[Gorwingel]

I would have to agree, somewhat, but I will have to see how the academy treats ROTK. Because if it is a good film, and the academy treats it very well, my opinion may totally change. Yes I do think that Fantasy films get the short end of the stick, and I do think that it is harder to make a fantasy than a regular film. One of the reasons that fantasys may have not been nominated very much is that there has not been that many really great ones made. Because they are very expensive, hard to produce, and they take a long time (just like LOTR). For the Oscars, really the only other fantasys that we have to compare to LOTR is probably Wizard of Oz, and Star Wars, that is about it(you could maybe throw in Merry Poppins, but that was a musical, not an epic fantasy). I think probably the academys treatment of fantasys would be different, if they had more of them to nominate. But maybe you would not say that they are "inferior" because they may not have the support of the academy, but they do have the support of the public (sadly kind of like having the popular vote in the presidental election [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] )