Mighty Disappointed that Inglourious Basterds failed to make it tonight.
Hurt Locker won the Best Original Screenplay award tonight.
Here’s an excerpt from SearchIndia.com’s review of Hurt Locker:
Make no mistake, schmucks.
The Hurt Locker is not a bad movie.
Actually, it’s a fairly decent movie that has you in its grip for the better part of its playing time.
But it’s just not a film that merits extraordinary encomiums.
Filmed (in Jordan) in the wake of George W.Bush’s unpopular and ill-fated attack on Iraq, Hurt Locker follows a group of ordnance/bomb disposal squad members of the U.S. Army posted in Iraq.
These are the dog days of the war, unlike the present-day, relatively more stable and less violent Iraq.
Life’s hard for the U.S. soldiers in the dusty environs of a hostile country and the clear and present danger.
For these unfortunate ‘trailer trash’ cannon fodder, both black and white, death is a constant companion from the below-ground IEDs, above-ground snipers, on-ground suicide bombers, ambushes and other horrific attacks from a deeply resentful populace.
And the other nominees were:
Inglourious Basterds (2009): Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger (2009/I): Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman
A Serious Man (2009): Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Up (2009): Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Thomas McCarthy
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Best Make Up: Star Trek
Best Short Film (Live-Action) – The New Tenants.
Best Documentary (Short) – Music by Prudence
Best Animated Short: Logorama
Except Star Trek,never heard of any other films mentioned above.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
In a country that worships Nagarjuna, Ajith, Abhishek Bachchan and a host of other bozos where’s the question of good films making it your shores. 🙁
Avatar not a nominee for Best Make Up…weird
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Maybe, it’s because Avatar was more snazzy technology than conventional makeup
Best Adapted Screenplay: Precious (Not for Up in The Air. 🙁 )
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Saw the trailer of Precious a few times but didn’t see the movie.
Making fun of emotions? The presenter has a bad sense of humour.
When guy who won for Best Adapted Screenplay left the stage after an emotional outburst, presenter comments “I wrote that speech for him”…gross
SearchIndia.com Responds:
All in a lighter vein, sweetie.
The Precious people seem to be an emotional lot.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
As are a lot of other Blacks.
Best Art Direction – Avatar.
Hurray!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Let’s see if Avatar wins the two big ones – Best Picture and Best Director.
Best Costume Design – The Young Victoria
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Missed this one too although we saw the trailer of this film at the Ritz in Philly. 🙁
Best Sound Editing – The Hurt Locker.
2nd win.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Here’s SI’s Hurt Locker review.
Now,Sound Mixing too! :O
SearchIndia.com Responds:
BTW, have you seen Hurt Locker?
Did the movie ever make it to India?
The movie has not yet released here.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Too bad.
Oh well, you had Magadheera and Kedi by way of compensation. 😉
Among the winners, Avatar was a big hit, Up too did well upon release here and Inglourious Basterds too ran for a few weeks here.(Though a late release.)
SearchIndia.com Responds:
What about Up in the Air?
Did that one too not make it to your shores?
Not yet released. 🙁
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Sad!
As they say here, we feel your pain. 🙁
FYI…Avatar upon release faced a stiff competition from Vettaikaran which released the same day. Rumours spread all over that Cameron is planning to post-pone its release to 2010 citing the release of Vettaikaran and Vijay’s popularity…;)
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Ha ha ha ha.
Jim Cameron facing competition from that velakaran oops Vettaikaran paiya Vijay?
If this is not the ne plus ultra of nonsense, we want to know what is.
Cameron cited the following reasons to back his decision of post-poning…
1. Vettaikaran comes from prestigious production company AVM which Avatar is not
2. Vettaikaran has Vijay as protagonist who has moulded his acting for more than 2 decades and latest sensation Anuska, fresh from Arundathi hit. Avatar does not cast any of front-line actor/ress.
3. Vettaikaran which is distributed by Sun pictures might overshade Avatar’s reach to public.
4. Vettaikaran’s music director was ‘nakka mukka’ fame Vijay Antony. Impossible to compete with two Vijay’s at the same time.
So he feared that Vettaikaran, which means Hunter, might hunt his alien species Avatar.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
When James Cameron dies, the New York Times will have it on the front page for for the extraordinary service to the motion picture business.
When Vijay dies, people will pee on its grave for the extraordinary disservice to the motion picture business.