Simulated Oscar Ballot: Last Day to Cast Your Vote
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http://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/movies/Harry-Potter-and-the-Hollow-Oscars-137965463.html
“There will be, no doubt, certain viewers on Oscar night wishing to cast an Expelliarmus spell that will knock the Best Picture trophy out of the winner’s clutches and into the hands of Harry Potter.
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” the final installment of the most successful franchise in movie history didn’t get a Best Picture nomination Tuesday, just like the series’ seven previous films. Not that Harry would have won – or necessarily deserved to win. But he earned a last shot at grabbing a trophy far more elusive than the snitch.
Harry, though, is not the loser in Tinseltown’s equivalent of the Quidditch World Cup. By snubbing a film series beloved by a young moviegoers, Hollywood may have cursed itself.
Hollywood’s schizophrenic relationship with high-quality popular movies that effectively employ action and special effects to tell a story dates to “Star Wars,” which lost in 1977 to the classic “Annie Hall.”
At least the industry-changing “Star Wars” got nominated. After the failure to nominate “The Dark Knight” in 2008, Oscar doubled the Best Picture field to 10, though subsequent voting changes turned the process into a crapshoot that resulted in this year’s nine nominees.
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The Potter movies started out as fun family flicks. But like J.K. Rowlings’ books, the films turned increasingly dark and complex. “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” deserved an Oscar nod. The last entry, though, might be the series’ strongest, filled with crushing loss, amid gray-shaded internal and external battles that, in our estimation, solidified a bespectacled outcast among muggles and wizards as the greatest action movie hero of all time.
Harry’s certainly a hero to a generation raised on the books and movies – a generation that won’t see itself represented much on Hollywood’s biggest night. It’s not good for business when the biggest moneymaker in a year when overall box office dipped doesn’t reap any major nominations (“Deathly Hallows” did get nods in three technical categories).
The only fantasy film with multigenerational appeal to make the Best Picture cut was the incredible “Hugo,” which might be the best Martin Scorsese movie that didn’t star Robert DeNiro. Hollywood loves “Hugo” because it’s a meta movie about the movies by a filmmaker forced to wait decades to get his proper due as a director.
Unlike the unstoppable Scorsese, Harry Potter’s screen time is up. He won the final battle of good vs. evil, but Oscar wouldn’t allow him a chance to fight. Even Voldemort gave Harry Potter that much.
What probably killed Harry Potter for the Academy is the sheer number of sequels. It was one thing to follow LOTR over the course of three films that were all BP nominees, but to expect them to catch up to an eight film storyline is asking a lot, especially when you consider that the first two films really started things off on the wrong foot. Watching the last Harry Potter film devoid of context probably meant nothing to the voters who hadn’t kept up, and honoring something for its popularity only goes so far.
@MJS well alot movie and top critic gave it alot of positive reviews
I honestly forgot how I voted. lol I’m like 99.9% sure I went HUGO, WAR HORSE, THE DESCENDANTS, but after 3rd place I don’t remember.
I went Scorsese for director. For the actors I went with Streep, Oldman, Chastain? (maybe Spencer I forgot again) and Nolte of course.
@OCO300
Those critics had no choice but to keep up with the series as it got better.
A great gem of discovery (for animation lovers):
Chico and Rita is so charming and has appeal to an older audience. It’s more Academy demographic taste, if they watch it.
I just saw it on youtube and swooned to it. An animation truly for adults who are mature emotionally and intellectually.
What a fantastic nomination, only knew about it after I skyped my regular Oscar voter today.
@MJS and what did the series get in return (from the Academy or any critics association) for all the hardwork it did?
@OCO300
A multi billion dollar franchise and enough fans to keep it’s legacy going for a long time. I think the team is pretty happy.
This year really sucks. We will be lucky to get half of the number of votes from last year.