I guess I'm confused again. I saw it on the nominations list, but it must have been for something else.
Adrienne ________________________________ From: Deirdre Saoirse Moen <[email protected]> To: Adrienne Foster <[email protected]>; Rick Moen <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, February 8, 2010 3:22:21 PM Subject: Re: [Basfa] Prospective Hugo movie nominations It wasn't nominated for best picture. The ones that were: Avatar The Blind Side District 9 An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire A Serious Man Up Up in the Air On 2/8/2010, "Adrienne Foster" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I predict The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus will see a second life in the >theatres now that it has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. > >Adrienne > > > > >________________________________ >From: Rick Moen <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Mon, February 8, 2010 2:17:18 PM >Subject: Re: [Basfa] Prospective Hugo movie nominations > >Quoting Adrienne Foster ([email protected]): > >> We always seem to have a hard time recalling theatrical releases come >> Hugo nominating time, so at lunchtime today I went through the first >> 220 titles IMDB listed for the 2009 releases and jotted down what >> looked eligible for nominating. Following is that list. I have neither >> seen all of these nor will I vouch for their quality, but thought I'd >> pass them on to help jog your memory in case there are any you might >> find worthy of nomination. > >Excellent list. Deirdre has her own list (but not including all >eligibles) here: http://dsmoen.livejournal.com/279401.html >She writes: > > > > >2009 Hugo Long Form Shortlist >Jan. 18th, 2010 at 3:21 AM > >This is part of my noodling about the Hugo eligible long form candidates >I've seen, in order to narrow down what I'll be nominating. Rick and I >talk about our nominations, frequently nominating some, but not all, of >the same films. > >You can nominate if you were registered for last year's Worldcon or sign >up for this year's before January 31. You'll need a supporting >membership unless you plan to attend Melbourne (but if you do, you can >upgrade later). > >2009 was a particularly strong year for animation. I normally loathe >it, for much the reasons I found "Monsters vs. Aliens" unwatchable: too >vulgar and garish, and particularly bad faces on the people. "Avatar", >for the faults it has, definitely figured out how to do this well. That >said, only one of the animated films was strong enough to bubble up to >the top of the list: "Up". In a different year with less crowding at >the top, it might have made it onto my short list. > >My taste runs to the quirky, so I'm going to give a short blurb about my >short list of six works, listed in alphabetical order. I can only >nominate five, so one of them's got to go. I'm going to re-watch them >all before I jettison one. > > >1. THE BOX, written and directed by Richard Kelly based on a Richard >Matheson story, feels like old "Twilight Zone" -- because it is. I >figured out exactly where the TZ ep ended and what Kelly added onto it, >and I think it works. Because "Donnie Darko", Kelly's previous film, >was so overlooked (and deserved at least a nomination, damnit), I made >the point to get out to see this one. > >2. DISTRICT 9: While I felt this film told a story that wasn't >otherwise being told in SF film, and it's thus an important film (and >impressive in many ways), I didn't actually _enjoy_ it that much. I'm >aware of the race issues that many people see in the film; my own >personal take is closer to that of Tananarive Due's >(http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/08/31/allegorical-landmines-aliens-race-in-district-9/). >I have a real soft spot for unintended consequences tales (as this one >is), and I found some of the alien stuff quite imaginative. > >3. FANBOYS, a film that was so clearly a labor of love, shot for money >that could be raised, and they didn't even know if they could do the >Skywalker Ranch scenes until they'd gotten the okay from Lucas. This >film doesn't have the polish of "Galaxy Quest" (which did win a Hugo, >but it also had five times the budget to get that polish), and it does >have raunchy humor that I'm not normally a fan of. That said, I nearly >fell out of my seat in the theatre before the film actually started. It >reminded me of the illegal Star Wars miniatures I had once upon a time, >the bf having smuggled them back from a con. I think they were from Ral >Partha. Did I ever mention that my first date as an adult was to see >"Star Wars" for the 13th time? > >4. THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS, Heath Ledger's final film, a >Terry Gilliam film (typically beset by tragedy, see "Lost in La >Mancha"), and with Tom Waites as the Devil. I was expecting less and I >got more. I may try to see it again before it disappears, and sadly it >is already disappearing. This is an innovative "deal with the devil" >sort of tale, told around the quirky life of Dr. Parnassus and his >traveling road show. > >5. MOON, which had some truly brilliant acting (especially if you watch >some of the extra DVD clips and see how it was done). Essentially, Sam >Rockwell was on set alone, having to do it with only a stunt double to >bounce off of. This is about the most film that can be made for under >five million, and it's a tour de force because of the constraints. This >was my favorite SF film of the year. > >6. TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH, a 5-hour miniseries that was one long >story and thus long form. "We. We are. We are coming." Frightening >as hell, it went places even American cable shows wouldn't. I need a >fourth series of "Torchwood", stat. > > > >The "beneath the fold" sf/f movies I saw last year: > >Enjoyed but not enough to nominate: >Angels & Demons (worth seeing just for LHC & CERN footage) >Alice (Syfy movie) >Avatar >Coraline >Fantastic Mr. Fox >Ghosts of Girlfriends Past >Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince >Knowing >The Twilight Saga: New Moon >Push >S. Darko -- this one's on the border with the bottom category; it's an >interesting failure >Star Trek >Terminator Salvation >Up > >Didn't like enough to nominate even in a thin year, or actively >disliked: >17 Again >Gamer >Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs >Inkheart >Monsters vs. Aliens >Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian >Watchmen > >_______________________________________________ >Basfa mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org >)
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