Do you think 2001 should have won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction, and Best Screenplay?
I personally think it's a travesty it did not win any of these, kind of like Blade Runner losing Best Art Direction to Gandhi (?????????) or Raiders of the Lost Ark losing Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Score to Chariots of Fire.
I also think Kubrick should have won Best Director for the Shining. Best Cinematography (Steadicam) would have been deserved for the movie, too.
What do you think?
Does it make sense in the 21st century to keep separating awards by gender, having one for a woman and one for a man? Why not just combine them and choose the best performance overall?
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> She, not George, is the only Lucas to win an Oscar for 1977's Star Wars.
> A skilled editor before she ever met her husband-and one who would eventually be hired on a regular basis by filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Michael Ritchie-after their 1969 marriage, Marcia Lucas became a key member of George's inner circle.
> He routinely consulted her on matters that would bear great importance on films like American Graffiti, the original Star Wars trilogy and Raiders of the Lost Ark. But after their divorce in 1983-as the just-released Return of the Jedi had made $100 million in three weeks-George Lucas would rarely speak of Marcia and, as far as the Lucasfilm official record was concerned, she barely existed.
> Killing Obi-Wan KenobiWhen Lucas couldn't figure out what to do with Old Ben in the last act of A New Hope, Marcia came to the rescue.
> A kiss for luckMark Hamill said, back in 2005: "I know for a fact that Marcia Lucas was responsible for convincing him to keep that little 'kiss for luck' before Carrie [Fisher] and I swing across the chasm in the first film: 'Oh, I don't like it, people laugh in the previews,' and she said, 'George, they're laughing because it's so sweet and unexpected'-and her influence was such that if she wanted to keep it, it was in."
> For more on Marcia Lucas, and her contributions to cinema-as well as her marginalization from perceived history-head over to The Secret History of Star Wars.
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Kim also confirms that he will be attending the awards ceremony in person.
Will he win an Oscar or not?
If he wins, what will he say in his acceptance speech?
What is the title of the movie and what is it about?
How does it affect public opinion and international relations?
This year, the In Memoriam Segment at the 2022 Oscars will be overshadowed by the loss of legends like Betty White. But, will the Academy take a special moment to mention the cinematographer who died on the set of Rust? The year that a crew member (camera assistant Sarah Jones) died on train tracks while making Midnight Rider, there was an outcry in the industry about safety. (Did you know the director pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter?) But she was not featured in the In Memoriam segment. Cowards.
The Alec Baldwin/Rust shooting shouldn't just get swept away by the machine that caused the accident. The film industry is constantly under pressure to produce in unsafe conditions in order to meet budgetary and time constraints. Halyna Hutchins untimely passing was the result of a workplace injury that was entirely preventable if the financial producers had not exerted undue pressure to produce work in unsafe conditions to meet unrealistic timeframes.
At the 2015 Oscars, Meryl Strep presented the In Memoriam segment. What she read prior to the video montage was really moving. Who will read the segment this year, and will they acknowledge the workplace accident on the Rust set?
- PE
Midnight Rider (2015)
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/midnight-rider-director-pleads-guilty-in-death-of-crew-member/
2015 Oscars In Memoriam
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/midnight-rider-director-pleads-guilty-in-death-of-crew-member/
2021 In Memoriam Segment
https://abc.com/shows/oscars/news/oscar-news/oscars-in-memoriam-2021
About the 2022 Academy Awards
Oscar nominations voting begins on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, and will end on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. The official Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, with the ceremony taking place on Sunday, Mar. 27, 2022.
