Oscar anyone???
POSTED BY: Chindi
UPDATED: Thursday, October 20, 2005 17:48
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Slaythis,
Excellent point. I considered LOTR before making my post, but I decided it had become academy canon fodder. Everyone voting in the academy now would have had the books as kids, or at least young adults, and so they would classify as "Literature." In addition, Pete Jackson filmed it in a manner that was more in keeping with Mechant/Ivory than with Dead Alive. This makes it more epic, and more the sort of thing they might reward. Narnia will have the same advantage. Firefly has its origins in Bebop/Outlaw and thus is from a high geek sci-fi subgenre which dates back to the late 90s. Most of the Academy's members will probably not have seen any of this until they get their copy of Serenity, and they'll look at it and think "That was kind of weird."
It would be interesting if they would create age category voting. Like, this is the award for movies that Dakota Fanning liked. :) But you get my point, if the 18-24 crowd got to vote, it would produce some different results.
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