How annoying! A great film like this which is better than a lot of the other stuff nominated doesn't get any recognition
Bruges is like a fairytale...
It's a shame, especially no director nod for Scorsese
shareIt received only one nomination, for Best Cinematography.
Yes, it is laughable.
Most of these films that scored numerous nominations will be forgotten or considered overrated in just a year or two.
Meanwhile, this film will be being discussed decades from now.
Oh well, it was completely expected at this point.
I haven't watched the Oscars since 2007. Spare me four hours of commercials and political correctness smugness and Trump jokes up to your ass. And they'll pat themselves on the back for being "daring" and "taking chances" by giving a hipster millennial music video a ton of Oscars.
Meh...
Guys we know they don't recognize masterpieces from Scorsese. That's not nothing new.
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shareOscars are a joke. Best film of the year. It got best cinematography.
shareThis was easily the best movie I saw all year. I'm so frustrated it didn't get more nominations. I was so sure at the very least it would get a Best Director and Best Actor nomination, but no.
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
*~Tennessee Williams~*
All I can say is I told you guys. Industry people were not fans of this movie. You compare it to films such as Moonlight and La La Land, which had contemporary realism ala Une Prophet that could be happening around the block and stylized with vintage music and dance from the Golden Age of Cinema.
Silence had none of those qualities. It was self-indulgent and esoteric. It was marketed as having taken Scorsese 30 years in the making. And that's probably because Scorsese had to build up enough credit with a studio willing to write off the entire budget of this film as a loss.
The critics were its only champions, and they didn't even follow through at the critics' awards. That's why I was very suspect of the ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. I can see why you guys might have thought it would pick up a bunch of nominations today. I empathize somewhat.
Why would you suspect the ratings of Rotten Tomatoes? If Silence had been the same, except for being about two gay priests or persons of color being persecuted for their difference, the Academy would be falling over itself to give it awards. I worked in the industry, and am familiar with it. You know very well, if you work in the industry like you claim, that quality and merit are just one of the factors of why a movie is nominated, often not the most important one.
shareI was suspect of the ratings because they were abnormally higher than what I was hearing from actual people I knew. It was almost like election polling.
Yes, quality and merit are not the only factors. Sometimes the Academy will lean towards political films and those with timely subjects. Transgender characters ala Hillary Swank in Boys Don't Cry and Eddie Redmayne in the Danish Girl have been somewhat en vogue. Holocaust films are quite popular.
So what is it that we are discussing here? If an award is what you want to achieve, cater to what's hot? I don't think that's always the case. Sometimes there are unexpected contenders such as the Stephen Hawking film, where you have a handicapped genius featuring a great performance by Eddie Redmayne. It was just a unique story done with enough care that the Academy took notice.
You compare Andrew Garfield's performance in Silence to that of Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything, and it's really not that much of a comparison. Whatever an actor did to prepare for a role, lose 50 pounds, study with Jesuits, watch hours of tape on ALS, it's what ends up being capture on camera, in the film. And what Garfield brought to the role was not Oscar-worthy, in my opinion.
Americans films I love rarely get nominations. So there is no surprise for me.
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