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CONSIDER - Harry Potter for an Oscar?

Lapis Exilis

Lapis Exilis

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I live in LA and billboards exhorting Academy members to consider Deathly Hallows Part 2 for an Oscar. I imagine it will get nominated with the expanded Best Picture category, but does this movie deserve an Oscar? We're not talking Lord of the Rings here, which was a particular artistic vision from start to finish. While the Harry Potter series has been a movie making first of a sort with its 8 successful films with a consistent cast, the rotating directors seriously undermines any attempt to put it forth as an integrated vision (except perhaps of Warner Bros and dollar signs). And Deathly Hallows itself didn't strike me as particularly noteworthy.

What do you think?
 
I would say no, the movie doesn't deserve an Oscar, though I wouldn't be upset if Alan Rickman got nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
 
Don't think this is a sure thing. The Best Picture nomination rules were changed again a while back. It is actually quite hard to get nominated. There can be as many as ten or as little as five nominees depending on how the votes go.

According to the new system, anywhere between five and 10 films can be nominated for Best Picture. To add to the suspense, the Academy won’t reveal the exact number of Best Picture nominees until January’s nomination announcement.

The newest change will require nominated films to earn at least 5% of first place votes in order to contend for Best Picture. That means that a film must appear as a first place choice on at least 5% of ballots. This percentage was determined by looking back at past Oscar ballot data.

Davis’s statement speaks to the biggest criticism in the wake of the 2009 rules change. The expansion of Best Picture as a category can largely be attributed to the omission of critical and commercial hits like WALL-E and The Dark Knight from the list of nominees. The Academy hoped that expanding the competition to more films would lead to a more diverse representation of genres.

In practice, things didn’t quite work out that way. In a particularly strong year for film like 2008, 10 nominees would make sense. But some critics felt the Best Picture category was padded by its 2009 and 2010 nominees, which included films like The Blind Side, District 9 and Toy Story 3.
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http://mashable.com/2011/06/15/oscar-best-picture-changes/

I don't think HP8 will or should get that many first place votes. It is a good movie, but not a GREAT one. I think the third movie is still the best, and that wasn't even nominated.

It would be great if Alan Rickman got the Best Supporting Actor nomination though.
 
sojourner said:
Has a sequel (nevermind the second of a 2 parter) ever been nominated?
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Both Return of the King and The Godfather Part II won Best Picture.

I think The Color of Money received nominations when it was released, although I am not sure how much that would be considered an actual sequel.
 
Dream said:
Don't think this is a sure thing. The Best Picture nomination rules were changed again a while back. It is actually quite hard to get nominated. There can be as many as ten or as little as five nominees depending on how the votes go.
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Academy members are movie industry workers, and the bulk of those are people who work on the crews of films. Movies with large crews tend to get a lot of votes because it ups the cache of the individual gaffers, best boys, grips and so on to have an Oscar winner on their resume. HP, which had enormous crews throughout, is likely to benefit from this little bit of politics. Is it a guarantee of a nomination? No, but it certainly helps.
 
Potter will go down as a franchise with zero Oscar wins.

Movies don't deserve an Oscar just because they are popular and successful.
 
I completely forgot the Oscars were last night, but I also watched "The Deathly Hallows Part 2" again, and I stand by my opinion that Alan Rickman should have at least been nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
 
RoJoHen said:
I completely forgot the Oscars were last night, but I also watched "The Deathly Hallows Part 2" again, and I stand by my opinion that Alan Rickman should have at least been nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
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Yup. Rickman should not only have been nominated, he should've won.
 
Dream said:
Movies don't deserve an Oscar just because they are popular and successful.
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A lot of crappy movies got nominated (or even won) over the years. I don't get the fuss.
 
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