The Dark Knight is (almost) shut out at the Oscars!
Posted by Carlos C. on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 11:54 am
The romantic fantasy “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” led Academy Awards contenders Thursday with 13 nominations, among them best picture and acting honors for Brad Pitt and Taraji P. Henson, and a directing slot for David Fincher.
Other best-picture nominees are “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk,” “The Reader” and “Slumdog Millionaire.”
As expected, Heath Ledger had a supporting-actor nomination for “The Dark Knight” on the one-year anniversary of his death from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. But the Batman blockbuster was shut out from other top categories such as best picture and director. …
Notably snubbed in the acting categories were Clint Eastwood for “Gran Torino,” Sally Hawkins for “Happy-Go-Lucky” and Kristin Scott Thomas for “I’ve Loved You So Long.”
The Dark Knight was shut out of Best Picture and Best Director because the movie is wholly conservative.
Andrew Klavan wrote a review of The Dark Knight on July 25th. He compared Batman to President Bush. Part of the review states:
The true complexity arises when we must defend these values in a world that does not universally embrace them — when we reach the place where we must be intolerant in order to defend tolerance, or unkind in order to defend kindness, or hateful in order to defend what we love…
Liberal Hollywood did not universally embrace The Dark Knight.
Hat Tip: Hot Air
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How terrible to happen to such a beautiful woman! It is soo sad....
I wouldn’t say “Liberal Hollywood” didn’t embrace “TDK”, because everybody Democrats, Republicans, and Independents LOVED the film, I would say Academy judges didn’t. I wouldn’t be surprised that Sean Penn wins for “Milk” because Hollywood loves gay people so I wouldn’t be surprise he gets the Oscar over Lagella’s moving, sympathetic performance as Nixon and Rourke’s hearwarming comeback in “The Wrestler.”
Nolan should’ve least gotten a nom for Best Director or his brother, Jonah, should’ve gotten a nom for Best Screenplay.
“The Dark Knight” was shut out of nomination b/c it was wholly
conservative? SPARE ME!!!!
Thats libtard hollywood for ya!