Comments on: “Avatar”, Oscar’s big snub?

By: usfenderfsdlx

usfenderfsdlx — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:03:37 +0000

Hurt Locker for best director? Maybe. Maaaaaybe. The award is literally called, “Best ACHIEVEMENT in Directing.” It’s a toss up to say whether that should have gone to Hurt Locker or Avatar. They are very different films.

But motion picture of the year? That’s the name of the award: “Best Motion Picture of the Year.” That means taking everything into consideration. Not just the directing, not just the screenplay, but the whole picture. Everything put together. What’s the best movie that came out in the year, all around best, what’s the big one? That’s what that award should address. This was Avatar by far. I could deal with the Best Director loss, but Avatar losing best picture is ridiculous; it’s an indescribable injustice, complete and total travesty. I can’t settle with Avatar losing best picture. That’s just wrong.

By: lovelylady

lovelylady — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:14:09 +0000

I thought that James Cameron did an excellant job on Avatar. James Cameron should get an oscar for the movie. Don’t know why people have to been so hard on the directors that make really great movies like
Avatar. I hope that Mr. Cameron will be directing the next Avatar movie.

lovelylady

By: offroader45066

offroader45066 — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:43:19 +0000

I think the comments here sum it up pretty good, and agree that the Academy chooses who they want to win and not who made the best movie or had the best performance. They also say its not how much the public likes the movie, but isnt that the point, to make a movie that the population will love to watch over and over again. I wonder how many DVDs the Hurt Locker has sold, not entire racks in one day I can tell you that. I said I wouldnt watch the Oscars this year but still did, and regret it. All other awards ceremonies got it right so I am done with the Oscars. Pure favoratism.

By: BattleBunny

BattleBunny — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:58:00 +0000

I found this event vry interesting as I told my wife the night of the Oscars no way would Avatar win an award. There competitors just lost to much money to an upstart picture. After the show she came in here and said I was right they didnt win. Come on people its not supprising. I have seen both movies. The “Hurt Locker” is an ok run of the mill war movie. But to put it in the same level as Avatar which gave us a truely brilliant and gground breaking event was just to much for the Oscar folks. But here is my promise. I will never watch the Academy awards ever again. They should just how vengefulll they can be if some upstart trashes everyone at the box office. I aplaud Weaver for going ballistic about the awards.John Cameron to his great credit has said nothing. A sign of a truely great director.
As for all the rest in Avatar. well I for one will apoligize to you all for being treated so badly.

By: Rindor

Rindor — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:52:43 +0000

Seems to me the majority of the academy let their egos get the best of them this year. Just like last years American Idol, the choice was clear… too clear. It was just too easy to let the absolute obvious occur. Kris Allen won. The All-American fresh-faced boy next door who really had no more going for him than 90% of the other contestants, beat a theatrical guy who wore leather and eyeliner and did exactly what the entertainment industry wants… he WOWED! Well, the academy did the same thing. They chose the Chris Allen of the movie nominations… Hurt Locker. They have big egos and the choice was just way too easy… and predictable. And just like critics, they hate predictable. To actually choose the absolute obvious was the one predictable cliche they simply could not allow. So I agree with some of the other comments here. The Academy is no longer the authority I thought they were. When it comes to choosing which movie is really the best, they lie for their own reasons. Unless of course it was a big sympathy vote, (“That big bad James Cameron is going to stomp EVERYone again. We have to stop him!) which again means they lie.

By: HBC

HBC — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:26:09 +0000

It’s not how many Academy Awards Avatar ought to have won, which isn’t that many really, but how many Hurt Locker should not have won – let alone been nominated for – against real competition.

For its editors, definitely, yes. Otherwise, absolutely nothing was earned.

For even considering embedded little pipsqueak Mark Boal an Award-worthy “original” writer, The Academy has shamed itself into irrelevance.

By: asteroid

asteroid — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:36:30 +0000

The Academy Awards have become quite elitist without much connection to the actual moviegoer. I do miss the days when the Oscar meant something. Now, sadly, the Academy Awards is more a puppet show, and a nonevent. Academy voters may of course freely choose their favorites. I simply don’t care anymore. I vote with my movie ticket.

By: p7x

p7x — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:41:50 +0000

I’m not quite sure it’d be the biggest injustice of all time…

Having said that, while I think it’s great the technical merits of Avatar were recognised (as the OP says) the film is obviously worth a few people buying tickets because it’s sold almost $3 billion of them.

The rest of the Academy comes across as rather jealous of a successful film, which is disappointing, but you know they’ll be churning out films based on Pocahontas by the truckload this/next year.

By: richard96

richard96 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:48:10 +0000

Avatar not receiving a oscar for best movie will go down as
the biggest injustice of all time. ” Shame on you voters of the oscars ” for robbing James Cameron & Avatar from i,ts due recognition.

By: general321

general321 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:58:37 +0000

If the Academy were the judges at the olympics then I am sure Kim Yu Nan would not have won the gold.