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Awards Daily: Academy Gets it Wrong, Journos Still Shocked
:: The Playlist ::: 'Gomorrah' Foreign Oscar Snub Outrage Continues
Carpetbagger: The Bagger Over America: Pillars of Salt
/Film: 2008 Oscar Foreign-Language Shortlist Leaves Off Gomorra and Let The Right One In, Sparks Outrage
Academy Gets it Wrong, Journos Still Shocked
Awards Daily —
... cut? Hoop Dreams? The list is endless.
The real thing to be angry about here, folks, isn’t that the Academy snubbed these great films but that they told us about the snub after preliminary ballots had already been turned in. Believe me, the Academy at large can repair the damage if there is time to do so but there was no time this year. This, assuming that the voting for these films and the Academy at large were done separately.
Scott Feinberg at The Envelope writes on Gomorrah:
Sehring noted that despite the endorsements the ...
'Gomorrah' Foreign Oscar Snub Outrage Continues
:: The Playlist :: —
... keenly writes, "This is the most vile of all Academy committees. They prove their disdain for truly great cinema year in and year out." L.A. Times columnist Scott Feinberg went off last night, "I know I speak for the entire country of Italy and a lot of people in the critical community when I say that it just doesn't make sense and there's something wrong with the foreign language committee as a whole. It's still broken." ...
The Bagger Over America: Pillars of Salt
Carpetbagger —
... their disdain for truly great cinema year in and year out (let’s not forget last year’s snubs of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” and “Persepolis” early on), and they’ve done it again this year, skewering Matteo Garrone’s blistering “Gomorrah,” leaving it for the dogs, cast aside, abandoned. Scott Feinberg spent the day trying to get to the bottom of the omission – the big gaffe is an annual affair – and talked to Jonathan Sehring, the head of IFC Films and the backer of the film – who had a theory: “It just demonstrates the foreign language committee’s aversion to graphic ...
2008 Oscar Foreign-Language Shortlist Leaves Off Gomorra and Let The Right One In, Sparks Outrage
/Film —
... United States under the same rules as the rest of the English Speaking films. It is fair, it allows for the truly BEST films to even be considered. However, to have a film that has won the acclaim that Let The Right One In has, and have that film go completely ignored for even the nominating process… frankly, it is unjust and beneath the standard that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences purports to endorse.
Over at the LA Times, Scott Feinberg is displeased with the omission of the Italian film, ...
Pillar of Link
Film Experience Blog —
Oscars, Globes and Year in Review The Feinberg Files on Oscar's foreign film shortlist and that Gomorra snub Wall Street Journal good article on Slumdog's Co-Director and why she isn't getting any awards attention while Danny Boyle is drowning in it. (Thanks to David, for pointing it out) Everything Oscar Andy shares his own hypothetical ballot In Contention my favorite annual thing at IC, "top 10 shots" of the year MNPP "the golden trousers" actresses ...
