Now There's 10 Best Picture Oscar Nominations-These Are the 10 Films That Should Have Been Nominated
source: http://www.thefilmtalk.com/2009/06/26/movies-that-should-be-nominated-for-best-picture-oscar...
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Last week I posted about the problem facing the Academy Awards – the fact that films released later in the year crowd out space for remembering movies that we saw before September. I echoed a previous suggestion by Mr Ebert that the voting period should be cut in two; with films released from January – June being nominated in July; and the July – December films getting their chance in January. Combine the votes, and come up with a list of films that more accurately represent the whole year gone by. That could avoid debacles like ‘Benjamin Button’s acclaim – a film that seems creakier with every passing day; and the fact that Brad’s earlier Jesse James movie (a masterpiece. And I don’t use that word lightly.) was almost completely ignored.
To our instant gratification, just a couple of days ago, Academy President Sid Ganis announced the decision to increase the number of Best Picture nominees to ten; they haven’t divided the year in two, but who knew how interested the Academy’s board of governors had become in the internet’s finest podcast/an excuse for Jett and I to keep watching films?
For what it’s worth, if the rule had been set last year, TFT’s Best Picture nominations would look like this:
Jett:
Che
Australia
Taken
Waltz with Bashir
Gran Torino
Righteous Kill
Hunger
Kung Fu Panda
My Winnipeg
Appaloosa
Gareth:
Gran Torino
Shine a Light
Happy Go Lucky
The Dark Knight
Rachel Getting Married
Milk
Heartbeat Detector
Wall-E
The Visitor
Man on Wire
To our instant gratification, just a couple of days ago, Academy President Sid Ganis announced the decision to increase the number of Best Picture nominees to ten; they haven’t divided the year in two, but who knew how interested the Academy’s board of governors had become in the internet’s finest podcast/an excuse for Jett and I to keep watching films?
For what it’s worth, if the rule had been set last year, TFT’s Best Picture nominations would look like this:
Jett:
Che
Australia
Taken
Waltz with Bashir
Gran Torino
Righteous Kill
Hunger
Kung Fu Panda
My Winnipeg
Appaloosa
Gareth:
Gran Torino
Shine a Light
Happy Go Lucky
The Dark Knight
Rachel Getting Married
Milk
Heartbeat Detector
Wall-E
The Visitor
Man on Wire
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trelk
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i really liked 'happy go lucky' although i needed subtitles like i always do with mike leigh's films.
if '4 months 3 week 2 days' came out in the u.s. in 2008 i think that should have been nominated. along with 'wendy and lucy', it is the best movie i have seen in a year or two.
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