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Andrew Kidd · Planetary Explorer Joined: 20 Feb 2016 Posts: 43

Greetings everyone! Bud very kindly invited me to be a part of the board, and I graciously accepted! For my first post here, well, I'm just going to post a link to a recent article of mine, and I hope it spurs further discussion here about the Academy Awards' ninety-year relationship with science fiction and the related genres of horror and fantasy, as well as the more "realistic" film genres that also get overlooked. BTW, those of you who are Hugo voters, please consider nominating us for best online journal! Wink

bulldogtrekker · Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2016 10:31 pm Post subject:

Interesting article, thanks for posting.

And welcome aboard, Andrew!

Bud Brewster · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 12:00 am Post subject:

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Yes, indeed, that's quite an article, Andrew. Very impressive!

The Academy's frustrating reluctance to award Oscars to science fiction films has puzzled us all for decades.

But then, the ones they do consider worthy of the awards is the flip side of that same puzzling situation. (I mean, Doctor Doolittle? Seriously?) I have no explanation for it, and I don't think things will ever change for the better. It's all very subjective, and my only real regret is the fact that too many people let the "critics" and the awards (any awards) tell them what's "good" and what isn't.

Of course, nobody around here does that. Very Happy

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Robert (Butch) Day · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 2:36 am Post subject:

Sometimes it is the political climate of the particular time period.

In 1956 the best SFX went to The Ten Commandments. But the true best SFX of Forbidden Planet wasn't ignored. It had two nominations:

Best Effects, Special Effects (A. Arnold Gillespie, Irving G. Ries and Wesley C. Miller).

Best Original Music Score (Louis and Charlotte [Bebe] Barron).

It won TWO Technical Awards:

Best Special Effects, Innovations - Irving G. Ries

Best Special Effects, Sound - Dr. Wesley C. Miller

In those days of the HUAC snubbing religion was a definite no-no.
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Andrew Kidd · Planetary Explorer Joined: 20 Feb 2016 Posts: 43

Robert (Butch) Day · Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 12:09 am Post subject:

And that's the politics of the Academy.

I used to be a member of IATSE 44.
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Andrew Kidd · Planetary Explorer Joined: 20 Feb 2016 Posts: 43

I've heard grumblings already that with all the technical Oscars it won, MM:FR should have just won the Best Picture award.

Robert (Butch) Day · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:38 pm Post subject:

I didn't see the Technical Awards this year. Any idea of the nominees and winners?
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:41 pm Post subject:

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Wikipedia has this to say on the subject:
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[Mad Max: Fury Road] won many critical and guild awards, and received ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, the second most-nominated film of the 88th Academy Awards after The Revenant, also starring Hardy.

It is the first film of the Mad Max franchise to receive Academy Award recognition, and one of the few sequels to be nominated for Best Picture.

The film won six Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing, surpassing all other films at the awards ceremony, and broke the record for the most wins for an Australian film, breaking the previous record held by The Piano (1993) which won three Oscars.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)