Posted on 12/14/2005 2:14:57 PM PST by rang1995
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December 14, 2005 -- WHAT were the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association smoking when they cooked up their weirdest-ever list of Golden Globe nominees? They entirely snubbed mainstream Hollywood in their nominations for best picture/drama, which meant that both "Munich" and "King Kong," which look like sure things for Oscar nods, got left off the list. (So did "Capote," "Syriana" and "Crash," just for starters.)
In a typically bizarre Globes contradiction, Steven Spielberg ("Munich") and Peter Jackson ("Kong") were both nominated for best director (one of several categories where the nominees were arbitrarily enlarged from five to six nominees, possibly to sell more tables at the ceremony).
"The 'Kong' snub makes no sense at all," says Oscar guru Tom O'Neil, of theenvelope.com. "What I think we're seeing is a bunch of clueless Europeans who do not understand the importance of Kong to American culture and are dismissing it as just a big monkey movie."
As for the snub of Spielberg's masterful terrorist thriller "Munich," O'Neil has a quite plausible theory about why it didn't make the best picture list - while Woody Allen's crime drama "Match Point" did.
"The European press sees Woody Allen as the ultimate American filmmaker, and to them his comeback is a big story," O'Neil said. "And of course, Woody met personally with the HFPA - and Spielberg didn't."
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I thought it was a big monkey movie. Have there been many doctoral dissertations on its importance to American culture?
How were the French to know?
Did the title remind anybody else of Paris Hilton?
People still watch Woody Allen movies?
My first thought was "porn star" but Paris Hilton will work just as well.
If only they made Kong gay, then they would have had a fighting chance.
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