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A good year for a split on Best Picture/ Best Director?

posted 10 years ago by InherentlyYours
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Let's give the painstaking efforts of Apocalypse Now some due

[–] rascal67 10 years ago

Good point! That is why I feel, some categories should be specialized fields of voting....direction being one of them. Benton still did a fine job, with the material he worked from, just not as challenging an ordeal as experienced by Coppola, which was a director's film.

They had split the last 2 years and then this year, when a split would have appeared appropriate too, they didn't.

[–] InherentlyYours 10 years ago

you mean the entire Academy should not being allowed to vote on the winner? (like they do with the nominee-voting)

[–] rascal67 10 years ago

Yes!

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[–] InherentlyYours 9 years ago

Yes, especially when Hoffman and company are writing their own lines. Unless there is some visual imagery in this film that I overlooked

What's more rare is when the director is not even nominated for a film that either is nomated or wins (I forget which one it is) I recall somebody saying that has happened about 3 times

[–] taran-rod 9 years ago

Why are you so butthurt?