Academy awards

[vice1986]

At the end of the show tonight they showed clips of upcoming movies in 2009.... including Terminator, Angels & Demons and other May releases. They must have shown what seemed like 20 different clips....not one of them was Star Trek. I guess those chumps have no love for it .

 

[James Bond]

Damn, I was hoping that I had just missed the Star Trek clips.

 

[Rat Boy]

Dammit, I was just going to post this. Look, I'm pretty sure that what got shown was due to studio politics. Not only was Trek XI snubbed, but so was Transformers 2 and the very movie that tonight's host is to be featured in, namely X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

 

[Classic Fan]

Trek and usually sci-fi in general (until recently anyway) has always been snubbed by these high-brow beurocrat bastards.

Remember the 2000 awards? De Kelley (Dr McCoy) had died in 1999, before Trek and throughout, he was a big movie and tv star.

So when the usual tributes were run, most big named actors/director etc that had died were included, but he was snubbed.


Doesnt surprise me really, to be honest.

 

[Stag]

Yeah but they showed the Terminator 4 clip, however agreed on the sci fi bias.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Remember the 2000 awards? De Kelley (Dr McCoy) had died in 1999, before Trek and throughout, he was a big movie and tv star.

No he wasn't.

Neither are quite a few of the folks remembered in these pieces though; lots of character actors to whom people are sentimentally attached are generally featured. So Kelley should have been included.

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

I was also a little disappointed they did not show clips of the upcoming film in the closing credits.

However, I was pleased to see that when Ricardo Montalban was shown in the montage of people who passed away in 2008, we saw a shot of him as Khan in Star Trek II.

 

[ALF]

Hmmm... I guess when you have an Academy of royal film snoots, they are well within their right to only promote the films they like. There's no precedent for popular opinion to sway their decisions.

 

[indranee]

Trek's always been the poor relative at the Oscars. literally and figuratively. I've learned not to care.

 

[shapeshifter]

I was also a little disappointed they did not show clips of the upcoming film in the closing credits.

However, I was pleased to see that when Ricardo Montalban was shown in the montage of people who passed away in 2008, we saw a shot of him as Khan in Star Trek II.

You can be sure his inclusion had nothing to do with his involvement in WoK.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I was also a little disappointed they did not show clips of the upcoming film in the closing credits.

However, I was pleased to see that when Ricardo Montalban was shown in the montage of people who passed away in 2008, we saw a shot of him as Khan in Star Trek II.

You can be sure his inclusion had nothing to do with his involvement in WoK.

If they showed an image of him as Khan you're wrong by definition.

 

[shapeshifter]

I was also a little disappointed they did not show clips of the upcoming film in the closing credits.

However, I was pleased to see that when Ricardo Montalban was shown in the montage of people who passed away in 2008, we saw a shot of him as Khan in Star Trek II.

You can be sure his inclusion had nothing to do with his involvement in WoK.

If they showed an image of him as Khan you're wrong by definition.

Agreed, my bad. I miss-read it.

 

[24thcenstfan]

I missed the finale (tuned out long before then), so that is disappointing that XI wasn’t represented.

Paramount needs to put on their "A" game if they want to continue to get this movie out into the mainstream press and in view of a wide audience of potential movie goers. Sounds like they will also need to go the extra mile to get around “the snobs” too. Only about two and a half months left until the movie's premiere.

 

[I am not Spock]

I was pissed off about Trek XI's snub in that Oscar montage as well.

We'll just have to accept that Trek will never be accepted by those film snobs.

At least they showed Montalban as Khan though, in the obits. That was nice.

 

[BolianAuthor]

I don't know why anyone here would even expect Trek to be featured in any way at any awards show, save maybe for VFX awards... the whole point to these lame spectacles, is for the same people to make the same speeches, and smile and look pretty, and to show the women modeling multi-million-dollar outfits, with Vaseline smiles.