Will Revenge of the Sith win Oscars for best special effects?
In 1999 Phantom Menace lost to the Matrix and in 2002 Attack of the Clones lost to The Two Towers. Something tells me they'll give it to War of the Worlds. That's Lucas' big competition this year.
Actually it will probably win Oscars for special effects, it's major competition will be War of the Worlds but I think the construction of Vader will probably blow WOTW out of the water there. Unfortunately that should be about it. No acting awards. Possibly one for Willaims for soundtrack since he's never won for Star Wars.
Should?
Yes, definately !
Will?
Never, it's the oscars, a selfproud prequel-hating crowd of politics-based-decision-making people. (which means anti-20th century fox)
The fact that the prequels got nominated derives from the fact alone that people from the industry pick the nominees.
The whole academy votes, they see "StarWars Episoder *something*" and won't vote.
Sad but true.
Same for Sound, I'm afraid.
And sadly for Johnny Willimas, too.
The way the academy acts, they like to give things their last shot. Star Wars may win a few things this year, but it certainly won't be nominated for Best Picture or anything. Sound, Sound Editing, Music, Original Screenplay, effects, etc are the only things it'll get nominated for, if even that.
Because he dropped out of the director's guild. They resent him for succeedning, even though he shouldn't be. INdependent films aren't supposed to exist.
Exactly, Lucas openly gives them crap for proving how useless they all really are. And they don't like that. Sorta like how the oil companies don't like anyone talkin' 'bout electric cars. I mean, the Matrix had good effects and all, but people who keep up on that stuff (read Cinefex for a quick but in depth look at the industry) know that the Matrix only created one new effect: Bullet time. The creation of TPM lead to 26 new innovations in various uses of special effects. They wrote a program to animate clothing for digital characters that didn't exsit ever before. Now everybody can bust out more realistic digital characters because now they have a program that governs where/how clothes should drape, move, etc. There were other breakthroughs made in model making, make up and a lot of other departments as well. Its just mindblowing how much they created and yet they loose to one effect that's all flash and, even worse, already tiresome 6 years later because no one can use it because it just makes people think of the Matrix. Whereas ILM's innovations are currently being used all over the film and video game industries, especially in the Matrix sequels, they wouldn't have been able to do all those CGI Neo and Smith fight scenes because their digital stunt doubles would have looked like crap if it weren't for that program. And AOTC, I mean c'mon!! Look at that battle scene at the end! Kamino! Coruscant! At least it lost to a more deserving movie that time though... But this time, there's just no contest. The three nominees will be from these movies no doubt: ROTS, War of the Worlds, Sin City, possibly Batman, possibly FF4 (but god I hope not), and an even less chance would be Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but I don't think that has a lot of huge effects in it. And it should go to ROTS. War of the Worlds, for the most part, is just destruction of things that already exist, maybe a couple cool space ships. Nothing too innovative, and ILM will be doing it anyway, so they win however you look at it, despite it being a different team and supervisor. But ROTS has to create everything from scratch, that's far more interesting. They'll be so many locales, so many stunning fights, so many big space battles, if it doesn't when, I've already told everyone I know, I will NEVER watch the Oscars again, which, after this years I was already pretty close to doing. I'm only gonna watch next year to see if ROTS wins. If it doesn't, f*&^ those fools!
Do really think those special effects are good enough to earn an Oscar??
I don't know...they look pretty poor in the trailer, especially that space battle!
Some of them remind me of those from the StarGate TV series
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Apr 9th, 2005 10:59 AM
Possibly one for Willaims for soundtrack since he's never won for Star Wars.
