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Will Dark Knight Win Big At 81st Annual Academy Awards?
While the Academy failed to nominate The Dark Knight in either the Best Picture or the Best Director categories, the film managed to make its way into numerous other categories. The big question is how the film will do in all these other categories. If The Dark Knight somehow manages to win in most of the eight categories where the film is nominated, then the Academy’s huge oversight in not recognizing the film in the Best Picture of Best Director categories will become all the more glaring.
The Dark Knight was recognized with nominations in categories for performance by an actor in a supporting role, art direction, cinematography, film editing, makeup, sound editing, sound mixing, and visual effects.
The Dark Knight category that will garner the most interest from viewers is the Best Supporting Actor category. Heath Ledger was nominated posthumously for his performance as the The Joker. Other actors nominated in the category were Josh Brolin, Robert Downey Jr., Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Michael Shannon.
What If Only Comic Book Movies Were Eligible For The Academy Awards?
As people go crazy over whether The Dark Knight will be excluded from the Academy Awards just because it’s a comic book movie, I decided to look at things from another perspective. What if all the members of the Academy nominated this year were comic book movies? With only comic book movies to choose from, which films would win in which categories? Here are my predictions.
Best Picture: The Dark Knight – While Iron Man might deserve some serious consideration, The Dark Knight would take Best Picture in a knockout. The Dark Knight appealed to both comic book fans and regular people alike. Show of hands from everyone who has heard one of their non-comic book friends announce, “I’m not a fan of comic book movies, but I really liked The Dark Knight.”
Best Director: Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight – This guy took a franchise that was last known for the dreadful Batman & Robin and gave us Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Let me say it again, Christopher Nolan took Batman & Robin and turned it into The Dark Knight. He not only deserves Best Director this year, but the Academy should retire the category after his win.
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