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It’s clear things have gone awry in Oscar land when In the Bedroom supporters at Universal-cohort Miramax Pictures are contacting Oscar voters and bashing Moulin Rouge for being “trite, ridiculous, simpleton cinema.” This is according to 20th Century Fox, of course. But regardless of the artistry one finds in a dancing Nicole Kidman or a plate-throwing Sissy Spacek, 2002 is proving to be the peak of the Oscar’s political shenanigans. As nominees are garnered primarily through ad campaigns or favors to filmmakers whose turn...
...subject, John Nash, for his supposed “anti-Semitism,” and ever since the film’s release it has been attacked for ignoring Nash’s apparent bisexuality and his illegitimate child with Jeannette Walls. Add to the mix the constant Moulin Rouge backlash and Gosford Park director Robert Altman’s unfortunate comments (essentially ruining his chances) calling Titanic “the most dreadful piece of work I’ve ever seen in my entire life” and fellow Oscar powerhouse American Beauty “badly acted...
Your complaint that the musical Moulin Rouge wasn't nominated for Best Score or Best Song overlooks the Academy's rules [BEHIND THE OSCARS, Feb. 25]. To qualify, a song must be written specifically for the film, and a score must be an original composition. Since virtually all the music in Moulin Rouge had been previously written and performed, it was never eligible in either category. MICHAEL SCHLESINGER Sherman Oaks, Calif...
NICOLE KIDMAN (Moulin Rouge) Born: Honolulu Moved: c. 1970, age 3 "There's something about the place; it's the smell of the gum leaves. Australia's in my blood, it's in my humor...I love [Sydney's] zest for life and the openness of us Aussies." KYLIE MINOGUE (new album, Fever) Born: Melbourne, Australia! But currently lives in London, visiting home twice a year "My poor parents have three kids living about as far away from them as you can get--and they're very cool...
...Along the way, Doyle, who in December took out the New York Film Critics Circle prize for In the Mood for Love, became the latest Australian cinematographer to grace an awards podium (another, the veteran Don McAlpine was recently Oscar-nominated for Moulin Rouge). It's a strength of vision that Doyle puts down partly to Australia's clarity of light?"because the relationship between our living spaces and the environment is so direct, and because our internal life has to be replenished by something," he says. "I mean, most Australians are pretty grounded people, so when the imagination goes...