PixyJunket

Titanic was #1.

Kudama

I hope it gets it. This movie was Pixar's best one yet. I was totally surprised!

It blew Beauty and the Beast clear outta the water! (wokka wokka)

LBPound

Maybe it will win the Best Picture (Comedy/Musical) Golden Globe, but no way will it win the Oscar, or be nominated for it, unfortunately.

PixyJunket

OT: But I just took these nice little screenshots!

Kumar J

One Ring to Rule them all.They better give this movie the oscars this time

badger1997

But what if it sucks? (Or is suggesting that it might not be good blasphemy? )

Seems like this time of year or a little bit into the fall, everybody starts talking about "Oscar contenders" way before they should. I was told in September a few years back that "Pay it Forward" should have a good chance at picking up some awards. Not to pick on Kevin Spacey, but I was told the buzz was "excellent" on "The Shipping News" as well way before it came out.

So I tend to take all the praise unleashed on movies that will be released months from now (and some not even out of limited release until next year) with a big ol' pile of salt.

MasterCXtreme

No kidding. I'm sick of it winning just special fx, music, costumes, sets, etc. etc. etc... It needs to get some of the bigger awards. The last 2 sure deserved em. I don't understand how Chicago could've beaten The Two Towers. Maybe these people should actually watch the movie!

fumanstan

I did, and i don't think either LOTR films should have been even nominated. Different strokes for different folks. But on topic, i don't think Nemo is the type of film that would be nominated, but it would be a pleasent surprise. Doubt it will be though.

Hokeyboy

Maybe because Chicago was a better movie?

I've said it before and I'll say it again: no matter how amazing Return of the King turns out to be -- and I'm betting it will be spectacular -- it has *no chance* of winning Best Picture! None! Zero! Zilch! Nil! Nada! Bubkis! Goose-Egg!

MasterCXtreme

You liked Chicago? That's cool. I liked it too but I didn't think it was as great as everyone made it out to be. Anyways Nemo will win the Animated award, but probably won't even get nominated for best picture.

PalmerJoss

Wrong. Chicago won best picture for one reason only--Harvey Weinstein. He bought yet another oscar, and finally the academy has wised up to this by implementing rules for promoting films come oscar time.

As for ROTK, I have no doubt that it will garner nominations but it will not win best picture. Tell me honestly when the last time a movie that deserved to win best picture actually did. The last time I can recall it was 1994 when Schindler's List won it. LOTR just isn't academy material IMO. It deserves every technical award it gets, but the academy will not reward a sci-fi/fantasy movie with best picture. They never have and never will.

Hokeyboy

Them grapes sure tasting sour...

I'll be the first to trumpet that Weinstein's relentless promoting can be tirelessly irksome, but Chicago won on its own merits -- its a phenomenal motion picture. It re-energized the screen musical in ways that other recent films couldn't. It had a great cast, great direction, and never wore out its welcome for its 100-minute running time. Plus it had an extreme positive critical reception and fantastic word-of-mouth to boot.

I agree 100% with you on ROTK. It will get nominations but it will not be honored with Best Picture/Director. Some fanboys are clinging to the theory that it will win "this time!!!" because it will be a cumulative recognition of all three films.

Bullcrap.

"Lord of the Rings" is a fantastic trilogy, but the Academy will never honor a sequel after ignoring the first two films. Besides, the film, no matter how great it is, will engender the sort of "been there, done that" response from voters; it's no longer new and cutting edge. The films have grossed about $1.4 billion internationally so far, thus becoming a mainstream cash-cow. Finally, Hollywood is nothing if not an "Old Boys Club". Lord of the Rings was made outside of the Hollywood system, and thus not privy to the kind of inside promotion and networking that Hollywood thrives on.

So no chance in hell. But it doesn't matter anyhow; if ROTK lives up to the standards generated by FOTR and, to a lesser extent, TT, the entire series will be loved and revered long after so many weaker "Best Picture" award winners are forgotten or looked upon with morbid curiousity.

jekbrown

...dont underestimate 'Biscuit...

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Hokeyboy

... and don't warm up the Dutch Oven.

PixyJunket

Biscuits and gravy? Fish sticks? I'm hungry.

Inverse

The fact that the previous two LOTR movies haven't gotten a major award is by far the biggest factor in ROTK's *favor*. It doesn't work against it in the slightest.

If there's one thing the Academy loves better than denying awards to deserving movies, it's making itself feel all weepy and sentimental by giving retroactive make-up Oscars a couple of years later. "Gee, you were really great in that movie three years ago. So we're going to give you an award now, even though the thing you're actually nominated for sucks." That's the way the Academy thinks. (If you doubt this, just look at half the acting awards from the last decade.)

All New Line has to do is make sad puppy-dog eyes about how the Academy has ignored A Classic Piece Of Motion Picture History and Oscars will follow.

As for the Biscuit, chances are the Academy will have completely forgotten about its existence, as they did with last summer's Road to Perdition. But don't give up hope - the Academy does still owe Jeff Bridges a make-up Oscar, after all.

Nemo is a lock for Best Animated, but that in turn makes it virtually impossible to get either a nom or a win for Best Picture. That's the price you pay for getting your own ghetto category.

badger1997

Everyone keeps stating this "movies released earlier in the year have no shot at Oscar" thing like it is gospel. Need I remind you that movies such as Braveheart (May 1995), Forrest Gump (July 1994), American Beauty (September 1998), Gladiator (May 2000), Unforgiven (August 1992) and Silence of the Lambs (February 1991) were all released earlier in the year than the traditionally considered "Oscar season."

Going back to 1990, that means a total of six films that won the top award were released pre-October and two more (English Patient and Dances with Wolves) that were released before Thanksgiving the year it won for.

That doesn't even take into account the other contendors that were released before the traditional holiday Oscar season such as Pulp Fiction and Saving Private Ryan. So out of the past 13 winners, six have been pre-October. That tells me if a movie is good enough to grab an audience and make Oscar voters remember it, it doesn't matter when it was released.

Does that mean Seabiscuit is going to be nominated? Not necessarily. At this point last year I was sure Road to Perdition was a lock for a nomination. I don't think the early release date hurt Road to Perdition as much as the opinion that it just didn't stand up to films released later that year. Studios do put most of their heavy hitters in the holiday season, but that doesn't mean that some quality films released earlier in the year can't hang around long into the Oscar race.

RyoHazuki

I guess Im the only one who though Finding Nemo was the worst of the Pixar movies so far. Heres how I rank them.

Toy Story
Toy Story 2 barley
Monsters Inc.
Bugs Life
Finding Nemo

If it gets nominated Ill be dissapointed at the fact that none of the others got nominated. In 95/96 Babe was nominated and Toy Story wasnt. Thats just ridiculous. I think the Best Animated Feature Oscar is a joke. Now we hear "Academy Award Nominee Jimmy Neutron" and it ruins any chances of an animated film winning best picture.

Sunday Morning

Anything thats makes as much money as that film did always garners talk of oscar nods.

moocher

There's just not enough animated films to make that oscar worth much. So far it seems like over half of them get nominated. It's kind of like making the playoffs in the NBA.

I don't think that animated films should be locked out of Best Picture just because of the separate catagory. If it is the Best Picture of the year, it should win the Best Picture oscar animated, foreign, or whatever.

The fact that the best picture rarely wins Best Picture and most times isn't even nominated is beside the point .

badger1997

But it's an opinion. How can it be wrong? Your "best picture" isn't going to always match my choice for "best picture" or somebody else's opinion. So how can you even say that "the best picture rarely wins Best Picture"? If you don't like who the Academy picks, start up your own organization and pick the best movies each year yourself.

bhk

Nemo doesn't stand a chance. It isn't about drug addicts, prostitutes, people with mental illnesses. Furthermore, every scene is fairly well lighted so that's 0 for 2.

Seeker

When they went down "really deep" it wasn't lighted very well till that lantern fish showed up.

moocher

You know, I remember inserting a at the end of my post but I guess I couldn't have seeing as how upset badger1997 is about it.

Lightening up a little makes for a less stressful life. You should try it...

caligulathegod

It used to be kind of a tradition to nominate the highest grossing film of the year (like Star Wars), but that seemed to have dropped after the age of the Blockbuster.