This just in...
Nov. 12th, 2004 01:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugee..on imdb.com:
'Passion' In; 'Fahrenheit' Out
"The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. said Monday that it will consider Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ for a Golden Globe nomination in the foreign-language category. However, it said, there is no category in which Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 fits. The group does not hand out awards for documentaries. Lions Gate Films, which distributed the film, released a statement expressing disappointment in the HFPA's announcement. Regarding Passion, the HFPA observed that its rules state that when the language spoken in a film is preponderantly non-English, it is considered a foreign-language film. (Latin and Aramaic are spoken in the film.) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has already stated that the film cannot qualify for an Oscar in its foreign-language category because films in the category must be submitted by the countries in which they were made. "
Whew... Like I've said, if 'The Passion of the Christ' doesn't get some recognition for it's brutal artistry, I will be disappointed. I even saw "Entertainment Weekly" state that Jim Caviezal should get some recognition, at least an Oscar nomination if not the award, on account of all that he put into the part: not just putting out the performance of a lifetime, but also learning Aramaic, wearing incredible amounts of prosthetic makeup, *really* getting whacked once during the scourging scene and getting a gash on his back, hanging tied onto the cross for *hours* in biting cold winds (and also getting hit by lightning during shooting one day...).
'Passion' In; 'Fahrenheit' Out
"The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. said Monday that it will consider Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ for a Golden Globe nomination in the foreign-language category. However, it said, there is no category in which Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 fits. The group does not hand out awards for documentaries. Lions Gate Films, which distributed the film, released a statement expressing disappointment in the HFPA's announcement. Regarding Passion, the HFPA observed that its rules state that when the language spoken in a film is preponderantly non-English, it is considered a foreign-language film. (Latin and Aramaic are spoken in the film.) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has already stated that the film cannot qualify for an Oscar in its foreign-language category because films in the category must be submitted by the countries in which they were made. "
Whew... Like I've said, if 'The Passion of the Christ' doesn't get some recognition for it's brutal artistry, I will be disappointed. I even saw "Entertainment Weekly" state that Jim Caviezal should get some recognition, at least an Oscar nomination if not the award, on account of all that he put into the part: not just putting out the performance of a lifetime, but also learning Aramaic, wearing incredible amounts of prosthetic makeup, *really* getting whacked once during the scourging scene and getting a gash on his back, hanging tied onto the cross for *hours* in biting cold winds (and also getting hit by lightning during shooting one day...).
