Oscars

[cos]

I didn't watch the Oscars. Sometimes I see someone say "I give up on the Oscars" after they make some particularly stupid award decision. I really gave up on the Oscars, a long time ago.

Go to this list of Oscars for "Best Costume Design" and scroll down to 1982, where you'll see:

1982: Bhanu Athaiya, Madeline Jones and John Mollo - Gandhi
Albert Wolsky - Sophie's Choice
Piero Tosi - La Traviata
Elois Jenssen and Rosanna Norton - Tron
Patricia Norris - Victor/Victoria

You know what other movie came out that year? This one.

What's the point of an award that doesn't even have a credible pretense of being about merit?

Comments

[cos]

Well, it's not like they even nominated it for the "visual effects" Oscar either. But the answer is yes, IMO. I think they hid behind a technicality, so that they didn't have to give the award to anyone outside their little social clique when someone inside the clique could get it.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

*shrug*

A LOT of good movies came out in the same year. Competition was fierce. Visual Effects is a category for which it definitely should have been nominated. But it would have been up against ET and Blade Runner, so...no guarantees.

It never would have occurred to me that "costumes" would be a cagtegory for which The Dark Crystal could have competed, myself. OK, so technically there are costume designers involved in the movie, but I wouldn't have expected that a movie in which costumes aren't worn by people would be eligible for the category.

[cos]

They were *definitely* worn by people! There were people inside the Mystics, Skeksis, Garthim, and Landstriders, and possibly others.

Edit: Oh, and I forgot Aughra. Frank Oz played her.