8mm Forum: "Hugo" Needs to Win on Sunday

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Posted by Kurt Gardner (Member # 440) on February 22, 2012, 08:38 PM:

I just posted on my blog — "Hugo" needs to win Best Picture!

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Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on February 22, 2012, 11:32 PM:

I think "The Artist" will get best picture but "Hugo" in my view is right up there as well. I hope both do well [Smile]

Graham.

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on February 23, 2012, 01:01 PM:

Are the Oscars really that important?

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on 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.

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on February 23, 2012, 02:18 PM:

Yeah, I can understand their importance within the industry.
To the movie buff in the street they mean absolutely nothing.

Posted by Larry Arpin (Member # 744) on February 23, 2012, 02:28 PM:

I remember Russell Crowe was nominated for A Beautiful Mind but said something that teed off the Academy and Denzel Washington won instead. I thought R. Crowe played his part much better.

Haven't seen Hugo yet but right now I'm rooting for The Help. Still, The Artist was a brilliantly made movie. Loved it.

Posted by Michael De Angelis (Member # 91) on February 23, 2012, 11:55 PM:

I've seen both The Artist, and Hugo.

The Artist is an excellent picture.
HUGO is HUGE, and a total winner in my book as Best Picture.

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