Sunday, February 29, 2004

The Oscars, Part VI of VI

Achievement in cinematography
    The Nominees:
    City of God
    Cold Mountain
    Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Seabiscuit

    What will happen?
    This year has some of the corniest titles ever, and they all sound like they're first cousins of each other. Since I haven't seen any of the movies in this category, I will presume that they all employed cutting edge techniques like following the action with a handheld camera, transitioning with blur, and FADE TO BLACK. You can take your camera to a mountain, but you can't make the mountain do anything for the camera. As such, Cold Mountain will win, because they must have used some damn crazy effects to make a mountain (albeit a cold one) interesting enough for nomination.
Achievement in directing
    The Nominees:
    City of God
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Lost in Translation
    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Mystic River

    What will happen?
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King will get this without a doubt, because of the director's work with the entire trilogy, despite making a third section that has eight endings. I have a feeling I'm going to hear the annoying minor second motive plenty of times if I watch the ceremony.
Achievement in film editing
    The Nominees:
    City of God
    Cold Mountain
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Seabiscuit

    What will happen?
    Seabiscuit wins. It has the shortest title, and therefore must have had the best editors of all varieties. This will inspire a wave of knock-off movies next year about a gallant race dog named Firemuffin, and a valiant racecar driver named Cyclonescone.
Best motion picture of the year
    The Nominees:
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Lost in Translation
    Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Mystic River
    Seabiscuit

    What will happen?
    Lost in Translation is not big and fat enough to get Best Picture, so the race will be between The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl will get a few write-in votes, since these three titles are like the Triplets of Melville: too long and not quite worth it. Incidentally, none of these titles would work as answers to an SAT analogy problem, despite the colons. The winner will be: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Big surprise.

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