Contest: VOTE And the Oscar Goes too...

[theenglish]

auntiehill: Star Wars: A New Hope 1977

Won 6 Oscars and a Special Achievement Award

Kai "the Spy" #1

Jurassic Park
Nominated for 3 Oscars, won all of them.

Kai "the Spy" #2

Back to the Future
Nominated for 4 Oscars, won 1.

Kai "the Spy" #3

Avatar
Nominated for 9 Oscars, won 3.

JD

ET
Nominated for 9 Oscars including Best Picture, won Best Original Score

Orac #1
2001: A Space Odyssey (3 wins):

Orac #2
A Clockwork Orange (4 wins):

Orac #3
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1 win):

theenglish Entry #1

Planet of the Apes 1968 (Two nominations, One win of Honorary award for make up)
*This was my favorite Science Fiction movie franchise when I was a kid.

theenglish Entry #2

Gravity (2014 Awards, 10 Nominations/7 Wins)

theenglish #3

Logan's Run (2 Noms, Won a Special Achievement Award)

 

[JD]

I hope I don't have to be a member of The Academy, because I voted.

 

[HIjol]

Done and Done…

…are, like, my Swag Bags gonna be delivered, or do I have to go pick them up somewhere…???

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Voted.

I almost went for Gravity, but then I remembered that this was about science fiction at the Oscars, and I do not consider this film to be science fiction.

 

[ichab]

Star Wars losing best picture to Annie Hall is the biggest WTF ever.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Voted.

I almost went for Gravity, but then I remembered that this was about science fiction at the Oscars, and I do not consider this film to be science fiction.

Neil deGrasse Tyson begs to differ.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Neil deGrasse Tyson begs to differ.

Scientific inaccuracies and science fiction are two different things.

 

[theenglish]

Scientific inaccuracies and science fiction are two different things.

The film is near future. It isn't like the novel Orbit which is a fictional depiction of an ISS crew. Tyson says they got the film "mostly right" but points out a couple of laughable moments.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

I'm sorry, on what basis is it near future? Even if, that isn't what makes a story science fiction. And inaccuracies happen in all kinds of movies. Action heroes regularly go through incidents without a scratch that would have killed a real person, cars explode when shot at or when falling from a bit of height, historical figures wear the wrong clothes, films taking place in foreign countries have the wrong landmarks in the backgrounds, etc.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The line gets blurry sometimes.

 

[theenglish]

I'm sorry, on what basis is it near future? Even if, that isn't what makes a story science fiction. And inaccuracies happen in all kinds of movies. Action heroes regularly go through incidents without a scratch that would have killed a real person, cars explode when shot at or when falling from a bit of height, historical figures wear the wrong clothes, films taking place in foreign countries have the wrong landmarks in the backgrounds, etc.

I'm not totally correct on that--but I'm basing it on the idea that the story is based on an event that hasn't happened yet--but is speculated as a possibility.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

By that metric, The American President is set in the near future, because a single man is President and falls in love while in office.

 

[theenglish]

By that metric, The American President is set in the near future, because a single man is President and falls in love while in office.

I was specifically thinking about the Kessler Effect depicted in the movie. It is a theorized phenomenon that hasn't occurred. The movie is about what could possibly happen if this theory actually became reality. The Martian has a similar story. It is a science fiction tale that could happen now. It's science fiction because it depicts surviving on Mars in a way humans have not done yet.

And I guess, now that I'm thinking about it, that is what makes Orbital as science fiction novel as well. It depicts a superstorm that threatens to destroy the Philippines.