Academy Awards

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"shahara9" <NOTaMuggleFamily at a...> wrote:
> 
> Well, darn it, HP didn't win a thing!  But LoTR won several.  I 
can't 
> believe Moulin Rough won for Costume...gosh, I myself could outfit 
a 
> cast of sleezies from our local thrift shop, it was hardly is an 
award 
> winnng effort!  And LoTR got best musical score...I hadn't heard 
that 
> soundtrack, was it good?  (My kids didn't remember and I didn't 
want 
> to sit thru the movie with a baby!) I thought surly HP would 
win...I 
> adored John Williams music, so very magical and transportive.
> Grrr...maybe next year with Chamber of Secrets!

I agree re. Moulin Rouge's costume award - my vote and expectation 
had always been for Gosford Park. As I disliked the HP would-be 
traditional UK school uniforms from the beginning, I never really 
wanted it to win anyway.

As for score - I'm a huge movie film fan and I adored Shore's work on 
LOTR (not so much Enya's song - heck, she's singing it as I type!). 
Williams' work on HP1 was mediocre by his standards and was probably 
written in his sleep. In melodic terms, it's a "best of JW" and very 
unoriginal. It also did something music shouldn't do in films and 
overwhlem what's going on (something JW does quite often). I wasn't 
surprised it was nominated because it was very in-your-face, but I'm 
not in the slightest bit surprised it didn't win. The Williams fans 
in the Academy votes were also probably split by his being nominated 
twice.

P.S. Did anyone else notice how much Daniel Radcliffe has changed in 
the last few months when he did his "my favourite film" bit?

Unless someone else does it, I might make some vidcaps (I'm watching 
the show live but recording it for someone else)...