Terrell
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By the way, if you guys get to thinking I'm just babbling on and sounding stupid, just ignore me. Just trying to understand.
For next year's awards, I think they should just scrap the television awards, since the focus is obviously on the movies, and turn it into a 2 hour show.
Exactly - I found the TV awards completely pointless. Besides, how can you put Ray Romano and James Gandolfini in the same category? Sure, they're both great actors, but we're comparing apples with oranges.
Guy, exactly. I mean, how can it be Best Pic if neither the directors, actors, screenplay, and editing weren't even nominated. And in many cases, that's the way it was. And before anyone goes bonkers, I'm not trying to cut down FOTR. But there were a number of instances like that. Again, although I understand this year is wide open.
If the direction was the best of the year, and the acting, screenplay, music or otherwise weren't up to par, then it doesn't deserve best picture.
If the acting was good, but everything else sucked, then it doesn't deserve best picture.
And so on.
I find it refreshing to have an awards show where I know who's making the decisions and what they're credentials are.
I still prefer the idea of the People's Choice Awards, but people are just too damned uneducated anymore.
You had 10 films nominated total, and even Shrek was in there
What's wrong with Shrek there? A wonderful film in it's genre...and why shouldn't that genre be represented in an awards show if it has a good movie? I have a hard time thinking of a critic that didn't have Shrek in their top 10 list of 2001. Certainly a very high majority did.
Big congrats to Peter Jackson and crew. They did the seemingly impossible and pulled it off!
AFI is not the only group to give (Denzel) Washington the Best Actor nod this season, so that isn't out of left field either.
The National Society of Film Critics awarded Washington second best behind Gene Hackman and he beat Tom Wilkinson by one vote.
~Edwin