Oscar Nominations

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 01-27-2011, 08:07

http://www.imdb.com/features/oscars/2011/nominations

I find it COMPLETELY ABSURD that Tron: Legacy was not nominated for "Best Achievement in Visual Effects".

Seriously, what the ****

The effects in Iron Man and Inception were pretty good, and the previews for harry potter and alice looked ok, but none of them compared to Tron.

Might as well not even watch.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 01-27-2011, 08:13

Oscars and Emmy's have not been picking the clear winners for over 30 years now. It's all politics and maintaining a high class setting. You can't give an award to a commoner movie. The Dark Knight was a major contender. I'm not going to say it should have won, but no nominations except for Heath Ledger is terrible.

Not surprisingly, less people probably care to watch the emmys and oscars more than ever.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 01-27-2011, 08:22

I'm fully in support of them nominating "best artsy movie" or "most heatwrenching depiction of poverty" etc for all the lame categories. It doesn't make sense to mix the two broad genre's into one picture. Or maybe it does and I just don't see it. But you can't mess with the visual effects nominations! God.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 01-27-2011, 09:14

Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

I'm fully in support of them nominating "best artsy movie" or "most heatwrenching depiction of poverty" etc for all the lame categories. It doesn't make sense to mix the two broad genre's into one picture. Or maybe it does and I just don't see it. But you can't mess with the visual effects nominations! God.

What is so special about the visual effects nominations?