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  1. Jan H

    *** Official 2003 Academy Awards Discussion Thread

    Morris may be the GREATEST documentary filmmaker ever, but to the masses he came across as if he knew he was. Never a good move in public relations terms. Ernest, congrats on your BFA, how's that working out for you? As for Fisher's accent, blame that on Lucas. Either she wanted to do it and...
  2. Jan H

    *** Official 2003 Academy Awards Discussion Thread

    I guessed 22 out of 24 correctly. Won the office pool. Many thanks to those HTF'ers who knew what the hell they were talking about. And even more thanks to those who didn't. (for the record, I picked Seabiscuit for Cinematography and Destino for Animated Short). I knew that LOTR fandom would...
  3. Jan H

    *** Official 2003 Academy Awards Discussion Thread

    Agree with everything he says. Particularly about Benigni. God, what a despicable film that is!
  4. Jan H

    *** Official 2003 Academy Awards Discussion Thread

    Thanks for the explanation, Chris, it's helpful. But my confusion arises from the fact that the whole concept seems bogus. If 'vote-splitting' exists, then there is no such thing as a front-runner. If two popular choices end up with 30% of the votes, and a third ends up with 35 percent, then...
  5. Jan H

    *** Official 2003 Academy Awards Discussion Thread

    The whole concept of 'splitting the vote' makes no sense to me. If Penn and Murray really do split the vote, they'll tie (like Hepburn and Streisand did in '68). The person with the most votes wins, right? Did On Golden Pond and Reds "split the vote", which allowed Chariots of Fire to win? Color...
  6. Jan H

    *** Official 2003 Academy Awards Discussion Thread

    I agree with Lou and Claire. And how Andrew Lesnie got jobbed for a Cinematography nom is beyond me(though it's probably because he won for FOTR). The Beacon sequence alone was deserving of the Oscar. Susan Sarandon's jab at ROTK about special effects during the Globes was ill-informed, at best.
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