Oscar Academy Awards 2006

[hengcs]

Originally posted by wpqx

(i) Ah how I love the Oscars for the sole purpose of complaining about them. ....

(ii) Now for a complaint, the best picture race is always a tricky bird. ... Good Night and Good Luck as well as Capote were overrated, and Brokeback Mountain is overhyped.

(iii) The foreign nominees are garbage as usual, no nominations for The World, Weeping Meadow, or Nobody Knows, which were the three foreign films on my top ten. ...

hee hee ...

(i) in the entertainment world, any news is good news ... ;PPP

(ii) like tabuno, i have no qualms over the 5 Best Films ... since you chose different descriptions (i..e, "overrated" and "overhyped"), i presume there is a difference (pardon my english) ...

do you mean the following?!
"overrated" means bad, not worth the high ratings ...
"overhyped" means that it is still excellent, but because of too much publicity and expectations, one does not get as much out of it (in relative terms) ...

(iii) "The World" was not submitted by China, but instead "The Promise" (by Chen Kaige) was ... you might find it interesting to note that the majority of the Chinese do not think that "The World" is the best film of the year ...

"Nobody Knows" was submitted last year by Japan but missed out in the nominations ... this year, "Blood and Bones" was submitted (you may read my review in the forum too)

"Weeping Meadow" ... i can't recall ...

Anyway, to be fair, I have watched 3 out of the 5 nominees ... while I will NOT deny that they are probably "safe" options and NOT necessarily the best film from the country (because different nationalities will have different taste and some best films will be "lost in translation"), I have to defend that the 3 films (Merry Christmas, Sophie Scholl and Paradise Now) are actually "very well told" stories with "very good messages" ... taking into account the age/taste/beliefs/etc of voting members in the Academy, I do not think it is surprising that they like the films ...


If you want ... I could probably try explaining why "The Promise" (China), "Perhaps Love" (HK), "The Wayward Cloud" (Taiwan), "Blood and Bones" (Japan), "The Tin Mine" (Thailand), Days of Santiago (Peru), etc did not make it ...


As for Tsotsi, reviews seem to be great. I am not sure about Italy's Don't Tell.

;)