1 more thing on Academy Awards

[timepiececlock]

I was extraordonarily pleased to see "Spirited Away" win best animated film.

I was sitting there, prepared to throw birthday cake at the tv if they gave it to that stupid horse movie (which I did sit all the way through, btw... god it was a bore... made for 4 year olds.) Anyway, I was quite excited that it won, and pleased that Cameron Diaz pronounced Hayao Miyazaki's name correctly too.

Still though, a part of me is annoyed that it wasn't nominated for Best Foreign Film. It really should have been.

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[leslina.livejournal.com]

...a part of me is annoyed that it wasn't nominated for Best Foreign Film. It really should have been...

It rightly should have been, but since it was released as a dub with only limited screenings with subtitles I imagine that is why it was lumped with in the anime category. I mean Beauty & the Best got a best picture nod, ya think they'd take it from there *shakes head*

[lin-lin-lucy.livejournal.com]

Spirited away was a KICK ASS movie...i saw it subtitles with da brewers...Iam naking a No Face Mask....::thumbs up::


I LOVE NO FACE!!!

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I saw it all on my lonesome one day between classes, in dub form. It was a kick ass movie. I'd take my little cousin to see it, but she's only 4 and I think it'd scare her... probably is too complex for her too. ::sigh::

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[lin-lin-lucy.livejournal.com]

:;nods::....heh...yea...i really wanted to see it...and yea to see it subtitled we had to drive all the way to palo alto...@~@...it comes out sometime next month

[oyceter]

Hey, sorry, found this through a friends' friend thing. Anyway, was going to say word about Spirited Away.

I was thinking, maybe it couldn't be nominated as Best Foreign Film because it first came out in Japan two years ago? I'm not sure what the Oscar rules are for that. And maybe Japan didn't put it out as best foreign film then because they thought there was no way those people in Hollywood would vote for an animated movie no matter how fricking good it was.

Ahem. Sorry.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was two years ago, was it?

I guess it might have had less chance of winning, but I would have liked it to be nominated for both. :) Anyway, I'm also going with the theory that because it was playing in dubbed version here most of the time, it might not quite have qualified. :shrug: I wish, wish.

[oyceter]

Hrm. Going back into my faulty memory... I watched it for the first time in Japan July after sophomore year, and since I'm a senior now... er. July 2001 or so? Almost two years ago.

I would have loved for it to be nominated for everything =). Love that movie so much that I watched it when it came out in Japan even though I didn't know Japanese that well, watched it when it came out in Taiwan with Chinese subtitles (made much more sense) and when it came out here. It was also really unreasonable, but I really wanted to see Miyazaki accept the award just because.