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Skyfall - 5 Oscar nominations

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Skyfall is the first Bond movie to receive an Oscar nomination since 1981 and it's the Bond film with the most nominations ever.

It's got Oscar nominations in the following categories:
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing

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If the Academy is willing to give DC Bonds nominations, why not Bond movies starring ethnic actors, freaks/weirdos, actors with prosthetic limbs, actors with an eye-patch, or other direct opposites? And I'm surprised TDKR didn't get nominated. Good for that because the Oscars is a complete JOKE now.
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Best Original Score? It doesn't come close to the John Barry scores, or some of the Bond scores not composed by Barry. Even a friend of mine who likes Skyfall said that the soundtrack was pretty meh.
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Anything goes, Saint 007? Let's say we make this permanent.
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The Saint 007 wrote:Best Original Score? It doesn't come close to the John Barry scores, or some of the Bond scores not composed by Barry. Even a friend of mine who likes Skyfall said that the soundtrack was pretty meh.
I agree. I thought the soundtrack was fairly weak, and is also a huge slap in the face to John Barry.

OHMSS or even MR should have had a look-in at the Oscars if SF is deemed worthy of a nomination.
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I don't think I've heard many comments on the Skyfall soundtrack.
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IMO some of the nominations are about the people being nominated not their work specifically on spyfall. Each of the nominations categories are for darlings of the academy.
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The Sweeney wrote:
The Saint 007 wrote:Best Original Score? It doesn't come close to the John Barry scores, or some of the Bond scores not composed by Barry. Even a friend of mine who likes Skyfall said that the soundtrack was pretty meh.
I agree. I thought the soundtrack was fairly weak, and is also a huge slap in the face to John Barry.

OHMSS or even MR should have had a look-in at the Oscars if SF is deemed worthy of a nomination.
Yes, it is certainly a slap in the face to John Barry, and I've been hearing others say this too. John Barry defined the sound of James Bond, and it's such a shame some of his Bond scores never received any Oscar recognition.
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FormerBondFan wrote:Anything goes, Saint 007? Let's say we make this permanent.
The fact that Skyfall's bland score gets nominated, while John Barry's great Bond scores didn't get any Oscar recognition, pretty much seals the deal that the anything goes guideline should be made permanent.
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The Saint 007 wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:Anything goes, Saint 007? Let's say we make this permanent.
The fact that Skyfall's bland score gets nominated, while John Barry's great Bond scores didn't get any Oscar recognition, pretty much seals the deal that the anything goes guideline should be made permanent.
Skyfall got 5 nominations while none of Pierce's Bonds got any. What does that tell you?
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Omega wrote:IMO some of the nominations are about the people being nominated not their work specifically on spyfall. Each of the nominations categories are for darlings of the academy.
I partly agree, as we've seen in the past with s**t like Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close get nominated for Best Picture despite getting mixed reviews across the whole board. However, there are plenty that I feel truly deserve the noms and I'm glad to see Lincoln get plenty, especially for Tommy Lee Jones. As for Skyfall, I think Deakins did a great job as a cinematographer and finally deserves the win after all these years. That's the one I think matters most.
FormerBondFan wrote:Skyfall got 5 nominations while none of Pierce's Bonds got any. What does that tell you?
That Pierce's run wasn't as good as Connery's, Moore's and Craig's?
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Omega wrote:IMO some of the nominations are about the people being nominated not their work specifically on spyfall. Each of the nominations categories are for darlings of the academy.
I partly agree, as we've seen in the past with s**t like Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close get nominated for Best Picture despite getting mixed reviews across the whole board. However, there are plenty that I feel truly deserve the noms and I'm glad to see Lincoln get plenty, especially for Tommy Lee Jones. As for Skyfall, I think Deakins did a great job as a cinematographer and finally deserves the win after all these years. That's the one I think matters most.
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I think Deakins is a talent but is more about his work in Bond or the other times he was passed over .



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None of the movie forums frequent is anybody crying about Spyfall being snubbed, most agree cinematography is the only category they qualify for.
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FormerBondFan wrote:
The Saint 007 wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:Anything goes, Saint 007? Let's say we make this permanent.
The fact that Skyfall's bland score gets nominated, while John Barry's great Bond scores didn't get any Oscar recognition, pretty much seals the deal that the anything goes guideline should be made permanent.
Skyfall got 5 nominations while none of Pierce's Bonds got any. What does that tell you?
That Brozza's films were terrible?
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The Sweeney wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:
The Saint 007 wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:Anything goes, Saint 007? Let's say we make this permanent.
The fact that Skyfall's bland score gets nominated, while John Barry's great Bond scores didn't get any Oscar recognition, pretty much seals the deal that the anything goes guideline should be made permanent.
Skyfall got 5 nominations while none of Pierce's Bonds got any. What does that tell you?
That Brozza's films were terrible?
Brosnan's Bonds (while I greatly enjoy them and I still do) explain Babs' laziness while DC's Bonds explain Babs arrogance and pretentiousness of seeing herself that she's better than anyone else. Saint 007, what's your take?
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FormerBondFan wrote:Brosnan's Bonds (while I greatly enjoy them and I still do) explain Babs' laziness while DC's Bonds explain Babs arrogance and pretentiousness of seeing herself that she's better than anyone else. Saint 007, what's your take?
Barbara couldn't handle her father's style of Bond all that well, and really didn't know where to go with the series. So after Die Another Day, the classic formula is deemed as terrible and outdated, Brosnan (having reached the end of his four film contract) was sent off, and the series was rebooted to what is supposedly more artistic and superior than the so very awful classic Bond. But yet, classic Bond suddenly isn't so awful when the producers need get out of trouble, and I'm sure they love how well that 50th Anniversary Blu-ray set is doing. :wink:

In my opinion, it's the producers that should have been rebooted, not the series. And the constant use of Die Another Day as a security blanket is getting old. So you messed up. Big deal. Get better writers, a better director, etc, and try to improve on the next film. Don't be so quick to just hastily throw away 40 years of cinematic history.
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FormerBondFan wrote:
The Saint 007 wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:Anything goes, Saint 007? Let's say we make this permanent.
The fact that Skyfall's bland score gets nominated, while John Barry's great Bond scores didn't get any Oscar recognition, pretty much seals the deal that the anything goes guideline should be made permanent.
Skyfall got 5 nominations while none of Pierce's Bonds got any. What does that tell you?
Pierce's Bonds sucks?
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The Saint 007 wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:Brosnan's Bonds (while I greatly enjoy them and I still do) explain Babs' laziness while DC's Bonds explain Babs arrogance and pretentiousness of seeing herself that she's better than anyone else. Saint 007, what's your take?
Barbara couldn't handle her father's style of Bond all that well, and really didn't know where to go with the series. So after Die Another Day, the classic formula is deemed as terrible and outdated, Brosnan (having reached the end of his four film contract) was sent off, and the series was rebooted to what is supposedly more artistic and superior than the so very awful classic Bond. But yet, classic Bond suddenly isn't so awful when the producers need get out of trouble, and I'm sure they love how well that 50th Anniversary Blu-ray set is doing. :wink:

In my opinion, it's the producers that should have been rebooted, not the series. And the constant use of Die Another Day as a security blanket is getting old. So you messed up. Big deal. Get better writers, a better director, etc, and try to improve on the next film. Don't be so quick to just hastily throw away 40 years of cinematic history.
I wonder if Dana Broccoli's death in February 2004 did not have more to do with the changes since.
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Blowfeld wrote:
The Saint 007 wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:Brosnan's Bonds (while I greatly enjoy them and I still do) explain Babs' laziness while DC's Bonds explain Babs arrogance and pretentiousness of seeing herself that she's better than anyone else. Saint 007, what's your take?
Barbara couldn't handle her father's style of Bond all that well, and really didn't know where to go with the series. So after Die Another Day, the classic formula is deemed as terrible and outdated, Brosnan (having reached the end of his four film contract) was sent off, and the series was rebooted to what is supposedly more artistic and superior than the so very awful classic Bond. But yet, classic Bond suddenly isn't so awful when the producers need get out of trouble, and I'm sure they love how well that 50th Anniversary Blu-ray set is doing. :wink:

In my opinion, it's the producers that should have been rebooted, not the series. And the constant use of Die Another Day as a security blanket is getting old. So you messed up. Big deal. Get better writers, a better director, etc, and try to improve on the next film. Don't be so quick to just hastily throw away 40 years of cinematic history.
I wonder if Dana Broccoli's death in February 2004 did not have more to do with the changes since.
I think Barbara Broccoli did not like the old fun Bond series. Which is why when she gained control after Dana Broccoli's death she cast some grim ugly bloke as Bond, hired lots of pretentious directors, screenwriters etc that she knows and rebooted the Bond series into the mind-numbingly boring, joyless modern spy thriller series it is today.
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Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry wrote:
Blowfeld wrote: I wonder if Dana Broccoli's death in February 2004 did not have more to do with the changes since.
I think Barbara Broccoli did not like the old fun Bond series. Which is why when she gained control after Dana Broccoli's death she cast some grim ugly bloke as Bond, hired lots of pretentious directors, screenwriters etc that she knows and rebooted the Bond series into the mind-numbingly boring, joyless modern spy thriller series it is today.
Well Dana's death had everything to do with it after all. I believe is she had not passed away when she had we would have got Pierce's fifth movie, probably 2005 maybe 2004 since they did have a script.
I was never personally aware she was the head of EON after Cubby passed, I assumed she was becuase of the drastic changes made. MGW and Barbara when front and center since 1996.
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Dana Broccoli, the widow of movie producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and the president of the company that owns the film rights to Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, has died. She was 82.

Broccoli, a novelist and theatrical producer, died of cancer Sunday at her home in Beverly Hills.

Danjaq, the film company that Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman founded in 1961, bought the film rights not only to Fleming's Bond novels but to his whimsical novel "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," which became a 1968 movie starring Dick Van Dyke.

Dana Broccoli became president of the Los Angeles-based Danjaq, which produces the Bond films and co-owns them with MGM, after her husband died in 1996.

During her tenure as president, three Bond films starring Pierce Brosnan as the dashing spy have been released: "Tomorrow Never Dies," "The World Is Not Enough" and "Die Another Day."

The Bond films, now numbering 20, are the longest-running movie series of all time.

Dana Broccoli also was the creative force behind turning "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" into a musical, for which she served as lead producer. The musical opened in London's West End in 2002 and is still running. It is scheduled to open on Broadway in spring 2005.

In a 1978 interview with The Times, she described her role as "primarily a wife and a mother." But she also was known for her charity work, for being a hostess par excellence and for being "a sounding board for my husband's ideas. Like most wives, I've been a partner."

When Cubby Broccoli was searching for the actor to play Bond, he attended a screening of the Walt Disney film "Darby O'Gill and the Little People." He was impressed with the young Scot actor, Sean Connery, who played the love interest and who had a victorious fistfight with a village bully at the climax of the film.

Broccoli felt he had found the ideal man's man to play Bond, but he had one reservation.

"He phoned me and asked, 'Can you come here? I think I've found the guy, but I don't know if he has sex appeal,' " Dana Broccoli told The Times. "I went and watched [the film], and I said, 'He's fantastic.' "

Born Dana Natol in New York City in 1922, she attended Cecil Clovelly's Academy of Dramatic Arts at Carnegie Hall, where she met her first husband, Lewis Wilson, with whom she had a son, Michael.

After World War II, she and her husband joined the Pasadena Playhouse. After they divorced, she concentrated on her writing.

She met Cubby Broccoli when she brought him an idea for a movie. "He never bought the story, but six weeks later, we were married," she told The Times in 1978. Soon after their 1959 marriage, they moved to London.

Dana Broccoli wrote two novels, "Scenario for Murder" and "Florinda." The latter was adapted as a musical, "La Cava," for which she wrote the book. It opened in London's West End in 2000.

She is survived by her children, Michael Wilson, Tony Broccoli, Tina Broccoli and Barbara Broccoli; and five grandchildren.

A funeral will be held at 12:30 p.m. today in Church of the Hills at Forest Lawn, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, in Los Angeles.
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