It has recently come to my attention that one of my most anticipated movies of the fall, The Soloist has now been moved from it’s November release date to March 13, 2009. Yes a movie that has already started it’s trail of promotion and been described as potential “Oscar Bait” will now be moved by Paramount Studios to meet their 20 something films a year agenda. At least that’s all I could find out (I assume a studio can only push so many different films during Oscar season)
This totally gets me down and though I of course have not seen the movie had a strong feeling it would be a nice addition to this Oscar season. It practically had oscar nominations written all over it with it’s oscar craving star Robert Downey Jr, talented award winning co-star Jamie Foxx and it’s director in Joe Wright, whose last two films (Pride and Prejudice and Atonement) had their fair share of nominations. So I’m pretty bummed that I’m gonna have to wait to see this, but it also got me to thinking about the jerks that make up the academy.
The fact that a movie now has to open in late fall to early winter to get nominated at all is bullshit. Of course there are exceptions every once in awhile, but the fact that a movie that let’s say opens in January or February, could never be nominated for any major awards no matter how good they are. Zodiac was easily one of the best movies I saw last year, but due to it’s March opening wasn’t even considered. I’ll bet you if it had opened in December it would of had nominations and when you look at it like that, the Oscars are kind of a cheat. They’re not about giving recognition to the best films of the year, more just the one’s that are prepped for the oscar season. Don’t get me wrong, I like a lot of the fine crafted dramas that open up in November and December, but I think there are too many quality pictures falling through the cracks. Even the critically praised The Dark Knight has to theatrically reopen this winter to get attention from the Academy, and that’s messed up.
Hopefully I can take solace in some of the other pictures coming out, but with now The Road and The Soloist moved to 2009 it’s beginning to look like a less exciting Oscar season, at least for myself… I mean who knows, maybe those films wont even end up being that good, the fact they were moved must indicate something we don’t know about… It’s hard to say and even harder to take in.
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