Articles tagged with: Oscar nominations
Oscar Nominations: The Dark Knight Gets Blanked
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.
Is The Dark Knight Getting An Oscar Nomination Or What?
This week is just too exciting for our liking - first Barack Obama gets inaugurated and now the Oscar nominations? We literally can't control our bowels. Literally. And, if anything, the Oscar nominations are even more exciting than the new president. Because, when they happen tomorrow, we'll find out if The Dark Knight will get a Best Picture nod or not. Oscar hype over The Dark Knight has been steadily building for months now, and the repercussions of a nomination would be huge. But we'll have to explain them in a minute, after we've changed our pants. We really did mean literally.
