The nominations for the 87th Academy Awards was revealed this week. There were films that were obviously going to be nominated like Birdman which is one of the top contenders with 9 nominations. Of course with the excitement of movies that were nominated, part of anticipating Oscar nominations, along with seeing what award Leonardo DiCaprio will NOT be getting this year, is seeing who gets snubbed. We, in a ironic sense, we're not disappointed, actually we were. There was Selma being nominated for only Best Picture and Original Song, along with a very white list of nominations. Unfortunately we're not here to talk about Selma, we're talking about another film that was supposedly done wrong: The Lego Movie.
The Lego Movie managed to get only one nomination, Best Original Song. The director for The Lego Movie, Phillip Lord, responded to the news in the hilarious and well respectable fashion by tweeting a picture of a Lego build Oscar saying "It's okay, I made my own." Others didn't have the same reaction. The response to The Lego Movie's spread like wildfire all over social media with people being completely upset with the movie being snubbed. It wasn't shame on you I'll boycott the Oscars, but you can tell that a lot of people were upset with it, acting like it was the biggest Oscar snub of all time. But was it?
Movies are a form of storytelling. There are two types of storytelling. One is to simply tell a story and one to tell just for entertainment. When I think of the Oscars, I think of an academy award show for the prestige films. It is an award show where we recognize the films that were made for the artistic craft for making movies and the art of storytelling that doesn't get as much mainstream appeal as most of the blockbuster films get, like The Lego Movie. It's is for the Gone Girls and The Imitation Games, and Birdmans that hold a higher degree of cinema photography and acting that most mainstream entertainment films don't have and are in a different sense and tone than most of the other blockbuster movies like The Lego Movie. The movies that usually do get nominated for Oscars, especially in roles like Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director are the movies that suppose to best represent those professions and most entertainment films like the Lego Movie doesn't fall into those categories. If we did put the Lego Movie in those categories, it would've been almost a joke.
I'm not taking a dig at the movie. It is an amazing movie and I can tell that there was a lot that was put in to make everything awesome. It hit right in the nostalgia button where you would make all of these epic adventures just sitting there playing with your Legos as a kid but, it gotten what it deserved with the nomination category it was placed in. I could've seen it being in Best Animated Movie, but you had other great animated movies and that was probably the committee trying to please everyone.. It is lucky that it got the nomination it did. Anything else would've been overkill. Besides I don't think Lord and The Lego movie is hurting by this snub at all. They've gotten tons of money and they are going to win a few VMAs or something.
Do you think The Lego Movie was wrongly snubbed? Do you agree with what I said above?
Do you think The Lego Movie was wrongly snubbed? Do you agree with what I said above?
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