Return of the King Oscar Predictions (and post-Oscar Comments)

[Gorwingel]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>16 for 19. Not bad odds, though it should be mentioned that Lost In Translation could win and still keep this pattern going.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>But I highly doubt Lost in Translation would end up winning. It only received 4 Oscar nominations, meaning that it most likely had little support in the Academy. And additionally the main actress in the film (Scarlett Johanssen) ended up not getting any nods, after receiving two (for it and another film) at the Golden Globes.<P>For me the Golden Globes were really the greatest challenge (award-wise) that ROTK faced. FOTR and TTT had all recieved nods, but had not won a thing. A lot of the pundents were predicting that the Golden Globe would most likely go to another film, and that the Oscar would most definitely go to ROTK. Just because ROTK is much more of an Oscar type film (even though it is fantasy).<P>The best picture nods did surprise me though because they (except for ROTK) all seemed rather weak. I cannot see the other films winning, they are just not going to go down in history like ROTK.