Return of the King sweeps the Oscars

What did you think of it? Did they "deserve" to win all those awards...or not? Let's hear it.

8) To take a book which is the favourite of millions, and do this good a job, with not THAT many objections from the fanatics.
:) Yes, they deserved those awards. Perhaps it could have been spread around a bit, but definately the "big" awards for sure. A few of the actors could have been nominated too.
:p To Richard Roper who wished Fellowship get shut out at the Oscars.

:):)

A CLEAN SWEEP!
11 wins out of 11 nominations

RETURN OF THE KING: BEST PICTURE!
Peter Jackson for Best Director
Grant Major and Dan Hennah won the Oscar for Best Art Direction.
Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor won for Best Costume.
Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke for Best
Visual Effects.
Richard Taylor and Peter King for Best Makeup.
Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond
Peek for Best Sound Mixing.
Howard Shore won for Best Original Score.
James Selkirk won for Best Film Editing.
Annie Lennox, Fran Walsh and Howard Shore won for Best Music
(Song).
Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens won for Best Adapted
Screenplay.

it's not a clean sweep. the movie was eligible in more than 11 categories and was not nominated in a couple.

From the stand point of somewhat of a Star Wars fanatic... I never thought that Lucas' universe would ever be topped. I don't know that you can compare the two movies, being that they're two separate genre's. However the popularity, and ability to take you into a world that doesn't exist and enable you to believe that it does for 2 or 3 hours... that alone justifies the awards given Lord Of The Rings. These movies couldn't have been put in better hands save Tolkien himself. Such attention to detail was paid by the writers and director Peter Jackson, as well as the blood sweat and tears put into performance's by the actors, and the intestinal fortitude of the extra's and film crews standing soaking wet through 2 months of filming in the rain in "The Two Towers"... I don't think this movie will EVER be remade. I honestly don't think it's possible. From it's inception, it was a classic, and a classic it will remain.

- Nachtkriechen

yeah, and spielberg was wrong (this coming from a big spielberg fan).

11 Oscars ties Titanic and Ben Hur. LOTR is the only movie with more than 9 noms to win all.

posters5 (Staff),
S. Spielberg said "It's a clean sweep". - Spielberg! HA! :p
;)

"It would be even cooler if you were able to interact as your own character." That will come in fifty years, Tim, but unfortunately by then Naomi Watts will be too old for you.

John

That would be very cool, John. It would be even cooler if you were able to interact as your own character.

:D

It will be remade holographically in about thirty or forty years. The audience will be in the midst of the battles. I can't wait.

John