JAMES CAMERON LOSES AT LIFE

[john11inc]

Avatar, nominated for 9 awards:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Score
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Film Editing
Visual Effects


Avatar, wins 3 awards:
Visual Effects
Best Cinematography
Art Direction


Loses:
Best Picture
Best Director


Not nominated for:
Best Original Screen Play
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Acress


Awards Avatar deserved to win:


Movies that should have won:
Visual Effects (District 9)
Best Cinematography (A Serious Man)
Art Direction (Nine)


Avatar *** sucks.  Does this mean we can finally stop caring about it?  Please?

[christinamoore]

James Cameron is still one of the best directors in Hollywood. Although Avatar did not grab such distinction in Oscar, it is one of the most remarkable film of the year.

I was just dispappointed that it did not win the "Best Picture" and Best Director

[Bob]

I read science fiction never does well at the Oscars.

[nanabush]

It was an entertaining movie... anything in 3D is cool to watch (Alice in Wonderland was cool too!)

Even getting nominated for an award is an accomplishment... it did make a shitload of money, so there are still a lot of people who do like it 

[rob47]

https://i48.tinypic.com/vhwzlt.jpg

[retrouvailles]

Haha, of course Vertical Comics delivers. Classic.

[peterjmathis]

I haven't seen the movie, but I still LOL'd at that comic.

[faa2010]

I search and research and it's true: no science fiction film has won at Best Picture (at least there are fantasy adventure films which have done it).

However, I cannot think in Avatar as an original idea. Have you seen Dance with Wolves or the Last Samurai?, or do you know about Pocahontas?

I think that the reason that the film was there at the nominations was because of two things:

1. The film broke box office records, one of the highest grossing films, in other words, it was a commercial success (due to too much advertisement and propaganda).

2. The special effects (which of course, utterly won at the Academy Awards).

However, the two points mentioned before don't mean that the film has an original or great plot.

In my point of view, I would have prefered that Up would have won as the Best Picture.  Of course, I haven't seen The Hurt Locker, but it was a great movie and because it is only an animated film doesn't mean that it doesn't deserved the award (What made me have tears of joy was that not only won for Best Animated Picture, it also won as the Best Original Music Score!!!!).

[stucoy]

The Best Actor award should have gone to James Cameron for pretending he was pleased when his ex-wife got the Best Director and Best Film award, not only at the Oscars but at the BAFTAs as well.

[symbolism of l. ron]

Who cares if he won any award or not. The movie still grossed out more than a billion dollars.

[john11inc]

Who cares if he won any award or not. The movie still grossed out more than a billion dollars.

Ah, yes.  I had forgotten that train of thought, along with the fact that Lady Gaga > Schoenberg.

[gyzzzmo]

Do people.... take oscars seriously then?

[john11inc]

Do people.... take oscars seriously then?

Obviously not, if Avatar got nominated.

[prongated]

Ah, yes.  I had forgotten that train of thought, along with the fact that Lady Gaga > Schoenberg.

Hahaha, but I'm sure the point is that, at the very least the bean-counters behind Avatar (and Lady Gaga!) won't care if it comes out gold or trash because it makes heaps of money...

Do people.... take oscars seriously then?

Haha, not that I matter, but frankly I could not care less, literally. What a fuss over a non-event about something unimportant.