Slumdog Millionaire Takes Home 8 Oscars 317
Ben Burtt was robbed of his overly deserved Oscars for the sound on Wall-E, and Heath Ledger's Joker unsurprisingly got a posthumous statue, but the big winner for the night was Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire with Picture, Director, Song, and five others. Go ahead movie nerds: talk amongst yourself.
Where were these noms? (Score:3, Interesting)
Definitely, Maybe
Ghost Town
Documentaries:
Flow
National Geographic's In The Womb series
Drama:
Red
cheese with cheese (Score:3, Interesting)
Every year that goes by the Oscars become more of a farce.
Slumdog was the most cheesy and predictable film i have seen in years. The screenplay seemed like it was written by a 3 year old, the acting was horrendous, and you knew exactly how the film would end after about 8 minutes into it.
Robbed for the sound oscar? (Score:3, Interesting)
Oscar betrays its Western centerednes (Score:5, Interesting)
Would Slumdog have been even noticed had it not been made by a British Director? Thousands of movies have been made about poverty in India. They get as much attention as movies made about drugs in American cities. People deal with this shit in their everyday life and dont want to watch it when they pay to enter a theater for some relaxation. Only people who have never seen poverty get their rocks off by watching something like Slumdog. Then again probably why Rambo and Die Hard were so popular outside the States was that guns are a big deal in countries with gun control.
Danny Boyle (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:What the FUCK is this doing on Slashdot?!? (Score:2, Interesting)
Now I found Barbra Walters and the Red Carpet bit pretty irritating, but at least they stopped cutting people off (for the first 2 hours I voluntarily watched).
I personally am embarrassed at the response this article received on Slashdot. I'd like to see the response if the new Star Trek gets an Oscar. "Oh man now they're sweet!"
Re:Oscar betrays its Western centerednes (Score:2, Interesting)
I strongly suggest watching Ram Gopal Verma's film "Satya" and/or Madhur Bhandarkar's "Chandni Bar"
instead of slumdog for a better exposure to the same subject.
Satya and CB portray the genuine trials and tribulations of Mumbai's different peoples without degrading or dehumanizing an entire country of people like Boyle did with slumdog.
How about the Sci-Tech Awards? (Score:5, Interesting)
- Jasen.
Re:What the FUCK is this doing on Slashdot?!? (Score:2, Interesting)
Are you seriously implying that the Nobel Prize has any meaning whatsoever? Seriously?
Do you really believe that the Nobel Prize is anything but a circle-jerk, just like the Oscars?
Re:Not news for nerds. (Score:2, Interesting)
You must not come here often, or you get your information from uncyclopedia. Posts saying anything negative about Microsoft are almost always modded flamebait, especially when true. Say something negative about Linux and you're more likely to get a comment reply educating you.
I had six stories posted to the front page last year, eight the year before that, and IIRC not one dealt with Linux or Microsoft. If you haven't submitted any stories, don't bitch about what's posted.
That said, I agree completely with the GP. This does not belong on slashdot.
Re:What the FUCK is this doing on Slashdot?!? (Score:5, Interesting)
The Nobel Prize has been inflated in the minds of some (with help from the media, no doubt) to be far more than it is. It is not designed to be awarded to people who just make mind-blowing life-changing discoveries. Nobel's will specifically stated that it be awarded annually:
The capital shall be invested by my executors in safe securities and shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind
It then goes on to stipulate what categories each award is for.
So, the Nobel Prize was originally intended to simply be sort of a "man of the year" competition in various fields, and was supposed to pertain to work that was done during the preceding year. In that spirit, Gore's prize was proper, since he was being awarded for stuff he had done during the previous year, while those prizes given to scientists for discoveries made years or decades earlier were technically in violation of Nobel's original intent, since it was supposed to reward only work done during the preceding year.
If the Nobel Prize was awarded as a "Man of the Year in x field" rather than "person who made earth-shattering discoveries in x field", you wouldn't have near the controversy it always seems to generate.
Re:Oscar betrays its Western centerednes (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Oscar betrays its Western centerednes (Score:3, Interesting)
If I recall correctly (and I'm at work and can't verify), I thought the producers of the film and Boyle were so thankful to their casting director for rocking their socks off with such talent that they gave her a co-director credit. It was purely symbolic since that goes against "the rules" of the director's guild or whatever. Maybe that's the co-director you're thinking of?
Re:What the FUCK is this doing on Slashdot?!? (Score:2, Interesting)
Are you honestly incapable of considering the possibility that the context there is "within the movie industry"? Your nerd bias is seeping through the pores.
Re:Not news for nerds. (Score:3, Interesting)
[T]he words "geek" and "nerd" exchanged status positions. A nerd was still socially tainted, but geekdom acquired its own cool counterculture. A geek possessed a certain passion for specialized knowledge, but also a high degree of cultural awareness and poise that a nerd lacked.
From The Alpha Geeks [nytimes.com], an op-ed piece by David Brooks. It's actually an interesting read -- worth checking out.
Re:What the FUCK is this doing on Slashdot?!? (Score:3, Interesting)
Acting is pretty easy
I dunno about that... I've got some 'actor friends,' I've seen a lot of plays and movies and TV shows and I don't know / haven't seen too many people who could have rivalled Sean Penn's performance in "Milk" or Winslet's in "The Reader..." and on it goes. Utterly brilliant.