HOLLYWOOD: Michael Moore Failed To Make Best Picture

MichaelmooreOf course, we all knew he failed to make it, but the news is that Hollywood knows it, too.

MICHAEL MOORE FAILS TO GET BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINATION FOR FAHRENHEIT 9/11.

Unfortunately, Hollywood also failed to nominate the picture that genuinely deserved to be named last year’s best: The Passion of the Christ.

My guess is that the failure to nominate it was partly a case of cluelessness (Hollywood is too anti-Christian to "get" the picture) and partly sour grapes ("If we have to admit F9/11 isn’t best picture material, neither will we give you the satisfaction of acknowleding that TPOTC is, either.")

SOME INTERESTING COMMENTARY ON MOORE’S FILM’S LOUSINESS (FROM A LIBERAL PERSPECTIVE) OVER AT TKS.

Quick question: What does Michael Moore’s "L" hand gesture stand for?

(a) Liberal
(b) Loser
(c) Both

I submit that the answer is the same for both the election and the Oscars.

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

15 thoughts on “HOLLYWOOD: Michael Moore Failed To Make Best Picture”

  1. I heard that the Passion was actually un-allowable to be nomenated for “best picture” due to it being in a foreign language…and it wansn’t international so it lost that one too.

  2. I heard that the Passion was actually un-allowable to be nomenated for “best picture” due to it being in a foreign language…and it wansn’t international so it lost that one too.

    The Academy has no policy against nominating non-English films for Best Picture (for example, Life is Beautiful / La Vita e Bella was nominated in 1999). It is true, however, that it couldn’t run for Foreign Film because foreign films must be sponsored by an actual foreign country.

  3. At least TPOTC was nominated for 3 awards, & one of them was cinematography, which is richly deserved! The soundtrack music is quite effective, too, & that got a nom. So someone took notice of Gibson’s film, if not Gibson himself. Moore’s film just got snubbed after all that hype last year. Good!
    Now the real question is . . . will they give the Oscar to Million Dollar Baby, the *feel good* pro-euthanasia film, or The Aviator, in which H’wood gets to see it’s former greats portrayed by it’s current favorite actors? Or neither? Sideways is too . . . sideways for the Academy from what I’ve read. So that leaves Finding Neverland & Ray. I’m rooting for Neverland, even though it will never be my personal “Best Picture” of 2004!
    Alas, I will not be watching this year. I’m bored by the noms. Usually, we have a party & throw marshmallows at the screen for things like bad speeches, etc. It’s a tradition that started in LA with some friends of mine who worked at the Academy for a while. ‘Cept they used twinkies!

  4. +J.M.J+
    Not to make excuses for them, but is it possible that the Academy members never even saw TPOTC? I mean, it was a big hit with Catholics and Evangelicals, but how many Hollywood types bothered to go see it?
    In Jesu et Maria,

  5. And in answer to your “quick question” (it wasn’t rhetorical, was it? ;-P ):
    C
    Ruthann

  6. Hi Guys!
    You know it is kind of ridiculous that The Passion did not at least get nominated for Best Picture. I mean, what other movie this year had the kind of cultural effect of this movie? The nominations, all in technical categories, are a way for the Academy to look objective and still ignore the powerful emotional effect the film obviously had.

  7. Rosemarie,
    Many refused to watch it out of protest.
    I firmly believe that many will return the snub to Hollywood now.

  8. There’s a big state-of-the-art cinema on Wilshire Blvd in LA that the Academy owns & exhibits Oscar-nominated films in this time of year so members can see them. (They also have other types of exhibits, like Saul Bass movie posters & other way cool stuff, but that’s another thread.) I’ve been to the theater as a guest of Academy folks I’ve known. It’s very lovely to see a film where everyone’s quiet & focused on the film. Films are, of course, free to members & guests. I hope & pray many Academy folks take the time & opportunity to go see TPOTC.

  9. I saw Million Dollar Baby and the pro-euthanasia part of it didn’t strike me as much as the scenes with the Catholic priest. The movie treated the Church horribly in all but possibly one of those scenes and even then the advise the priest gave was devoid of the message of Divine Mercy.
    Don’t get me wrong. I wish the movie came out on the right side of the euthanasia issue but [spoiler alert] at least he hated the idea of what he was going to do. The priest even told him that if he does it, he would not be able to forgive himself and there would be nothing left of him. Cinematically, that came true. After the key scene, we didn’t see him on screen for the rest of the movie and we are told in naration that he never returned to the gym again. Maybe my Catholic faith coloured the way I saw the ending but even the act itself did not seem heroically portrayed. [end spoiler alert]

  10. Michale Moore’s “L’ ?
    Lackluster
    Liar
    [DELETE–DON’T USE THIS TERM AGAIN, DON]head
    Oops, sorry, that starts with Michael Moore
    Hey, Moochie.
    I forgot that you had changed your name, Gene.

  13. It’s preposterous that Passion is nominated for soundtrack music. When I saw the movie in the theatre, the only time I turned to my friend during the film was to ask him, “Why are they using the music for The Last Temptation to Christ instead of their own score?” Later I found out that it was not the actual score, just one that sounds a lot like it, which seems to me to be a bit like plagiarism.
    In either case, it was a serious artistic flaw. Because of that, I don’t mind that it was not nominated for Best Picture. Passion also suffers from the cinematic flaw in that it does not tell an actual story, just part of one. It is moving and powerful, but it’s also the equivalent of seeing the Death Star attack in Star Wars without the previous 90 minutes of story that puts it in context (or the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan without the rest of the movie.)
    It would have been nice for Gibson to have gotten a nod for one of the big categories, like Director, though.

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