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Glad for Day Lewis. A great performance....
i need to see ARGO...
I think Argo is only the 4th film in the history of the OSCARS to win BEST PICTURE without a directing nomination. Plenty of films have won Best Picture without the director winning but the directors were nominated to begin with.
and the last time that happened was for Driving miss Daisy when Daniel Day Lewis also won his first Oscar...
This morning media were saying the Oscar jinx is over for Bond :D
'The Oscar jinx is over for Bond'. I love that headline ;)
Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon...
A short overview of all the winners and the number of Oscars they won:
4 Oscars --> 'Life Of Pi' (including 'Best Director' and 'Best Music Score')
3 Oscars --> 'Argo' (including 'Best Picture')
3 Oscars --> 'Les Misérables' (including 'Best Supporting Actress')
2 Oscars --> 'Django Unchained' (including 'Best Supporting Actor')
2 Oscars --> 'Skyfall' (including 'Best Original Song')
2 Oscars --> 'Lincoln' (including 'Best Actor')
1 Oscar --> 'Anna Karenina'
1 Oscar --> 'Zero Dark Thirty'
1 Oscar --> 'Silver Linings Playbook' ('Best Actress')
1 Oscar --> 'Amour' ('Best Foreign Language Picture')
1 Oscar --> 'Brave' ('Best Animated Picture')
1 Oscar --> 'Searching For Sugarman' ('Best Documentary')
1 Oscar --> 'Curfew' ('Best Short Picture')
1 Oscar --> 'Paperman' ('Best Short Animated Picture')
1 Oscar --> 'Inocente' ('Best Short Documentary')
Biggest BO movie since TB, biggest BO ever in the UK, 7th biggest globally of all time, BAFTA's, and now 2 Oscars.
This is a great day to be a Bond fan. \:D/
You are so right boy :-P
Sadly though it seems the ghost of DAD still lives on. Who introduced the tribute again? :p
Seriously though, this is a historic day in the world of Bond.
So proud ;;)
Will Claudio Miranda wil soon replace Robert Deankins. It whas his second Oscar nomination after The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but this time with Life Of Pi he won and if Bond go to India..
But no Oscar for TDKR, that make my day ^:)^
Bond has always been big! To some of us anyway.
Exactly! What film won best picture last year or the year before and the year before that? I couldn't tell you. Argo and the others are great movies but Bond is bigger and will be talked about for another 50 years. It's great when Bond receives accolades but that's not why Bond movies are made. Bond doesn't need to chase after statues.
But off course. Bond has always been big. But there were days that Bond was slightly bigger than other days. One can think of the 'fucking big' Bond craze during the first four Connery Bond films, the 'not too big' period where 'The Man With The Golden Gun' and 'Licence To Kill' did not do as well at the boxoffice as previously anticipated. Mostly because of a combination of marketing errors and lacklustre reviews.
And then we had the 'big' Brosnan period. But I think as of today Bond is 'fucking big'. There's no doubt about that. Every Bond film is 'big' for us fans. But what 'Skyfall' did comes closer to 'fucking big' if you ask me. And I do agree that Bond shouldn't chase for Oscar statues. But the FACT that 'Skyfall' got two of these statues is one hell of a 'fucking big' extra!
I'm curious, how long have you been a Bond fan?
I am 31 years of age and a huge Bond fan ever since my dad allowed me to stay up late to watch a weird, but spectacular movie in which Bond fell inside a hole on a metro station, sliding its way to a secret little lair. That was 'You Only Live Twice'.
Then my first Bond film in cinema was 'Licence To Kill' in 1989, which scared me to death when I saw a head being blown up. I was 7 years old then. The late summer of 1989.
By the way, your point is my point too. For me not every Bond film is at the same time a perfect Bond film....or one step further.....a perfect film. The Bond franchise is big because of the wide variety in quality of every Bond film and that no matter how good or how bad it did in reviews.....Bond kept on going:
A) Because of its lesser big Bond movies; Bond movies that were too cheesy and too funny to be true, Bond movies that were from a quality point of view very mediocre at best, Bond movies that deservedly got very low reviews.
B) Because of the almost perfect Bond film; Bond film that got very high reviews when they came out, Bond movies where fans literally turned into crazy nerds and where a huge new influx of new fans were created, Bond films that were besides its Bond stamp also a top notch, high quality espionage thriller movie.
So I am not talking solely about commercial revenues. Upon its releases in 1974 and 1989, 'TMWTGG' and 'LTK' were not that liked as much as their follow-up's. Commercial success AND the overall quality of the actual film (story, plot, originality, trendsetting standards, music, acting, memorable scenes) actually go hand in hand, much more than you think. And if they don't go hand in hand, that's it's mostly a matter of public opinion, a matter of an audience that isn't prepared yet for this new Bond actor or that absence of a gunbarrel sequence.
I can say one thing about 'Skyfall' though. And this is my honest opinion. This is by far my best Bond experience I've had since I saw 'Licence To Kill' in cinemas in 1989, right from the press announcement in november 2011 until now. Even slightly better than 'Casino Royale'. I have never been so addicted to a Bond movie before.
And this will happen when there's a tie ;-):
Wow...They let a 7 year old in to see that? You must have looked A LOT older :p
Netherlands darling, a country full of opportunities B-) B-) B-)
How ridiculous. Don't people know that CGI is visual effects, not cinematography. I'm not bleating because Deakins didn't win, but a film where 95% is CGI and most camerawork is in front of a green screen, where lighting is done post should NOT win an Oscar, a bloody good cameraman should.
It really wouldn't surprise me if Adele sings the Bond 24 theme now. It's got a lot to live up to.
The best song was well deserved for Skyfall but also for a franchice that has given very memorable tunes over the years. Of course Adele won, when haven't she? I bet she wrotes a paper on string theory and they'll give her the Nobel on Physics.
In conclusion, even if Skyfall deserved more nominations, in comparison with previous Bond films this one was a winner.