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Oscar voters don't show 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' same love as 'Lord of the Rings' movies
With only one nomination — for sound editing — the 'Hobbit' trilogy doesn't have a chance to come close to the 11 Academy Awards won by 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King' in 2004.
BY ETHAN SACKS NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, January 15, 2015,
The special-effects wizards behind ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies’ were snubbed for an Oscar nomination.
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The special-effects wizards behind ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies’ were snubbed for an Oscar nomination.
There's no mountain of golden treasure at the end of this quest.
Lost in the hoopla of the big haul of Oscar nominations for "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is the disappointing showing of "The Hobbit: the Battle of the Five Armies."
The final installment in the "Lord of the Rings" franchise based on the novels of J.R.R. Tolkien scored just one nomination — for best sound editing.
It's a far cry from the storybook performance of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" in 2004, when director Peter Jackson and his band of filmmaking adventurers swept all 11 categories for which the movie was nominated.
"It's a one-two punch," explains Entertainment Weekly awards columnist Anthony Breznican. "The 'Hobbit' movies weren't especially critically acclaimed, partly because there was a feeling the story was drawn out by expanding a slim novel into a three-part epic.
"But also, once you've given that many Oscars to a filmmaker for a particular franchise, the Academy doesn't often look backwards."
Still, what sort of orcs would overlook "The Battle of the Five Armies" in the category of visual effects? Especially considering effects house Weta Digital's work on the franchise has been considered pioneering in the field, earning Academy Awards nominations in all five previous films, the first three of which led to trips to the podium.
The film's visual effects supervisor, Joe Letteri, may have a nice consolation prize in a nomination his team's breakthrough performance-capture work on the "Dawn on the Planet of the Apes," but he's still "disappointed."
"There was a lot of work that went into 'Hobbit,' so I'm just not sure where it sat in with everything else that the Academy was thinking, because there's so much that we moved forward digitally to make those movies happen," Letteri, who already has four Oscars on his mantle, tells The News.
"We did something like 130 characters in 'The Battle of the Five Armies,'" he adds. "So maybe the fact that we've completely built up the scene with characters and backup characters is starting to get lost on viewers. But to me it's a tremendous amount of work that I'm obviously really proud of it.
Polling several Academy voters a few years ago, Breznican says the franchise may have lost steam after the tepid reception of 2012's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," which may have been unfairly compared to "Return of the King."
"From that point forward, even though screeners went out to voters and attempts were made by the studio to garner Oscar attention, the 'Hobbit' movies just fell outside the realm of consideration, it just wasn't one of those kind of movies," says Breznican. "It was considered more of a populist film than a prestige film."
And the "Hobbit" trilogy's populist success is more than a token consolation prize for Tolkien enthusiasts. The last movie has earned $784 million worldwide at the box office to date.
Letteri also believes the new trilogy's legacy will be more appreciated over time.
"There are things in the movie, that whether they are recognized or not by the Academy, will be making their way into other films in the future," he says.
Ich denke, dass was den technischen Fortschritt angeht, was Weta, das Designteam etc. geleistet hat, die große Liebe, die in der Ausstattung steckt, von keinem anderen Film getoppt wird. ( Man sehe sich doch nur die Arts und Design-Bücher an). So viel Aufwand und technische NEuerung wie HFR steckt in keinem anderen Film.
Scheinbar ist die Jury nicht in der Lage gewesen, das (an)zuerkennen.
Wie Letteri sagt, ich denke dass das vielleicht erst später richtig geschätzt wird.
Wenn man bedenkt, wie viele Neuerungen erst nicht geschätzt , wie viele Maler (Monet
etc.) erst ob ihrer neuen Maltechnik Ablehnung und Spott erfuhren und erst viel später gewürdigt wurden.
Klingt jetzt vielleicht etwas weit hergeholt, aber manchmal braucht es vielleicht in den Köpfen der Leute wirklich Zeit, um etwas Neues schätzen zu können.
Aber abgesehen davon, wenn ich mir die Oscarverleihungen der letzten Jahre so ansehe, wer alles einen Oscar gekriegt ( M.Mc. C.
)und wer schmählich übergangen wurde und was da alles für internes Gemauschle dahintersteckt- richtig ernstnehmen kann ich das Spektakel nicht mehr. Der einstige Nimbus bröckelt mehr und mehr...
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Na, das ist ja prima! Fast ein Ritterschlag! Danke für die Infos, Laudine! 
