CELEBUZZ: NO OSCARS FOR TWILIGHT

Posted January 22nd, 2009 By: 58 Comments »

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.

More here

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?

Read More About:

Filed under: Movie, News Blog TA Toolbar: Download Here

Bella Rose

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.
Let’s lapush Jacob off a cliff

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!
missecullen

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!
Aishy

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 !!
Rori

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.
Malorie

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.
besotted

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.
Charlotte

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.