Slate's Dana Stevens: Forget Dreamgirls Being Snubbed -- What About Volver?
Filed under: Drama, Foreign Language, Music & Musicals, Awards, Sony Classics, Oscar Watch
There was a lot of complaining yesterday about the Oscar nominations, mostly from critics and other film writers who were disappointed with Dreamgirls not earning a Best Picture nod. And even those who weren't complaining about it were at least stunned to the point that the snub seemed to become the biggest news in the history of the Oscars (our own Scott Weinberg thankfully made no mention of it). For those who want a simple abridged version of the nomination coverage, GreenCine has it all. Dana Stevens at Slate seems to be one of the only people who doesn't mind that Dreamgirls was left out of the main race, and instead asks the more important question: what happened to Volver? The film was a favorite for the foreign language category, and it certainly should have garnered Almodóvar another screenplay nomination. Others that Stevens felt deserved noms include Catherine O'Hara (I don't agree entirely, but I feel she's more deserving than Breslin) and Philip Glass' score for The Illusionist (Glass was instead nominated for his Notes on a Scandal work).
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1-24-2007 @ 7:31PM
Janet said...
What is going on with both The Golden Globes and The Acadmey awards? what do they have againtest Anne Hathaway? last year she was overlooked for "Brokeback Mountain" and this year for "The Devil Wears Prada" both Merly and Emily Blunt were up for Golden Globes but not Anne?
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1-24-2007 @ 9:26PM
Sam G. said...
Screw that - what about BORAT?!?!?!!
How does a movie get talked about all over the place for the "messages" it gives us about contemporary society, and then get overlooked as just another movie? And Sasha Cohen won a Globe and isn't even nominated for anything?
Why isn't more being made of this? Why did everyone suddenly forget about this brilliant, savage piece of film making in favor of films, that while brilliant (all five of them), are nothing more than refined versions of classical film making.
After all the newspaper column inches devoted to this movie, all I'm asking for - SOMEWHERE - is one, just one, "Borat got screwed" article. Please.
/rant
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