Awards season is FINALLY here. Hooray! Here are my initial reactions to this year's GG noms.
1) TOM CRUISE FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, MUSICAL/COMEDY.
2) The Batman thing.
In my humble opinion (which I will back up with data and boundless knowledge if necessary), the lack of Batman nominations for anything besides Heath Ledger is just evidence of the fact that even with Heath's awesome performance (which IS award-worthy), those in positions of award-voting authority are still biased against summer popcorn movies, even if those summer popcorn movies are completely badass and the best movie you've seen all year.
This kind of bias will probably be a barrier to Heath here and at the Oscars, but let's hope not.
3) Geez, how about those best actress categories? This will be one of the toughest years ever for the five Oscar noms.
4) I'm intrigued by the building buzz for Frost/Nixon. That'll be a damn good movie.
As for TV:
- Tina Fey is pretty much the biggest thing in comedy TV right now. I would not be surprised if 30 Rock wins best show, and Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin also bag their respective awards. 30 Rock was awesome when it began, and has only gotten better. I wish I could say the same about the Office (which I still love, but it's not the same deal).
- Mad Men is all over the place, and with good reason. If you have not started watching this show, do so immediately. I watched all but 2 episodes of season one in one sitting during a long, sleepless night in Phoenix. After about three episodes, I kept watching because I couldn't stop. Not because I couldn't sleep (though I still couldn't).
In conclusion:
This is a heck of a year for awards. There are no weak categories! Awesome.
1 comment:
Re: Popcorn movies
It goes beyond that. Gladiator won best picture. Titanic, the biggest box office draw ever, won best picture. The bias is against a man wearing a bat suit and fighting crime (it's not that specific, but that's where the problem lies).
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