I'm bored of the damned entertainment industry. Who didn't know about the Oscars this year. It was Slumdog Millionaire all the way. And it was worse here for me at home here in India where it kicked such a dust storm. They were celebrating the success of "Indianness" at the world's most prestigious award ceremony for films. Let me make things clear, I liked the movie. I'm not here to bash the movie or praise it. It was a good movie. Danny's an excellent director and I knew it from 28 days later. That is all.
What I'm pissed at is the Academy. The attitude of the Academy. Why is it some tutty fruity artsy movie about gay people, misery, or some goombah of the sort have to win ? Why wasn't "The Dark Knight" nominated for more awards and won more ? I'm glad Heath Ledger won his Oscar for the Joker. But honestly, if he was alive and up against a character who was gay he would've lost. Mind you.
The academy is obsessed with all the afore mentioned rubbish. They really need to honour the cool characters man. Here's what I propose, make the Oscars cool starting with the statuette like the afore picture.
2 comments:
I agree with most of it. Only most of it, because you’re completely true only if case in point is this year’s Oscars.
So, Screw you homophobe! :P
I’m not campaigning gay rights or anything, but Sean Penn Deserves the Oscar he won. So what if he played a conflicted gay character. And between, at your comment on Heath Ledger not wining an Oscar if he was nominated against a gay role… well, remember Brokeback Mountain? Heath Ledger lost the Oscar to George Clooney in Syriana. And Brokeback Mountain, a great movie, lost to Crash! Just another racism-derivative movie [my opinion].
So, "Gay" isn't essentially Oscar friendly.
Danny Boyle, despite being a great director, didn't deserve the award for Slumdog. Should've gone to Ron Howard or Gus van Sant [long overdue]. Same case for Rahman too. But the Oscars are known to RE-recognize artists by giving them awards or nominations that were previously due, at any chance they get. Example: Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, in a way even Heath Ledger, who should’ve won for Brokeback Mountain. And of course, I’d be remiss if I don’t mention the greatest victim of Oscar snubs, Martin Scorsese! Who after some 20-30 years of making great movies, won for The Departed. But it was an equally great movie which deserved all the honors, the ones his previous movies that didn’t quite get. So expect this year's nominees to win for some piece of shit/ok movie they may do later.
And as for your laments about Dark Knight, I totally agree. That was a small Oscar blunder. But think about it, Dark Knight was an exception. Why did it deserve to be nominated more than its given share? Christopher Nolan’s story & direction, the cast, the crew, everything. It was the only superhero movie that was so unlike one. And super hero movies aren’t quite Oscar material. Not anybody's fault that the Oscars (Or any awards for that matter) are biased towards movies that either tackle reality or at least have some artistic merit. You don't wanna live in a world where shit-derivative-unoriginal-CGI excuses for movies like Spiderman 3 or 300 are given high appreciation. But still can’t forgive the academy snubbing Dark Knight, at least Nolan should’ve got a director nod. When David Fincher can get a nod [which again, looks like Re-recognition] for CGI/make up dominated “Curious Case…” why not Nolan?
And talking about giving Oscars for cool characters. Penelope Cruz won it this year for her awesome role in VCB. And almost every single Oscar/Nomination of Jack Nicholson was for an ultra-hyper super-entertaining character; in fact he was the real joker in the Tim Burton series. There are so many similar cases. So I’d say the academy lost (most of) it only recently.
VERDICT: Though both, Oscars were more “nice” than nasty; look at its history all though the years until this decade. Even the unexpected winners highly deserved their awards. But now, well... every industry is in deep shit [Grammy’s anyone?]. So fuck it all. Appreciate what you want. Awards don't matter anymore. They did, very minutely, in a different time.
1. sweet picture to start your blog with.
2. The academy has a lot of lobbying and all the awards to slumdog was more about marketing India than the movie in itself. Tell me why would Walt Disney sign yash raj to make something like "roadside romeo".
3. I agree there is a homophobic bias in this as Naren has commented. But beyond that, slumdog is ANYTHING but artsy. and you know me well enough to digest this without questioning me
4. I HATE BLOG COMMENTS LONGER THAN BLOGS.
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