OK, let's see. The oscar award nominees have been revealed.
Categories for which I have seen all of the films nominated: 1.
Categories for which I have seen all but one of the films nominated: 4.
Categories for which I have seen all but two of the films nominated: 0.
Categories for which I have seen all but three of the films nominated: 3.
Categories for which I have seen all but four of the films nominated: 6.
Categories for which I have seen none of the films nominated: 10.
The only category for which I have seen all of the nominated films is "Visual Effects," so I consider it to be the only one I am qualified to pass judgement on. In this case, I give the award hands-down to I, Robot. The textures and animation effects in Spiderman 2 were poorly done and I was not impressed. Harry Potter had reasonable effects, but I didn't feel that they pushed any boundaries.
If I had to pick on the categories for which I have seen all but one film, I would choose: The Village for Score, The Incredibles for Animated Feature and Sound Editing, and Lemony Snicket for Makeup.
I would like to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Incredibles win as many Oscars as they can. Since I haven't seen all of the movies they are up against, I hope that if they get beat it is by the movies I missed.
I attribute much of my not having seen many nominated movies to the fact that the majority of my movie watching is via Netflix and as such I have not seen too many recent movies. If I write out the same category coverage for last year's nominees, it goes something like this:
Categories for which I have seen all of the films nominated: 2.
Categories for which I have seen all but one of the films nominated: 5.
Categories for which I have seen all but two of the films nominated: 7.
Categories for which I have seen all but three of the films nominated: 4.
Categories for which I have seen all but four of the films nominated: 2.
Categories for which I have seen none of the films nominated: 5.
And had I seen SeaBiscuit, these numbers would look considerably better.
The categories from last year that I've seen everything nominated are Visual Effects and Makeup, which just goes to show that I am a big nerd when it comes to the visual spectacle. And in both cases, I would have picked the winner (LotR:RotK).
