The nominee list for the 84th annual Academy Awards was the usual mix of gratification, head-scratching, and hair-pulling.
Hugo, the delightful fantasy film from Martin Scorsese, actually led the nominations with 11, including Best Picture, Directing, and Adapted Screenplay. And Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris is also up for Picture, Directing, and Original Screenplay.
But not a single performance in any of the dozens of sci-fi/fantasy films released in 2011 was deemed worthy of a moment's attention. And thanks to the Academy's grudge against motion capture, The Adventures of Tintin was missing not only from the Best Picture and Directing categories, but even from Animated Feature--only its score (by Howard Shore) was nominated.
And some might consider it the greatest crime of all that Transformers: Dark of the Moon was actually nominated for three Oscars. Read on...
Hugo, the delightful fantasy film from Martin Scorsese, actually led the nominations with 11, including Best Picture, Directing, and Adapted Screenplay. And Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris is also up for Picture, Directing, and Original Screenplay.
But not a single performance in any of the dozens of sci-fi/fantasy films released in 2011 was deemed worthy of a moment's attention. And thanks to the Academy's grudge against motion capture, The Adventures of Tintin was missing not only from the Best Picture and Directing categories, but even from Animated Feature--only its score (by Howard Shore) was nominated.
And some might consider it the greatest crime of all that Transformers: Dark of the Moon was actually nominated for three Oscars. Read on...
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