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They were nominated for 11 oscars, and they won them all. Well Deserved

Methinks this thread shoulda been made in the other forum.

And Yes, The Rings pwned

maybe not all of them, but Return of The King was a very very well done movie. It deserved most of what it got.

It totally stole the show. No one could get an award in edgewise. but i wonder why there were no acting nominations? anyone have an explanation?

the reason is simple

alienated devasation 7 wrote:It totally stole the show. No one could get an award in edgewise. but i wonder why there were no acting nominations? anyone have an explanation?

Maybe because it has such a large ensemble cast it is hard to pinpoint one performance. However, in my opinion, Sean Astin deserved a nod for best actor.

yes it was quite the epic movie and deserved all of the awards

too many cast members who had equal roles to pick out one actor

wanan wrote:

alienated devasation 7 wrote:It totally stole the show. No one could get an award in edgewise. but i wonder why there were no acting nominations? anyone have an explanation?

Maybe because it has such a large ensemble cast it is hard to pinpoint one performance. However, in my opinion, Sean Astin deserved a nod for best actor.

Sir Ian McKellan won for The Fellowship.

the other actors in the other movies were also very good, but i guess now that i think of it almost all the characters had pretty moving parts in LoTR. Esspecially Elijah

where's the don't care item.

award shows....

I hear Finding Nemo won. That made me happy. Hehe!

The Edge wrote:

wanan wrote:

alienated devasation 7 wrote:It totally stole the show. No one could get an award in edgewise. but i wonder why there were no acting nominations? anyone have an explanation?

Maybe because it has such a large ensemble cast it is hard to pinpoint one performance. However, in my opinion, Sean Astin deserved a nod for best actor.

Sir Ian McKellan won for The Fellowship.

wait.....I knew he was nominated but I didn't think he got it. Are you sure?

No, Ian McKellen didn't win. The oscar went to Jim Broadbent for his role in Iris.

I thought what was going to happen was LOTR would not win best picture and everything else would be compensation oskars. I guess I was wrong.
Man that was a crazy night. In all honesty, I don't don't think they were deserving of every oscar. There are other groundbreaking films out there besides LOTR that were deserving of those awards. I personally think this is the academy's compensation for LOTR not winning much in the other years when it should have won stuff.
I missed the special effects award. Was the matrix even a nominee. Despite being a crappy movie it probably had the best special effects of the year.
Congrats to canadians! The Barbarian Invasions won for best foreign film. Go Canada!

Yeah, I don't think they deserved everything.

There were no big surprises at the awards which depressed me. Bill Murray or Johnny Depp should've won Best Actor. Although maybe I should see Mystic River first..

I donno....everything that LOTR took they seemed to diserve...I mean that movie was so flawless. It was pretty astounding. I wouldn't be able to point out a catagory that they shouldn't have won.

The one thing I didn't like about the movie is that it didn't end.
When lights go down your supposed to leave the theater, not watch a continuation of the movie. Everyone was starting to leave and then it just popped back up again. It was a great movie but that was a little annoying.

What?

I know what he means..

In RotK, it looked like it was over multiple times but more scenes kept popping up. That annoyed me too, but that's apparently sort of what it's like in the book.

It's just that there's multiple threads of the story that end on their own, before everything comes together.

The ending is where the credits are.

Not exactly rocket science.