Lord Of The Rings - Oscars, We Loves Them

Suhas writes "The New Zealand Herald and many others such as Yahoo/AP are reporting that Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King has swept the Oscars by winning in all the 11 categories it was nominated in. Good to see Peter Jackson finally got the Best Director award! The official Oscar site has a full list of the winners."

And one naked gold man

[Anonymous Coward]

to rule them all!

Yessss

[Animaniac]

Yessss, my precciiouusss. Your power cannot be denied, precious.

Re:They didn't win in one category they were in

[Anonymous Coward]

If by "They didn't win in one category they were in" you mean "They did win in every category they were in", you're absolutely correct.

About damn time

[Tuzy2k]

Book Shaka-Laka KIGKING ASS AND TAKING NAMES - Suck on that Cold Mountain

Re:Yay!

[Anonymous Coward]

I feel a great disturbance in the force...as if thousands of fantasy geeks suddenly cried out...

Great job, PJ & Crew!

Ryan

We loves it, oh yes.

[aardvarko]

Sam: What we need is a little bit of recognition.
Gollum: What's recognishin, precious? What's recognishin, eh?
Sam: Rec-og-ni-tion. Honors, awards, critics in a stew. Lovely big golden awards with a nice nameplate on the bottom.
Sam: Even you couldn't say no to that.
Gollum: Oh yes, we could. Spoilin' nice shinies. Give it to us raw and unfinished. You keep nasty awards.
Sam: You're hopeless.

Let the

[jeffkjo1]

Let the jokes about the pppppprrrrreeeeeecccciiiiiiiooooooouuuuuussssss Oscar statue commence!!

Re:11 Wins

[TheLinuxSRC]

OK, I have been at /. too long. At first, I thought the reference to PJ was PJ at groklaw.net [slashdot.org] =)

It would have been nice...

[youknowmewell]

They should have been nominated for best foreign film. I mean, there were at least 3 different languages besides English that they spoke in it! I'm sure there is a country out their who's population speaks Elvish or whatever it is people from Mordor speak!

Re:And one naked gold man

[Anonymous Coward]

All your Oscar are belong to us!

Best Director

[Nick of NSTime]

Good to see Peter Jackson finally got the Best Director award!

Yes! I know he was mad at the Academy for overlooking Meet the Feebles and Dead Alive!

Nzer here

[HeLLLight]

As a New Zelander I can say this is one of the most proudest moments of my life. Imk still in "awe" modd at the fact that we actually pulled this off. 11 out of 11. WOOHOO!!! I for one am proud to be a New Zelander.

"This one goes to 11!"

[Black Art]

Someone had to say it.

Re:Great

[tankdilla]

From the yahoo link, Return of the King swept all 11 categories in which it was nominated. It matched the record 11 wins of "Titanic" and "Ben-Hur" and became only the third movie to sweep every nominated category, following Gigi and The Last Emperor, which both went nine-for-nine.

Quickly reading that, I thought it said Gigli, and that I had somehow ended up in Bizarro World.

Dear Mr. Lucas:

[eidechse]

Don't bother.

Thanks,

The Mgmt.

Re:A great day for fantasy

[ObiWanKenblowme]

The Audience needs entertainment...badly!

Whew

[Derkec]

Guess we won't have to witness the Nerd Riots [pvponline.com] after all. And I had my D20 prepared and everything.

Never had more fun watching the Oscars. That said, by the end, I almost felt sad that so many other films weren't winning. Oh well, I'm sure it was an honor just to be nominated.

Re:What's with all the Bush bashing?

[Anonymous Coward]

"the same point that got Michael Moore booed off the stage got applause"

That's because Michael Moore is annoying. He's annoying when he's wrong, and he's more annoying when he's right.

Only 11?

[cperciva]

Why didn't RotK get nominated for the "Best Foreign Language film" award? Elvish is a foreign language, right?

Re:A great day for fantasy

[Ancient Devices King]

My source [penny-arcade.com] is somewhat suspect, but I'd say Dungeon Siege: the Movie would fall under that category.

Re:Congradulations Peter

[wayne606]

Does NZ now have the record for the most Oscars per-capita?

Re:ROTK was robbed!!

[lostchicken]

I suppose this was a joke, but it's Best Foreign Language Film, and Elvish doesn't count.

Re:Finally!!!

[ergo98]

Criticizing someone for liking something? Crawl out of the dungeon, morlock, because "liking" Lord of the Rings doesn't mean that you sit with bated breath, pants around your ankles, desperately hoping that the notoriously fickle academy hands a statue to the Lord of the Rings. "Oh, thank you world! All of my likes have been validated! Now that my favourite movie won an Oscar, and my Britney album got that Grammy, my life is complete!".

Anyways, thanks for the reply 2674. That karma whore sheep-herding really was a thrill.

From New Zealand

[philge]

all your oscars are belong to us

Re:Finally!!!

[El]

LOTR is not just an epic, it is a... book!

Re:Great

[Anonymous Coward]

Quickly reading that, I thought it said Gigli

Well technically, Gigli did win for all categories it was nominated.

Re:Only 11?

[bonch]

Who in the hell modded this as "Interesting?" Foreign language films are films coming from other countries in their native language. Not three hour movies with a couple of subtitled Elvish.

Re:This was well deserved!

[metlin]

I liked the part where the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award, for the Canadian movie, The Barbarian Invasions came up on stage and said something along the lines of,

"Thank God LoTR was not nominated in this category" :)

That, in itself spoke volumes. Kudos to Peter Jackson!

Thank Goodness!

[t1nman33]

And so the great Nerd Riots of 2004 were prevented, and Peter Jackson took the Oscar into the West.

Re:WTF?!?

[Anonymous Coward]

Somebody please enlighten me as to what is so great about LOTR.

Yeah, because you sound so open-minded about wanting to know.

So you didn't like it. Move on with your life.

Re:A great day for fantasy

[zcat_NZ]

The word down here is that New Zealand has been unofficially nominated "Best Supporting Country in a Motion Picture"

Anyway, one thing I promise, you will NEVER see Peter Jackson produce anything even close to a 'crappy' movie. The guy is a true genius.

Re:Yay!

[Prof. Pi]

... hopefully we'll see a lot more good fantasy/odyssey movies.

There's a new Mel Gibson movie everyone's talking about (does mythology count?).

Re:Great

[frenetic3]

Liv Tyler was hot until one of my buddies pointed out the striking, eerie resemblance to Steven Tyler.

And then the vomiting began.

*sigh*

-fren

Re:And one naked gold man

[flewp]

I yelled my butt off when I saw LotR win Best Picture.

I'm so happy I'm not you.

What next?

[El]

Any chance we can talk Peter Jackson's team into making the Star Wars Episodes VII, VIII, and IX, so that they don't suck?

Re:Only 11?

[joeytsai]

When the oscar for Best Foreign Language film was awarded to The Barbarians Invasions, Denise Robert (I think she was the producer?) said "We're so thankful that Lord of the Rings didn't qualify in this category."

Overturned cars...

[Atario]

...and shattered store windows will abound in geek-land tonight!

Re:And one naked gold man

[UnknowingFool]

And one naked gold man . . .

Thank you for that image that I now have to burn out of my mind, you insensitive clod!

Re:A great day for fantasy

[slycer9]

>>Anyway, one thing I promise, you will NEVER see Peter Jackson produce anything even close to a 'crappy' movie.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001392/

Take your pick. Meet the Feebles springs to mind first.

(It's late, didn't feel like HTML'ing on this crap. Sue me or mod me down...just don't take my twinkies.)

Funny thing is

[Srin Tuar]

As things like that illustrate, the amusing thing about Tolkien purists is that their beloved god Tolkien was more liberal about changes then they are.

The original creator of a story is not always the best one to edit it. I mean, have you never seen anyone create a revised edition of a story that was worse that their original?

(Lucas?)

Re:Finally!!!

[M. Baranczak]

Excellent point. People should take a look at the list of previous winners, [oscars.com] it's really quite illuminating.

1959?! What is up with that shit? "Ben-Hur" beat out "Plan 9 From Outer Space"? An outrage!

Re:Great

[kfg]

Find a picture of her mother, Bebe Buell, and you'll start to feel a lot better. That would be the November, 1974 issue.

KFG

Re:Great

[Anonymous Coward]

I liked Liv Tyler's "i wish I were lisa loeb and actually intelligent" glasses.

Re:Best quote of the night

[zaxus]

Sorry, film snob, this is Slashdot. You want Rotten Tomatoes [rottentomatoes.com]. Two doors down on the right. Thanks for calling. Now leave us fanboys alone.

What I can't figgure out

[quantaman]

is how it wasn't even nominated for the category of Documentary Feature I mean just look at the amazing footage they got of all the major figures and major events in the quest to destroy the ring. And how they convinced a camera crew to go along with Sam and Frodo on the trek to Mount Doom incredible. How they can ignore this stunning documentary of one of the most crutial events in the history of Middle Earth and...

why is everyone looking at me?

Re:Great

[rmathew]

Quickly reading that, I thought it said Gigli Well technically, Gigli did win for all categories it was nominated.

It did win all the awards it was nominated for elswhere though. [razzies.com]

:-)

Re:Best quote of the night

[demonbug]

Willow kicks ass.

Re:11 Wins

[haystor]

Titanic had a slippery Kate Winslet. They also killed DiCaprio.

So it wasn't all bad.

I loves it/hates it

[stormcoder]

Thomas Covenant was the worst. I hated the character but I couldn't stop reading the books. I kept buying these books centered around a character that I loathed. I was so glad when he died. I could finally stop reading those books. Everytime you thought Thomas could go no lower, he would find a way. I felt like a spouse being beaten and always winding up going back for more. I am starting to feel sad for myself again. Gotta stop. Maybe read some more Thomas Covenant to take my mind off of it.

Re:A great day for fantasy

[prockcore]

By this time next year, we'll be watching Gauntlet: The Movie.

Blue Wizard is Dying!
Pale Nerd needs Popcorn!

Gauntlet: The Movie

[AvantLegion]

In a world... where dungeons are broken up into numbered levels...

... some unnamed fiend has created an abominable horror known as the Monster Generator!

(quick cut to an army of ghosts flying out of a brown cube)

Only the select few heroes dare to tread in such dangerous grounds.

They are..... The Four Playable Characters!!

(Demi Moore, as the Valkyrie, holds a dying elven Richard Gere on the cold stone floor of Level 17...)

Gere: "green... elf... needs fo-od bad..ly....."

(random fast-cut action scenes, with a horn crescendo buildup....... duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUU --

COMING SUMMER 2005 -- DUN!!

Re:A great day for fantasy

[IainHere]

Take your pick. Meet the Feebles springs to mind first.

Actually, Meet the Feebles is my favourite of his films. I'm guessing you've never actually seen it, because anyone who has seen a puppet trying to save the show by singing about sodomy, which is rhymed with, "you might incur the wrath of god on me", would agree that it is genius.

lots of buell pics

[deathcow]

the kind with boobies [google.com]

the kind with exhaust pipes [google.com]

Re:Peter Jackson the genius? Well, maybe...

[tehcyder]

Taking the greatest novel of the 20th century and turning it into a movie should be money in the bank

Hollywood's going to film Ulysses? Oh, you were talking about LOTR...

Three for the elven kings under the sky...

[PsiPsiStar]

11 to the New Zealanders, who above all else, desire tourism.

Re:Best Adapted Screenplay?

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank god Bill Murray told the truth and said he wanted to quit the film the first day because your precious Sophia didn't know what she was doing. Too bad he didn't tell the rest of the truth.
Those of us who didn't drink the "LiT" kool-aid recognize that the DP (director of photography) and the guy who did the score saved her ass from complete self destruction.
This movie should have been called "A Spoiled Rich Girl's Fantasy About What My Trip to Japan Would Have Been Like If I Met a Father Figure to Fall in Non-Sexual Love With" (instead of spending it being neglected by my hipster photographer husband and his more beautiful than me, but nowhere as smart as me, Hollywood starlet friend [who I transparently diss in my highbrow mood piece of a movie, but luckily all my apologists gloss over those sucky, self serving, meaningless, wouldn't-be-allowed-in-anyone-else's-movie parts of the movie])
Who can I get to play the female lead who is looks-wise and sexually non-threatening to me and illegally young looking - maybe SJ [imdb.com] looked OK in other movies but in LiT she looks like a lumpy 12 year old.
Some older discussions [imdb.com]

Re:A great day for fantasy

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Well... You got to give "Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie that"... They did manage to ride the 'crappy movie' wave, BEFORE LOTR came out...

The only good thing about that movie...

Re:And one naked gold man

[tom taylor]

Did you beat your fists against your chest?

Peter Jackson, Pixar Team Up for 'Finding Smeagol'

[scottott]

(2004-03-01) -- Oscar-sweeping director Peter Jackson this morning said he would team up with Pixar Studios, which last night won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, to produce a rollicking adventure tentatively titled "Finding Smeagol." Read the rest... [scrappleface.com]

Re:Ian McKellen Robbed

[EvilXenu]

Deserved it? I daresay he did. Many that win deserve to lose. And some that lose deserve to win. Can you give it to them, destine? Do not be too eager to deal out Oscars in judgement. Even the Academy cannot see all ends.

Re:And one naked gold man

[Anonymous Coward]

It seems that he yelled his ring off.

Re:And one naked gold man

[TopShelf]

No, he'll do that in a few years if Jackson wins for King Kong...

Re:Crap.

[TopShelf]

Oh come on, did you check out the way Frodo's sword glowed? A blatant light-sabre ripoff, to be sure.

I'm just glad that Jackson cut out the fighting Ewok-Hai at the last minute, that would have been way too obvious...

Re:Gauntlet: The Movie

[Mr Guy]

Gah you have to allow for creative license. It's completely impossible to fit ALL of the information from a series as complex as Gauntlet into only four hours. You have to give the director some wiggle room and just enjoy the movie.

Re:And one naked gold man

[FatalTourist]

And you yelled at last years oscars too.

Next year we're gonna take best picture. And we're gonna take best costumes, and we're gonna take best makeup, and we're gonna take best special effects, and best editing and-- YERRAAAAARRRRGGH!

Re:And one naked gold man

[GoofyBoy]

>Because it's human nature to enjoy being validated, even if it's just a validation of your tastes.

Did you yell when you modded up?

I loved The Lord Of The Rings trilogy...

[Savatte]

Someone should make a book out of it.

Re:And one naked gold man

[darc]

On the other hand... best line of the night, from the acceptance speech for the "FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS":

"We're so glad that Lord of the Rings doesn't qualify for this category."

Although if you think about it, there was elvish in it...

Re:Ulysses?

[tehcyder]

I would *love* to see someone from Hollywood try Finnegans Wake.

Reading it, that is.

Finally

[CaptTrips]

That's one small step for fantasy, one giant leap for nerdy films getting their due respect! :)

Re:And one naked gold man

[Ralph Wiggam]

I'll bet that bit kills at open mic night at the coffee house. Do you use it in between your "is that your final answer" material and the closing "you are the weakest link, goodbye" bit.

-B

Re:And one naked gold man

[GerritHoll]

Because it's human nature to enjoy being validated, even if it's just a validation of your tastes. Just as children enjoy being told that their drawings are good, adults enjoy having some aspect of their personality praised, whether it's their sense of humor or their taste in movies.

FYI: parents lie to make their children happy ;-)