Jesus, this year’s Oscars are as political as hell. If it isn’t skits getting spiked it’s producers getting locked out. Should The Hurt Locker win
the Best Picture Oscar this Sunday – a very likely occurrence –
producer Nicolas Chartier won’t be there to pick it up. He’s been
banned from the Oscars, due to a leaked email where he asked people to
vote for his little movie versus an unnamed $500 million movie.
Apparently
it’s against the rules to campaign by disparaging other films – which
is pretty interesting, because that’s exactly what’s been happening to The Hurt Locker for
the last few weeks, with organized media campaigns aimed at undermining
the film by focusing on the idea that it has no POV, that the military
thinks it’s phony and now by leaking Chartier’s email, which apparently
only went out to friends.
Should The Hurt Locker win
Chartier will be given a statue, but he’ll be watching the ceremony
itself from home, aware that the only people allowed to play dirty
Oscar pool are the Weinsteins and $500 million movies.
via The Hollywood Reporter
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Hey, Devin managed to make a post about The Hurt Locker and the upcoming Oscars without tossing another insult at Cameron to meet his monthly goal. Well done.
The Academy's always been a bunch of self-congratulatory back-patters and a total boy's club. I'm willing to bet they give Cameron Director and Hurt Locker Picture. All this producer did was try to level the playing field for a much smaller but overall more creatively successful film. And the Academy hates that.
Fuck Avatar, and all the fat fuck fanboys who defend that piece of shit.
Seriously, if this film doesn't win picture AND director, it'll be another sham to add to the long list of Oscar stupidity.
Since Devin was remiss I'll remedy the situation. James Cameron is a titanic, egomaniacal cunt; and his ex-wife KB is not only a better storyteller, she's smoking hot. I hope Hurt Locker wins BIG.
I definitely believe Hurt Locker deserves to win… however, I'm not sure what dirty tactics the Avatar team has pulled in this? James Cameron was here in sunny Queensland last week and showed some unexpected class when he suggested to local media that Kathryn Bigelow deserved the best director nod, and Hurt Locker seemed likely to win the best picture. Perhaps it was a cynical nice-guy act. Perhaps not. Also, when will the anonymous haters realise that enjoying Avatar doesn't in any way diminish the awesomeness of The Hurt Locker? It's always absolutes with these people. It must suck living in such a binary world.
Does it really matter if it doesn't win? What do the Oscars mean anymore? Nowadays it seems that all these industry back slapping events are just excuses to get Ryan Fucking Seacrest on the red carpet interviewing people about who they are wearing. I remember when Titanic won shit loads thinking 'ah well that proves to me it's just a load of old shite'. Watch film. Enjoy film. Move on. I don't really need my opinions validated by someone receiving a small statuette.
Reitman wins best director, Precious is going to win best picture. And when they do I am going to calmly take my shoe off and throw it at the TV
now… if cameron was doing this, Devin would be calling for his head.
No shit he's banned, the BLATANTLY broke the rules, and threw in some classless cheap shots while he was at it. I guarantee it would be no different whatsoever if any other nominee did the same.
And yes, if Cameron did what Chartier did, you bet your ass war cries would be going up all over internetland. Devin would be shitting himself with rage, and we'd hear about it in his next 5 articles. But because Chartier did it, he must be absolutely right no matter what and anything that says otherwise is flat out wrong.
"ME HATE AVATAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Just post this headline over and over again, Devin, and you'll save yourself a ton of time. You're welcome!
No offense to Hurt Locker but the movie was boring. It shouldn't win best picture and neither should Avatar…I haven't seen the rest so I cannot judge the other movies but I found Hurt Locker to be tedious and boring
What a shady fuck. Glad he got banned.
For now he's the biggest douchebag out of all the countless douchebags in Hollywood. He should be proud.
Seriously, Devin is just ruining this site…. Nick, Alex… all you chud employees, it's time to get rid of him…
Seen Avatar for the second time last night! Wonderful movie. I had a great time revisiting Pandora. I just don't understand the hate! Cameron takes us to a new world in a way we have never seen before and some people just can't appreciate it.
I haven't seen The Hurt locker… I wouldn't be surprise when I see it if the movie is just ordinary. Some people just doesn't want Cameron to win. If his movies make so much money, there must be something that connects with a lot of people. Stop complaining and try to understand why it is so succesful! The fact that it cost 500 millions $ has nothing to do with it. A 500 millions $ movie could be boring as shit… But Cameron just doesn't know how to make a boring movie…
It amazes me that people are considering The Hurt Locker to be a serious movie. It was an entertaining action film and was good as far as it went, but as a serious war film it's a joke.
I think it's hypocrit to think that this hasn't been done before. People sending the Academy members dvd's, invitations etc. so they would consider them for a nomination or encourage them to vote for a certain movie.
As i said before i don't think Avatar should win outside the technical awards. IMO that's what made this movie special. I'm even baffled it's nominated for Best movie. Since when does a bad script equals a good movie?! The technical crew for Avatar who slaved for years to make it like it is today should get an award individually. No question about that.
Everybody knows that GAYATAR is a horrible movie that doesn't deserve the Oscar nominations BUT CAMERON IS THE SAVIOR OF HOLLYWOOD just ask the Oscars producer Bill Mechanic. You got to remind people that FAGATAR IS FUCKING DUMB MOVIE
Just saw Mark Kermode in Oxford the other night and someone asked him about his cult of personality and if it affected his ability to be a good film critic. He answered that he could only be subjective in his answers but that he could position the film in history, both general and cinematic, he could recognise it's use or subversion of genre conventions, he could isolate and examine the narrative structure and plot and this is what a good critic does. Devin knows his shit. He has his opinions (and I don't agree with many of them) but positioning this article in the history of the Weinstiens bullying oscars out of the academy (and Biskind agrees with him on this) and the undoubted pressure put on media outlets to push Avatar and discredit Hurt Locker he has acted, as he does most times, as a thoughtful and informed critic. Can we please move on from this awful trolling?
Everytime I see that poster for THL "A NEAR-PERFECT MOVIE." I'm reminded just how worthless 99% of film reviewers are.
As for the Oscars, meh!
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