Will new movie win any awards??

[Too Much Fun]

I'm really pessimistic about its chances, even in technical categories after how badly "The Dark Knight" was snubbed. I didn't think it was the best movie of the year like a lot of people, so I didn't mind (or feel surprised about) its exclusion from the Best Picture category, but even if it had flaws in terms of writing or acting, it was undeniably superlative on a technical level.

And all it has to show for that is one measly little sound mixing award. It definitely deserved to be win for best cinematography. It was about as beautifully shot as a movie can be these days (taking full advantage of a big budget and cutting edge technology) and yet in spite of all that technical merit and it being the most popular and successful movie of the year, it lost to "Benjamin Button", just because that was a 'prestige picture'.

The Academy may have given best picture to a Lord of the Rings movie, but that doesn't mean they don't still have a huge bias against 'geek properties'. I have trouble imagining they could ever give an award to a Star Trek movie. If you ever needed proof that they'd go out of their way to avoid awarding a Star Trek movie, look at how they gave best make-up to "The Nutty Professor" over "Star Trek: First Contact". I mean, come on, I know Rick Baker is a genius with make-up, but Eddie Murphy in a fatsuit over the painstakingly crafted and applied, incredibly detailed and brilliantly creepy, imaginative, bizarre, and original make-up of the big screen Borg? Seriously? What a bunch of snobs.

 

[Eddie Roth]

^^ The "Snubbing" is a common misconception about AMPAS. It's several thousand voters voting on their favorites separately. There's no committee or anything, no discussion about films' merits. For a Dark Knight to be nominated 8 times is huge.

Consider that the Academy uses a preferential voting system for nominations. This means that you can put your top five films of the year down for nominations, in order of preference. When ballots are counted, only the #1 votes are looked at first of all and the ballots sorted by the film in that spot. If a film makes a certain number necessary to be nominated, it's in. Only when this process doesn't yield five nominees does another round start in which the #2 spot on the ballot is looked at. Meaning, effectively, that whatever film you liked third-best or lower that year gets no support from you.

Then remember that the Oscars are a competition - what was the best among a certain group of films, in this case those released in 2008? I for one loved the Dark Knight, but when I saw Slumdog Millionaire, the latter took over for me as the film of the year. So on my ballot, if I had one, The Dark Knight would've been in #2, and Slumdog in #1. I think this is how it went for TDK. Many people had it on their lists, but for many there was one or two other films ahead, so it didn't make it for a Best Picture nomination. Sad, but that's the way it goes.

But yes, there is of course some genre bias. Many people in the Academy are really old, which might have something to do with that.

 

[3superearthtrek]

just forward all the special effect awards to George Lucas.he probley pioneered them in the first place

 

[3superearthtrek]

Computer graphics has been one of the earliest applications of fractals. Indeed, fractals can achieve realism, beauty, and require very small storage space because of easy compression. Very beautiful fractal landscapes were published as far back as in Mandelbrot’s Fractal Geometry of Nature. Although the first algorithms and ideas are owed to the discoverer of fractals himself, the artistic field of using fractals was started by Richard Voss, who generated the landscapes for Mandelbrot’s book. This sparked the imagination of many artists and producers of science fiction movies. A little later, Loren Carpenter generated a computer movie of a flight over a fractal landscape. He was immediately hired by Pixar, the computer graphics division of Lucasfilms. Fractals were used in the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, to generate the landscape of the Genesis planet and also in Return of the Jedi to create the geography of the moons of Endor and the Death Star outline. The success of fractal special effects in these movies lead to making fractals very popular. Today, numerous software allows anyone who only knows some information about computer graphics and fractals to create such art. For example, we ourselves were able to generate all landscapes throughout this website, such as the one below

 

[3superearthtrek]

don't know if im allowed to do that or not.sorry if not

 

[Lethe]

I know its a longshot but I would love to see Karl Urban get acknowledged somewhere for his portrayal of Bones. He nailed it!

Also, for what its worth, I'm another who walked out of the theater loving the film but needing an advil because of the shaky-cam.

 

[Feofilakt]

I know I said it before, but while Star Trek may overtake District 9 as far as the box office is concerned, in terms of awards within the sci-fi genre I have a very strong feeling that District 9 has cornered the genre this year, as it is arguably the only true science fiction film even being released this year.

It's also being produced by Peter Jackson, and the guy is a wizard (and also better than JJ).

 

[Kpnuts]

What the hell is District 9?

 

[Squiggy]

A movie that isn't out yet.