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The West Coast is just waking up, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has already finished announcing their nominations for this year’s Oscars. It’s the first year since 1943 that there are 10 nominations for Best Picture, and it’s refreshing to see some films that might usually get overlooked receive some much-deserved kudos.
Most of the list is nothing surprising though, as the usual suspects that have been picking up noms and wins throughout the awards season are the ones filling out the categories for the Academy Awards. Leading the pack are James Cameron’s Avatar and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, with 9 nominations apiece. There are still a few surprises here and there, though, so be sure to check out the full list of nominees after the jump.
Here are your nominees…
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There were a lot of underwhelmed murmurs circulating in the blogosphere when the first Avatar teaser hit. There had been so much hype regarding the money spent and technology invented to make the movie that expectations had sky-rocketed to an unreasonable level. It seemed people had forgotten that, at the end of the day, Avatar is a movie meant to entertain and excite audiences, and not a piece of art-miracle that would make angels sing and blind men see.
James Cameron may have promised as much, but while I think Avatar may certainly change the way we MAKE movies, it won’t be the catalyst in a monumental shift in how we WATCH movies. The notoriously ambitious director may have misspoke in that regard, because it’s practically impossible for one movie to do all that; if anything, these kinds of shifts happen over several years and through contributions from several filmmakers. Maybe ten years down the line we will be able to pinpoint Avatar as the “game-changer” it was heralded to be, but presently I doubt anyone, even a director of Cameron’s ability, could single-handedly spark such a dramatic paradigm shift within the art form with ONE movie, much less for two minutes of footage – which was only meant to tease, anyway – to live up to those aspirations.
Well, Cameron and the marketing folks over at Fox have come around this time with a full-length trailer (clocking in at just over 3 and a half minutes) that seeks to do nothing but reinforce what we should’ve been anticipating all this time: an immersive, action-packed, thrill-ride of a movie. Not something that may necessarily change the cinematic landscape, but something that looks like a DAMN good time at the theaters. The trailer is much more thorough in setting up the world and characters, and we get looks at some breathtaking set and action pieces that I’m sure will blow minds and burn retinas at theaters in December. I’m actually excited to see the movie this time around, and not just holding my breath waiting for some vague enlightenment that never comes.
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Fox is releasing a brand new trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar in theaters today, with the online version set to debut next Thursday, October 29th. But you know how this works — someone somewhere’s gonna get a shaky-cam version online. And so, for those of you who don’t want to wait until Thursday and are okay with a grainy/blurry version, the bootleg version has arrived. For everybody else, we’ll have the official version when it hits the net next week.
Watch it after the jump while it lasts, or catch it in theaters this weekend (presumably in front of most movies).
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