[IheartBB]

Originally Posted by setanta

Not really. They're giving it nominations because of the fact it's putting bums on seats and they missed the boat last year with The Dark Knight. And don't forget that they did the same with Titanic when it was setting the box office alight, crowing it with the Best Film Oscar while La Confidential was left hanging. Crazy.

The whole 'bums on seats' argument was decided by nominating 10 films instead of 5. Avatar would have been nominated either way. It's only the films like Up, The Blind Side and District 9 who have benefitted from this, so you can hardly use that as an excuse for it being nominated in the first place.

As for LA Confidential - to each his own, I suppose.

[setanta]

Originally Posted by IheartBB

The whole 'bums on seats' argument was decided by nominating 10 films instead of 5. Avatar would have been nominated either way. It's only the films like Up, The Blind Side and District 9 who have benefitted from this, so you can hardly use that as an excuse for it being nominated in the first place.

As for LA Confidential - to each his own, I suppose.

Well, in terms of revenue Avatar would be far exceeding any of the other films you've mentioned but yes, they've probably implemented this new silly 10 nominations system in an effort to broaden the appeal of the Oscars, but I for one hope that this ploy for viewing figures doesn't extend so far as to award Cameron's film with the Best Picture award with so many other far more deserving winners, including two of the three films you've already mentioned.

And yeah, LA Confidential was robbed big time.