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Topic: "Hugo" Needs to Win on Sunday
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted February 23, 2012 01:58 PM
Iused to be more enamored with the oscars many years ago, but there are so many politics to the oscars today that rarely do the films that really are innovative or truly great got the oscar.
It's more a case of ...
1. Is it a politically correct view of the Oscar community?
2. Is it promoting the political view of the hollywood establishment?
ect. ect.
... but this has been the case with the oscars for a long time. If the establishment doesn't like you, it doesn't matter how great of a film you make.
That goe3s not only for the feature films but the many other categories. Way backl in the golden age of Hollywood animation, it amazed as to what won the oscar and even more so, what was nominated for an oscar ...
for instance, Chuck Jones (Warner Brothers) never saw eye to eye with his boss, and so his films rarely even got an oscar nomination because his boss refused to put them forward for oscars, while other cartoons got the nomination and oscars.
Even Friz Freleng commented on this enigma, as some of the films he made, such as "Knighty Knight Bug's", which is an enjoyable film, was not as worthy as other works by him.
Meanwhile, acknowledged classics, (even being acknowledged back then) such as "What's Opera Doc?" didn't even get a nomination.
I liked George C Scott's attitude towards the Oscars. When he won for "Patton", be didn't even show up and basically told the Oscar commitee to go do an "impossible act" upon themselves.
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