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Nominations for both this year's WGA Awards and ASC Awards came out today, and while there were a few tiny bright spots ("The White Ribbon" made the ASC's cut; and the WGA, um... I guess they at least didn't snub the Coen brothers), both made the error-in-judgement of including "Avatar" and excluding "Bright Star." I wasn't particularly expecting "Star" to make the WGA cut (though, seriously, giving Nora Ephron a nod for half-a-decent screenplay "Julie & Julia" and not giving one to Campion is quite sad), and "Avatar"'s ASC nod is semi-reasonable, the flip side is downright ridiculous:
For one, James Cameron's "script" for "Pocahontas" "The New World" "Dances With Wolves" "Ferngully: The Last Rainforest" "Avatar" does not deserve any sort of recognition.
For another, Greig Fraser's work as DP on “Bright Star" is absolutely gorgeous, and I hoped would be the one thing the film managed to pull off. Sadly, not so.
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1 Comment
Jules | January 11, 2010 10:22 AM
Agreed with you about the WGA's nom, that's laughable, but how can you say Avatar's cinematography shouldn't be recognized, totally gorgeous and enveloping (that's one of the big pros of the film) unless you're talking about the merits of photorealism vs animation, but then again, isn't the whole film about the very collapse of these two poles. Just Dion Beebe and replace that slot with Eduard Grau's cinematography for A Single Man (the only award other than Best Actor and Production Design that awful film should garner, cause "Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty").