Van Airsdale vs. Schnabel

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Vanity Fair Oscar blogger Stu Van Airsdale mildly rips into Diving Bell and the Butterfly director Julian Schnabel. He's not trying to kill or discredit -- just admonish the guy for being a tad resentful, a little thin-skinned, too bearded and barrel-chested. (Kidding about the last one.)

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 6, 2008 at 4:42 PM

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Dan Revill says ...

When you've made arguably one of the top five films of the year, I think you deserve the right to question why you'd get 3 or 4 major Oscar nominations and still fail to get Picture. I'd be baffled too.

Posted by Dan Revill at February 6, 2008 5:00 PM

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actionman says ...

It is FUCKING RETARDED to split the directing nominees from the best picture nominees. They should always match up. What? Atonement is a best picture candidate but the person responsible for directing it is left out? Huh? And vice versa...you award Schnabel with a best director nomination for a film that doesn't get a best picture nom? It just makes no sense to me. Did an invisible man direct Atonement? Did Schnabel direct a film that has suddenly vanished?

Posted by actionman at February 6, 2008 5:28 PM

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christian says ...

I've always thought it slightly seperate in perhaps you could admire the direction of a picture even more than its overall quality? I think there are films that reflect this.

Posted by christian at February 6, 2008 5:38 PM

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JD says ...

If ever a movie emphasized show-off directing over overall quality, it's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly... and I think it's a good movie. It really is exactly the kind of movie that SHOULD get a directing nomination and not a nomination for best picture.

Posted by JD at February 6, 2008 7:33 PM

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fielding says ...

Who cares? Here's some infinitely more important news: Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood have been cast in Woody Allen's upcoming New York-based film!!

Posted by fielding at February 7, 2008 4:14 AM

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corey3rd says ...

the guy has always been a prick because he's an art world superstar. His art was featured in a Billy Idol video - which is greater than a wing at the Louve.

Far as the splitting of best directors from best pictures, do you not understand how the voting goes? The directors wing nominates the five best directors. All Academy members vote for Best Picture. The Producers win only vote for Best Picture. So by suggesting the Best Directors and Best Pictures should always be the same, are you saying that only the Directors should nominate the Best Picture. Or that the Directors shouldn't get to nominate the Best Director - instead the Best Picture nominees should determine the Best Director noms?

Posted by corey3rd at February 7, 2008 6:52 AM

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Joel says ...

Are there any young actresses in Hollywood who are NOT Evan Rachel Wood? She's got the career Anna Paquin always wanted, but she plays every character the same damn way. Affected speech patterns, tearful crying scenes. Of course, I haven't wanted to see her in a movie since I had to sit through Pretty Persuasion, so maybe it's just me.

Posted by Joel at February 7, 2008 8:02 AM

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