CELEBUZZ: NO OSCARS FOR TWILIGHT
January 22nd, 2009
CELEBUZZ.COM: Oscars to Twilight: ‘No Awards for You!’
Sorry, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, et. al; you may be overwhelming fan favorites, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has no love for you.
The blockbuster vampire flick Twilight didn’t garner a single nod in this year’s list of Oscar nominees. The movie was wholly eclipsed by such fare as Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, The Dark Knight and especially The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which garnered an astounding 13 nominations.Oh well; at least Pattinson and the gang have plenty of $1,000 bills they can wipe their tears away with.
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I am not the least bit surprised by this news. Are you? Twilight was good but not THAT good, I believe party due to the budget. Maybe we should just focus on New Moon and hope it makes Oscar buzz. What do you think?
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Yeah, I would have been far more surprised (and a bit disappointed, to be perfectly honest) if Twilight did get any Oscar nominations. Compared to those other films, it would be a complete sham. I don’t think any of the Twilight films will ever be nominated for Oscars just because the material isn’t weighty enough. It’s a fun little fantasy escapist yarn for a female audience, but it will never be heavy, well-crafted dramatic material, the likes of which typically deserve Oscars.
This is not Oscar material. Why are you so surprised?
What in the world? Haha I don’t even know why this article was written. As IF anyone was expecting Twilight to get an Oscar Nomination. I agree with Lyra most whole-heartedly. Just thinking that it could stand up to Curious Case, Frost/Nixon or Slumdog Millionaire. Haha I feel slightly insulted as a film fanatic that this was even considered. But all’s in good fun I’ve had my rant, but ’tis a good teen fim =]
Okay, I actually do think Twilight deserved at least one Oscar nod. I think it was an amazing film with great acting and a great story.
this is really funny!! i have twilight disease!!.. but obviously we know this is not for the oscarss…
and for the future films.. I DO believe they CAN be nominated. if Chris does a great special effects material… I mean Iron Man is nominated for something like that.. if they do a better job, with more budget … they can be nominated
I agree with Lyra. Though it is a great movie and has magnificent acting -it jsut isnt Oscar material. ALthough, I wholeheartedly believe that RPattz is capable of winning an oscar in the future–if he gets the right role. He is absolutely amazing. Then again-so is Kristen!
Im not surprised at all,
I mean yeah. Twilight really wasn’t all that good. But why do we all love it and watch it over and over? Because its TWILIGHT! I think New Moon will be much better.
No offence to Catherine Hardwicke. Its funny because New Moon will be a better movie than Twilight, Twilight is my fave book and New Moon is my least fave.
Em xx
Twilight is crap. Why did you think it would get Oscar Nominations?
I agree with you. While the movie is entertaining as hell, it is not an Oscar material.
yea, i’m not at all surprised. it really isn’t for the Oscars.
i don’t think that any of the Twilight movies should be in the
Oscars. I’d rather it not be just like all the other movies.
It should be a great success, but no awards because thats just
not what its about.
“Twilight was good but not THAT good, I believe party due to the budget.”
Are you kidding me?!?!?! Slumdog Millionaire was made for only 14 million and guess what, it got 10 nominations! Stop using budget as an excuse, it’s a lot more than EVERY Best Picture nominee in last year’s oscars. Budget has nothing to do with character development and conflict and if Slumdog can get nominated in the technical departments with less than half the budget of Twilight, it just shows that the crew in Twilight weren’t as good. Deal with it and stop making excuses that have no foundation.
I am not suprised. It really isn’t oscar worthy. the only thing i could possibly see it ever being nominated for in cinematography. Everything was beautiful in the movie =)
Yes, I’m afraid I’m going to have to agree. Twilight just wasn’t that good. And I’m really sorry to say that because im such a big fan of the books. I just feel like it had a lot of dry scenes. The only people that I know that think it was a good movie were the people that did not read the book. Not surprised one bit. Sorry.
I was hoping that Twilight would have been nominated for at least Screen Adaptation and/or Soundtrack. The movie is definitely a box office hit.
I was expecting a little bit of Oscar buzz for Kirsten Stewart.
She was the most redeeming factor of “Twilight”, which was far from perfect but wasn’t THAT bad. I think it was extraordinary every time there wasn’t any action sequences or visual effects. The talking parts and the romance was flawless, everything else felt weird.
But the only Oscar I expected was a nomination for “Decode”, by Paramore, for Best Song… then I saw the movie again and realized the song wasn’t the first song we hear when the credits roll… it’s the second!! That’s lame… it is a REALLY good song.
I hope, seeing Chris Weitz resume (both “About a boy” and “The Golden Compass” got nominations and awards on Oscar night), “New Moon” and “Eclipse” give Kirsten a chance to get some sort of buzz.
I think her character is the most Oscar-ish from the books.
(I’m half way through “Breakin dawn”, btw)
oscars are for the best of the best. this movie compared to those nominated stunk. i’m sorry but its true. the special effects needed work, the acting was shoddy, and the screenplay was atrocious. i’m sorry but i feel i need to be honest. it has the potential to be nominated in the future-for special effects-it just needs work. I’m excited for Chris but i wish they’d get a different screewriter. i’m not trying to be rude-i enjoyed the film-but it could use some serious work. it wasn’t good at all.
HAHA! Twilight? For the Oscars? HAHAHAHA OH HO HO HO, AH HE AH HE A Hoo… man. That made my day.
honestly i wasnt expecting it to make oscar status…it was good i love every second of it but totally not oscar materiall lol
first off all i love twilight soo much… but have you guys seen underworld.. the whole werewolf vs vampire thing has already been done.
really guys.. twilight isn’t really that original… and doesn’t have that big of stars in it of course they are big stars now and i’m sure some off you have been following kristen stewart and robert pattinson’s movies but they were not really famous.
the dark knight, curious case of benjamin button, slumdog millionaire
all very original (especially slumdog millionaire) and have some very famous people in it.
I agree that the movie was not that great, but we watched it repeatedly and loved it because it was TWILIGHT (shout out to Emily Launter
)!!!
If we’re seriously talking Oscars, I don’t think any character really will get a chance to have that kind of material- other than Bella in New Moon. I don’t know if Kristen will be a mature enough as an actress to get as raw as she could when Edward first leaves though… If they play out the scene where she freaks out when her mom comes and tries to take her away (per Charlie in a “private” conversation with Alice)- THAT would be GREAT to see. But yeah, I don’t think the series has Oscar material- short of a miracle.
I thoroughly enjoyed Twilight. But it would have never been nominated for any Oscar. It could be the best movie in the world and the Academy would still skip it because 1) It has vampires in it. 2) It’s aimed at teens. 3) It’s a genre piece.
With the supreme snub of TDK (its 8 noms does not make up for the fact that none of them are Best Picture, Director, or Screenplay), the Academy has proved that it falls only for Oscar bait, and that a movie with Hitler/the Nazis as the villain (”The Reader”) will win above even the best blockbuster of the past decade at least.
Not surprised. JM is right…this genre of film simply isn’t on the Oscar radar. The only youth-focused films with a chance are animated films. The fact is, also, that blockbuster films rarely are considered, youth-focused films rarely considered, sci-fi films rarely considered. Put it together…plus the fact that Twilight was good, but simply not that strong. What the Oscar voters are looking for is “art”. (Realy…how many of you have seen ANY of the nominated films let alone all of them?)
And Summit Entertainment, Rob Pattinson, Kristin Stewart and the rest can cry all the way to the bank…
Oh well, we can always hope New Moon, Eclipse, or Breaking Dawn will be better and maybe we’ll get some joy of seeing least one of them nominated for an Oscar.
I agree with emily lautner. Twilight was my fave book out of all the books and they made the movie below average standed, i still watch it but, the characters (bella especially) look REALLY awkard. i love kirsten stewert in every other movie she has made, but not twilight.
but hopefully new moon is better, they better make me cry when edward leaves, coz i did cry in the book.
x.
I was thinking Twilight would deserve a nomination for cinementography-the sence of place was execellent, breathtaking scenery, captured the book’s Forks perfectly. The music was great too. But, the Academy are snobs anyway. These movies will never get nominated no matter how good they are in the future. Simply because all sci-fi, fantasy, and especially just because it’s vampires, gets ignored. Not really sure how Lord of the Rings even got in-just the pure scope of it probably and the fact that Peter Jackson pulled it off. I’m not saying Twilight deserved a pic nod or even a director nod. It’s good, but not Oscar good. I do think KS will get a Golden Globe or an Oscar nom. someday but it won’t be for playing Bella. Even though I would give her an Oscar for Twilight if I could-Ha ha!
What’s MOST amazing to me about this is that people actually give a crap about the Oscars at all. I never really understood the pomp and circumstance behind that event, and a good deal of the movies that get a nomination are horrible to begin with.
Not that Twilight was a “good” movie - it had wonderful casting, so-so acting, a kick-ass score and soundtrack and the cinematography was brilliant. But by far its saving grace is the amazing story.
I’m actually just a little surprised that Twilight didn’t get a nod for the orchestral score. Admittedly, I have not seen all of the other mentioned movies, so I have no comparison there, but I think some of the score is incredibly beautiful.
Yeah I wasn’t exactly expecting any Oscar noms.
No surprise there.
Maybe the next ones?!
I would have lost all faith in film, and the Oscars if this got a nomination. I am a huge fan of the series, and I liked the movie. Liked. However, nothing about it was oscar worthy. The score I thought was ok. It wasn’t top notch.
The acting, cinematography, screenplay, makeup and just about everything else, was just bleh. Not that amazing, and not worthy of recognizing.
The reason it was a hit is the fan following. That’s it.
I hope that future films of the series are actually really good and worthy of a nomination
I’m a big fan of superhero movies, so I’m used to the Academy ignoring the pictures and performances I like best. Mickey Rourke gave a great performance as Marv in Sin City (2005), but couldn’t get nominated because the Academy looks down its nose at “genre” films. The new Batman movies are rightly loved by fans, but ignored by the Academy (except for Heath Ledger, who will win Best Supporting Actor but for the worst reason and not because he deserves it even though he does). Iron Man was a masterpiece, but director Jon Favreau had no chance to be nominated for it. The Academy isn’t fair. It doesn’t reward quality, it rewards things that flatter its prejudices.
But I watch the truly rewarding movies over and over, as I am watching Twilight over and over, each week at the movies, and I ignore the weak dreck that is unfairly given Oscars.
That is our role as fans. Every movie ticket you buy is your award. Give your movie ticket dollars to good movies that entertain, not to boring old Oscar bait. That’s the way to have fun and feel good about yourself.
Twilight was a pretty good movie. I had not read any of the books, nor knew anything about the storyline before seeing it. My daughter’s and their friends (they are all between ages 11-13) developed a major crush on Robert Pattison after watching the movie. It was my 11 yr olds first movie actors crush! So I was shocked to hear her cock her head to the side and say “Edward is SO dreamy!”
I do however have to agree with everyone else that it was not Oscar winning material. I do believe however if it had been though, the other nominations would have been hard as heck to beat. Maybe New Moon will get those nods it needs, but only if they put more feeling and more “ahhhh” effects to it.
the oscar people are going to regret this….
its their loss!!!
I agree with Emily my least favorite book was new moon aswell..
based on the budget and the less known actors and actresses i did not expect it to even been considered.
myself i have watched the movie like 8 times and i have read all the books and have the cd’s aswell
but compared to actors like brad pitt and movies like slumdog millionaire and the curious case of benjamin button, that had i would hate to think how much more money they had for there movies i knew that it would not get nominated but that does not make me love it any less.
Dazziling
I think Twilight should win many awards, including the oscar!If those oscar people paid attention to what people actually liked then Twilight would win!Twilight deserves to win awards! It’s a great book series and I’m very sure the actors will live up to them in the movies as they did in the first one! I am Twilight fan forever!!!I loved the books and the movie!
i loveddddddd twilight i am a huge fan but it’s not oscar materiel but i blame that on the low budget i do hope the nest movies will win a few oscars!!
I’m not surprised. I love the movie to death but..have you seen the other contenders? Twilight is still in its infant stages as a movie franchaise, maybe once they finish New Monn things will be different? But, its hard to say.
You’re blaming the budget?? Get real. Twilight’s budget was higher than 3 of this year’s best pictures: “Frost/Nixon”, “Milk”, and “Slumdog Millionaire”. And it was higher than all of last year’s best picture nominees. If the budget was such a big deal, then why aren’t blockbusters nominated all the time? With 14 million, Slumdog was able to garner 7 technical category nominations. Budget is no excuse.
We still got one award show the teen choice awards in the summer
I think Twilight would win an Oscar for Most Delicious and Swoon Worthy Sexy Leading Man!
Apart from that, I cannot believe that anyone would think anything about Twilight is Oscar worthy! I love the movie, have seen it 5 times(well, 99% of that is because of Rob LOL) but come one, people. The Oscars are about *excellence* in acting, directing, etc. How some people can even say Kristen and Oscar in the same sentence is hilarious. She was dreadful, and panned by critics everywhere, all she did was stare at Rob the whole time with a blank look. I’m not sure she can pull off the scenes in NM. I do love the score and soundtrack and love “Decode” and esp. Rob’s song, but it has to be written for the movie, which his was not. None of the movies will even be close to what the Oscars want, but they are extremely entertaining and will all be box office smashes.
Of course it wouldn’t be nominated. First of all Summit didn’t have faith in it to send it to be considered (you know that the academy voters dont see EVERY movie that comes out only the ones sent to them to be considered). I think Robert Pattinson was EXCELLENT as Edward, the cinematography was beautiful, it should of been considered for adapted screenplay and the soundtrack WASN’T CONSIDERED. Have you seen the songs considered for Oscars the last years? Noone has heard of them, not since the Disney songs used to win.
Sorry but the Oscars have made ton of mistakes over the years in every department
I’m sure they’ll put out an MTV Movie Award though
The Oscars only nominate around 10 films in total, that doesn’t mean the rest are bad.
You know Rob and Kristen will win Best Kiss at the MTV Awards!!! More than likely Best Movie Couple and Movie too.
It’s no surprise Twilight wasn’t nominated at all. Except I think Carter Burwell should hav been nominated for the score. It’s amazing I love it! Also Paramore for Decode should have been nominated. It’s an awesome song. (It’s supposed to be the main song off the movie. Even though for some reason it’s only played during the credits & it’s the second song
)
But you know it’ll get a lot of MTV Movie Award nominations and probably Teen Choice Awards as well. And those are voted by the fans. And it’ll probably win all the categories they get nominated in!
I wouldn’t be surprised if Rob gets nominated for the next round of Oscars for Little Ashes. From the trailer, it looks like it has Oscar potential.
The Oscars are kind of “snobbish”….they look for big and/or artsy films NOT ones that are loved by fans. (Have you ever seen a horror movie nominated? Horror movies have a HUGE fan base but they don’t fit.)
Twilight was an OK movie, but seeing as how they let members of the Academy vote who gets nominated (actors vote for actors, directors vote for directors, etc) so I’m not overly surprised that they didn’t make it….While all the elements of this film were DECENT it certainly didn’t blow those other movies out of the water.
Just my 2-cents.
Seriously the movies that attract this kinda crowd don’t really get nominated for Oscars and the people who win Oscars are usually older, so not surprised.
Why would anyone EVER expect that Twilight should get any oscar nods? There is no way it is on par with any of the films that have been nominated for Oscars, it’s just not in the same sphere. And that can’t be blamed on the budget, or on the fact that it’s a teen movie: it just wasn’t good enough!
And Marie: just because it was a box office hit does not mean it deserves to get Oscar noms: there is no corrolation at all between the two. In fact it tends to be more arty, less popular films that deserve a buzz because they’re less generic.
Twilight COULD have been unique, and original, and if it had been, maybe it could have gained some Oscar buzz. But, it wasn’t, so no, i’m not surprised. I’d have been disappointed if it had got any nominations.
To be perfectly honest, I walked in the theater to see Twilight with absolutely no expectations. I had never picked up one of the books, and did not want to see the movie. I loved every second of it though! I think that it should have gotten at least one nod BECAUSE of the lack of budget! The film crew did an amazing job with the little they had, and turned out a fantastic film!! But, hey…that’s just me :]
I’m surprised that a lot of you actually expected Twilight to get any nods. Compared to the other films on the list–and yes, I’ve seen a few of them–Twilight is, to be blunt, crap. If you put Twilight up against Slumdog Millionaire, it will fail. Big time. Now, I love Twilight and all, but it really wasn’t that great of a movie, compared to what it could have been. A lot of the acting was so-so, the direction was terrible (which is partially what made the acting so-so), the editing was horrible, the make-up was decent–until you looked down at any of the vampires’ necks and saw the make-up lines, the screenplay was not put together well at all, and the effects really weren’t as good as they could have been.
But, even if all of those things had been good, it still wouldn’t have gotten any nods anyway. It’s a genre film with a large fanbase. The Academy doesn’t go for movies like that (TDK, anyone?). Honestly, the only areas I could see Twilight getting nominated for would be Score, Best Song and possibly Cinematography. Those were actually pretty good. But, again, it’s the Academy, so…
If you guys really want to see Twilight win some awards, then watch the MTV Movie Awards or the Teen Choice Awards. Twilight will, without a doubt, win in several areas for those.
Oh, and I agree with whoever said Little Ashes could be in the running for next year. I haven’t seen it yet, so I really can’t comment on anything in particular, but from the look of the trailer it looks like it’s going to be a fantastic movie. And it’s going to be really artsy–something the Academy likes. The only problem is that the movie’s coming out in March… Oscar season is November-January. Hopefully it’ll be remembered when the time comes to vote.
Okay. Seriously. What is wrong with you guys. I just finished reading all the comments on whether Twilight should have gotten an Oscar and if you said no you are either blind and deaf or mentally challaged. Twilight rocked especially considering the budget it was on. Kristen and Rob were awesome. If you think that The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button was a great movie then you obviously prefer the slow paced boring movies. i seriously fell asleep while watching that movie and also if you did not think that the moviewas oscar-worthy then why do you keep watching it. So the point is that Twilight rocked and if you think otherwise then shame on you.
I think the guy who plays James should’ve gotten something. He did an Excellent job.
And one oscar for the movie would’ve been good… It was a great movie!
I’m not surprised, I was rather disappointed in Twilight. I love Twilight, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that the book was by far better than the movie!
actaullyy twilight is the best book ever written about vampires everyone says thatt ive read the books over and over again nad i never get sick of [3]dward but the it wasnt catherines fault the movie didnt come out good they didnt ave enough money for the first moviee but i can bet who ever that new moon and every other movie in the series that comes out will get nominated because they have a bigger budget this timee and seriosly who wouldnt give alice riding a porshe in the streets of italy an oscar and the people who hate twilight so much seriosly thats pathetic nobody wants to hear y u hate it so much theres just seomthing wrong with ur brains and to tell everybody this its the same with harry potter they cant fit everything thats in the book into the movie its impossible it would be longer then the titanic if they did !!
There is no way that Twilight could compete with The Dark Night, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and other movies…..Don’t get me wrong I love the Twilight movie, but I am not surprised one bit. Maybe if it had a budget along the same lines as those other movies, there “Might” have been a chance for it to get a nomination. Anyway lets look forward to the future and see what the new director can do.
What surprised me was the fact that people are so upset about this. I’m a huge Harry Potter fan, but I don’t get upset when it doesn’t get any nods. It shouldn’t be any different for Twilight.
I had some serious issues with the screenplay. The BEST part of the book–it should never have been left out–was all the dialog from the meadow scene right up to when Bella falls asleep with Edward in her bed that night. That includes the scene where Bella discovers that Edward has been listening to her “sleep-talking” and is embarrassed; he says the lines about “if I could dream…”. I HATED the whole greenhouse thing–waste of good screen time–Edward was nasty and he was never that bad in the book. The restaurant scenes with Bella and Charlie??? Totally not with the book; boring. There were some good things they added, like Charlie and the rifle, but for the most part, they took out the romance that the fans love. And is Kristen Stewart incapable of crying?? Her dry-eyed stuttering incoherency in the hospital–so NOT from the book–left me hating what should have been a touching and meaningful scene. Maybe they’ll recycle some of the good stuff they left out into New Moon.
I thought the film was absolutely fantastic. It wasn’t as good as the book…but they can’t just copy it, some things just work better in a book. To keep an audience’s attention in a film the ball needs to be rolling all the time! ‘Besotted’ - I can understand why they altered the meadow scene and cut the rocking chair scene, although it’s a really sweet side story about the sleep-talking, they had a limited time and so had to stick to the main plot. I found that it was a bit like reading the book in fast forward! I loved some of the bits they added, like when they tried to make lunch for Bella and I actually didn’t mind the restaurant scenes because they had to skip out the side story about Charlie being useless in the kitchen so I think you got an idea that before Bella, he couldn’t competently look after himself. Also, they needed an excuse for Stephenie Meyer to have her little cameo, sitting at the bar! Yes, the greenhouse scene was weird and I didn’t think it made a lot of sense, but it illustrated Bellas inability to “walk across a flat surface without tripping”, which was not as poignant in the film as in the book. Lots of people don’t like Kristen as Bella, but I don’t think there’s anyone that fans of the book would consider to be right. The trouble is; one of the reasons girls love the book so much is because they can identify with Bella and see themselves in her. So no one was going to be able to accurately portray a character that you hold so close to your heart. I think Kristen had some very big shoes to fill and she did it to the best of her ability and she finally brought Bella to life, how could I dislike that? When it comes to the question of the Oscars, you have to remember that the judges on the board at the academy are not teenage girls and that they don’t see what we see, they simply see a poorly funded, superficial teen movie with comparatively bad special effects. Something that I’m sure we can all admit would never win an Oscar, but yes it’s still a shame because it would be wonderful for it to be recognised with such an acolade, but it would have certainly been unexpected.