On behalf of everyone here at MPC, we're all absolutely thrilled that Terrence Malick was nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for his breathtaking (and our 2011 favorite) The Tree of Life. It seemed impossible because he wasn't nominated for a DGA award, and getting an Oscar nom without a DGA nom has happened very, very few times. So while it might not equal a win, it's a magnificent achievement for a man who made a film about family, human nature, and the entire universe.
Also fantastic: The Tree of Life's nominations for Best Picture, though the Academy, at press time, was unable to come up with the laundry list of producers attached to the project. (Producers are awarded the Oscar for any Best Picture.)
Even more fantastic: Though X-Men: First Class/Winter's Bone's (ha!) luminary Jennifer Lawrence (and one of JDK's indiecrushes) only announced the major categories, Oscar.com has the full list. And lo! MPC favorite Emmanuel Lubezki was nommed for Best Cinematography (as he was for Malick's 2005 epic The New World).
Best of luck to the aforementioned. It takes an enormous amount of courage to make a film like The Tree of Life in the studio system.
Random: Pretty hilarious that the only picture they could scrounge up of Malick was his on-set photo during the making of The Thin Red Line, which could've been taken anywhere between 1994 and 1997. Before his surprise presence with Christian Bale at an Austin music fest last year, seeing Malick (or just finding more than a handful of pics of him) is about as rare as seeing a leprechaun riding a unicorn underneath a triple rainbow.
One last thing: Glad I bought my Blu-ray/DVD of The Tree of Life when it came out, since every future pressing will have NOMINATED FOR/WINNER OF THREE ACADEMY AWARDS blah blah blah. But those apparently sell more copies of a movie, so if that means more people see The Tree of Life, then it's a necessary evil.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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