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The Hangover for Best Picture?

Posted on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

Our friends at FirstShowing noticed something funny while browsing the Hollywood trade newspaper Variety tonight: an advertisement, seemingly aimed at Academy voters, for the Todd Phillips comedy The Hangover, with the text “For Your Consideration: All Categories” followed by larger and more glitzy Vegas-like text that reads “Best Picture”.

This is the first year that the Academy will nominate ten movies for best picture, double that of previous years. Does Warner Bros actually believe they could get The Hangover a Best Picture nomination? Not likely…

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If you look in the small print under “Best Picture” you will see “Comedy or Musical” which many of you will recognize as a category at the Golden Globes. And yes, The Hangover will probably be nominated for Best Picture: Comedy or Musical at the Globes, and it might even have a chance of winning… but does the comedy have any chance for any Academy Award nominations of any kind?

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Hayden

Zach Galifanakis. Best Supporting Actor

Aquigley

NO, GOD NO, PLEASE NO

TapZepol

The year to nominate ten films just passed. Last year left too many films feeling snubbed and this year hasn't lived up to that, yet.

TheDaftPunk

What he said.

authentic.imitation

wrong. the problem wasn't that too many films got snubbed last year. it was that the *wrong* films got nominated. the reader, benjamin button, and frost/nixon snagged the slots the dark knight, wall-e, and the wrestler should have had (of course, if i did the voting, Let the Right One In would have been mentioned). 2008 was a terribly weak year for cinema. 2009 has already seen a slew of better films than the majority of the 2008 best picture nominees.

but i doubt the 10 nominees idea will change anything. i foresee the geriatric, narrow-minded academy voters just doubling up on dry biopics, little-indie-films-that-could, overwrought period pieces, recycled triumph-over-adversity tales, and subpar output from once-respected directors.

skatalite

I can dig it.

stephen_macauley

Anything could happen come Oscar time.. I can name ten films I thought were more interesting/possibly more entertaining to me, but my taste differs sharply from that of the Academy. I'm still bummed that "Slumdog Millionaire" won the Best Picture Oscar last year..

[A]

10 pictures is a joke. Even 5 is too much. If the Academy had some balls, the'd pick just 3 -- it's not that hard, really. By choosing 10 movies, they expect to make everyone happy -- and they should not care about how much movies they nominate, but the quality of these movies. You can have only 3 nominees and if they're good, people won't say a word. For an example, imagine the Oscars nominees for 2007: you could've had a perfect trio with "There Will Be Blood", "No Country for Old Men" and "Zodiac".

I'm guessing they will eventually learn how it's done -- but we probably won't care anymore (we don't care a lot right now, anyway)

Captain_Howdy

You care enough to write that much about it. They want us to keep talking about it-- and we do. I like the idea of 10 nominees. Let's at least see how it will play out this year before we knock it blind. And the idea of only three sounds damn boring to me.

[A]

"You care enough to write that much about it". Wow, no one said that before ;) :P

Captain_Howdy

You care. Don't pretend like you don't ;)

matt

Haha. I still can't get over RDJ being nominated for his performance in Tropic Thunder last year.

quintushalls

and to be against Heath Ledger is a real insult.

presto117

i didn't think it was insulting. i'm glad RDJ actually got recognition for tropic thunder, as he was excellent in it.

Rusty

This movie was terrible.

freemachine

This 10 nominees thing is a total scam. They're just doing it so that the DVDs will be able to say "Nominated for Best Picture", which they hope will boost sales.

[A]

More DVDSCRs to watch this year :D

freemachine

LOL! So true!

quintushalls

There is no reason a comedy can't win best picture! I'm tired of dramas getting all the nods! Dramas are easy. Comedic timing is really difficult. I'd like to see you name 10 excellent comedic films of this decade that would be award worthy.

Aquigley

There is a reason if that comedy is juvenile, predictable trash

quintushalls

There is a reason Daily Show keeps winning emmys

I LOVE TODD Phillips

OLD SCHOOL

Brandon Varnell

Eh, the movie was funny but not best picture funny.

ericlarson

What a mediocre film. "woooo getting wasted! I can relate to this!"

Ayejayem

This is why I love awards season, anything is possible until at least the Golden Globe Noms are announced, and with 10 nominees this year, its anyones guess at this point in the race.

Awards season, embrace it. =)

wittyphrase

I've never fully understood why comedies are always considered separate and away from the possibility for Best Picture.

person mcdude

WB knows it's a long shot and doing it anyway. I read somewhere in an interview that they also submitted the song Ed Helms sang for best song or something like that.

Slatters

The Oscars are a joke, it still kind of baffles me that people consider an actor/film not winning an award to be considered being "snubbed". Give me a break, its a night where Hollywood collectively gets together to suck each other's cocks and nothing more.

starscream9289

"WHA WHA MY FAVORITE MOVIES DIDN'T WIN ANY AWARDS LAST YEAR WHA"

Peter Donohue

At that, my friend, is the true meaning of Oscar season. God bless us everyone!

NEONBEAR

movie was fun enough. but it won't be getting any awards.

SgtDoakes

I could see a Screenplay nom for the Hangover at the Academy awards, that's all I really can see.

As much as I'd love for Zach Galifianakis to get a nom for Best Supporting, it probably won't happen. Even if it did, my vote has to go to Christoph Waltz.

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