I suppose everyone's allowed a juvenile moment around here...awallaceunc wrote:...but that's slightly offset by the joy of Fahrenheit 9/11 not getting any.
I'm not exactly defending Fahrenheit 9/11, but it kinda had a botched entry anyway - Moore shot only for Best Picture, and didn't submit it for Documentary. May I say that I'm glad that Passion only got 3 noms, which are by and large techie categories anyway? 
I dunno about The Incredibles' score, though. I listened to the soundtrack, and I didn't really find it to be as remarkable as people here tend to make it. It sounded like any other spy film score - kind of sly and slick, if you know what I mean. Though I'd gladly replace it with Unfortunate Events - maybe I was just entranced by the great design in that film, but I didn't hear much of a standout in the score.
I am glad that Prisoner of Azkaban picked up the noms it did, though. The film's score was exceptionally good this time around - the sad wistfulness of "A Window to the Past", the maddening jazz score of "The Knight Bus", the appropriately medieval feel of "Hagrid the Professor"... even Williams' signature tendency for crescendo upon crescendo in "Buckbeak's Flight" - it's all beautiful, and more unique and varied than the previous two films. Likewise with the visual effects - the film had a realistically "grimy" look to it, and Cuarón loved to stuff the frame with detail - like the scenes in The Leaky Cauldron. Buckbeak, as well, was very well done - they could have screwed him up quite easily, but they did a great job. Buckbeak looked, acted, and felt very real.
I really hope PoA will win those two. *crosses fingers*I'm happy to see Lorenzo nominated for Animated Short - and call me biased (I haven't seen any of the other four), but I really hope it wins - that way it may push Disney to put it out on DVD. Though with our luck, it'd probably be stuck as an extra on some crappy movie that I would never watch anyway. e_e
I'm severely annoyed by Shark Tale's nomination, though. If there's any way of making the Animated Feature category look more and more like a joke, it's with stunts like this. The Oscar illuminati are essentially signifying that ST is one of the epitomes in animation this year - and that's a f*cking joke. Sorry to be harsh, but it is. It's the equivalent of nominating something like The Whole Ten Yards or Meet the Fockers for Best Picture - it may have star power, and may even be entertaining, but it's hardly an example of great film. Shark Tale was a gimmick, plain and simple. A bunch of hip-hop fishies with human faces that look like their celebrity voice-actors? Yeesh. It has a 34% fresh rating at RT - the most poorly-reviewed animated film of 2004!! And it got an Oscar nom?! How the hell does that work?! Of course, until recently, it was the #3 highest grossing animated film last year... behind Shrek 2 and The Incredibles, of course. Maybe that's the new criteria of a good animated film...
more needed there.
