WTF?! No Visual Effects?

How can you have a Visual Effects category and NOT include Star Wars? Even if I wasn't a SW fan I would wonder that. The Academy is nuttier than squirrel turds.

Well does anyone know if they're nominated at ALL? Maybe he's never included due to the fact that he pissed off Hollywood in his earlier years. But I think its time that SW gets an Oscar!!

Where have you been? And they didn't win in the one category they were nominated either. Should have had a nomination for costumes anyway.

Ah ive been workin and raising a 5 month old baby girl...yea we didnt even get Makeup...what a jip! I HATE THE OSCARS!!!! SW always gets shit on...

how've you been?

peachy keen jelly bean, not here much anymore alliance keeps me pretty busy, how have you been?

It is an outrage. SW practically invented the category!

Hmm. Well, they tend to overdo it and would probably rape everyone in their respective categories, so they leave them out, I suppose.

It just wasn't up to par.

Well, I saw two of the three films nominated for makeup and I love Star Wars, but honestly, the makeup in the Narnia film was better.

I always get confused between the two categories, Visual and Special, was Visual for CGI stuff or for other stuff? 😕

Cause if this was for CGI stuff....meh, some parts were good, some parts were shit.

Mustafar was nice for visuals....can't win an award for a single scene though...

I think they are one and the same Mist, I don't know that there is a special effects category anymore.

Originally posted by Darth Sadistic
Well, I saw two of the three films nominated for makeup and I love Star Wars, but honestly, the makeup in the Narnia film was better.

Oh no way Sadistic. ROTS was superior by sheer scope of the make up. There were by far more aliens, and Anakins make-up from the lava bath went way beyond Narnia.

There were more characters to make up, but I thought the overall quality and consistency in Narnia was better. Of course, the whole process is a mess anyway, so you can't always expect the best of the best to win or even get nominated. Narnia should have at least gotten a nomination for Best Score and was passed over.

Still, at least they got some recognition, which is tough for fantasy films to get at the Oscars, especially fantasy films with so much of the production crew and cast from outside of the States. I'm just glad they won something, it was a great piece of work.

Originally posted by DeVi| D0do
It just wasn't up to par.

shame on you...
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Subjekt...congrats on the baby girl!

As for the Oscars, I'm satisfied with nearly all the awards, with exception for best song..."In the Deep" certainly should have won.

Even considering make-up, compare Ian's 'Emperor' in SITH to JEDI...It looked a hell of a lot better in JEDI.

Anyway...when episodes I and II were nominated for special effects, they didn't win either. No way Episode III was going to win. Kong's effects were far superior to Star Wars. Lucas keeps doing the same thing and he's not going to get nominated for that. When he does break through, like in Episode I and in Episode II, then he gets the nod.

Yup.

And the makeup in Star Wars just seemed...overdone. The makeup in Narnia was pretty awesome, IMO.

Costuming, though...not even a nomination? Sheesh!

Originally posted by Alliance
Anyway...when episodes I and II were nominated for special effects, they didn't win either. No way Episode III was going to win. Kong's effects were far superior to Star Wars. Lucas keeps doing the same thing and he's not going to get nominated for that. When he does break through, like in Episode I and in Episode II, then he gets the nod.

I have to disagree with you about Kong's supposedly superior graphics. Too much green screen work was used and they spent all their time working on Kong, so that other aspects of CGI looked totally shitty. Kong himself? Yes, he looked fantastic, much better than the Episode III graphics, but overall the movie fell short.

Don't get me wrong, Episode III had a lot of shit work on it too. I'm not a fan of CGI or of green screen work. I prefer the more traditional filming of a movie.

That right there is why the PT sucked so bad, it wasn't real anymore. The OT, now that was real. Real people, real bad guys...even if they were cheap puppets or guys in a foam latex suit. The movies had the lighting perfect because the lighting elements were actually there. The actors had someone to act against, etc.

what a way for the Star Wars Saga to go out, huh!

Peoples Choice Awards - much better ceremony!😛

Originally posted by Stun
what a way for the Star Wars Saga to go out, huh!

Peoples Choice Awards - much better ceremony!😛

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Star wars got screwed over in the oscars.
They were only nominated for makeup
Narnia gets it and all they did for the scene they showed was tape some ears to an actor, but Ian Mcdirmid sits for 4 hours or so and totaly transforms into something else and gets nothing what a crock.

The oscars are a popularity contest or if you have been nominated 3 times before and you are nominated again you'll get the sympathy oscar, eg (Sean Penn Mystic river) it should of gone to Johnny Depp.

We were actually betting on who would win, for costumes I picked Charlie and the Chocolate factory cause that actually took some imagination to come up with (like star wars) and they give it to Memoirs of a Geisha cause that was a popular movie?? Hmmm let's see what clothes did they wear back then? Oh ya I'll just look at some pictures. What a joke