From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: kalelfan@yanospamhoo.com
Subject: The Case For Star Trek Winning Best Picture (was Re: Star Trek Makes
2009 National Board of Review Top 10 Films List)
"Steven L." wrote in message
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> KalElFan wrote:
>
>> http://www.nbrmp.org/awards/
>>
>> Perhaps a harbinger of an Oscar nomination, since their Best Film
>> category has been increased to 10 this year.
>
> Hollywood isn't going to honor a movie that's based on a TV show
> with a Best Picture Oscar. But Star Trek will get nominated, at least.
The nomination alone would be an honor, not being nominated a
snub at this point given it being on NBR's list. I checked the stats
and the last 7 years 30 of the 35 Oscar Best Picture nominees,
so 86%, were on the NBR Top 10 (or Top 11 the last two years
since they started having Best Film as an additional category not
in the Top 10).
Star Trek had a 95% positive on RT, 260/275 positive reviews
and an 8.1/10. It doesn't get much better than that, and factoring
in the NBR list now it definitely *should* get an Oscar nomination.
Winning would normally be out of the question, but I'll make
a case for why it could win and even should win. With 10
nominees and arguably no overwhelming favorite, it only
needs a small base of support to win. If it gets one in five
voters it might be enough. As for why it *should* win...
Consider that Star Trek is on a par with Star Wars, an
iconic American property that even older Academy voters
can appreciate. When Star Wars came out in 1977, it
was new. It got nominated but lost to Annie Hall. In the
2007 update to the American Film Institute's Best 100
American Films of All-Time, Star Wars is at #13 now
while Annie Hall is at #35. The perspective of 30 years,
and the demos of those voting, combined to place Star
Wars in a much more respected place.
Who will ever remember half the Best Pictures of prior
years? Will "Up In The Air" really be a greater achievement
than rebooting such an iconic American property as Star
Trek, so spectacularly well as that movie did this year?
So well received, critically and at the box office, with
such iconic characters as Kirk, Spock, McCoy and so
on? Will "Up In The Air" really match that, ever?
Or just because Invictus is about Nelson Mandela, South
Africa, and a Rugby World Cup, does that automatically
qualify it more than Star Trek? Why? Because it's artsy
fartsy, Not Science Fiction, and More Important? This
is why when the For Your Consideration, Gimme An
Oscar Please ads get rolled out Academy voters are
supposed to just dutifully vote for it? Is it just "obvious"
that Invictus is a better candidate, like when they gave
the Oscar to Gandhi over E.T. (which is now #24 on the
AFI all-time list BTW).
What condescending rationale that is, and how lacking
in perspective. The SF genre is modern mythology, and
Star Trek an iconic American example of it. Its cultural
impact will far exceed anything else on this year's list.
As for Trek starting on TV, well what about all the Best
Picture winners that started in other mediums, books or
theater or classics, or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
as someone alluded to about Slumdog last year.
So I think there's at least a chance 1 in 5 voters, or
a bit more, would see the merit, just say No to genre
bias, and Star Trek wins it. The ensuing, deafening
whining from some of the clueless artsy fartsy crowd
would be sweet. :-) At least for now, because who's
going to remember *them* a year from now, let alone
the 50 or 100++ they'll know Star Trek.
It'd also be fun to see J.J. (I guess) get up there and
accept the Oscar for it. Hopefully he gets a Director
nom too, but he's also listed first on IMDb among the
Producer credits.
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