Eleven Oscars To Rule Them All

[filkertom]

Oh.

Yeah.

Eleven nominations.

Eleven awards.

Best Sound Mixing, Film Editing, Makeup, Score, Adapted Screenplay, Visual Effects (as if there was a contest there), Costume Design, Art Direction, and Original Song.

Best Director.

Best Picture.

Best.

Frickin'.

Movie.

Ever.

Comments

[jss]

It's just as wonderful as Titanic and Ben Hur! They each won 11 Oscar^®s too, right?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

...

Here. Lean into this. (fwappity fwappity fwap)

Ben-Hur, maybe. As for Titanic... I actually do like it -- very much a popcorn film to me (whole frickin' lot o' popcorn...). But, no. If only because Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, and Victor Garber have way, way too small roles.

(I've got it bad for Kate Winslet, though. Rrrowrrr.)

Tom

[jss]

> Here. Lean into this. (fwappity fwappity fwap)
Thank you, Sir; may I have another? :-)

I will admit, Leo DiCaprio's character in that movie — or perhaps Leo hisself, I'm not sure which — makes me want to go "Rrrowrrr." With a chainsaw. Repeatedly.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Now, now. I thought, at the very least, the poker game scene at the beginning did precisely what it had to do. Leo and his buddy had to be likable, and that scene did it, by giving them so much enthusiasm and joy for getting on that ship, and not making them any worse than affable scalawags in the process.

Hi, Tom!

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

I still think it should've gotten 10 out of 11; Best Song really should've been either Belleville Rendez-vous or Kiss at the End of the Rainbow.

Re: Hi, Tom!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to argue; I've really enjoyed everything I've seen and heard from A Mighty Wind (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000ALFVD/tomsmithonlin-20), and I haven't seen Tripletts. But I remember just bawling over the end credits of The Return of the King, when Annie Lennox's amazing voice soared into, "The ships have come to carry you home...". No, I really wanted them to win that one.

Re: Hi, Tom!

[singlemaltsilk.livejournal.com]

I remember being moved almost to tears by the song at the end of the movie (only almost, because I had no tears left). During her rendition at the Oscars, you could see how much it all meant to Annie Lennox, too. Other artists may have given more polished performances, but she was just lit from within.

Oh yeah: Welcome to LJ, Tom!

-Marty