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[heidi]

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
WISH: Johnny Depp - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
EXPECT: Bill Murray - LOST IN TRANSLATION

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
WISH & EXPECT: Tim Robbins - MYSTIC RIVER

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
WISH & EXPECT: Charlize Theron - MONSTER

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
EXPECT: Renée Zellweger - COLD MOUNTAIN

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
EXPECT: THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE
WISH: FINDING NEMO

ART DIRECTION
WISH & EXPECT: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING

COSTUME DESIGN
WISH & EXPECT: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING

DIRECTING
WISH & EXPECT: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
WISH: THE FOG OF WAR

FILM EDITING
WISH & EXPECT: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING

MAKEUP
WISH: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL

MUSIC (SCORE)
WISH: FINDING NEMO
EXPECT: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING

MUSIC (SONG)
EXPECT: "Into the West" - THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
WISH: "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" - A MIGHTY WIND

BEST PICTURE
WISH & EXPECT, DAMMIT: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING

VISUAL EFFECTS
EXPECT: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
WISH: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
And here's why - the skeletons in POTC were just better than in LOTR. D'you think Peter Jackson altered the army in LOTR? Does anyone know?

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
WISH & EXPECT: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
WISH: FINDING NEMO
EXPECT: LOST IN TRANSLATION


I pledge to put my play-by-play reactions behind an LJ-cut. I do not pledge to avoid spamming!

Comments

[leiabelle.livejournal.com]

Your icon amuses me greatly. :D

[february-sea.livejournal.com]

*snort* Not even if it could use both hands AND the flashlight. *shakes head in despair and disgust at Academy*

[khirsah.livejournal.com]

I am cheering for City of God and Keisha Castle-Hughes, though I know neither are likely to win. City of God changed my *life*, though: did Lord of the Rings do that? Cold Mountain? No. (Though I do think LotR needs to win for once.) And Keisha is so young yet made me feel so much in Whale Rider.

*Cheers for them*

[melodylemming.livejournal.com]

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
EXPECT: FINDING NEMO
WISH: THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE

[dreamstigmata.livejournal.com]

And here's why - the skeletons in POTC were just better than in LOTR.

i have a friend that hates me right now because i pointed this out...

[powersh20works.livejournal.com]

I don't disagree the skeletons were better than the RotK effects, but I really believe that the academy was voting on the combination of the three films, not on just the one. Thus all other films considered were at a disadvantage.

[shelaghc.livejournal.com]

And here's why - the skeletons in POTC were just better than in LOTR.

Could be that the skeletons in PotC were better because they *were* skeletons.

In Return of the King, the Army of the Dead was made up of ghosts - not corporeal skeletons. And they were created once again using MASSIVE.

Besides that, the skeletons in PotC were their biggest FX.

RotK had the Dead, the Mumakil/Ouliphants, Mount Doom, the eagles, more blended Hobbit/Human scenes, Trolls, Grond, the entire city of Gondor, Nazgul and their Fell Beast steeds, the new use of motion capture for horses, Shelob, the Palantir (a smaller effect to be sure), Treebeard (just for a few moments), the fall of Barad-Dur and Mordor, and - beyond all those - Weta's still awe-inspiring and crowning achievement: Gollum.

A couple of awfully cool scenes of Pirates/skeletons created by ILM really weren't a match for the stunning genius found via Richard Taylor and his team at Weta Workshop in The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on that one, counselor.
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