lisa Huttner

Jan Lisa Huttner — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

The Social Network was overtaken by events. The screenplay relied on Hollywood-style stereotypes (geeky Jewish fraternities versus deluxe Valhalla clubs), never bothering to ask what might make “the real” Mark Zuckerberg tick. But while the film’s protagonist was enjoying blow jobs in bathroom stalls (feh!), the rest of us were watching Tunisian students on 60 Minutes waving big signs thanking Zuckerberg (personally!) for creating the infrastructure that enabled them to mobilize for their January Revolution.

So enough with Harvey Weinstein conspiracy theories already. Weinstein & Zuckerberg are two really smart Jewish guys who probably both slept pretty well last night. As Mel Brooks always says: He who laughs last, laughs best!

http://secondcitytzivi.com/2011/02/20/220-60-minutes/

By: Amir Syarif Siregar

Amir Syarif Siregar — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

Fincher was robbed… It\’s an unjustice to see The Social Network walked away only with three not-so-important awards. Blah… blah… blah… It\’s The Academy. They\’re old! What do you guys expecting? Move on.

By: Erick

Erick — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

FIncher was robbed….plain and simple….He greatly deserved that Best Director oscar…I mean come on….What is so great about the direction from \”The King\’s Speech\”? Tom Hooper won only because his movie was going to win. I even knew when it won Original Screenplay that it was going to win Best Picture. But Fincher was a better director and his vision was focus on current events. Chris Nolan will get his due one day…otherwise i will forever hate the academy because it clear that they are not voting for the viewers, rather for themselves and what looks good…what I mean is, they can\’t have a best picture without it having a best screenplay…something like that.

By: Steve Warren

Steve Warren — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

The King\’s Speech wasn\’t just based on someone\’s life but, according to the director in his acceptance speech, on a play, albeit an unproduced one. This should disqualify it for Best Original Screenplay. (But since that and Social Network were the year\’s two best screenplays I\’m glad they both won.)

By: Max

Max — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

I agree with the above statements about Hans Zimmer getting snubbed. The score for Inception was an invaluable contribution to what made that movie so great. Don\’t get me wrong, I really like Trent Reznor and I think its great that he won, but I think its really just the Academy making up for snubbing Nick Cave and Johnny Greenwood in the past (the former especially; seriously, his work was just on a new plain of awesome).

At least Zimmer was nominated, and he already has an Oscar (although that should be irrelevant), but the greatest snub, by far, was Nolan not even getting nominated. That movie has a unique style all its own, images of which I genuinely believe will be replayed to a sickening degree for the next few decades. But I would even take it a step further and say that Inception should have gotten best original screenplay. I think its the most ORIGINAL story we\’ve seen in years. And isn\’t The King\’s Speech just as much of an adapted screenplay as 127 Hours?? Inception is an idea Chris Nolan just completely thought up and developed on his own. The King\’s Speech and The Fighter were both adapted from people\’s lives.

I am satisfied, though, that it actually tied for most wins, which I didn\’t initially realize. But I really think it should have gotten more love in other categories.

By: sumonesumhow

sumonesumhow — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

Even better than a Vanity Fair piece, you can read about how there is no one more capable of buying an Oscar than Harvey Weinstein, in the book \”Down and Dirty Pictures.\” Remember \”Shakespeare In Love\” v \”Saving Private Ryan\” v \”The Thin Red Line\”?

For trying to appeal to a younger generation they sure made some safe and old school choices for almost all the awards. Animal Kingdom for foreign? Scott Pilgrim for any-fucking-thing? And on and on…

JEAN-LUC GODARD FTW!!!!!!!

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

If the Social Network score came on during a trip to the doctor\’s office, I\’d start to feel like something terrible was gonna happen to me.

By: WhiskeyTamer

WhiskeyTamer — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

I am still surprised that the score for \”Inception\” did not win Best Score. You can experience the music from \”The Social Network\” in any doctor\’s office, elevator, or TV drama. It\’s nice, don\’t get me wrong, but compared to Hans Zimmer\’s Wagneresque score, it was just commonplace. Hans was completely robbed. The music at the end of that movie, when they\’re all waking up on the plane, is worth the Oscar alone.

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

I will say the only category I was truely conflicted over was score. I thought Inception\’s score was the best ( even better than The Dark Knight\’s), so that\’s what I wanted to win. To me, the music for Inception went hand in hand with the movie more than any other film this year, including The Social Network On the other hand, I was ecstatic that Trent Reznor was nominated when other rockers like Jonny Greenwood and Nick Cave failed to do so, but felt his award was the nomination itself and there was no way for him to actually win. I honestly thought Alexandre Desplat was going to win for two reasons…1) His score was for the film I knew would win Best Picture and which had the most nominations, and 2) and I didn\’t realize this at first, but he\’s been nominated 4 times in the past 5 years!!! It looks like he might become the Roger Deakins or film scores (although he does of The Tree of Life coming out his year, fingers crossed).

And speaking of Deakins, it\’s truely a shame the man has been nominated 9 times and hasn\’t won. But was True Grit the film he should\’ve won for? Don\’t get me wrong, I wouldn\’t have minded him winning, as True Grit looked great, but it\’s not his best work. Personally, I would\’ve loved for him to win for Assassination of Jesse James or No Country For Old Men, but of course There Will Be Blood (the film with the best cinematography that year, and the film that won both the Oscar and the ASC) was the same year. And this year there was Inception. Wally Pfister already won the ASC this year, and even though the Oscars don\’t match up with that guild very often, with 3 previous nominations (all being Nolan films), he was almost due himself. So I\’m afraid Deakins will just have to keep waiting.

By: rodie

rodie — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

‘True Grit’ Is The Night’s Biggest Loser With 10 Nominations & Zero Wins…

This just proves that Christopher Nolan deserved the Best Director NOMINATION over the Coens. What a brain fart by the Academy on that one. At the rate Nolan and the Academy are going he\’s going to be 80 years old and receiving his first Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. What a pity.

By: DuluozGray

DuluozGray — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

Billy Crystal used to put himself into the nominated movies all the time. MTV ripped off the Oscars, not the other way around.

By: evange

evange — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

i liked the awards.. yes Anne was a Cheerleader, but she had to overcome catatonic Franco .. beyond that I loved the Kings Speech and Colin Firth .. I foung Zuckermans character so loathesome that it was hard to really like Social Network … Sandra Bullock looked beautiful but sad .. I loved Nicole Kidman in Rabbit Hole .. also a sad movie but amazing ! Kids Are Alright was overrated .. good but really .. Mark Ruffalo a nominee .. hes always plays the same person .. droopy .. kinda Eyore-esk ..

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

In hindsight, I\’m actually glad David Fincher didn\’t win Best Director. Why? Because now the two best directors working today (Nolan and Fincher as awarded by EW, and which I personally agree with) remain Oscarless. In Nolan\’s case, he remains nominationless. I just find it humorous that the Academy can be that out of touch.

By: fadskjldfs

fadskjldfs — Fri, 13 May 2016 15:01:49 +0000

\”Let’s face it for the first 30 minutes of the show, viewers were going, ‘“WTF is going on?”\”
So true.