Star Trek up for Best Picture

[nx1701g]

The Producer's Guild of America released their top ten contenders for Best Picture of the year and Star Trek made the top ten.

Avatar, Star Trek Make Big Oscar Move:
...Perhaps foreshadowing a wide-open, wide-ranging Oscar race (or so we hope), the PGA also tapped some surprises in its expanded 10-film race. Avatar, District 9, Star Trek and Up all made the cut, making it likely that at least one, if not all, of those hit genre films could be contending for the Best Picture Academy Award. And that's bad news for the Oscar-aspiring likes of Nine and The Blind Side...

 

[startrekrcks]

I hope it gets a award but who knows

 

[JBElliott]

It will never happen, not even a nomination.

 

[nx1701g]

^ There are ten now and the Producer's Guild normally is the same as the MPAA awards.

Never know...

 

[Devon]

^ There are ten now and the Producer's Guild normally is the same as the MPAA awards.

Never know...

Basically.

"No one's interested in a Kirk/Spock film"
It breaks Apple's trailer download records in March with 6 million downloads.

"It will bomb at the box office."
Film opens up to $77 Million Dollar weekend.

"It won't last at the box office"
Film ends up doing $257 Million domestic and $380 Mill altogether worldwide.

"It won't last"
It does very well on DVD/Blu-Ray 6 months later.

"It won't be nominated for any awards"
It's a step closer to being nominated than any other Trek dare dreamed of.

Next one up....
"The sequel will bomb."

 

[Sector 7]

^ There are ten now and the Producer's Guild normally is the same as the MPAA awards.

Never know...

Basically.

"No one's interested in a Kirk/Spock film"
It breaks Apple's trailer download records in March with 6 million downloads.

"It will bomb at the box office."
Film opens up to $77 Million Dollar weekend.

"It won't last at the box office"
Film ends up doing $257 Million domestic and $380 Mill altogether worldwide.

"It won't last"
It does very well on DVD/Blu-Ray 6 months later.

"It won't be nominated for any awards"
It's a step closer to being nominated than any other Trek dare dreamed of.

Next one up....
"The sequel will bomb."

"It raped my childhood." You cannot forget that one!

I think it has a good chance at MPAA nomination for Best Picture... better than any Star Trek picture to date.

 

[Aragorn]

"No one's interested in a Kirk/Spock film"
It breaks Apple's trailer download records in March with 6 million downloads.

"It will bomb at the box office."
Film opens up to $77 Million Dollar weekend.

"It won't last at the box office"
Film ends up doing $257 Million domestic and $380 Mill altogether worldwide.

"It won't last"
It does very well on DVD/Blu-Ray 6 months later.

"It won't be nominated for any awards"
It's a step closer to being nominated than any other Trek dare dreamed of.

Next one up....
"The sequel will bomb."

Part of being a neverending basher is that you reserve the right to keep moving the goalposts back.

 

[Rush Limborg]

Well, hey. The Dark Knight broke ground when Heath Ledger became Best Supporting Actor. Everyone said, "Nope--he DESERVES it, but the Hollywood Academics all have FAR different standards than the public. Popular films never get any Oscars anymore...."

I will REJOYCE if Trek gets Best Picture. If it doesn't, I won't lose sleep over it....

BTW, I think Avatar, with its PC-message, stands a better chance of getting it. *sigh*

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Star Trek, Avatar, District 9? This almost sounds as this year's Hugo Award list.

I'll be happy if any of those three gets a Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. More sci-fi in non-technical categories at the Oscars please!

 

[Sector 7]

I have no delusions that Star Trek will WIN Best Picture, but even being nominated will give me great pleasure.

 

[MvRojo]

I have no delusions that Star Trek will WIN Best Picture, but even being nominated will give me great pleasure.

Same here, but based on how the voting works this year more than anything else. I posted this on Trekmovie:

Voters have to rank the 10 nominees from 1 to 10. If any movie gets a “1″ on at least 50% of the ballots, it wins Best Picture. If no movie gets 50%, it gets more complicated. First, the film with the lowest number of “1″ ballots is eliminated and the “2″ spot on those ballots gets bumped up to “1″. Then, they check again to see if any film got 50% of the ballots (including the now reformulated ones). They repeat this until any movie gets 50%.


So essentially, the only way to win Best Picture is to either have the most #1 votes to begin with, or have enough #1, #2, and #3 votes to push you over 50%. This also has the weird effect that the movie with starts out with the most #1 spots could still lose Best Picture if it doesn’t have 50% of the ballots, and there’s a strong #2.

 

[Sector 7]

^Only Hollywood (or Washington, DC) could come up with a voting scheme like that!

 

[Cyke101]

BTW, I think Avatar, with its PC-message, stands a better chance of getting it. *sigh*

Strange, I found it to be decidedly un-PC, but that's a topic for another day.

If Avatar gets a nomination over Trek, it's most likely because of even wider appeal and the James Cameron touch, neither of which is necessarily a bad thing. In some respects it might elevate awareness of Trek in the process.

 

[Rusty0918]

Well, I wouldn't be surprised if the movie DID receive a Best Picture nomination in the Oscars. I doubt it'd win, but then again, I doubted a lot.

 

[iguana_tonante]

It will not win, but a nominations will be awesome. It will probably go to Avatar, but it's still a nice thing to have been so close.

 

[nx1701g]

I have no delusions that Star Trek will WIN Best Picture, but even being nominated will give me great pleasure.

Me too.

 

[Sci]

BTW, I think Avatar, with its PC-message, stands a better chance of getting it. *sigh*

Telling a story about how greed and selfishness can lead some people to attempt to invade and conquer other people's communities -- which has happened plenty of times in real life -- is "PC" now? Usually something that's considered "PC" is a topic of legitimate disagreement in real life, with one particular side being "PC" and the other being "un-PC."

I had no idea that the issue of whether or not it's okay to invade and conquer other cultures for money was a topic of legitimate disagreement.

 

[I am not Spock]

I know it won't win, but to see a Star Trek film FINALLY even nominated for Best Picture, and not just a technical award, would be so thrilling.

 

[Cyke101]

I know it won't win, but to see a Star Trek film FINALLY even nominated for Best Picture, and not just a technical award, would be so thrilling.

I'd be happy enough if Trek was nominated for some sort of acting award, an opportunity lost a few times over in both TV and film. I'm pretty sure 09 Trek doesn't really have anything to qualify for that either, BUT if it does get a Best Picture nomination, that'd be great, too

 

[Rush Limborg]

BTW, I think Avatar, with its PC-message, stands a better chance of getting it. *sigh*

Telling a story about how greed and selfishness can lead some people to attempt to invade and conquer other people's communities -- which has happened plenty of times in real life -- is "PC" now? Usually something that's considered "PC" is a topic of legitimate disagreement in real life, with one particular side being "PC" and the other being "un-PC."

I had no idea that the issue of whether or not it's okay to invade and conquer other cultures for money was a topic of legitimate disagreement.

Sci, there's a discussion to this effect on the SciFi and Fantasy forum, wherin they discuss exactly what I mean by PC.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=111018

My beef with the film has nothing to do with what you said. It has everything to do with "white guilt", or more appropriately, America guilt.

But as has been said, this is a discussion for that thread, not this one.