Nominations for the 2010 Oscars were announced this morning. Some interesting omissions to note:
BEST DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan did not get a nomination for his INCEPTION. INCEPTION is a film trademarked on visuals, and that overshadows any directing style the film has. Nolan may be a visionary, but aside from the FX and strong script, there wasn’t much to be seen in the on-the-ground realm. Besides, the 5 guys who beat him out all directed films with Oscar-nominated acting performances.
BEST SCORE: No nomination for the Daft Punk scoring of TRON: LEGACY. The oddball choice in the nominated films is HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON. The initial reaction of this blogger is that the Academy just loves a talking animal, in any category. Recall the cartoonish-looking effects of THE GOLDEN COMPASS that beat out the favored and game-changing effects of TRANSFORMERS in 2007. If Optimus Prime was a talking rabbit, he would have won 50 awards. But, I digress…maybe the Academy just favors traditional scoring over the techno-blasting that TRON had, or maybe they’re just trying to tell us that the movie wasn’t that good in the first place.
BEST PICTURE: The nominations did nothing to clear up who is going to win this dogfight between THE SOCIAL NETWORK and THE KING’S SPEECH. Both films got nods for Best Directing and Best Screenplay, which is always the pre-requisite for a win. This could go either way…
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