Star Trek Receives Four Oscar Noms...all Technical Awards

[Devon]

Did anyone outside here really talk about Star Trek as a legitimate contender?

Sorta on to what you said, but Access Hollywood asked "What was the biggest surprise during this year's Oscar Nominations," here are the results:

http://www.accesshollywood.com/polls/results

What was the biggest surprise from the Oscar noms?

• ‘Star Trek’ not up for Best Picture - 29%
• ‘District 9’ getting a Best Picture nod - 22%
• Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Best Supporting Actress nod -22%
• No Best Director nod for Clint Eastwood for ‘Invictus’ -
  27%

 

[Hyperspace05]

Oscar says: "Robots and Aliens... DO NOT WANT."

Star Trek was snubbed, pure and simple. The good news is, Star Trek is still awesome.

Not sure how you can make a blanket statement like that when two movies involving aliens were nominated.

And both had robots! (ok, mechas, but who cares)

 

[ALF]

Oscar says: "Robots and Aliens... DO NOT WANT."

Star Trek was snubbed, pure and simple. The good news is, Star Trek is still awesome.

Not sure how you can make a blanket statement like that when two movies involving aliens were nominated.

And both had robots! (ok, mechas, but who cares)

Oh, I was referring to best picture. Does anyone honestly get overexcited about best sound editing?

Quick! Get the brown paper bags and the tranquilizers! They're giving out the best sound editing Oscar!

Trek = snubbed. But it's not really surprising.

 

[I am not Spock]

Not really surprised. I thought it would get some technical nominations, but I was basically expecting the Academy to snub it for Best Picture.

Avatar will get Best Special FX. Trek might win Makeup or Sound Editing. Has Trek ever won an Oscar before? I know its been up for technical ones in the past. Even if it wins a tech award, that's a minor coup for the franchise.

 

[MvRojo]

Not really surprised. I thought it would get some technical nominations, but I was basically expecting the Academy to snub it for Best Picture.

Avatar will get Best Special FX. Trek might win Makeup or Sound Editing. Has Trek ever won an Oscar before? I know its been up for technical ones in the past. Even if it wins a tech award, that's a minor coup for the franchise.

Nope. This would be the first one. There's a chance it could win Best Makeup, but who knows. I haven't seen "Il Divo" so I don't know the extent of the makeup work there.

 

[Frontier]

...And of those technical awards, one is a no-chance-in-hell: VFX, which will go to 'Avatar' as will likely many. At best, I think XI has a vague shot as makeup.

What's the surprise here? The film was no where near quality enough for best picture. No Trek film, I think, ever has been.

 

[Skywalker]

As much as I enjoyed the movie, it never had a shot at Best Picture. Even if it got the nomination, it wouldn't have deserved it.

 

[SalvorHardin]

What films deserve to be nominated and what films are nominated are many times entirely different matters.

So since Star Trek was seriously being considered for one of the 10 slots and there was some outside buzz that it just might make it (and some outside questions as to why it didn't make it), I don't see why we shouldn't have been harboring some small expectations and hopes.

It's not like it costs anything.

 

[BurntSynapse]

23skidoo: Did the Kelvin bridge being blinded 10 seconds into the film by something they reported as out of visual range really make more sense than something in D9? I thought both were seriously flawed, but Abrams "Trek" was one of the worst ever written as far as self-contradictions, unexplained miracles, and irrational actions.

I remain astounded that fans can be insensible to the non-stop insults to audience intelligence by Orci & Kurtzmann for viewers over 8 years of age, going so far as to advocate Best Picture Oscars as a good idea. Incredible!

 

[Shazam!]

It's not like it costs anything.

It costs the Oscars whatever credibility they have left.

 

[BurntSynapse]

The movie took a 40-year-old franchise and made it brand-new again, without alienating the fans who have adored it for decades.
...
For some reason those that decide this type of thing just can't bring themselves to go on record to vote for something that provides entertainment that is full of hope for our future, has positive hero role models and offers an audience a darn good time. So it has been since Star Trek first aired.

Alienated? No. Outraged & betrayed? Yes.

What positive role models?
Winona Kirk: Provides unrealistic, unhelpful cliche of the screaming vaginal delivery.
George Kirk: Commits useless suicide by sitting and chatting with his wife long after all Kelvin functions are offline and there is no possible benefit to his presence on board.
James Kirk: Violent, criminal, suicidal, inept alcoholic.
New Spock: Vindictive, sarcastic, occasionally reasonable officer who abandons his post on the bridge during an emergency without justification.
Bones: Alcoholic doctor who falsifies records and risks patients lives while breaking medical ethics without any believable pretext, and repeats inaccurate urban legends regarding vacuum effects on humans.
Spock Prime: An unreasonable new-agey sage prop who advocates self-delusion and "faith" as preferable to careful study and hard work with available evidence.

 

[SalvorHardin]

It's not like it costs anything.

It costs the Oscars whatever credibility they have left.

People have been complaining about the Oscars and their credibility ever since the internet was created and probably even before that.
All that changes each year is who moans, based on if the movies one likes or dislikes got in or were left out.

Had Trek gotten in it would be a year like any other. With some bitching about the Academy's decadence and some cheering.

 

[Shazam!]

You're right. Let's throw any old shit in there next year.

 

[SalvorHardin]

Do it.
I can assure you i won't lose any sleep over it and might even get some laughs out of all the outrage.

 

[Jeri]

I hope this is not what J.J. was waiting for, to decide whether he'll direct the sequel.

 

[SalvorHardin]

I hope this is not what J.J. was waiting for, to decide whether he'll direct the sequel.

I highly doubt he's basing his decision on a nomination that was a long shot to begin with.

 

[Jeri]

Yeah; I wonder what he is waiting for. Not that he shouldn't; I just wonder what the circumstances are.

 

[Broccoli]

The movie took a 40-year-old franchise and made it brand-new again, without alienating the fans who have adored it for decades.
...
For some reason those that decide this type of thing just can't bring themselves to go on record to vote for something that provides entertainment that is full of hope for our future, has positive hero role models and offers an audience a darn good time. So it has been since Star Trek first aired.

Alienated? No. Outraged & betrayed? Yes.

What positive role models?
Winona Kirk: Provides unrealistic, unhelpful cliche of the screaming vaginal delivery.
George Kirk: Commits useless suicide by sitting and chatting with his wife long after all Kelvin functions are offline and there is no possible benefit to his presence on board.
James Kirk: Violent, criminal, suicidal, inept alcoholic.
New Spock: Vindictive, sarcastic, occasionally reasonable officer who abandons his post on the bridge during an emergency without justification.
Bones: Alcoholic doctor who falsifies records and risks patients lives while breaking medical ethics without any believable pretext, and repeats inaccurate urban legends regarding vacuum effects on humans.
Spock Prime: An unreasonable new-agey sage prop who advocates self-delusion and "faith" as preferable to careful study and hard work with available evidence.

 

[ALF]

Winona Kirk: Provides unrealistic, unhelpful cliche of the screaming vaginal delivery.

Unhelpful!

Oscar nod or not, I for one do not want to sit through any number of realistic vaginal deliveries on screen.

Regardless of how helpful they are!

 

[Tyberius]

If they want to make a movie about racism and apartheid that fine but the alliens or prawns or whatever they were called in the movie was beyond believe. They were advanced allien civilization but they acted like Forest Gumps and were trading their alien weapons for month supplies of CATFOOD.
I was utter disappointed after watching it.

They're a hive mind. With their more evolved leadership dead, they became stupid. It took 20 years for the mind to restart itself and give another prawn leadership traits.

Yes, and Christopher Johnson wasn't even the smartest. His child was worlds smarter than his father.