The Dark Knight in contention for the Best Picture Oscar?

[stj]

Don't forget that personal popularity is also a major factor negating attempts at objective rating of quality. It's why Martin Scorsese won for The Departed, which is merely the first halfway successful movie he's done for years.

 

[TGTheodore]

Just amazing how many people here think of the Academy as a singular Borg-like voting block.

Talk about naive ...

--Ted

 

[JacksonArcher]

I knew when Frost/Nixon was announced as a Best Picture nominee, that The Dark Knight would not make the list. I am actually okay with it. I said to myself, ironically, that if Frost/Nixon made the list and that meant The Dark Knight wouldn't, that I would be okay with that, because Frost/Nixon was that good of a movie. Just brilliant, and I normally find Ron Howard's movies pedestrian.

Am I dissapointed, still? Yes. But those movies nominated were brilliant. Especially the aforementioned Frost/Nixon and Milk. So I can't complain.

Besides, eight nominations! That's still stellar!

 

[Aragorn]

If the next movie has Bane breaking Batman's back early in the movie, then the Oscars might drool over it because it'll be about overcoming a serious physical disability. And if they make Riddler autistic or give Penguin Down syndrome, then that's just about the ultimate Oscar-whore movie.

Plus everyone needs to speak with British accents.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Just amazing how many people here think of the Academy as a singular Borg-like voting block.

Talk about naive ...

--Ted

Exactly!

For all we know TDK could have missed out on being a nominee by a single vote. I am sure there were Academy members who voted for its inclusion but not enough.

 

[Hermiod]

Plus everyone needs to speak with British accents.

I agree with this sentiment. Nothing to do with movies, just in life.

 

[cultcross]

I think it's hilarious that everyone is saying The Dark Knight didn't get nominated because of the Academy's supposed elitism, when Robert Downey Jr. got nominated for fucking Tropic Thunder.

Yeah, real elitist.

The "Best Film" category has often sat apart from the others as particualrly adverse to genre and associated films. A film like The Dark Knight might expect to pick up, as it has done, a "Supporting Actor" nod, but actually being in the running for "Best Film" seems to be largely the preserve of films deemed more 'high brow'. This isn't because of some horrible hatred I have for 'The Academy', it's just an observation I've made over time.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

While I'm a little disappointed The Dark Knight didn't get nominated, I'm not surprised in the slightest (and I'm certainly not angry about it). I'm just happy that Heath Ledger got nominated.

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

http://www.thedeconline.com/article.php?id=520

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight.” It’s easy for people to dismiss this as a simple posthumous Oscar, but Ledger took a character we all thought we knew and made him more tragic, dangerous and terrifying than we ever thought possible. Runner-Up: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, “Doubt.”

 

[suarezguy]

I don't think he was tragic or even very scary; I'll agree with obsessive and vengeful.

 

[USS Mariner]

It's as if TDK had gays in it...

A cookie for the one who gets the reference, BTW.