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That's very good to know, thanks for the heads up @commandbond007. I personally value this kind of awards a lot more than Oscars. Just out of curiosity has anyone ever noticed who makes up for most of the academy and how these people get their place? I have, when Peter Jackson decided to host private screenings at nursing homes around LA at the time of LOTR (with stellar results, I must say) I got curious.
Wonderful to hear. Thanks. This has to bode well for something at the Oscars.
Uhm, I tend to disagree a bit. 'Skyfall' DID have very good chances to be nominated in the 'Best Picture' category. A good predictor usually is the 'Producers Guild Award'. Comparable action blockbuster movies like 'The Dark Knight' (2008) and 'Star Trek' (2009) also got nominated for a Producers Guild Award, just like 'Skyfall'. And take my word, usually this Producers Guild only allow ONE of these action blockbusters on their list of nominations.
Also, if you read the media a bit more accurately, you would have known that it would be a close call for 'Skyfall' to actually get nominated for a 'Best Picture Oscar'. Sites like Indiewire and Hollywood Reporter were actually saying that movies like 'The Master' and 'Skyfall' might or might not be nominated in this category.
So to summarize everything: 'Skyfall' is not nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, but I am pretty damn sure it was in the TOP 11 list of Best Picture nominees from the Academy. Moreover, there was a similar discussion about 'The Dark Knight' back in 2009. Also with that film, media said it got 'snubbed' from the Best Picture Oscar list. Wrong: It narrowly missed out that category.
I think it depends on your definition of value. It's valuable if your DVD/Blu-ray cover has the '5 time Oscar nominated' Skyfall plastered across it. It's potentially more valuable to have Javier Bardem in his 'Oscar nominated performance as Silva' - but we're splitting hairs. In terms of glamour it's all about the Actor/Actress, Director and Picture. They are the memorable categories but as I said I don't think anyone is saying they are of equal value contextually. However an Oscar is an Oscar, if you get one for a short film you're still an Oscar winner. You don't get a lesser statue for mixing foley than you do for spouting a few lines with a grimace.
This is pretty much what I was trying to imply. It didn't deserve and was never going to get a nom for best picture.
Oh my god I feel like Meryl Streep!! Thank you x
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This are nominations that i can understand. The Spy Who loved Me is very good on those points/time forward on those points.
Not enough. This movie also should have got credits from some of same catogories as The Spy Who loved Me.
I mis nomination from Sean Connery for example.
That CR 2006 won a Bafta from Best Sound i don't understand, because i think it is one the worse things of the movie. The nomimation of this for Skyfall i understand better, whyle i think both should not get it any nomination. The editing of Skyfall is inprovement on the editing of Casino Royale. David Arnold is another element that he have done better and with disapointed soud editing/mix a reasen for me why i dislike the movie. Where cinematopgraphy of Skyfall can be inprovement, the cinematography of Casino Royale screams by times, step back from Twine. To much yellow whyere DAD to much blue. Casino Royale is far from British. As said before the movie is more for the none Bondfans and American people. 'Best Production Design': Peter Lamont be the only one i can understand he be nominated for.
I have feeling those Bafta nominations are because of the 50 anniversy. Whyle the sound mix, sound editing, editing and music is done better with Skyfall then with CR2006, the nominations feels a bit strange if i have the feeling other movies should be credit earlier.
It is to soon on this moment or on a long base Roger Deakins should get Oscar, i only have seen the movie once and for that feeling i say No.
I seem to recall walt disney got a special award many years ago.
I know cubby got the irving g walberg in 1982/83 but do you not think it would be nice for a special award this year !!!
Yeah! That's true. Walt Disney got a 'Special Tribute Oscar', consisting of one big golden Oscar statue and seven smaller golden Oscar statues, referring to the very succesful animated fairytale 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'. It was such a nice and cute gesture :-). Let's hope for something similar for Barbara and Michael: A golden Oscar statue with the Oscar in a Bond pose ;-).
Nice, I personally think editing is one of the most important things in a film a film.
But not a statement ;P Haha, I'm picking. Yes, and I think Skyfall deserves this award vastly improving on QoS.
Actually I was typing on a smartphone when I commented and was kind of blind typing so I think I have the benefit of the :D Anyway, what I was trying to write was that this is an important category and (this was lost somewhere) to be nominated by the peers is very important (same thing for other guild and association awards).
Agreed. What people don't understand is that Bond should never be so serious as to be nominated for Best Picture, because it wouldn't be Bond anymore. You have to have fun, and fun is not going to get you Best Picture. Bond should, however, easily sweep the soundtrack, editing, original song, and maybe special effects every two years or so ;)
Precisely. And I don't think any of us want that.
The day Bond becomes Oscar bait is the day I stop being a Bond fan.
Unless it was like Wizards idea of faithful book adaptions, that'd be pretty cool. But even then I'd miss all the stuff I expect from a Bond film.
Absolutely! Also, I can't believe the negativity of the media towards the so called "snub" of Skyfall. They are acting like Skyfall was a nailed on certainty for a Best Picture nomination and likewise Javier Bardem/Judi Dench in the acting categories. And they play down the overall achievement of it being nominated in more categories than any other Bond film ever by saying it "only" managed to be nominated in the "minor" technical categories. Typical British pessism - the way this country is going, Bond is one of the few things that makes me proud to be British!
Long may Bond continue to keep the British end up!
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This was DC's reaction... ;) And he replaced the beard with something more fashionable...
And I might be wrong, but the Oscars for sound editing and sound effects will take place on the night as such, we should not mix up the Awards for scientific and technical achievments with the awrards for sound, sound editing, Editing and the likes... http://www.oscars.org/awards/scitech/index.html
Maybe those tween fans mobbed together and voted a hundred times each or something. Because that makes NO sense whatsoever.
Is there anywhere I can watch highlights of critic choice award, and on a side note Twilight breaking dawn part 2 has been nominated for worst picture, actor, etc for the Golden Raspberry Award (no surprise)
Hence why I wish for the death of most of my generation. Good god, people have no idea what good filmmaking is anymore. These are also the kids who spend hours on Facebook and wouldn't know Orson Welles from Jimmy Stewart. ~X(
A shout outs go to @Creasy47 and @JWESTBROOK, people near my age who actually have good taste in film. There is hope out there...
Its on You Tube.
I think the same applies to Judi Dench. For those who were hoping she'd get a Supporting Actress nomination she's had 6 previous films in the role. People are so used to her in the role (or roles, as the Craig era M is a different character than the Brosnan era M) that no matter how good she was in SF the reaction is, yeah, but that's what she *always* does. I don't agree with it, but that's how a lot of the general public would feel.
That's exactly how I see this question, it's not a matter of quality, it's a matter of prejudice.
I think most of us do.