"Scott Feinberg at The Envelope has created a list of his “The top 25 movies of the past 10 years that got no Oscar love” and it’s an interesting idea considering there has been so much hatred aimed at the Academy over The Dark Knight not getting a Best Picture nomination, but it did actually receive eight nominations, which is nothing to scoff at. We are talking about films that didn’t receive any nominations, zero, zilch, nada. Any come to mind?
I had never considered the idea since it is a relatively hard thing to imagine that a favorite film of yours didn’t receive any Oscar nominations — wait, is that why general audiences aren’t interested in the Oscars? — but then I went back over my 2003-2008 Top Ten lists and found several that weren’t nominated and put together a quick top ten and an example category I think they should have been nominated in.
1. Zodiac [2007] (Director, David Fincher)
2. Ballast [2008] (Film Editing)
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [2008] (Director, Cristian Mungiu)
4. I’ve Loved You So Long [2008] (Supporting Actress, Elsa Zylberstein)
5. Inside Man [2006] (Original Screenplay, Russell Gewirtz) 6. Jarhead [2005] (Cinematography, Roger Deakins)
7. The Edge of Heaven [2008] (Foreign Language Film)
8. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [2005] (Adapted Screenplay, Shane Black)
9. Things We Lost in the Fire [2007] (Actress, Halle Berry)
10. Spanglish [2004] (Original Screenplay, James L. Brooks)
Source: www.ropeofsilicon.com
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was nominated for 13 Oscars and 11 BAFTAs, and won three Oscar Awards: Best Achievement in Art Direction, Best Achievement in Makeup and Best Achievement in Visual Effects, comforting director David Fincher for the way that Zodiac was generally overlooked. "The story is that of the eponymous Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) who is born old and ages backwards throughout his life. Raised in an old folks' home, Benjamin at first doesn't realise that he's different from everyone else - as you can see in the first clip, with a five (or so) year-old Button getting up to gentle mischief that his adoptive mother Queenie (Taraji P. Henson) has to watch out for. Along the way he falls in love with a girl called Daisy (Cate Blanchett).
I had never considered the idea since it is a relatively hard thing to imagine that a favorite film of yours didn’t receive any Oscar nominations — wait, is that why general audiences aren’t interested in the Oscars? — but then I went back over my 2003-2008 Top Ten lists and found several that weren’t nominated and put together a quick top ten and an example category I think they should have been nominated in.
1. Zodiac [2007] (Director, David Fincher)
2. Ballast [2008] (Film Editing)
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [2008] (Director, Cristian Mungiu)
4. I’ve Loved You So Long [2008] (Supporting Actress, Elsa Zylberstein)
5. Inside Man [2006] (Original Screenplay, Russell Gewirtz) 6. Jarhead [2005] (Cinematography, Roger Deakins)
7. The Edge of Heaven [2008] (Foreign Language Film)
8. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [2005] (Adapted Screenplay, Shane Black)
9. Things We Lost in the Fire [2007] (Actress, Halle Berry)
10. Spanglish [2004] (Original Screenplay, James L. Brooks)
Source: www.ropeofsilicon.com
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was nominated for 13 Oscars and 11 BAFTAs, and won three Oscar Awards: Best Achievement in Art Direction, Best Achievement in Makeup and Best Achievement in Visual Effects, comforting director David Fincher for the way that Zodiac was generally overlooked. "The story is that of the eponymous Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) who is born old and ages backwards throughout his life. Raised in an old folks' home, Benjamin at first doesn't realise that he's different from everyone else - as you can see in the first clip, with a five (or so) year-old Button getting up to gentle mischief that his adoptive mother Queenie (Taraji P. Henson) has to watch out for. Along the way he falls in love with a girl called Daisy (Cate Blanchett).
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