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Who was robbed at the 2003 Oscar nods?

Since the other Academy thread is pretty potpourri, I thought I'd take a specific slice to look at. Who was robbed this year?

The first two names that come to mind for me are Dennis Quaid and Alfred Molina. Two marvelous, virtuoso peformances that did more than support their films, they DROVE them. But both are on the outside looking in. The two biggest offenders are John C. Reilly and Christopher Walken. I didn't want to hijack the Reilly thread, I do appreciate his work, despite the fact he plays a variant on the same dumbass in everything I've seen of him. But this was not his moment. He's barely in Chicago, and next to Molina and Quaid, there's no comparison. And as a huge Walken fan, I'm left wondering what's so great about his work here? It seems to be a quite typical Walken performance. Not bad, but not really outstanding like the two men on the outside looking in. Molina and Quaid gave career best performances there.

And I know there are screwy foreign film rules, and I haven't seen 3 of the nominees, but I'd be hard pressed to think that they are superior to either Talk to Her or Y Tu Mama Tambien. Spain didn't nominate Talk to Her, and due to early release in Mexico, Y Tu Mama was ineligable(apparently, I can't see why it's exlcued otherwise) but yet it was still eligable for screenplay award. Shouldn't we base the American Acadaemy Awards on American release dates?

And in that vein, I think Ana Lopez Mercado was certainly deserving for Y Tu Mama. It was a tough category, but concievbly she could have been pushed for best supporting actress and certainly been more deserving that Latifah.

That's all I got for now, but I reserve the right to get steamed and vent.
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Gere was robbed.
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We Were Soldiers, a masterful Vietnam war film was robbed probably because it was released too early last year.
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Minority Report for SFX
Peter Jackson for director
Dennis Quaid
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Originally posted by Rypro 525
Gere was robbed.
Just goes to show you, get caught with one hamster... and they never let you live it down.
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Robin Williams for Best Actor

Minority Report for sfx
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while they were nomiated for Golden Globes:

I thought the soundtracks for "Rabbit Proof Fence" and "25th Hour" were excellent choices. Two great soundtracks shamelessly ignored.

Also the soundtrack for "Spirited Away" was beautiful
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I would consider the total absense of PTA and Punch-Drunk Love nominations to be a crime.
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Samantha Morton was robbed of a Best Supporting Actress bid for her role in Minority Report. Seriously, she was one of the best parts of an underrated film.
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Originally posted by Rypro 525
Gere was robbed.
I agree. He did the better than the other 4 actors nominated for Chicago in my opinion.
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Originally posted by Geofferson

Peter Jackson for director
I agree on this one.
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I agree that the complete snubbing of Punch Drunk Love is rediculous.

As is Peter Gabriel for Rabit Proof Fence

Biggest single omition of the year is The Kid Stays in the Picture from the documentary selections. It was my pick for best film of the year.
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Please. Stop saying that Peter Jackson was "robbed." I saw the special features on the DVD: this guy is so incompotent he needed 7+ additional units to help him film. Most directors needs one, sometimes two.
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Groucho is right. Moreover George Lucas deserves a special nomination for his groundbreaking technique of directing exclusively via computer command line interface.
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Gere wasn't robbed, the only deserving actor in Chicago was Zeta-Jones. Punch Drunk Love was snubbed as was Robin Williams but other than that, the noms, IMHO, were fair.
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I think Robin Williams was robbed. other than that the nominations seem pretty good
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I'm surprised so many of you thought Williams' performance in Death to Smoochy was Oscar worthy.
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Tim Roth provided the performance of the year in Werner Herzog's Invincible. No one comes close, even with the fine work of Adrien Brody, Michael Caine or Dennis Quaid.
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Originally posted by Groucho
I'm surprised so many of you thought Williams' performance in Death to Smoochy was Oscar worthy.
You're kidding right?

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One hour photo should have got at least 1 nomination. Lord of the ring TTT should have got a best adapted Screenplay nom. Minortiy report should have got a nom for best SFX
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oh and Howard shore got robbed too, nothing for his work on TTT. Harry potter didnt get a single nom, costumes, art, sound, nothing. hrmmm
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Please. Stop saying that Peter Jackson was "robbed." I saw the special features on the DVD: this guy is so incompotent he needed 7+ additional units to help him film. Most directors needs one, sometimes two.
Ever think the reason he needs seven units is because the movie is just so frigging big?? Pretty much the entire country of New Zealand is the set, 10+ hours on screen, many more hours on the editing machine.

Peter Jackson should get best director just for attempting to tackle something this big. Now, you want him to do everything without assistance?

He's already had to go back to NZ to reshoot alot of footage because the unit director didn't get it right.
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Road To Perdition was robbed
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Two Towers for Makeup, Cinematography, and Supporting Actor (Andy Serkis)
Minority Report for Visual FX
Attack of the Clones for Sound and Sound Editing
About Schmidt for Adapted Screenplay
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Originally posted by Groucho
Please. Stop saying that Peter Jackson was "robbed." I saw the special features on the DVD: this guy is so incompotent he needed 7+ additional units to help him film. Most directors needs one, sometimes two.
You clearly no nothing about movies & you are obviously just being "that guy" if that is your reaction after watching those special features. Most directors also don't shoot 3 movies at once, let alone the 3 biggest movies EVER FILMED. Most directors don't have 50,000 hand made props in their film, most directors do not use an entire country as scenery, most directors do not plant flowers & build a village from scratch over 1 year before production even starts. Of forget, it you get the point (or choose not to).

The bottom line is the Oscars are utterly meaningless, fixed, & annoying & anyone who actually thinks the nominations & awards are actually picked for the people that deserve them are delusional.

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