Remember all that talk about how The Dark Knight should be given an Oscar nomination for Best Picture?
Yeah, it didn’t happen. The Oscar nominations have just been announced and, while The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button has managed to rack up 13 nominations, The Dark Knight has been comprehensively snubbed.
Shut out of the Best Picture and Best Director categories, the only real hope that The Dark Knight has of winning an Oscar in a big category now is with Heath Ledger‘s Best Supporting Actor nomination. And even if he does win, his acceptance speech is bound to be crap.
Yesterday there was all kinds of speculation that The Dark Knight would be nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars. A nomination, it was claimed, would be a shot in the arm for the ceremony itself – by our calculations it’s been about a decade since anyone won an Oscar for a film that a member of the public even knew existed, and so giving a Best Picture nomination to The Dark Knight would motivate the potential Oscars audience much more than, say, Hugh Jackman flapping around the stage in a flowery blouse ever would.
But that hasn’t happened. The Oscar nominations have been announced and it looks as though The Dark Knight will have to make do with all its People’s Choice awards, even though that’s basically the awards season equivalent of the Waggiest Tail rosette at a dog show for animals with dangerously concussed owners.
And The Dark Knight hasn’t just been ignored in the Best Picture category – Christopher Nolan didn’t get a Best Director nod despite his groundbreaking work with the Imax equipment. Hans Zimmer didn’t get a Best Soundtrack nod even after all the kerfuffle over whether it was eligible or not. And Christian Bale was locked out of both the Silliest Voice By A Main Actor and the Most Hilarious Arrest Over An Alleged Assault Of An Actor’s Clown Mother categories.
It’s disappointing, but we’ll still be rooting for Heath Ledger in the Best Supporting Actor category and whoever it is who did the sound mixing for The Dark Knight. We might even make a banner for the last one.
But if The Dark Knight isn’t going to win all the Oscars now, what is? Well, if the Oscar nominations are any indication The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button might do quite well. It’s picked up 13 nominations, for everything from Best Actor for Brad Pitt to Best Picture to Best Director for David Fincher to Best Adapted Screenplay to Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson.
And The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button would have probably got even more Oscar nominations, too, if only the academy had listened to our requests to introduce categories for Best Forrest Gump Rip-Off, Best Lead Character Who’s Infuriatingly Unable To Complete Entire Sentences and Picture Most Likely To Give You Full-Blown Deep-Vein Thrombosis.
Which other movies got Oscar nominations this year? We’re not exaggerating when we say all the movies you expected to. But if you really must know, Fox has got a complete list for you.
HT says
Pish posh! This is deeply unsettling. Looking forward to Heath Ledger’s crappy acceptance speech though.
christy says
FUCK THE OSCARS!
Richard says
Fuck “The Reader”, and fuck the Academy. That’s all I have to say.
Ironlung says
the oscars this year are being post-poned until a time when people have money to spend on such a lavish affair. i was upset at first, but it makes sense i suppose. id rather people have a place to live and shit.
hollywood finally got it right!
Danielle says
The Oscars yet again snub a groundbreaking movie just because it’s not up to their ‘tastes’. What a bunch of snobs. Oh well, The ‘Dark Knight’ will be remembered for decades, while ‘Button’, ‘Milk’, ‘The Reader’, and ‘Frost/Nixon’ will be forgotten within the year. I know one thing for sure: the ratings will suck again this year & I won’t be watching them.
destruct26 says
Although I remember Heath on this day in remorse, I have to admit, that last line in the second paragraph about his acceptance speech made me laugh my balls off! Thanks for the chuckle quickie.
Dara Quinn says
The Dark Knight snubbed for Best Movie ? Any wonder ? Boring. As. Fuck.
David says
The nominations came out and as I have hardly heard of any of the movies nominated, despite the fact that I watch at least a movie a day, I decided to see all the nominations. I watched all the movies nominated for best picture, today, and I could hardly stay awake!!!
Screw the Oscars. They nominate HORRIBLE movies that have very little entertainment value. I walked out of The Curious Case of B in the theaters due to boredom and most of these other movies nominated are HORRIBLE.
The people doing the nominating need to remember that movies are made for ENTERTAINMENT, not to be judged by elite old geezers who are VERY out of touch with the consumer.
I will not be watching the Oscars this year.