An Inconvenient Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
Filed under: Documentary, Awards, Paramount Classics, Oscar Watch
When was the last time a film won the Nobel Prize? More plausible, when was the last time a film led to someone's nomination for the Nobel Prize? The answer to the second question is ... today. Thanks to the documentary An Inconvenient Truth (and all his work to raise awareness of global warming), Al Gore is a contender for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, the winner of which is announced in October. Sure, he probably could have been nominated without the film, but it is obvious that the film did help. In fact, Boerge Brende, one of the two Norwegian Parliament members who nominated Gore, mentioned the movie in his statement to Reuters.
This is great news for Gore, who has just increased his post-Presidential-loss status another huge notch. It was good enough that An Inconvenient Truth did so well in theaters and then was nominated for an Academy Award. But who cares about winning an Oscar when there's a chance to get a million bucks and the prestige of being a Nobel Laureate? Well, Davis Guggenheim probably cares, as he is the one who directed the film, despite so many people referring to it as Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Guggenheim isn't nominated for the Nobel Prize, only the Oscar, and worst case scenario is that because of the film's elevated acclaim in its association with the Nobel nomination, Academy voters will see no need to give the doc award to Truth.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-01-2007 @ 7:01PM
Lane said...
*starts timer, counts seconds 'til someone smugly states that 1/3 of the '94 peace prize went to Yasser Arafat & attempts to invalidate the prize by labeling it as "a joke"*
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2-01-2007 @ 7:53PM
ESK said...
This award is not a joke at all. Rush Limbaugh got nominated this year too!
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2-01-2007 @ 8:08PM
Lane said...
i looked into it -- actually rush was nominated for the nobel "please stop talking" price.
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2-02-2007 @ 1:04AM
Sy said...
Lane ...actually the bigger joke is Jimmy Carter getting A Nobel Peace Prize for giving North Korea nuclear technology in 1994 which eventually resulted in nuclear weapons for for Kim Jong to play with.
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2-02-2007 @ 11:17AM
GhaleonQ said...
*giggles at Lane implying that the entire process hasn't become distressingly petty and illegitimate*
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2-09-2007 @ 1:19PM
geoff groedner said...
Al Gore is at it again. "An Inconvenient Truth is a sequel to his other movie, "The Truth is Inconvenient". If GW is eventually proven to be true, and so far it hasn't been, I still, like many other Americans, won't believe it simply because Al is the one humping it. By the way,this year's Nobel Peace Prize ballots will be on recycled paper. The woodsman, responsible for cutting down the original tree from which this paper comes, has been killed so no more of his kind will be around to despoil our forests as well as exhaling carbon dioxide into our precious environment. This just in, the Tufted Crested Spotted Speckled Duck Billed Plaid Tanager has been declared an endangered species. Fortunately, all eleven of them are living in Cleveland and are nesting around Lake Erie, right near where the fires burn brightest.
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2-19-2007 @ 11:54PM
Heyrob said...
This is enough to make me sick! First anthropogenic global warming is perhaps the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the human race, and now one of its greatest hoaxers gets nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? Alfred Nobel ought to be spinning in his grave.
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4-10-2007 @ 5:50AM
Amrit Lall said...
The carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere is going up and so is the global temperature. I wonder why some sceptics have a hard time grasping this simple correlation. We can't afford to dilly dally. An impending catastrophy is fast descending on us. Al Gore deserves our thanks and possibly a Nobel for raising the issue on a worldwide basis.
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