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Originally Posted by thesupermikey
Eternal Sunshine was the best movie of the year as far I can tell. The fact that there was only 3 movies put up for best visual effects seems strange. Team America was the most technically interesting films I have seem in a long time. The scale of the puppet work was mind blowing. It seems to me that every year the same 3 or 4 movies get most of the nominations. That's really sad. There are so many great films that so few get the recognition they deserve.
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Completely agree with you. This just reminds me of why I don't put any stock into the winners of Academy Awards, since it's so full of politicking and not completely about recognizing films completely based on merit.
Eternal Sunshine was clearly my favorite movie of the year, and there were a lot of great movies to come out this past year. How they didn't get even a nomination for effects or art direction is completely baffling. Also, Carrey was definitely hosed again. The Academy is way overdue in giving Jim Carrey some credit. He may have started out as "that guy that talks and sings out of his ass" but has since become a really really great all-around actor. His performance in Eternal Sunshine was one of my favorites of the year and he definitely deserves some credit for his role.
However, the Best Actor category is the tightest and most crowded I've seen in a long time. They could double, or even triple the nominees if they could nominate every actor that got serious buzz for the award. But, I guess it doesn't really matter as it seems Jamie Foxx is going to run away with the award. I believe Vegas has him at 6-5 odds to win.
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Originally Posted by Booray
[...]I still haven't seen Sideways, but I'm also disappointed that Giamatti wasn't nominated. I'm sure I'll agree that he deserved a nomination when I finally see it. [...]
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Giamatti and Carrey were definitely the two actors I was most upset about not getting nominated. I don't Sideways is as good as most of the critics are making it out to be, but I still thought it was a really really good movie, and Paul Giamatti definitely carried the film despite it being touted as an ensemble piece. I'm just glad to see Don Cheadle getting some credit, as I think he, along with Carrey and Giamatti are among the most underrated actors today.