AVATAR

Shiny fluorescence = pretty.

Nominated for:
Cinematography - Mauro Fiore
Direction - James Cameron
Best Picture

Also nominated for:
Art Direction - Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
Film Editing - Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
Music (Original Score) - James Horner
Sound Editing - Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
Sound Mixing - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
Visual Effects - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones

Okay. So.

This movie is very... pretty, in a shiny, cartoony, little princess kind of way. I think is the most expensive child's movie ever made. It will be interesting to see what will be done with all this new technology when placed in more creative hands, but its a shame James Cameron is too egotistical to hire someone who is actually a talented writer. Maybe then this movie could have had some depth instead of just a pile of pop-spirituality and a whole lot of stock, gender-stereotyped characters...

And the voice-over narration... Sweet Jesus, why oh why must there be voice-over narration?!

That said, I do want a floating mountain and once of those big red flying things that swoop out of the sky and snatch up other, smaller things.

Best Picture? Absolutely not, but it will probably win anyway.
Best Directory? Please refer to the previous statement.
Cinematography? No. CGI is not cinematography.

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Eli